Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Experimental Psychology"

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    • Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians 

      Zuk, Jennifer; Benjamin, Christopher; Kenyon, Arnold; Gaab, Nadine (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Executive functions (EF) are cognitive capacities that allow for planned, controlled behavior and strongly correlate with academic abilities. Several extracurricular activities have been shown to improve EF, however, the ...

    • Contagion of Cooperation in Static and Fluid Social Networks 

      Jordan, Jillian J.; Rand, David G.; Arbesman, Samuel; Fowler, James H.; Christakis, Nicholas A. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Cooperation is essential for successful human societies. Thus, understanding how cooperative and selfish behaviors spread from person to person is a topic of theoretical and practical importance. Previous laboratory ...

    • Failure of Working Memory Training to Enhance Cognition or Intelligence 

      Thompson, Todd W.; Waskom, Michael L.; Garel, Keri-Lee Alyson; Cardenas-Iniguez, Carlos; Reynolds, Gretchen O.; Winter, Rebecca; Chang, Patricia; Pollard, Kiersten; Lala, Nupur; Alvarez, George Angelo; Gabrieli, John D.E. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Fluid intelligence is important for successful functioning in the modern world, but much evidence suggests that fluid intelligence is largely immutable after childhood. Recently, however, researchers have reported gains ...

    • Multivoxel Patterns in Fusiform Face Area Differentiate Faces by Sex and Race 

      Contreras, Juan Manuel; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Mitchell, Jason P. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Although prior research suggests that fusiform gyrus represents the sex and race of faces, it remains unclear whether fusiform face area (FFA)–the portion of fusiform gyrus that is functionally-defined by its preferential ...

    • The Neural Bases of Directed and Spontaneous Mental State Attributions to Group Agents 

      Jenkins, Adrianna C.; Dodell-Feder, David; Saxe, Rebecca; Knobe, Joshua (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      In daily life, perceivers often need to predict and interpret the behavior of group agents, such as corporations and governments. Although research has investigated how perceivers reason about individual members of particular ...

    • Young Children Consider Merit when Sharing Resources with Others 

      Kanngiesser, Patricia; Warneken, Felix (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Merit is a key principle of fairness: rewards should be distributed according to how much someone contributed to a task. Previous research suggests that children have an early ability to take merit into account in third-party ...