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Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals Auditory Motion Information in MT+ of Both Congenitally Blind and Sighted Individuals
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Cross-modal plasticity refers to the recruitment of cortical regions involved in the processing of one modality (e.g. vision) for processing other modalities (e.g. audition). The principles determining how and where ...
Very Slow Search and Reach: Failure to Maximize Expected Gain in an Eye-Hand Coordination Task
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
We examined an eye-hand coordination task where optimal visual search and hand movement strategies were inter-related. Observers were asked to find and touch a target among five distractors on a touch screen. Their reward ...
Affective and Neural Reactivity to Criticism in Individuals High and Low on Perceived Criticism
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
People who have remitted from depression are at increased risk for relapse if they rate their relatives as being critical of them on a simple self-report measure of Perceived Criticism (PC). To explore neural mechanisms ...
Young Children Consider Merit when Sharing Resources with Others
(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 ...
Memory for Semantically Related and Unrelated Declarative Information: The Benefit of Sleep, the Cost of Wake
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Numerous studies have examined sleep's influence on a range of hippocampus-dependent declarative memory tasks, from text learning to spatial navigation. In this study, we examined the impact of sleep, wake, and time-of-day ...
Failure of Working Memory Training to Enhance Cognition or Intelligence
(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 ...
Perceptual Grouping and Visual Enumeration
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
We used lateralized Event-Related Potential (ERP) measures – the N2pc and CDA/SPCN components – to assess the role of grouping by target similarity during enumeration. Participants saw a variable number (0, 1, 2 or 3) of ...
First Is Best
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
We experience the world serially rather than simultaneously. A century of research on human and nonhuman animals has suggested that the first experience in a series of two or more is cognitively privileged. We report three ...
Human Visual Search Does Not Maximize the Post-Saccadic Probability of Identifying Targets
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Researchers have conjectured that eye movements during visual search are selected to minimize the number of saccades. The optimal Bayesian eye movement strategy minimizing saccades does not simply direct the eye to whichever ...
Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzees
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)
Humans actively share resources with one another to a much greater degree than do other great apes, and much human sharing is governed by social norms of fairness and equity. When in receipt of a windfall of resources, ...