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Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in Those Who Struggle
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
People with dyslexia, who ordinarily struggle to read, sometimes remark that reading is easier when e-readers are used. Here, we used eye tracking to observe high school students with dyslexia as they read using these ...
Re-Imagining the Future: Repetition Decreases Hippocampal Involvement in Future Simulation
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Imagining or simulating future events has been shown to activate the anterior right hippocampus (RHC) more than remembering past events does. One fundamental difference between simulation and memory is that imagining future ...
Multivoxel Patterns in Fusiform Face Area Differentiate Faces by Sex and Race
(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 ...
Solving the Orientation Specific Constraints in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation by Rotating Fields
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a promising technology for both neurology and psychiatry. Positive treatment outcome has been reported, for instance in double blind, multi-center studies on depression. Nonetheless, ...
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 ...