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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 ...
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 ...
Investigating the Neural Correlates of Voice versus Speech-Sound Directed Information in Pre-School Children
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Studies in sleeping newborns and infants propose that the superior temporal sulcus is involved in speech processing soon after birth. Speech processing also implicitly requires the analysis of the human voice, which conveys ...
Anticipation of Monetary Reward Can Attenuate the Vigilance Decrement
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
Motivation and reward can have differential effects on separate aspects of sustained attention. We previously demonstrated that continuous reward/punishment throughout a sustained attention task improves overall performance, ...
Patterns of Brain Activation when Mothers View Their Own Child and Dog: An fMRI Study
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Neural substrates underlying the human-pet relationship are largely unknown. We examined fMRI brain activation patterns as mothers viewed images of their own child and dog and an unfamiliar child and dog. There was a common ...
Modeling the Role of Networks and Individual Differences in Inter-Group Violence
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
There is significant heterogeneity within and between populations in their propensity to engage in conflict. Most research has neglected the role of within-group effects in social networks in contributing to between-group ...