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The association between cognitive performance and speech-in-noise perception for adult listeners: a systematic literature review and meta‐analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Published studies assessing the association between cognitive performance and speech-in-noise perception examine different aspects of each, test different listeners, and often report quite variable associations. By examining the published evidence ba... Read More about The association between cognitive performance and speech-in-noise perception for adult listeners: a systematic literature review and meta‐analysis.
The integration of occlusion and disparity information for judging depth in autism spectrum disorder (2017)
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In autism spectrum disorder (ASD), atypical integration of visual depth cues may be due to flattened perceptual priors or selective fusion. The current study attempts to disentangle these explanations by psychophysically assessing within-modality int... Read More about The integration of occlusion and disparity information for judging depth in autism spectrum disorder.
Microstructural abnormalities in white and gray matter in obese adolescents with and without type 2 diabetes (2017)
Journal Article
Aims/hypotheses. In adults, type 2 diabetes and obesity have been associated with structural brain changes, even in the absence of dementia. Some evidence suggested similar changes in adolescents with type 2 diabetes but comparisons with a non-obese... Read More about Microstructural abnormalities in white and gray matter in obese adolescents with and without type 2 diabetes.
Relationship between parental feeding practices and neural responses to food cues in adolescents (2016)
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Allen, H. A., Chambers, A. L., Blissett, J., Chechlacz, M., Barrett, T., Higgs, S., & Nouwen, A. (2016). Relationship between parental feeding practices and neural responses to food cues in adolescents. PLoS ONE, 11(8), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157037Social context, specifically within the family, influences adolescent eating behaviours and thus their health. Little is known about the specific mechanisms underlying the effects of parental feeding practices on eating. We explored relationships bet... Read More about Relationship between parental feeding practices and neural responses to food cues in adolescents.
Editorial: perception and cognition: interactions in the ageing brain (2016)
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Allen, H. A., & Roberts, K. L. (2016). Editorial: perception and cognition: interactions in the ageing brain. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 8, Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2016.00130Healthy ageing can lead to declines in both perceptual and cognitive functions. Many of the studies in this Topic demonstrate such age-related declines, but also identify links between them. Encouragingly, these links suggest that improving perceptio... Read More about Editorial: perception and cognition: interactions in the ageing brain.
The effects of ageing and exercise on recollection and familiarity based memory processes (2015)
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In the UK’s 2011 census there were high proportions of people between 20 and 49 years-old, with each 5-year band containing at least 4 million. Thus between 2022 and 2051 we can expect large numbers of people to enter their 60s, around 2 billion glob... Read More about The effects of ageing and exercise on recollection and familiarity based memory processes.
Visual integration in autism (2015)
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Examining evidence for behavioural mimicry of parental eating by adolescent females: an observational study (2015)
Journal Article
Behavioural mimicry is a potential mechanism explaining why adolescents appear to be influenced by their parents’ eating behaviour. In the current study we examined whether there is evidence that adolescent females mimic their parents when eating. Vi... Read More about Examining evidence for behavioural mimicry of parental eating by adolescent females: an observational study.
Age-related differences in selection by visual saliency (2013)
Journal Article
We examined the ability of older adults to select local and global stimuli varying in perceptual saliency – a task requiring non-spatial visual selection. Participants were asked to identify in separate blocks a target at either the global or local l... Read More about Age-related differences in selection by visual saliency.
Binocular summation of second-order global motion signals in human vision (2013)
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Although many studies have examined the principles governing first-order global motion perception, the mechanisms that mediate second-order global motion perception remain unresolved. This study investigated the existence, nature and extent of the bi... Read More about Binocular summation of second-order global motion signals in human vision.
Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search (2012)
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Dent, K., Allen, H. A., Braithwaite, J. J., & Humphreys, G. W. (2012). Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(278), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00278The relatively common experimental visual search task of finding a red X amongst red O’s and green X’s (conjunction search) presents the visual system with a binding problem. Illusory conjunctions (ICs) of features across objects must be avoided and... Read More about Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search.
Similar behaviour, different brain patterns: age-related changes in neural signatures of ignoring (2012)
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Allen, H. A., & Payne, H. (2012). Similar behaviour, different brain patterns: age-related changes in neural signatures of ignoring. NeuroImage, 59(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.070We measured behavioural performance and fMRI activity whilst old and young adults performed a temporal segmentation task (‘preview search’). Being able to select parts of the visual world to be attended or ignored is a critical visual skill. Both o... Read More about Similar behaviour, different brain patterns: age-related changes in neural signatures of ignoring.
Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review (2012)
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The consequences of visual decline in aging have a fundamental and wide-reaching impact on age-related quality of life. It is of concern therefore that evidence suggests that normal aging is accompanied by impairments in the ability to effectively en... Read More about Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review.
Bridging the gap between physiology and behavior: evidence from the sSoTS model of human visual attention (2011)
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We present the case for a role of biologically plausible neural network modeling in bridging the gap between physiology and behavior. We argue that spiking-level networks can allow “vertical” translation between physiological properties of neural sys... Read More about Bridging the gap between physiology and behavior: evidence from the sSoTS model of human visual attention.
Active ignoring in early visual cortex (2011)
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Selective attention is critical for controlling the input to mental processes. Attentional mechanisms act not only to select relevant stimuli but also to exclude irrelevant stimuli. There is evidence that we can actively ignore irrelevant information... Read More about Active ignoring in early visual cortex.
The role of contrast sensitivity in global motion processing deficits in the elderly (2010)
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Allen, H. A., Hutchinson, C. V., Ledgeway, T., & Gayle, P. (2010). The role of contrast sensitivity in global motion processing deficits in the elderly. Journal of Vision, 10(10), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1167/10.10.15This study compared the effects of age on the perception of translational, radial, and rotational global motion patterns. Motion coherence thresholds were measured for judging the direction of each motion type as a function of contrast (visibility) a... Read More about The role of contrast sensitivity in global motion processing deficits in the elderly.