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Cue Combination of Conflicting Color and Luminance Edges (2015)
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Abrupt changes in the color or luminance of a visual image potentially indicate object boundaries. Here, we consider how these cues to the visual “edge” location are combined when they conflict. We measured the extent to which localization of a compo... Read More about Cue Combination of Conflicting Color and Luminance Edges.

Sarcasm and emoticons: comprehension and emotional impact (2015)
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Most theorists agree that sarcasm serves some communicative function that would not be achieved by speaking directly, such as eliciting a particular emotional response in the recipient. One debate concerns whether this kind of language serves to enha... Read More about Sarcasm and emoticons: comprehension and emotional impact.

Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency (2015)
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Movements aimed towards objects occasionally have to be adjusted when the object moves. These online adjustments can be very rapid, occurring in as little as 100 ms. More is known about the latency and neural basis of online control of movements to v... Read More about Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency.

Enhanced latent inhibition in high schizotypy individuals (2015)
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Latent inhibition refers to a retardation in learning about a stimulus that has been rendered familiar by non-reinforced preexposure, relative to a non-preexposed stimulus. Latent inhibition has been shown to be inversely correlated with schizotypy,... Read More about Enhanced latent inhibition in high schizotypy individuals.

The effect of normal aging and age-related macular degeneration on perceptual learning (2015)
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We investigated whether perceptual learning could be used to improve peripheral word identification speed. The relationship between the magnitude of learning and age was established in normal participants to determine whether perceptual learning effe... Read More about The effect of normal aging and age-related macular degeneration on perceptual learning.

Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence (2015)
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Purpose To present an improved three-dimensional (3D) interleaved phase sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) sequence including a concomitantly acquired new contrast, null point imaging (NPI), to help detect and classify abnormalities in cortical g... Read More about Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence.

The development of stimulus and response interference control in mid-childhood (2015)
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Interference control, the ability to overcome distraction from irrelevant information, undergoes considerable improvement during childhood yet the mechanisms driving these changes remain unclear. The present study investigated the relative influence... Read More about The development of stimulus and response interference control in mid-childhood.

Causal evidence that intrinsic beta-frequency is relevant for enhanced signal propagation in the motor system as shown through rhythmic TMS (2015)
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Correlative evidence provides support for the idea that brain oscillations underpin neural computations. Recent work using rhythmic stimulation techniques in humans provide causal evidence but the interactions of these external signals with intrinsic... Read More about Causal evidence that intrinsic beta-frequency is relevant for enhanced signal propagation in the motor system as shown through rhythmic TMS.

Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving?: laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments (2015)
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Research into anxiety and driving has indicated that those higher in anxiety are potentially more dangerous on the roads. However, simulator findings suggest that conclusions are mixed at best. It is possible that anxiety is becoming confused with fe... Read More about Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving?: laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments.

Visuospatial ability as a predictor of novice performance in ultrasound–guided regional anesthesia (2015)
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Background: Visuospatial ability correlates positively with novice performance of simple laparoscopic tasks. The aims of this study were to identify if visuospatial ability could predict technical performance of an ultrasound–guided needle task by n... Read More about Visuospatial ability as a predictor of novice performance in ultrasound–guided regional anesthesia.

Toward a psychology of surrogate decision-making (2015)
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In everyday life many of the decisions that we make are made on behalf of other people. A growing body of research suggests that we often, but not always, make different decisions on behalf of other people than the other person would choose. This is... Read More about Toward a psychology of surrogate decision-making.

Conditioned inhibition of emotional responses: retardation and summation with cues for IAPS outcomes (2015)
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Conditioned inhibition occurs when a stimulus inhibits the responses that would normally occur to a conditioned stimulus that previously predicted an outcome of interest (the unconditioned stimulus, which elicits responding unconditionally). The pres... Read More about Conditioned inhibition of emotional responses: retardation and summation with cues for IAPS outcomes.

Telemedicine and mHealth interventions for children and young people with type one diabetes (T1DM) (2015)
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We need to talk about error: causes and types of error in veterinary practice (2015)
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Patient safety research in human medicine has identified the causes and common types of medical error and subsequently informed the development of interventions which mitigate harm, such as the WHO’s safe surgery checklist. There is no such evidence... Read More about We need to talk about error: causes and types of error in veterinary practice.

A cross-modal, cross-species comparison of connectivity measures in the primate brain (2015)
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In systems neuroscience, the term “connectivity” has been defined in numerous ways, according to the particular empirical modality from which it is derived. Due to large differences in the phenomena measured by these modalities, the assumptions neces... Read More about A cross-modal, cross-species comparison of connectivity measures in the primate brain.

Cortisol levels and suicidal behavior: a meta-analysis (2015)
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Suicide is a major cause of death worldwide, responsible for 1.5% of all mortality. The causes of suicidal behavior are not fully understood. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, is one pote... Read More about Cortisol levels and suicidal behavior: a meta-analysis.

Being Sherlock Holmes: Can we sense empathy from a brief sample of behaviour? (2015)
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Mentalizing (otherwise known as ‘theory of mind’) involves a special process that is adapted for predicting and explaining the behaviour of others (targets) based on inferences about targets’ beliefs and character. This research investigated how well... Read More about Being Sherlock Holmes: Can we sense empathy from a brief sample of behaviour?.

Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study (2015)
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Background A common control condition for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies is to apply stimulation at the vertex. An assumption of vertex stimulation is that it has relatively little influence over on-going brain processes involved in... Read More about Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study.

Visuo-tactile integration in autism: atypical temporal binding may underlie greater reliance on proprioceptive information (2015)
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Background Evidence indicates that social functioning deficits and sensory sensitivities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are related to atypical sensory integration. The exact mechanisms underlying these integration difficulties are unknown; howev... Read More about Visuo-tactile integration in autism: atypical temporal binding may underlie greater reliance on proprioceptive information.

Effects of dopamine D1 modulation of the anterior cingulate cortex in a fear conditioning procedure (2015)
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The anterior cingulate cortex (AC) component of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been implicated in attention and working memory as measured by trace conditioning. Since dopamine (DA) is a key modulator of mPFC function, the present study eval... Read More about Effects of dopamine D1 modulation of the anterior cingulate cortex in a fear conditioning procedure.