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Effects of action observation on corticospinal excitability: muscle specificity, direction, and timing of the mirror response (2014)
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Many human behaviours and pathologies have been attributed to the putative mirror neuron system, a neural system that is active during both the observation and execution of actions. While there are now a very large number of papers on the mirror neur... Read More about Effects of action observation on corticospinal excitability: muscle specificity, direction, and timing of the mirror response.

Characterizing the role of disparity information in alleviating visual crowding (2014)
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The ability to identify a target is reduced by the presence of nearby objects, a phenomenon known as visual crowding. The extent to which crowding impairs our perception is generally governed by the degree of similarity between a target stimulus and... Read More about Characterizing the role of disparity information in alleviating visual crowding.

Temporal summation of global form signals in dynamic glass patterns (2014)
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The ability to perceive complex objects in the environment requires that the visual system integrate local form information into global shapes. Glass patterns (GPs) are stimuli that are commonly used to study this integration process. GPs consist of... Read More about Temporal summation of global form signals in dynamic glass patterns.

The Dichotomy of Memantine Treatment for Ischemic Stroke: Dose-Dependent Protective and Detrimental Effects (2014)
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Nature and origins of mathematics difficulties in very preterm children: a different etiology than developmental dyscalculia (2014)
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Background: Children born very preterm ([under] 32 wk) are at high risk for mathematics learning difficulties that are out of proportion to other academic and cognitive deficits. However, the etiology of mathematics difficulties in very preterm ch... Read More about Nature and origins of mathematics difficulties in very preterm children: a different etiology than developmental dyscalculia.

An associative analysis of object memory (2014)
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Different aspects of recognition memory in rodents are commonly assessed using variants of the spontaneous object recognition procedure in which animals explore objects that differ in terms of their novelty, recency, or where they have previously bee... Read More about An associative analysis of object memory.

Agreement on the perception of moral character (2014)
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This study tested for inter-judge agreement on moral character. A sample of students and community members rated their own moral character using a measure that tapped six moral character traits. Friends, family members, and/or acquaintances rated the... Read More about Agreement on the perception of moral character.

Characterizing the effects of multidirectional motion adaptation (2014)
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The challenges of developing a contrast-based video game for treatment of amblyopia (2014)
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© 2014 Hussain, Astle, Webb and Mcgraw. Perceptual learning of visual tasks is emerging as a promising treatment for amblyopia, a developmental disorder of vision characterized by poor monocular visual acuity. The tasks tested thus far span the gamut... Read More about The challenges of developing a contrast-based video game for treatment of amblyopia.

Effects of dorsal hippocampal damage on conditioning and conditioned-response timing: a pooled analysis (2014)
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Behavioral findings suggest that the dorsal hippocampus (DHPC) plays a role in timing of appetitive conditioned responding. The present article explored the relationship between the extent of DHPC damage and timing ability, in a pooled analysis of th... Read More about Effects of dorsal hippocampal damage on conditioning and conditioned-response timing: a pooled analysis.

Dissociating contributions of the motor cortex to speech perception and response bias by using transcranial magnetic stimulation (2014)
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Recent studies using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have demonstrated that disruptions of the articulatory motor cortex impair performance in demanding speech perception tasks. These findings have been interpreted as support for t... Read More about Dissociating contributions of the motor cortex to speech perception and response bias by using transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Overshadowing by fixed- and variable-duration stimuli (2014)
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Two experiments investigated the effect of the temporal distribution form of a stimulus on its ability to produce an overshadowing effect. The overshadowing stimuli were either of the same duration on every trial, or of a variable duration drawn from... Read More about Overshadowing by fixed- and variable-duration stimuli.

The effect of script similarity on executive control in bilinguals (2014)
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The influence of image valence on visual attention and perception of risk in drivers (2014)
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Currently there is little research into the relationship between emotion and driving in the context of advertising and distraction. Research that has looked into this also has methodological limitations that could be affecting the results rather than... Read More about The influence of image valence on visual attention and perception of risk in drivers.

Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome (2014)
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Tourette syndrome (TS) is a developmental neurological disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics [1] and associated with cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuit dysfunction [2, 3], hyperexcitability within cortical motor areas [4], and alter... Read More about Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome.

An international comparison of deceased and living organ donation/transplant rates in opt-in and opt-out systems: a panel study (2014)
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Background Policy decisions about opt-in and opt-out consent for organ donation are based on limited evidence. To fill this gap we investigated the difference between deceased and living organ donation rates in opt-in and opt-out consent systems acr... Read More about An international comparison of deceased and living organ donation/transplant rates in opt-in and opt-out systems: a panel study.

Responses to irrational actions in action observation and mentalising networks of the human brain (2014)
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By observing other people, we can often infer goals and motivations behind their actions. This study examines the role of the action observation network (AON) and the mentalising network (MZN) in the perception of rational and irrational actions. Pas... Read More about Responses to irrational actions in action observation and mentalising networks of the human brain.

Genomic architecture of human neuroanatomical diversity (2014)
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Human brain anatomy is strikingly diverse and highly inheritable: genetic factors may explain up to 80% of its variability. Prior studies have tried to detect genetic variants with a large effect on neuroanatomical diversity, but those currently iden... Read More about Genomic architecture of human neuroanatomical diversity.

Creating a national citizen engagement process for energy policy (2014)
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This paper examines some of the science communication challenges involved when designing and conducting public deliberation processes on issues of national importance. We take as our illustrative case study a recent research project investigating pub... Read More about Creating a national citizen engagement process for energy policy.

Early Understanding of Normativity and Freedom to Act in Turkish Toddlers (2014)
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© 2015, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Two studies investigated young 2- and 3-year-old Turkish children's developing understanding of normativity and freedom to act in games. As expected, children, especially 3-year-olds, protested more when there w... Read More about Early Understanding of Normativity and Freedom to Act in Turkish Toddlers.