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Indirect object recognition: Evidence for associative processes in recognition memory (2012)
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Soft-bound synaptic plasticity increases storage capacity (2012)
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Accurate models of synaptic plasticity are essential to understand the adaptive properties of the nervous system and for realistic models of learning and memory. Experiments have shown that synaptic plasticity depends not only on pre- and post-synapt... Read More about Soft-bound synaptic plasticity increases storage capacity.

Decisions for others become less impulsive the further away they are on the family tree (2012)
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People tend to prefer a smaller immediate reward to a larger but delayed reward. Although this discounting of future rewards is often associated with impulsivity, it is not necessarily irrational. Instead it has been suggested that it reflects the de... Read More about Decisions for others become less impulsive the further away they are on the family tree.

Contribution of large scale biases in decoding of direction-of-motion from high-resolution fMRI data in human early visual cortex (2012)
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Previous studies have demonstrated that the perceived direction of motion of a visual stimulus can be decoded from the pattern of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses in occipital cortex using multivariate analysis methods (Kamitani... Read More about Contribution of large scale biases in decoding of direction-of-motion from high-resolution fMRI data in human early visual cortex.

Dopamine D1 receptor involvement in latent inhibition and overshadowing (2012)
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Latent inhibition (LI) manifests as poorer conditioning to a stimulus that has previously been experienced without consequence. There is good evidence of dopaminergic modulation of LI, as the e?ect is reliably disrupted by the indirect dopamine (DA... Read More about Dopamine D1 receptor involvement in latent inhibition and overshadowing.

Processing of native and foreign language subtitles in films: an eye tracking study (2012)
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Foreign language (FL) films with subtitles are becoming increasingly popular, and many European countries use subtitling as a cheaper alternative to dubbing. However, the extent to which people process subtitles under different subtitling conditions... Read More about Processing of native and foreign language subtitles in films: an eye tracking study.

Lost in translation? Psychometric properties and construct validity of the English Essen Climate Evaluation Schema (EssenCES) social climate questionnaire (2012)
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Perceptual learning reconfigures the effects of visual adaptation (2012)
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Our sensory experiences over a range of different timescales shape our perception of the environment. Two particularly striking short-term forms of plasticity with manifestly different time courses and perceptual consequences are those caused by visu... Read More about Perceptual learning reconfigures the effects of visual adaptation.

Cognitive control over motor output in Tourette syndrome (2012)
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Tourette syndrome [TS] is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by chronic vocal and motor tics. TS has been associated with dysfunctional cognitive (inhibitory) control of behaviour, however the evidence for this, beyond the occurrence of tics... Read More about Cognitive control over motor output in Tourette syndrome.

Kamin blocking is associated with reduced medial-frontal gyrus activation: implications for prediction error abnormality in schizophrenia (2012)
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The following study used 3-T functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural signature of Kamin blocking. Kamin blocking is an associative learning phenomenon seen where prior association of a stimulus (A) with an outcome block... Read More about Kamin blocking is associated with reduced medial-frontal gyrus activation: implications for prediction error abnormality in schizophrenia.

High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context (2012)
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Learning through reward is central to adaptive behavior. Indeed, items are remembered better if they are experienced while participants expect a reward, and people can deliberately prioritize memory for high- over low-valued items. Do memory advantag... Read More about High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context.

Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search (2012)
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The 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.

When to hold that thought: an experimental study showing reduced inhibition of pre-trained associations in schizophrenia (2012)
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Schizophrenia encompasses a wide variety of cognitive dysfunctions, a number of which can be understood as deficits of inhibition. To date, no research has examined ‘conditioned inhibition’ in schizophrenia - the ability of a stimulus that signals th... Read More about When to hold that thought: an experimental study showing reduced inhibition of pre-trained associations in schizophrenia.

The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning (2012)
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Is stimulus specific perceptual learning the result of extended practice or does it emerge early in the time course of learning? We examined this issue by manipulating the amount of practice given on a face identification task on Day 1, and altering... Read More about The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning.

US specificity of occasion setting: hierarchical or configural learning? (2012)
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Four experiments in rats examined whether occasion setters and target CSs play qualitatively different roles in occasion-setting discriminations. Two visual occasion setters, A and B, signalled reinforcement of two auditory target CSs, x and y, with... Read More about US specificity of occasion setting: hierarchical or configural learning?.

Systematic biases in early ERP and ERF components as a result of high-pass filtering (2012)
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The event-related potential (ERP) and event-related field (ERF) techniques provide valuable insights into the time course of processes in the brain. Because neural signals are typically weak, researchers commonly filter the data to increase the signa... Read More about Systematic biases in early ERP and ERF components as a result of high-pass filtering.

Does the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon require a dual-process explanation? A signal detection analysis (2012)
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The butcher-on-the-bus is a rhetorical device or hypothetical phenomenon that is often used to illustrate how recognition decisions can be based on different memory processes (Mandler, 1980). The phenomenon describes a scenario in which a person is r... Read More about Does the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon require a dual-process explanation? A signal detection analysis.

Social top-down response modulation (STORM): a model of the control of mimicry in social interaction (2012)
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As a distinct feature of human social interactions, spontaneous mimicry has been widely investigated in the past decade. Research suggests that mimicry is a subtle and flexible social behavior which plays an important role for communication and affil... Read More about Social top-down response modulation (STORM): a model of the control of mimicry in social interaction.

Opposing effects of 5,7-DHT lesions to the core and shell of the nucleus accumbens on the processing of irrelevant stimuli (2012)
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There is good evidence that forebrain serotonergic systems modulate cognitive flexibility. Latent inhibition (LI) is a cross-species phenomenon which manifests as poor conditioning to a stimulus that has previously been experienced without consequenc... Read More about Opposing effects of 5,7-DHT lesions to the core and shell of the nucleus accumbens on the processing of irrelevant stimuli.

Dorsal hippocampal involvement in appetitive trace conditioning and interval timing (2012)
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Involvement of the dorsal hippocampus (DHPC) in acquisition of Pavlovian trace conditioning and interval timing was examined in an appetitive preparation in which presentations of one conditioned stimulus (CS) were immediately followed by food (delay... Read More about Dorsal hippocampal involvement in appetitive trace conditioning and interval timing.