Speech characteristics of monozygotic twins and a same-sex sibling: an acoustic case study of coarticulation patterns in read speech [PDF]
This case study reports on an acoustic investigation of the motor speech characteristics of a set of young adult male monozygotic (MZ) twins and compares them to those of an age- and sex-matched sibling who participated in the study 2 years later to ...
Rixon, E., Whiteside, S.P.
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When two different images are presented to the two eyes dichoptically, observers usually experience a perceptual alternation between the two images. This phenomenon, known as binocular rivalry, has been used as a powerful tool to investigate mechanisms ...
Xing Ye +6 more
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Visual search for basic emotional expressions in autism: impaired processing of anger, fear and sadness, but a typical happy face advantage [PDF]
Facial expression recognition was investigated in 20 males with high functioning autism (HFA) or Asperger syndrome (AS), compared to typically developing individuals matched for chronological age (TD CA group) and verbal and non-verbal ability (TD V/NV ...
Abell +42 more
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Enactivism, other minds, and mental disorders [PDF]
Although enactive approaches to cognition vary in terms of their character and scope, all endorse several core claims. The first is that cognition is tied to action.
Krueger, Joel
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A Dynamic Mechanistic Model of Perceptual Binding
The brain’s ability to create a unified conscious representation of an object by integrating information from multiple perception pathways is called perceptual binding. Binding is crucial for normal cognitive function.
Pavel Kraikivski
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Noradrenaline blockade specifically enhances metacognitive performance
Impairments in metacognition, the ability to accurately report one’s performance, are common in patients with psychiatric disorders, where a putative neuromodulatory dysregulation provides the rationale for pharmacological interventions.
Tobias U Hauser +5 more
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Action perception is intact in autism spectrum disorder [PDF]
Date of Acceptance:10/11/2014. Copyright © 2015 the authors 0270-6474/15/351849-09$15.00/0. Copyright of all material published in The Journal of Neuroscience remains with the authors.
Cusack, James P +2 more
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The Effect of 8 Weeks of Perceptual-Motor Training on Working Memory in Children with Hearing Loss [PDF]
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of perceptual-motor training on working memory in children with hearing disorders. For this purpose, 24 student with hearing loss (9-12 years old) in Kermanshah were selected and randomly divided to ...
Zahra Soori +3 more
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Associations between white matter microstructure and cognitive performance in old and very old age. [PDF]
Increasing age is associated with deficits in a wide range of cognitive domains as well as with structural brain changes. Recent studies using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have shown that microstructural integrity of white matter is associated with ...
Erika J Laukka +7 more
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An Investigation of the Effects of Categorization and Discrimination Training on Auditory Perceptual Space [PDF]
Psychophysical phenomena such as categorical perception and the perceptual magnet effect indicate that our auditory perceptual spaces are warped for some stimuli.
Cohen, Michael A. +3 more
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