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Rethinking discourses of family instability.
Recent research suggests that an increasing number of children around the world live with parents who experience serial romantic relationships. Studies of these increasingly common family transitions has focused almost ... -
A review of interactions between peripheral and foveal vision.
(2020-11-02)Visual processing varies dramatically across the visual field. These differences start in the retina and continue all the way to the visual cortex. Despite these differences in processing, the perceptual experience of ... -
The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal.
(2021-01)Previous studies have highlighted that affective touch delivered at slow velocities (1-10 cm/s) enhances body-part embodiment during multisensory illusions, yet its role towards whole-body embodiment is less established. ... -
The Role of the Skin in Interoception: A Neglected Organ?
(2023-01)In the past 2 decades, interoception has received increasing attention in the fields of psychology and cognitive science, as well as neuroscience and physiology. A plethora of studies adopted the perception of cardiac ... -
Seeing is as Good as Doing
(2010-03-29)Given the privileged status claimed for active learning in a variety of domains (visuomotor learning, causal induction, problem solving, education, skill learning), the present study examines whether action-based learning ... -
Seeing red by accident?
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Serial dependence for oculomotor control depends on early sensory signals.
(2022-07-11)To create an accurate percept of the world, the visual system relies on past experience and prior assumptions.1 For example, although the retinal projection of an object moving in depth changes drastically, we still perceive ... -
Serotonin depletion impairs both Pavlovian and instrumental reversal learning in healthy humans.
(Springer Nature, 2021-08-24)Serotonin is involved in updating responses to changing environmental circumstances. Optimising behaviour to maximise reward and minimise punishment may require shifting strategies upon encountering new situations. Likewise, ...