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Older and younger adults' accuracy in discerning health and competence in older and younger faces.
(2014-09)We examined older and younger adults' accuracy judging the health and competence of faces. Accuracy differed significantly from chance and varied with face age but not rater age. Health ratings were more accurate for older ... -
Optimal Metacognitive Decision Strategies in Signal Detection Theory
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Optimal trans-saccadic integration relies on visual working memory.
(2018-12)Saccadic eye movements alter the visual processing of objects of interest by bringing them from the periphery, where there is only low-resolution vision, to the high-resolution fovea. Evidence suggests that people are able ... -
Oxytocin increases bias, but not accuracy, in face recognition line-ups.
(2015-07)Previous work indicates that intranasal inhalation of oxytocin improves face recognition skills, raising the possibility that it may be used in security settings. However, it is unclear whether oxytocin directly acts upon ... -
P38 Mediates Tumor Suppression through Reduced Autophagy and Actin Cytoskeleton Changes in NRAS-Mutant Melanoma.
(2023-01-31)Hotspot mutations in the NRAS gene are causative genetic events associated with the development of melanoma. Currently, there are no FDA-approved drugs directly targeting NRAS mutations. Previously, we showed that p38 acts ... -
Pathfinder: A gamified measure to integrate general cognitive ability into the biological, medical, and behavioural sciences
(Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com], 2021-10-01)Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have uncovered DNA variants associated with individual differences in general cognitive ability ( g ), but these are far from capturing heritability estimates obtained from twin studies. ... -
Patient navigation to improve breast cancer screening in Bosnian refugees and immigrants.
(Springer, 2011-10-19)Refugee women have low breast cancer screening rates. This study highlights the culturally competent implementation and reports the outcomes of a breast cancer screening patient navigation program for refuge/immigrant women ... -
The perception of affective and discriminative touch in blind individuals
(Elsevier, 2023-02-24)Enhanced tactile acuity in blindness is among the most widely reported results of neuroplasticity following prolonged visual deprivation. However, tactile submodalities other than discriminative touch are profoundly ... -
Perception space - The final frontier
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Perinatal period and Rorschach: Norms, indicators, mentalisation and theoretical-clinical perspectives
(2022-01-01)Objective: The perinatal period is a maturation phase characterised by the appearance of a radical psychological and identity crisis, little studied by projective methods, in particular the Rorschach inkblot test. The ... -
Peripheral processing of gaze
(2014-08)