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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 ... -
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. ... -
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
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Perseveration and Shifting in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Function of Uncertainty, Punishment, and Serotonergic Medication
(Elsevier, 2023-01-01)Background: The nature of cognitive flexibility deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which historically have been tested with probabilistic reversal learning tasks, remains elusive. Here, a novel deterministic ... -
Persistent Maladies: The Case of Two-Mind Syndrome
(Elsevier, 2018-04-01)The reference to the word ‘mythical’ by Melnikoff and Bargh [1] is apt because, as they point out, humans have an uncanny need to understand things in binary form. It functions as an ideal that is rarely an accurate ... -
Pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response: A polygenic approach.
(2017-04-03)BACKGROUND: Major depressive disorder (MDD) has a high personal and socio-economic burden and >60% of patients fail to achieve remission with the first antidepressant. The biological mechanisms behind antidepressant response ...