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Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency.
(Nature Research, 2022-07)Evidence integration is a normative algorithm for choosing between alternatives with noisy evidence, which has been successful in accounting for vast amounts of behavioural and neural data. However, this mechanism has been ... -
Evolving understanding of nervous system evolution
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Executive functioning skills and their environmental predictors among pre-school aged children in South Africa and The Gambia.
(2023-05-01)Executive functions (EFs) in early childhood are predictors of later developmental outcomes and school readiness. Much of the research on EFs and their psychosocial correlates has been conducted in high-income, minority ... -
Explaining Moral Behavior A Minimal Moral Model
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Exploration heuristics decrease during youth.
(Springer Nature, 2022-10)Deciding between exploring new avenues and exploiting known choices is central to learning, and this exploration-exploitation trade-off changes during development. Exploration is not a unitary concept, and humans deploy ... -
An exploration of the social brain hypothesis in insects.
(2012)The "social brain hypothesis" posits that the cognitive demands of sociality have driven the evolution of substantially enlarged brains in primates and some other mammals. Whether such reasoning can apply to all social ... -
Exploring the Interplay Between Message Format, Need for Cognition and Personal Relevance on Processing Messages About Physical Activity: a Two-Arm Randomized Experimental Trial.
(2023-06)BACKGROUND: According to the Elaboration Likelihood Model, persuasion can occur via two different routes (the central route and peripheral route), with the route utilized dependent on factors associated with motivation and ... -
Exploring three levels of interoception in people with functional motor disorders.
(2021-05)INTRODUCTION: A three-level model of interoception has recently been defined. We aim to study the interoceptive processing in individuals with functional motor disorder (FMD). METHODS: Twenty-two patients with FMD were ... -
EXPRESS: Left-handed voices? Examining the perceptual learning of novel person characteristics from the voice.
(2024-01-16)We regularly form impressions of who a person is from their voice, such that we can readily categorise people as being female or male, child or adult, trustworthy or not, and can furthermore recognise who specifically is ... -
Eye gaze is not coded by cardinal mechanisms alone
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Eye-movement strategies in developmental prosopagnosia and "super" face recognition.
(2017-02)Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a cognitive condition characterized by a severe deficit in face recognition. Few investigations have examined whether impairments at the early stages of processing may underpin the ... -
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape.
(2023-09-11)Imagine staring into a clear river, starving, desperately searching for a fish to spear and cook. You see a dark shape lurking beneath the surface. It doesn't resemble any sort of fish you've encountered before - but you're ... -
FAAH, SLC6A4, and BDNF variants are not associated with psychosocial stress and mental health outcomes in a population of Syrian refugee youth
(2019-06-29)The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis posits that early childhood stressors disproportionately impact adult health. Numerous studies have found adult mental health to be associated with childhood ... -
Factors affecting consumers' adherence to gluten-free diet, a systematic review
(Elsevier, 2019-03-01)Background: The gluten-free market is expanding rapidly. The reasons for this reflect a growing interest in adopting a gluten-free diet (GFD). This is partly explained by an increasing number of people diagnosed with Celiac ... -
First-sight recognition of touched objects shows that chicks can solve Molyneux’s problem
(The Royal Society, 2024-04-03)If a congenitally blind person learns to distinguish between a cube and a sphere by touch, would they immediately recognize these objects by sight once their vision is restored? This question, posed by Molyneux in 1688, ...