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Music and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
This chapter discusses the importance of musical interventions in neurodevelopment, highlighting the therapeutic effects of music in different brain... -
Nonsymbolic numerosity in sets with illusory-contours exploits a context-sensitive, but contrast-insensitive, visual boundary formation process
The visual mechanisms underlying approximate numerical representation are still intensely debated because numerosity information is often confounded...
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Artificial Intelligence Innovations for Multimodal Learning, Interfaces, and Analytics
The twenty-first century has brought with it a growing variety of authentic and engaging learning environments. While significant portions of human... -
Sex related differences in the perception and production of emotional prosody in adults
This study aimed to investigate the features of sex-related emotional prosody production patterns and perception abilities in adult speakers. The...
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The influence of memory on the speech-to-song illusion
In the speech-to-song illusion a spoken phrase is presented repeatedly and begins to sound as if it is being sung. Anecdotal reports suggest that...
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Assessing Publication Bias: a 7-Step User’s Guide with Best-Practice Recommendations
Meta-analytic reviews are a primary avenue for the generation of cumulative knowledge in the organizational and psychological sciences. Over the past...
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Sleep Restriction
Sleep Restriction Therapy (SRT) is an effective and widely used technique in the treatment of insomnia. It is commonly applied as part of a... -
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Learned value and predictiveness affect gaze but not figure assignment
Many factors affect figure–ground segregation, but the contributions of attention and reward history to this process is uncertain. We conducted two...
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Place-value and physical size converge in automatic processing of multi-digit numbers
Previous research has shown that multi-digit number processing is modulated by both place-value and physical size of the digits. By pitting...
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Face masks affect emotion categorisation, age estimation, recognition, and gender classification from faces
Although putting on a mask over our nose and mouth is a simple but powerful way to protect ourselves and others during a pandemic, face masks may...
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Executive Network Activation Moderates the Association between Neighborhood Threats and Externalizing Behavior in Youth
Neighborhood threats can increase risk for externalizing problems, including aggressive, oppositional, and delinquent behavior. Yet, there is...
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Singing Ability Assessment: Development and validation of a singing test based on item response theory and a general open-source software environment for singing data
We describe the development of the Singing Ability Assessment (SAA) open-source test environment. The SAA captures and scores different aspects of...
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A Personal Introduction
In the following short introduction, I describe my first encounter with affordance as an architect migrating into cognitive neuroscience and how my... -
How do human newborns come to understand the multimodal environment?
For a long time, newborns were considered as human beings devoid of perceptual abilities who had to learn with effort everything about their physical...
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The shape of you: do individuals associate particular geometric shapes with identity?
For more than a century, psychologists have been interested in how visual information can arouse emotions. Several studies have shown that rounded...
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Mirror symmetry and aging: The role of stimulus figurality and attention to colour
Symmetry perception studies have generally used two stimulus types: figural and dot patterns. Here, we designed a novel figural stimulus—a wedge...
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What Can We Learn from a Semiparametric Factor Analysis of Item Responses and Response Time? An Illustration with the PISA 2015 Data
It is widely believed that a joint factor analysis of item responses and response time (RT) may yield more precise ability scores that are...
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Drawing as a tool for investigating the nature of imagery representations of blind people: The case of the canonical size phenomenon
Several studies have shown that blind people, including those with congenital blindness, can use raised-line drawings, both for “reading” tactile...
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Externally Provided Rewards Increase Internal Preference, but Not as Much as Preferred Ones Without Extrinsic Rewards
It is well known that preferences are formed through choices, known as choice-induced preference change (CIPC). However, whether value learned...