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How do anatomical constraints affect visual word identification?
None specified We conducted three experiments to test between these two accounts of interhemispheric communication. In each of these experiments, we controlled where the... -
Reasoning skills and reasoning strategies in developmental dyscalculia
Educational neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field, informed by educational theory and neuroscience. Educational neuroscientists employ electrophysiological and brain... -
Dual process models of sequence learning and serial reaction time tasks
How do we learn sequences? In some cases people may be aware of the rules that determine a sequence (eg traffic lights), in others not (eg as the current song on a CD ends,... -
NANA: Novel Assessment of Nutrition and Ageing
The NANA programme of research took place over four years and comprised 42 studies organised into three phases: (1) User Needs analysis (studies 1-13); (2) Development of... -
Cross-cultural study of family influences on executive functions in late chil...
Recent advances in developmental cognitive neuroscience suggest a link between executive functions (EF) and school achievement, above and beyond the contributions of... -
DCAL Research Data Archive 2006-2016
DCAL is the largest deafness and sign language research centre in Europe, bringing together leading Deaf and hearing researchers in the fields of sign linguistics, psychology,... -
Lifestyle and higher cognitive function in adults 2016
The main aim of this research project was to develop a cross-platform custom app to assess a wide range of higher cognitive processes in adults and to monitor how they change... -
One step ahead: Prediction of other people's behavior in healthy and autistic...
The data collection contains the data for five independent publications, published as part of the ESRC grant “One step ahead: Prediction of other people's behavior in healthy... -
Cross-cultural study of family influences on executive functions in late chil...
Recent advances in developmental cognitive neuroscience suggest a link between executive functions (EF) and school achievement, above and beyond the contributions of... -
Metacognitive monitoring and control of eyewitness memory reports in autism 2...
Providing eyewitness testimony involves monitoring one’s memory to provide a detailed and accurate account: reporting details likely to be accurate and withholding potentially... -
The impact of skim reading and navigation when reading hyperlinks on the web,...
It has been suggested that readers spend a great deal of time skim reading on the Web and that this type of reading can affect comprehension of text. Across 2 experiments, we... -
A public inconvenience: Better toilets for inclusive travel, a study investig...
Data collected by twelve co-researchers depicting their perspective on toilets across the country. The co-researchers took multiple photos and described their experience of... -
Development of Episodic Future Thinking and Future-oriented Decision Making S...
These data stem from five large studies examining the relation between episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in preschoolers, children, and adolescents. Study 1... -
Visual search in progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson's disease 2016-...
This project investigated the effect of paralysis of the eyes on visuospatial cognition. Specifically, we explored whether the vertical gaze palsy associated with a rare... -
Reading Direct Speech Quotes Increases Theta Phase-locking: Evidence for Thet...
Growing evidence shows that theta-band (4-7Hz) activity in the auditory cortex phase-locks to rhythms of overt speech. Does theta activity also encode the rhythmic dynamics of... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Infants’ Con...
In adults, words are more effective than sounds at activating conceptual representations. We aimed to replicate these findings and extend them to infants. In a series of... -
Executive Function Vs. Executive Function and Metacognition Training in 7 to ...
93 children between 7 and 11 years were recruited from under-privileged areas in Edinburgh, Scotland. Pre- and post-tests focused on executive function skills through tests of... -
Working Memory Across the Adult Lifespan: An Adversarial Collaboration, 2016-...
The research involves 17 experiments to examine how healthy adult volunteers aged 18-75 perform when they are asked to remember words or visual patterns at the limits of their... -
Effects of a Task Switch on the Recognition of Facial Emotion Expression, 201...
Previous task-switching studies have shown that shifting attention to a relevant stimulus attribute before stimulus onset is limited: several EEG markers of perceptual encoding... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Do Complemen...
To examine whether children’s acquisition of perspective-marking language supports development in their ability to reason about mental states, we conducted a longitudinal study...