by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractHuman visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performance limits is how the visual system parses a scene into representational...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractLearning to read involves the formation and tuning of letter representations, but it is unknown whether this orthographic tuning influences very early visual processing or only later processing. This study tested the hypothesis that experience increases the...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractThere has been much debate about whether salient stimuli have an automatic power to distract us, with many conflicting results. The attentional window account proposes a potential resolution by suggesting that capture depends on the breadth of attentional...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractArchitectural experience involves processing the spatial layout of an environment and our emotional reaction to it. However, these two processes are largely studied separately. Here, we used fMRI and first-person movies of journeys through buildings and cities...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractHumans can create completely new concepts through semantic composition. These “conceptual combinations” can be created by attributing the features of one concept to another (e.g., a “lemon flamingo” might be a yellow flamingo) or drawing on a relationship...
