Research Digest
Explore a curated collection of recent studies, publications, and groundbreaking discoveries on the topic of embodied cognitive science.
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Does Extensive Training at Individuating Novel Objects in Adulthood Lead to Visual Expertise? The Role of Facelikeness
Published in:Â Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2018, 449-467 Abstract "Human adults have a rich visual experience thanks to seeing human faces since birth, which may contribute to the acquisition of perceptual processes that rapidly and automatically ...
Control Changes the Way We Look at the World
Published in:Â Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2018, 603-619 Abstract "The feeling of control is a fundamental aspect of human experience and accompanies our voluntary actions all the time. However, how the sense of control interacts with ...
Cross-frequency Phase–Amplitude Coupling as a Mechanism for Temporal Orienting of Attention in Childhood
Published in:Â Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2018, 594-602 Abstract "Temporal orienting of attention operates by biasing the allocation of cognitive and motor resources in specific moments in time, resulting in the improved processing of information from ...
Memory Contextualization: The Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Functional Integration across Item and Context Representational Regions
Published in:Â Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2018, 579-593 Abstract "Memory recall is facilitated when retrieval occurs in the original encoding context. This context dependency effect likely results from the automatic binding of central elements of an ...
Sex, Sleep Deprivation, and the Anxious Brain
Published in:Â Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2018, 565-578 Abstract "Insufficient sleep is a known trigger of anxiety. Nevertheless, not everyone experiences these effects to the same extent. One determining factor is sex, wherein women experience a ...
