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The role of head movements in the discrimination of 2-D shape by blind echolocation experts (2014)
Journal Article
Milne, J., Goodale, M., & Thaler, L. (2014). The role of head movements in the discrimination of 2-D shape by blind echolocation experts. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(6), 1828-1837. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0695-2

Similar to certain bats and dolphins, some blind humans can use sound echoes to perceive their silent surroundings. By producing an auditory signal (e.g., a tongue click) and listening to the returning echoes, these individuals can obtain information... Read More about The role of head movements in the discrimination of 2-D shape by blind echolocation experts.

Parahippocampal cortex is involved in material processing via echoes in blind echolocation experts (2014)
Journal Article
Milne, J., Arnott, S., Kish, D., Goodale, M., & Thaler, L. (2015). Parahippocampal cortex is involved in material processing via echoes in blind echolocation experts. Vision Research, 109(Part B), 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2014.07.004

Some blind humans use sound to navigate by emitting mouth-clicks and listening to the echoes that reflect from silent objects and surfaces in their surroundings. These echoes contain information about the size, shape, location, and material propertie... Read More about Parahippocampal cortex is involved in material processing via echoes in blind echolocation experts.

Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study (2014)
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Missana, M., Rajhans, P., Atkinson, A., & Grossmann, T. (2014). Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00531

Responding to others’ emotional body expressions is an essential social skill in humans. Adults readily detect emotions from body postures, but it is unclear whether infants are sensitive to emotional body postures. We examined 8-month-old infants’ b... Read More about Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study.

Resting states are resting traits - An fMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks (2014)
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Hjelmervik, H., Hausmann, M., Osnes, B., Westerhausen, R., & Specht, K. (2014). Resting states are resting traits - An fMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks. PLoS ONE, 9(7), Article e103492. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103492

To what degree resting state fMRI is stable or susceptible to internal mind states of the individual is currently an issue of debate. To address this issue, the present study focuses on sex differences and investigates whether resting state fMRI is s... Read More about Resting states are resting traits - An fMRI study of sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in resting state cognitive control networks.

Body form and body motion processing are dissociable in the visual pathways (2014)
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Ross, P. (2014). Body form and body motion processing are dissociable in the visual pathways. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00767

Should the moral core of climate issues be emphasized or downplayed in public discourse? Three ways to successfully manage the double-edged sword of moral communication (2014)
Journal Article
Täuber, S., van Zomeren, M., & Kutlaca, M. (2015). Should the moral core of climate issues be emphasized or downplayed in public discourse? Three ways to successfully manage the double-edged sword of moral communication. Climatic Change, 130(3), 453-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1200-6

The main objective of this paper is to identify a serious problem for communicators regarding the framing of climate issues in public discourse, namely that moralizing such an issue can motivate individuals while at the same time defensively lead the... Read More about Should the moral core of climate issues be emphasized or downplayed in public discourse? Three ways to successfully manage the double-edged sword of moral communication.

Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions (2014)
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Missana, M., Atkinson, A., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions. Developmental Science, 18(2), 243-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12209

Reading others’ emotional body expressions is an essential social skill. Adults readily recognize emotions from body movements. However, it is unclear when in development infants become sensitive to bodily expressed emotions. We examined event-relate... Read More about Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions.

Electrophysiological evidence for a sensory recruitment model of somatosensory working memory (2014)
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Katus, T., Grubert, A., & Eimer, M. (2015). Electrophysiological evidence for a sensory recruitment model of somatosensory working memory. Cerebral Cortex, 25(12), 4697-4703. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu153

Sensory recruitment models of working memory assume that information storage is mediated by the same cortical areas that are responsible for the perceptual processing of sensory signals. To test this assumption, we measured somatosensory event-relate... Read More about Electrophysiological evidence for a sensory recruitment model of somatosensory working memory.

Quantifying Human Sensitivity to Spatio-Temporal Information in Dynamic Faces (2014)
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Dobs, K., Bülthoff, I., Breidt, M., Vuong, Q., Curio, C., & Schultz, J. (2014). Quantifying Human Sensitivity to Spatio-Temporal Information in Dynamic Faces. Vision Research, 100, 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2014.04.009

A great deal of perceptual and social information is conveyed by facial motion. Here, we investigated observers’ sensitivity to the complex spatio-temporal information in facial expressions and what cues they use to judge the similarity of these move... Read More about Quantifying Human Sensitivity to Spatio-Temporal Information in Dynamic Faces.

The development of anticipation in the fetus: a longitudinal account of human fetal mouth movements in reaction to and anticipation of touch (2014)
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Reissland, N., Francis, B., Aydin, E., Mason, J., & Schaal, B. (2014). The development of anticipation in the fetus: a longitudinal account of human fetal mouth movements in reaction to and anticipation of touch. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(5), 955-963. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21172

Background: Research suggests that fetuses open or close their mouth in relation to directed movements (e.g. Myowa-Yamakoshi & Takeshita, 2006) but it is unclear whether mouth opening anticipates the touch or is a reaction to touch, as there has been... Read More about The development of anticipation in the fetus: a longitudinal account of human fetal mouth movements in reaction to and anticipation of touch.