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A validation of event-related FMRI comparisons between users of cocaine, nicotine, or cannabis and control subjects
(American Journal of Psychiatry, 2006)Noninvasive brain imaging techniques are a powerful tool for researching the effects of drug abuse on brain activation measures. However, because many drugs have direct vascular effects, the validity of techniques that ... -
Vigilant Attention
(MIT Press, 2004)When train drivers pass through warning or stop signals ? as they do many thousands of times per day throughout the world ? this is an example, we argue, of an inefficiency in the functioning of a right hemispheric, ... -
The Virtual Haptic Display: A device for exploring 2-D virtual shapes in the tactile modality.
(Psychonomic Society, 2007)In order to understand better the processes involved in the perception of shape through touch, someelement of control is required over the nature of the shape presented to the hand and the presentation timing. To that end, ... -
Virtual Shapers & Movers: Form and Motion affect Sex Perception
(2007)An experiment to determine factors that influence the perceived sex of virtual characters was conducted. Four different model types were used: highly realistic male and female models, an androgynous character, and a point ... -
Volume of β-bursts, but not their rate, predicts successful response inhibition
(2021)In humans, impaired response inhibition is characteristic of a wide range of psychiatric diseases and of normal aging. It is hypothesised that the right inferior frontal cortex plays a key role by inhibiting the motor ... -
Wellbeing Culture Indicators
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Wellbeing in Aviation Summit
(2019)Understanding pilot wellbeing, and its impact on flight safety: identifying self-management strategies to promote the bio-psycho-social pillars of wellbeing. -
What you see is what you hear: Twenty years of research using the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion
(2020)In the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion (SIFI) sound dramatically alters visual perception, as presenting a single flash with two beeps results in the perception of two flashes. In this comprehensive review, we synthesise 20 ... -
What's distressing about having Type 1 diabetes? A qualitative study of young adults' perspectives
(2013)Background Diabetes distress is a general term that refers to the emotional burdens, anxieties, frustrations, stressors and worries that stem from managing a severe, complex condition like Type 1 diabetes. To date there ... -
When Does Visual Perceptual Grouping Affect Multisensory Integration?
(The Psychonomic Society, 2004)Several studies have shown that the direction in which a visual apparent motion stream moves can influence the perceived direction of an auditory apparent motion stream (an effect known as crossmodal dynamic capture). ... -
When Falsification Fails
(The Psychological Society of Ireland, 1998)This study investigated the effectiveness of a falsification logic at early and late stages of the hypothesis testing process. The subject's task was to discover the "laws of motion" in a computerized Artificial ...