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Probabilistic templates in visual working memory
Our interactions with the visual world are guided by attention and visual working memory. Things that we look for and those we ignore are stored as templates that reflect our goals and the tasks at hand. The nature of such templates has been widely debated. A recent proposal is that these templates
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Increasing learning disabilities? Primum non nocere
Specific learning disabilities (SLDs) are increasingly being addressed by researchers, schools, and institutions, as shown by the increasing number of publications, guidelines, and incidence statistics. Although SLDs are becoming a major topic in education with the final goal of inclusive schools,
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What does it take for increasing cortical excitability?
A paper published by Campana and colleagues shows that, when using transcranial random noise stimulation (a form of non -invasive brain stimulation where a very mild alternating current is injected in the brain at random frequencies) for increasing cortical excitability (neural responsiveness), such
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Rosa Rugani has become Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) global fellow
Rosa Rugani, former Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of General Psychology, has become Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) global fellow with her project entitled "At the roots of Spatial Numerical Association: From behavioural observation to Neural Basis" (SNANeB).Abstract &
