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Traumatic stress symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

An ongoing research project of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute of McGill University (Canada) in collaboration with Prof. Sabrina CipollettaThis research project aims to investigate the experience of COVID-19 in terms of traumatic event and potential inductor of trauma-and stress

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Auditory selective attention under working memory load

DPG1 classroom - Department of General Psychology - via Venezia 8 Padova

Rena Bayramova (M.Sc. Cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology CN2)

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Human perception of a visual scene is hierarchically organized

Human perception of a visual scene is hierarchically organized. Such rapid, albeit coarse, global processing allows people to create a useful context in which local details can be successively allocated. Lack of the typical hierarchical global-to-local visual processing is longitudinally predictive

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Hemispheric specialization in spatial versus ordinal processing in the day-old domestic chick (Gallus gallus)

The intriguing similarity among species in representing numerosity in space from left to right may depend on a right hemisphere dominance in processing spatial information. We assessed the role of each hemisphere in spatial versus ordinal–numerical processing by testing chicks binocularly or

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Simulating the development of “number sense” in children

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