Browsing by Subject "Cognitive Development/Processes"
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Combined structural and functional imaging reveals cortical deactivations in grapheme-colour synaesthesia.
(2013)Synaesthesia is a heritable condition in which particular stimuli generate specific and consistent sensory percepts or associations in another modality or processing stream. Functional neuroimaging studies have identified ... -
Evaluating pre-learner driver road safety programmes for Transition Year students in the Republic of Ireland
(School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, 2013)Road traffic crashes (RTCs) impose a considerable burden on society and the risk of crashing is highest among young inexperienced learner and novice drivers, especially males. Research suggests that driving-related knowledge, ... -
Improving the efficiency of multisensory integration in older adults: audio-visual temporal discrimination training reduces the susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion.
(2014)From language to motor control, efficient integration of information from different sensory modalities is necessary for maintaining a coherent interaction with the environment. While a number of training studies have focused ... -
Susceptibility to a multisensory speech illusion in older persons is driven by perceptual processes.
(2013)Recent studies suggest that multisensory integration is enhanced in older adults but it is not known whether this enhancement is solely driven by perceptual processes or affected by cognitive processes. Using the “McGurk ... -
Understanding Laughter in Dialog
(2022)This work explores laughter within a corpus of three-party, task-based dialogs with native and non-native speakers of English, each consisting of two players and a facilitator, in relation to whether the laughter is perceived ... -
Young and Restless, Old and Focused: Age-Differences in Mind-Wandering Frequency and Phenomenology
(2020)The consistently observed age-accompanied diminution in mind-wandering stands seemingly opposed to accounts that present mind-wandering as a failure of executive control. This study examined the impact of aging on the ...