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Training Enhances Fidelity of Color Representations in Visual Long-Term Memory

Visual perception can be affected by training mental representations. However, it remains unclear if training procedures can also affect the quality of mental representations. To investigate if training enhances the fidelity of mental representations …

Coordinated Neural, Behavioral, and Phenomenological Changes in Perceptual Plasticity through Overtraining of Synesthetic Associations

Synesthesia is associated with additional perceptual experiences, which are automatically and consistently triggered by specific inducing stimuli. Synesthesia is also accompanied by more general sensory and cortical changes, including enhanced …

Educational App-Development Needs to Be Informed by the Cognitive Neurosciences of Learning & Memory

Be it intentionally or not: computers, tablets, and smartphones have become ubiquitous in schools and have been transforming educational practices at all ages and levels and almost all over the world. Whether this transformation is for the better or …

Spontaneous Retrieval Reveals Right-Ear Advantage in Prospective Memory

The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of individual costs on prospective memory performance. Individual costs were assessed by contrasting participants with high costs and those with low costs. Specifically, we tested whether …

Synesthesia Improves Sensory Memory, When Perceptual Awareness Is High

Empirical evidence suggests that synesthesia is associated with enhanced sensory processing. A separate body of empirical literature suggests that synesthesia is linked to a specific profile of enhanced episodic and working memory performance. …

Electrophysiological Correlates and Psychoacoustic Characteristics of Hearing-Motion Synaesthesia

People with hearing-motion synaesthesia experience sounds from moving or changing (e.g. flickering) visual stimuli. This phenomenon may be one of the most common forms of synaesthesia but it has rarely been studied and there are no studies of its …

The Structure of Inter-Individual Differences in Visual Ability: Evidence from the General Population and Synaesthesia

This study considers how inter-individual differences in visual ability are structured. Visual ability could be a single entity (along the lines of general intelligence, or `g'), or could be structured according to major anatomical or physiological …

Time-of-Day Affects Prospective Memory Differently in Younger and Older Adults

The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of circadian arousal on prospective memory performance as a function of age. We tested a younger (18– 34 years) and an older group (56– 95 years) of participants on- and off-peak with regard to …

Different Dimensions of Cognitive Style in Typical and Atypical Cognition: New Evidence and a New Measurement Tool

We developed the Sussex Cognitive Styles Questionnaire (SCSQ) to investigate visual and verbal processing preferences and incorporate global/local processing orientations and systemising into a single, comprehensive measure. In Study 1 ( N = 1542), …

The Sensitivity and Specificity of a Diagnostic Test of Sequence-Space Synesthesia

People with sequence-space synesthesia (SSS) report stable visuo-spatial forms corresponding to numbers, days, and months (amongst others). This type of synesthesia has intrigued scientists for over 130 years but the lack of an agreed upon tool for …