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 Cipolletta
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
Simulating the development of “number sense” in children
Alberto Testolin, Will Y. Zou, James L. McClelland
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEWS AND EVENTS
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Numerical magnitude, rather than individual bias, explains spatial numerical association in newborn chicks
We associate small numbers with the left and large numbers with the right side of space. Recent evidence from human newborns and non-human animals has challenged the primary role assigned to culture, in determining this spatial numerical association (SNA). Nevertheless, the effect of individual spat
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Spatial biases in mental arithmetic are independent of reading habits: Evidence from French and Arabic speakers
06.07.2020
Meeting of the Journal Club - Progress Report 2019-20 of the DPG will be held on Monday 06 July, at 11.30 am.The speaker will be Nicolas Masson (PostDoc Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg), who will speak about:
"Spatial biases in mental arithmetic are inde
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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, c
