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View article: Method for Determining Extrusion Parameters and Die Plate Designing Using an Algorithm
Method for Determining Extrusion Parameters and Die Plate Designing Using an Algorithm Open
The extrusion of rubber components plays a critical role in tire manufacturing. Modifications in rubber formulations necessitate recalibration of extrusion parameters to ensure dimensional accuracy of the final extrudate. Traditionally, th…
View article: Facilitating Thought Progression to Reduce Depressive Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trial
Facilitating Thought Progression to Reduce Depressive Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trial Open
Background The constant rise in the prevalence of major depressive disorder calls for new, effective, and accessible interventions that can rapidly and effectively reach a wide range of audiences. Recent developments in the digital health …
View article: Facilitating Thought Progression to Reduce Depressive Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
Facilitating Thought Progression to Reduce Depressive Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND The constant rise in the prevalence of major depressive disorder calls for new, effective, and accessible interventions that can rapidly and effectively reach a wide range of audiences. Recent developments in the digital health…
View article: A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity
A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity Open
Curiosity and creativity are central pillars of human growth and invention. Although they have been studied extensively in isolation, the relationship between them has not yet been established. We propose that both curiosity and creativity…
View article: How Associative Thinking Influences Scene Perception
How Associative Thinking Influences Scene Perception Open
Perception of our external environment is not isolated from the influence of our internal thoughts. Here, we investigate the nature of their interaction. We argue that a common associative mechanism underlies both the perception of scenes …
View article: Oculomotor anticipation reveals a multitude of learning processes underlying the serial reaction time task
Oculomotor anticipation reveals a multitude of learning processes underlying the serial reaction time task Open
Sequence learning is the cognitive faculty enabling everyday skill acquisition. In the lab, it is typically measured in speed of response to sequential stimuli, whereby faster responses are taken to indicate improved anticipation. However,…
View article: From Objects to Unified Minds
From Objects to Unified Minds Open
The involvement of top-down processes in perception and cognition is widely acknowledged by now. In fields of research from predictions to inhibition, and from attentional guidance to affect, a great deal has already been charted. Integrat…
View article: Exploring how broad associative thought enhances scene gist perception
Exploring how broad associative thought enhances scene gist perception Open
While perceiving the external environment, people also engage in internal trains of thoughts - thoughts ranging from narrow and ruminative to broad and creative. Both associative thought and perceptual gist-processing were previously sugge…
View article: Our Inherent Need for Associative Coherence.
Our Inherent Need for Associative Coherence. Open
The world around us consists of typical settings manifested as statistical regularities and stored as associations. These associations are beneficial for performance and serve as a source of stability in our perception of a coherent surrou…
View article: Perceptual decisions are biased toward relevant prior choices
Perceptual decisions are biased toward relevant prior choices Open
Perceptual decisions are biased by recent perceptual history, a phenomenon termed 'serial dependence.' Using a visual location discrimination task, we investigated what aspects of perceptual decisions lead to serial dependence, and disambi…
View article: What’s real? Prefrontal facilitations and distortions
What’s real? Prefrontal facilitations and distortions Open
By now, we know that visual perception involves much more than bottom-up processing. Specifically, we have shown that object recognition is facilitated, sometimes even afforded, by top-down projections from the lateral and inferior prefron…
View article: Prefrontal Cortex in Visual Perception and Recognition
Prefrontal Cortex in Visual Perception and Recognition Open
The role of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in vision remains mysterious. While it is well established that PFC neuronal activity reflects visual features, it is commonly thought that such feature encoding in PFC is only for the service of behavio…
View article: Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening
Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening Open
Introduction When listening to a narrative, the verbal expressions translate into meanings and flow of mental imagery. However, the same narrative can be heard quite differently based on differences in listeners' previous experiences and k…
View article: Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening
Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening Open
When listening to a narrative, the verbal expressions translate into meanings and flow of mental imagery, at best vividly immersing the keen listener into the sights, sounds, scents, objects, actions, and events in the story. However, the …
View article: Empathy: The Role of Expectations
Empathy: The Role of Expectations Open
To what extent can we feel what someone else feels? Data from neuroscience suggest that empathy is supported by a simulation process, namely the neural activation of the same or similar regions that subserve the representation of specific …
View article: Behaviorally relevant prior experience biases subsequent perception
Behaviorally relevant prior experience biases subsequent perception Open
Background: Perception is flexible, and influenced by prior experience. However, the mechanisms underlying the effects of experience on subsequent perception are yet unclear. Here we investigated the influence of behavioral relevance of th…
View article: Mental state affects visual performance
Mental state affects visual performance Open
Mood affects perception, biases judgment, and disrupts processing. Previous studies have shown that positive mood tends to correlate with broad associative thinking, while negative mood correlates more with narrow associative thinking. Mor…
View article: The Effect of Cognitive Load on Visual Statistical Learning
The Effect of Cognitive Load on Visual Statistical Learning Open
In times of limited resources or stress, not only behavior changes, but modes of memory and learning change as well. Under cognitive load, learning is biased towards a habitual "model-free" mode, rather than a goal-directed and more flexib…
View article: Internal valence modulates the speed of object recognition
Internal valence modulates the speed of object recognition Open
Brain regions that process affect are strongly connected with visual regions, but the functional consequences of this structural organization have been relatively unexplored. How does the momentary affect of an observer influence perceptio…
View article: Associative activation and its relation to mental exploration
Associative activation and its relation to mental exploration Open
The tension between exploration and exploitation affects behavior as well as how we attend and perceive the world around us. The goal of the current research was to examine whether this tension also influences internal mental operations su…
View article: Cortical Integration of Contextual Information across Objects
Cortical Integration of Contextual Information across Objects Open
Recognizing objects in the environment and understanding our surroundings often depends on context: the presence of other objects and knowledge about their relations with each other. Such contextual information activates a set of medial lo…
View article: Convergent evidence for top-down effects from the “predictive brain”
Convergent evidence for top-down effects from the “predictive brain” Open
Modern conceptions of brain function consider the brain as a “predictive organ,” where learned regularities about the world are utilised to facilitate perception of incoming sensory input. Critically, this process hinges on a role for cogn…