Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Resting brain dynamics at different timescales capture distinct aspects of human behavior

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Raphaël Pierre Liégeois

Linking human behavior to resting-state brain function is a central question in systems neuroscience. In particular, the functional timescales at which different types of behavioral factors are encoded remain largely unexplored. The behavioral counterparts ...

Springer2019

No Evidence for a Common Factor Underlying Visual Abilities in Healthy Older People

Michael Herzog, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Aaron Michael Clarke

The world's population is aging at an increasing rate. Even in the absence of neurodegenerative disorders, healthy aging affects perception and cognition. In the context of cognition, common factors are well established. Much less is known about common fac ...

AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC2019

When and why performance goals predict exploitation behaviors: An achievement goal complex analysis of the selection function of assessment

David Nguyen, Fabrizio Butera, Hamza Sehaqui, Martin Jobin

We adopted an achievement goal complex framework (studying achievement goals and reasons connected to goals) to determine when and why performance goals predict exploitation of others' knowledge. We hypothesized that: (i) when selective assessment is used ...

SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS2019

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Dario Floreano

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots — drones — that can autonomously fly in natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence applications, could have a major impact on civilian tasks, including transportation, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Individual Differences in the Discrimination of Novel Speech Sounds: Effects of Sex, Temporal Processing, Musical and Cognitive Abilities

John Christian Thoresen

This study examined whether rapid temporal auditory processing, verbal working memory capacity, non-verbal intelligence, executive functioning, musical ability and prior foreign language experience predicted how well native English speakers (N = 120) discr ...

Public Library of Science2012