Ali Behzadnia, Johannes C. Ziegler, Danielle Colenbrander, Audrey Bürki, and Elisabeth Beyersmann. 2023.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0, (0)  —  @HAL This study used a novel word learning paradigm to investigate the role of morphology in the acquisition of complex words, when participants have no prior lexical knowledge of the embedded morphemic constituents. The […]

Nicole Voges, Johannes Hausmann, Andrea Brovelli, and Demian Battaglia. 2024. Journal of Neuroscience 10 January 2024, 44 (2) e0157232023  —  @HAL It is challenging to measure how specific aspects of coordinated neural dynamics translate into operations of information processing and, ultimately, cognitive functions. An obstacle is that simple circuit mechanisms—such as self-sustained or propagating activity […]

Michelle M. Mulholland, Adrien Meguerditchian, and William D. Hopkins. 2023. Neurobiology of Aging 125 (May): 41–48. —  @HAL Age-related changes in cognition, brain morphology, and behavior are exhibited in several primate species. Baboons, like humans, naturally develop Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology and cognitive declines with age and are an underutilized model for studies of aging. To […]

Shruti Naik, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, and Demian Battaglia. 2023. Sensors 23 (10): 4847. —  @HAL Electrophysiology recordings are frequently affected by artifacts (e.g., subject motion or eye movements), which reduces the number of available trials and affects the statistical power. When artifacts are unavoidable and data are scarce, signal reconstruction algorithms that allow for the retention […]

Anthony Formaux, Dan Sperber, Joël Fagot, and Nicolas Claidière. 2023. Science Advances 9 (43): eadi5282  —  @HAL Humans are strategic cooperators; we make decisions on the basis of costs and benefits to maintain high levels of cooperation, and this is thought to have played a key role in human evolution. In comparison, monkeys and apes […]

Andrei Barborica, Ioana Mindruta, Víctor J. López-Madrona, F-Xavier Alario, Agnès Trébuchon, Cristian Donos, Irina Oane, Constantin Pistol, Felicia Mihai, and Christian G. Bénar. 2023. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 17: 1154038  —  @HAL Investigating cognitive brain functions using non-invasive electrophysiology can be challenging due to the particularities of the task-related EEG activity, the depth of the […]

Elisabeth Beyersmann, Jonathan Grainger, Stéphane Dufau, Colas Fournet, and Johannes C. Ziegler. 2023. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, October, 1–14  —  @HAL The present study explored the role of constituent frequency and distractor type in complex word learning. Skilled readers were trained to associate novel letter strings with one out of two pictures, with one picture […]

Etienne Thoret 2023. Nature Reviews Psychology, September  —  @HAL Humans are experts in recognition tasks such as recognizing the emotion shown in a face. A central question in psychology is what sensory information humans use to achieve these feats. For instance, researchers might wonder which part of a face allows recognition of the emotions of […]

Laure Tosatto, Joël Fagot, and Arnaud Rey. 2023. Journal of Comparative Psychology 137 (3): 191–99 — @HAL Chunking is an important cognitive process allowing the compression of information in short-term memory. The aim of this study is to compare the dynamics of chunking during the learning of a visuo-motor sequence in humans (Homo sapiens) and […]

Arnaud Rey, and Joël Fagot. 2023. Learning & Behavior, January.   —  @HAL Recursive sequence generation (i.e., the ability to transfer recursive patterns to novel items) was recently reported in crows (Liao et al., 2022, Science Advances, 8[44], eabq3356). Here, we argue that although the reported data are certainly compatible with the recursion hypothesis, they can […]