The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

We review recent evidence from studies of patients with unilateral neglect and/or extinction,
who suffer from a loss of awareness for stimuli towards the affected side of space. We …

Like every other aspect of human development, language development is characterized by
variation. Historically this variation has been largely ignored by students of child language …

Is" right-brain" thought essentially creative, and" left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige
argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive …

To begin to study the importance of dopamine for executive function abilities dependent on
prefrontal cortex during early childhood, the present investigation studied children in whom …

Children with a diagnosis of autism and typically developing children were given two
variations of the Navon task (Navon, 1977), which required responding to a target that could …

Testing hypotheses derived from neuropsychological models of mood, as well as the
association of mood states and personality characteristics with global-local visual …

Theories on visual perception agree that scenes are processed in terms of spatial
frequencies. Low spatial frequencies (LSF) carry coarse information whereas high spatial …

Background: According to predictions from the Weak Central Coherence (WCC) theory for
perceptual processing, persons with autism should display a tendency to focus on minute …

Recent evidence from neuropsychology has proven useful in defining neural and cognitive
subsystems involved in certain cognitive processes such as spatial attention (Posner …