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Contextualizing numeric clinical test results for gist comprehension
Patient portals to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are underused by older adults because of limited system usability…
What We Are Learning About Fade-Out of Intervention Effects
When designing intervention research that has a long-term goal, fade-out is an important consideration. Barbara Schneider offers several important takeaways for such interventions, beginning from the initial plan to later longitudinal analyses of treatment effects.
Leveraging cognitive consistency to nudge climate change beliefs
People feel motivated to maintain consistency across many domains in life. When it comes to climate change, many…
Overconfidence is universal?
Overconfidence is sometimes assumed to be a human universal, but there remains a dearth of data systematically measuring…
The development of bodily self-consciousness: changing responses to the Full Body Illusion in childhood
Andy Bremner discusses the development of bodily self-consciousness and its relation to multisensory bodily information, by measuring for…
The development of multisensory representations of the body and of the space around the body
Andy Bremner discusses research directed at tracking the development of multisensory representations of the body, limbs, and the…
Human infants’ ability to perceive touch in external space develops postnatally
Arriving in the outside world, the newborn infant has to determine how the tactile stimulation experienced in utero…
Assessing the expectations associated with pharmaceutical pill colour and shape
Can people’s sensory, hedonic, and efficacy expectations be influenced by shape and colour? Charles Spence discusses how this…
Design elements in product packaging
Charles Spence is the Head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Here he presents…
Perseveration effects in reaching and grasping rely on motor priming
Scott Glover discusses Perseveration effects in reaching and grasping rely on motor priming and not perception.
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