Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

TL;DR: Mechanisms relevant to mechanistic action perception theory are explained, concrete neuronal circuits in brains along with artificial neuronal network simulations are pointed to, and recent brain imaging and other experimental data documenting the role of action perception circuits in cognition, language and communication are summarized.

TL;DR: The ERP and behavioural effects showed some sensitivity to whether the same or a different photograph of a face was repeated, but could remain reliable across different photographs, and did not appear attributable to a low-level measure of pixelwise overlap between prime and probe photograph.

TL;DR: Results point towards the dedicated role of the STS as a ‘social-information processing’ centre with an integrative preference for information from people, as compared to objects.

TL;DR: Results from two experiments involving word-stem completion suggest that preserved implicit memory, in the absence of explicit memory, is sufficient for an errorless-learning advantage to accrue.

TL;DR: It is suggested that IT uses features that help to distinguish categories as stepping stones toward a semantic representation, reflecting a higher-level more purely semantic representation.