Hybridization in Chickadees: Much to Learn From Familiar Birds

Assuming too much from 'familiar' brain potentials.

Familiarity is sometimes associated with midfrontal old/new (FN400) signals, but investigators assume too much by inferring familiarity whenever they identify these signals. We describe how Rosburg and colleagues (2011) made this assumption, yielding potentially faulty conclusions about the recognition heuristic. We provide an alternative interpretation emphasizing implicit processing that can ...

Demyelination in Peripheral Nerves: Much to Learn from Leprosy Neuropathy

Copyright: © 2016 Mietto BS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Leprosy is a chronic infectious disorder of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) caused by the infection of non-neuronal nerve...

Splicing: still so much to learn.

This issue marks the 20th year since the launching of RNA in March of 1995. It is a time to celebrate, as well as to consider the substantial accomplishments achieved in these two decades, both in the RNA field as a whole, and in the specific areas in which each of us works—in my case, human premRNA splicing mechanisms and regulation, and its relevance to human disease. Moreover, this is a time...

Exercise induced asthma, still much to learn.

How much can we learn from double dissociations?

It is sometimes assumed that double dissociations between performance in Tasks A and B indicate that different underlying cognitive mechanisms are implicated in each task. According to this viewpoint, double dissociations are a powerful tool for probing the modularity of the mind. The validity of the double dissociation inference, and related inferences has been widely discussed (e.g., Dunn and...