"I WANT IT THE WAY I NEED IT": MODALITY, READABILITY, AND FORMAT CONTROL FOR AUTISTIC INFORMATION SEEKERS ONLINE

I Want It All and I Want It Now: How a Neural Circuit Encodes Odor with Speed and Accuracy

A study by Jeanne and Wilson (2015) describes a circuit and determines the distinct neural circuit mechanisms that allow a signal to be represented with both speed and accuracy in the Drosophila olfactory system.

I Know It When I See It: The Challenges of Addressing Corruption in Health Systems; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

In this commentary, I argue that corruption in health systems is a critical and legitimate area for research in order to strengthen health policy goals. This rationale is based partly on citizen demand for more accountable and transparent health systems, along with the fact that the poor and vulnerable suffer the most from the presence of corruption in health systems. W...

I Want It Now! The Neuroscience of Teenage Impulsivity

kids.frontiersin.org What would you rather do on a hot summer day? Go to football practice or have ice cream by the pool? The pool might be much more fun than going to any sports practice, so it may seem to be an easy choice. However, if you miss practice often, your coach might not line you up at the next match, and you will not improve overall. In the light of these future consequences, atten...

The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech

The present study examined whether processing words with affective connotations in a listener's native language may be modulated by accented speech. To address this question, we used the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique and recorded the cerebral activity of Spanish native listeners, who performed a semantic categorization task, while listening to positive, negative and neutral words prod...

Medical Leadership Development (MLD): the need of change and the way to approach it