Not All Visual Expertise Is Holistic, but It May Be Leftist

Not all visual expertise is holistic, but it may be leftist: the case of Chinese character recognition.

We examined whether two purportedly face-specific effects, holistic processing and the left-side bias, can also be observed in expert-level processing of Chinese characters, which are logographic and share many properties with faces. Non-Chinese readers (novices) perceived these characters more holistically than Chinese readers (experts). Chinese readers had a better awareness of the components...

They think it's all over, but it may not be!

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

Pharmacological PKA inhibition: all may not be what it seems.

Signaling through the cyclic adenosine monophosphate-dependent protein kinase [protein kinase A (PKA)] is an important and widely studied area of signal transduction research. This signaling pathway is commonly investigated through the use of the pharmacological PKA inhibitors H89 and KT 5720. Both of these compounds are thought to block PKA actions through competitive inhibition of the adenosi...

Pharmacological PKA Inhibition : All May Not Be What It Seems

Page 1 Overview of cAMP Signaling The transduction of extracellular signals to intracellular responses is one of the most important and complicated aspects of cellular life. The cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signaling pathway is involved in numerous processes and is widely regarded as the “classical” second messenger signaling pathway. cAMP is synthesized from adenosine triphosphate (AT...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries