Reply to ‘Misconceptions indeed’

How do they, indeed? A reply to Biegler et al.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Reply: Are CHCHD10 mutations indeed associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

Sylvie Bannwarth, Samira Ait-El-Mkadem, Annabelle Chaussenot, Emmanuelle C. Genin, Sandra Lacas-Gervais, Konstantina Fragaki, Laetitia Berg-Alonso, Yusuke Kageyama, Valérie Serre, David Moore, Annie Verschueren, Cécile Rouzier, Isabelle Le Ber, Gaëlle Augé, Charlotte Cochaud, Françoise Lespinasse, Karine N’Guyen, Anne de Septenville, Alexis Brice, Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, Hiromi Sesaki, Jean Pouget ...

Numerosities and space; indeed a cognitive illusion! A reply to de Hevia and Spelke (2009).

de Hevia and Spelke (de Hevia and Spelke (2009). Spontaneous mapping of number and space in adults and young children, Cognition, 110, 198-207) investigated the mapping of number onto space. To this end, they introduced a non-symbolic flanker task. Here subjects have to bisect a line that is flanked by a 2-dot and a 9-dot array. Similar to the symbolic line bisection task, a bias towards the la...

Cognitive Processes, Trauma, and Dissociation—Misconceptions and Misrepresentations: Reply to Bremner (2010)

In a recent review (Giesbrecht, Lynn, Lilienfeld, & Merckelbach, 2008), we critically evaluated the research literature on cognitive processes in dissociation. In a comment, Bremner (2010) has voiced reservations about our contention that evidence for the causal role of trauma in dissociation is limited. In this reply, we argue that Bremner’s arguments are unconvincing and that a closer examina...

Further misconceptions about species recognition: a reply to Padian and Horner.

, s independently of the phenotypes that characterize them. ‘Mate’ and ‘competitor’ are admittedly one step removed from the neural processes underlying the responses of animals. However, we see the advantage of terms such as ‘mate recognition,’ ‘competitor recognition,’ and so on as convenient shorthand to categorize the fitness consequences of behavioral interactions, and to make generalizati...