Similar or different?

Similar or Different Advisors 1 Running head: SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT ADVISORS THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION FROM SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT ADVISORS ON JUDGMENT

On a daily basis, people rely on others’ advice to make judgments. In two studies, we examine the differential impacts of similarity between the source of the advice and the person making the judgment in two settings: judging others’ behavior and judging one’s own actions. We find that similarity interacts with the target of the judgment. In particular, information received from a different adv...

Homeopathy and placebo--synonym, similar or different?

Pediatric versus adult MS: similar or different?

In this review the most important aspects of pediatric multiple sclerosis are presented and compared with the adult form. Some findings appear peculiar of pediatric MS: a. Clinical manifestations are similar in adolescents and adults with MS, however in very young subjects MS frequency at onset is similar in males and females, with a higher frequency of brainstem/cerebellar involvement and acut...

Neural correlates of task and source switching: Similar or different?

Controlling everyday behaviour relies on the ability to configure appropriate task sets and guide attention towards information relevant to the current context and goals. Here, we ask whether these two aspects of cognitive control have different neural bases. Electrical brain activity was recorded while sixteen adults performed two discrimination tasks. The tasks were performed on either a visu...

Similar or Different? The Role of the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Similarity Detection

Patients with frontal lobe syndrome can exhibit two types of abnormal behaviour when asked to place a banana and an orange in a single category: some patients categorize them at a concrete level (e.g., "both have peel"), while others continue to look for differences between these objects (e.g., "one is yellow, the other is orange"). These observations raise the question of whether abstraction a...