The attentional blink (AB) is a robust deficit obtained for a second visual target (T2) appearing within 200 600 ms of a correctly identified first target (T1). In most AB studies both targets appear among distractors in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), and a key variable is the lag or SOA between the two targets. In the present chapter we review research bearing on the basis for the ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Three studies show that people whose physical features are seen as more (versus less) racially stereotypical are more vulnerable to social rejection and exclusion from those outside their group. In Study 1, which used an online social networking site, Blacks perceived as more physically stereotypical were found to have fewer non-Black friends, compared to less-stereotypica...

The recent edition of the Textbook of physiology, edited by Fulton, reveals the enormous strides made in this field during the past fifteen years.8 Similar advances have been achieved in the increasingly closely related discipline of experimental psychology, a science that only a few decades ago was compartmentalized into artificial groups, such as Sensation, Cerebration and Intellection, and T...

Disclosure: Prof Simon Travis has been an advisor to, in receipt of educational or research grants from, or an invited lecturer for AbbVie, Amgen, Asahi, Biogen, Boehringer Ingelheim, BMS, Cosmo, Elan, Ferring, FPRT Bio, Genentech/Roche, Genzyme, Glenmark, GW Pharmaceuticals, Lilly, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Ocera, Pfizer, Receptos, Shire, Santarus, SigmoidPharma, Synthon, Takeda, Tillotts...

background: anxiety is one of the most common psychiatric disorders and different treatment protocols have been introduced to relieve or treat it. religious values may be one of the best ways to control of anxiety. life is made meaningful and is directed by religious values. the purpose of this research was to examine the correlation of religious value levels and anxiety among the student of ke...

The idea that observing an action triggers an automatic and obligatory activation of an imitative action in the motor system of the observer has recently been questioned by studies examining complementary actions. Instead of a tendency for imitation, cooperative settings may facilitate the execution of dissimilar actions, resulting in a relative disadvantage for imitative actions. The present s...