The Rise of African Multinationals: Are IB Scholars Paying Sufficient Attention?

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults: are we paying sufficient attention?

Heterogeneity has been recently highlighted as a relevant characteristic of diabetes mellitus. The current classification of diabetes mellitus includes two main types of the disease, i.e. type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The latter is by far the most prevalent one. Nevertheless, there is a significant proportion of subjects with autoimmune diabetes mellitus that are classified as type 2 diabetic pat...

Are developmental theories of learning paying attention to attention?

Currently available empirical evidence is often insufficient to distinguish among developmental theories of word learning, categorization, and induction. This paper argues that theories of conceptual development should be evaluated not only on the basis of their ability to account for empirical findings, but also on the basis of their consistency with a broader body of knowledge, particularly w...

Paying Attention to the Details of Attention

Attention selects behaviorally relevant stimuli for greater neural representation. In this issue of Neuron, Luo and Maunsell (2015) show that attention acts, in part, by boosting the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of sensory neurons.

Paying Attention to Memory

Paying attention to meaning.

Several paradigms show that responses to one event compromise responses to a second event for around 500 ms. Such effects are generally attributed to attentional capacity limitations associated with processing information in the first event. In a task in which targets could be distinguished only by their meaning, we varied the semantic relationship between distractors and targets following at d...