Syntactic factors can rapidly affect behavioral and neural responses during language processing; however, the mechanisms that allow this rapid extraction of syntactically relevant information remain poorly understood. We addressed this issue using magnetoencephalography and found that an unexpected word category (e.g., “The recently princess . . . ”) elicits enhanced activity in visual cortex a...

“Now” is privileged in most psychological theories, which portray their processes as proceeding from moment-to-moment. As in any science, this adherence to contiguous causation hinders an account of phenomena that involve remote events or temporally extended organization. In addition, our scientific discourse is framed by the everyday patterns we have learned in explaining our own actions and t...

The basis function theory of spatial representations explains how neurons i n the parietal cortex can perform nonlinear transformations from sensory to motor coordinates. The authors present computer simulations showing that unilateral parietal lesions leading to a neuronal gradient in basis function maps can account for the behavior of patients with hemineglect, including (a) neglect in line c...

The third edition of this textbook for students and newly qualified Practitioners is the first to be published since the untimely death of Dr. Eric Guttmann, one of its original authors. Largely as a result of this apparently, there are few major alterations in this edition, though the sections on Mental Deficiency, Hysteria and Schizophrenia have all been added to and brought more in line with...

This study examined a proposed framework of psychological net worth that builds on the current psychological capital conceptualization of positive psychological assets provided to an organization by articulating the construct of psychological debt or those psychological liabilities in an organization identified as organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviors, professionalism ...

Most studies of animal cognition focus on group performance and neglect individual differences and the correlational structure of cognitive abilities. Moreover, no previous studies have compared the correlational structure of cognitive abilities in nonhuman animals and humans. We compared the structure of individual differences of 106 chimpanzees and 105 two-year-old human children using 15 cog...

Two important trials have occurred lately in which the plea of insanity was raised. I allude to that of Madden, tried for threatening the life of the Queen, and acquitted on the ground of insanity ; and Mullens, found guilty of threatening the life of an officer connected with the Board of Trade. The nature of the two cases is precisely similar, but the result of the trials diametrically opposi...