Recognition of emotional facial expressions is a crucial skill for adaptive behavior that most often occurs in a multi--sensory context. Affective matching tasks have been used across development to investigate how people integrate facial information …
The ability to detect conspecifics that represent a potential harm for an individual represents a high survival benefit. Humans communicate socially relevant information using all sensory modalities, including the chemosensory systems. In study 1, we …
Odor detection sensitivity can be rapidly altered by fear conditioning; whether this effect is augmented over time is not known.The present study aimed to test whether repeated conditioning sessions induce changes in odor detection threshold as well …
A commentary on "Olfactory aversive conditioning during sleep reduces cigarette-smoking behavior" by Arzi, A., Holtzman, Y., Samnon, P., Eshel, N., Harel, E., and Sobel, N. (2014). J. Neurosci. 34, 15382–15393.
Imitation is a key socio-cognitive skill impaired in individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). It is known that the familiarity with an actor facilitates the appearance of imitative abilities. Here, we explore whether a highly familiar and …
The performance of patients with vascular parkinsonism (VPD) on a reach-to-grasp task was compared with that of patients affected by idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD) and age-matched control subjects. The aim of the study was to determine how …
The goal of the present experiment was twofold identifying similarities and differences between flavour memory and visual memory mechanisms and investigating whether kinematics could serve as an implicit measure for food selection. To test flavour …