Theorists and empiricists have long been concerned with the nature of empathy and its relatives, sympathy and compassion, which are all thought to have important roles in human (pro)sociality. Yet, the field continues to lack clear and distinct conceptualizations of these phenomena. In their recent thought-provoking article in TiCS [1], Gallagher et al. seek to […]

Explaining brain plasticity in blindness is challenging because the early visual cortex (EVC) responds to many different tasks, each type supporting a different explanation. Can individual differences help unify the experimental findings into a coherent theory and clarify the nature of brain plasticity? Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., […]

Abstract Naming common odors is a surprisingly difficult task: Odors are frequently misnamed. Little is known about the linguistic properties of odor misnamings. We test whether odor misnamings of old adults carry information about olfactory perception and its connection to lexical-semantic processing. We analyze the olfactory–semantic content of odor source naming failures in a large […]