There are several tests used in clinical practice and research worldwide that have been
devised to assess the functions subsumed by the frontal lobes of the brain. Anatomical …

In humans and non-human primates, the parietal lobe plays a key role in spatial attention–
the ability to extract information from regions of space. This role is thought to be mediated by …

Every object is represented by semantic information in extension to its low-level properties. It
is well documented that such information biases attention when it is necessary for an …

Highlights•Semantic knowledge of objects influences attentional allocation despite task-
irrelevance.•Knowledge of objects' real-world size, not the actual retinal size, influences …

This study investigates prior reports of high neuropsychological symptom validity test (SVT)
failure rates in post-deployed Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom …

The Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test is a well‐established test of executive function that
evaluates the capacity to abstract, follow, and switch rules. There has been remarkably little …

Visual attention is biased by both visual and semantic representations activated by words.
We investigated to what extent language-induced visual and semantic biases are subject to …

Perception is linked to action via two routes: a direct route based on affordance information
in the environment and an indirect route based on semantic knowledge about objects. The …

People who have experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) often report increased difficulty
processing speech than they experienced before their injuries; and this difficulty is not …

In real life, many actions involve using one object upon the other, for instance, using a spoon
to scoop from a bowl. The present thesis investigated the influence from such between …