Research reveals dramatic differences in the ways that people from different cultures
perceive the world around them. Individuals from Western cultures tend to focus on that …

Over the last 25 years we have been able to witness how countries that maintained brutal
dictatorships and bred bloody genocides chose to set an end to oppression, violence or …

Distraction by irrelevant background sound of visually-based cognitive tasks illustrates the
vulnerability of attentional selectivity across modalities. Four experiments centred on …

Although memory confidence and accuracy tend to be positively correlated, people
sometimes remember with high confidence events that never happened. How can …

Five experiments demonstrate auditory-semantic distraction in tests of memory for semantic
category-exemplars. The effects of irrelevant sound on category-exemplar recall are shown …

Compared to young adults, older adults show not only a reduction in true memories but also
an increase in false memories. We investigated the neural bases of these age effects using …

Compared to young, older adults are more likely to forget events that occurred in the past as
well as remember events that never happened. Previous studies examining false memories …

Language delay and impairment are salient features of autism. More specifically, there is
evidence of atypical semantic organization in autism, but the functional brain correlates are …

The notion that the brain is organized into two complementary networks, one that is task-
positive and supports externally-oriented processing, and the other that is task-negative and …

Research into the cognitive neuroscience of aging has revealed exciting and unexpected
changes to the brain over the lifespan. However, studies have mostly been conducted on …