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Visual perceptual learning is effective in the illusory far but not in the near space
Visual shape discrimination is faster for objects close to the body, in the peripersonal space (PPS), compared with objects far from the body. Visual...
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Sexual Harassment and Assault in Public Spaces: Individual Vulnerability and Contextual Risk Factors
Prior research has demonstrated that sexual harassment in public spaces is common; however, little is known about the contexts or types of harassment...
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Politics in Transitional Spaces: Direct and Indirect Political Participation
This paper seeks to build on Carriere’s (
2022 ) work on the complex, pervasive, and dialogical nature of politics and extend this treatment to examine...
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The perceived duration of vast spaces is mediated by awe
Looking out over the Pacific Ocean or the Grand Canyon can lead to a sense of vastness. As a perceptual phenomenon, vastness poses a unique challenge...
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Effect of peri-hand space among users of a familiar tool: more attention enhancement in space near palm than dorsal side of hand
Peri-hand space (PHS) can be extended to space near tools used in everyday life, indicating that the space near the functional area of a tool...
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Sound-induced flash illusion is modulated by the depth of auditory stimuli: Evidence from younger and older adults
Sound-induced flash illusion (SiFI) refers to an auditory dominance effect in which observers misperceive the number of visual flashes due to the...
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Phonological similarity between words is represented in declarative memory as spatial distance
Space can be used as a metaphor to describe semantic and perceptual similarity. Research has shown that similarity and spatial information can...
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“Good Night, Sleep Tight”: Do we have an “Evolutionary Preference” for Placing Beds in Sleeping Rooms? A Replication and Extension of Spörrle and Stich (2010)
In the distant past, hunter-gatherers had to manage the risk of attacks from other human beings and dangerous animals not only when awake, but also...
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The SNARC effect: a preregistered study on the interaction of horizontal, vertical, and sagittal spatial–numerical associations
Small numbers are processed faster through left-sided than right-sided responses, whereas large numbers are processed faster through right-sided than...
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Contact Logger: Measuring everyday intergroup contact experiences in near-time
Intergroup contact research has traditionally relied on retrospective accounts of intergroup encounters, mainly through survey-based or observational...
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Recovery and New Perspectives
Here we see possibilities of recovery and new perspectives. A scientific description of schizophrenia is given as this helps to dispel misconceptions...
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Gender Confirmation Work, Rest, and Symbolic Boundaries in (Trans)Gender Support Groups
Research on transgender identity and community boundaries has developed steadily over the last decade, but many of the inquiries center around...
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Trans Bans Expand: Anti-LGBTIQ+ Lawfare and Neo-fascism
IntroductionAnti-fascist theories suggest different meanings for anti-LGBTIQ+ rights laws. This paper explores how 2023 increases in US...
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Spatial coding for action across spatial scales
Humans perform goal-directed actions such as reaching for a light switch or grasping a coffee mug thousands of times a day. Behind the scenes of...
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Gender, Mental Health, and Climate Change: Impacts on Women and Gender Minorities
Climate change is known to have profound impacts on global mental health and worsen gender-specific mental health disparities. These impacts must be...
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Teaching, Learning, and Climate Change: Anticipated Impacts and Mitigation Strategies for Educators
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The impacts of climate change present numerous risks to the present and future state of teaching and learning. Natural disasters such as...
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Emotions as Metaphors: Critically Reconstructing Psychiatric and Cultural Discourses for Trauma and Healing
The complexity associated with defining what emotions are is as intriguing as addressing difficult or painful emotions of people undergoing dire...
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The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map
The cognitive map, proposed by Tolman in the 1940s, is a hypothetical internal representation of space constructed by the brain to enable an animal...
