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New article on motion perception

A team of researchers, including Professor Antti Revonsuo, have recently published an article in NeuroImage entitled ”V1 activity during feedforward and early feedback processing is necessary for both conscious and unconscious motion perception”. Briefly, the article investigates unconscious motion perception in blindsight patients (with V1 lesions), and equivalent virtual lesions in neurologically healthy subjects using TMS.

Best BSc and MSc theses: 2018 edition

I am pleased to here be able to announce the winners of the honorary prize for the best Bachelor’s Thesis and the best Master’s Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Skövde for the year 2018! At Bachelor’s level, the prize goes to Consciousness Studies student Emilia Svennersjö, for her thesis Thinking things over: […]

New publication on working memory

A team of researchers including our colleague-until-recently Daniel Broman (whom we wish continued good fortune in Dalarna!) have just published an article in Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports entitled “Behavioral facilitation and increased brain responses from a high interference working memory context“. Briefly, the research investigates  working memory through behavioral reaction-time and biological neuroimaging effects […]

New publication on Dark Triad and dreams

An international team of researchers including Katja Valli have just published an article in Imagination, Cognition and Personality entitled “Dark Dreams Are Made of This: Aggressive and Sexual Dream Content and the Dark Triad of Personality“. In brief, the article investigates the correlation between the Dark Triad factors psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism and dream content, […]

New publication on personality and gender equality

A team including departmental collaborator Petri Kajonius have just published an article in the International Journal of Psychology entitled “Sex differences in personality are larger in gender equal countries: Replicating and extending a surprising finding“. Shortly, the article investigates a large, international sample, which somewhat surprisingly demonstrates that the more gender equal a nation is, […]

Best BSc and MSc theses: 2017 edition

After an inordinate delay (due to a variety of reasons), I am pleased to finally be able to announce the winners of the honorary prize for the best Bachelor’s Thesis and the best Master’s Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Skövde for the year 2017! At Bachelor’s level, the prize goes to Consciousness […]