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New empirical article on psychopathy

Skövde cog neuro BSc and MSc alumnus and frequent collaborator Björn Persson has just published a new article on social status and psychopathy with the highly-esteemed Scott O. Lilienfeld in the high-impact journal Personality and Individual Differences, entitled “Social status as one key indicator of successful psychopathy: An initial empirical investigation“.

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, […]