Department of Psychology

Sexual communal motivation in couples coping with low sexual interest/arousal: Associations with sexual well-being and sexual goals

Hogue, Jacqueline V.; Rosen, Natalie O.; Bockaj, Amanda; Impett, Emily A.; Muise, Amy (PLOS, 2019-07-17)

Women coping with female sexual interest/arousal disorder (FSIAD) report lower sexual and relationship satisfaction compared to healthy controls. In community samples, high sexual communal strength (i.e., the motivation ...

The fast contribution of visual-proprioceptive discrepancy to reach aftereffects and proprioceptive recalibration

Ruttle, Jennifer E.; ‘t Hart, Bernard Marius; Henriques, Denise Y. P. (PLOS, 2018-07-17)

Adapting reaches to altered visual feedback not only leads to motor changes, but also to shifts in perceived hand location; “proprioceptive recalibration”. These changes are robust to many task variations and can occur ...

What image features guide lightness perception?

Kim, Minjung; Gold, Jason M.; Murray, Richard F. (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2018-12-04)

Lightness constancy is the ability to perceive black and white surface colors under a wide range of lighting conditions. This fundamental visual ability is not well understood, and current theories differ greatly on what ...

Space and time in episodic memory: Effects of linearity and directionality on memory for spatial location and temporal order in children and adults

Pathman, Thanujeni; Coughlin, Christine; Ghetti, Simona (PLOS, 2018-11-08)

Episodic memory is a critical capacity that involves remembering past events along with their spatial and temporal contexts. Relatively little is known about the relations between spatial and temporal information in long-term ...

Associations between mother-preschooler attachment and maternal depression symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Badovinac, Shaylea; Martin, Jodi; Guérin-Marion, Camille; O’Neill, Monica; Riddell, Rebecca Pillai; Bureau, Jean-François; Spiegel, Rebecca (PLOS, 2018-10-02)

The current study aimed to systematically review and meta-analyze concurrent and longitudinal associations between maternal depression symptoms and mother-child attachment during the preschool period (aged 2 to 7 years) ...

Altered white matter connectivity associated with visual hallucinations following occipital stroke

Rafique, Sara A.; Richards, John R.; Steeves, Jennifer K. E. (Wiley, 2018-05-21)

Introduction: Visual hallucinations that arise following vision loss stem from aberrant functional activity in visual cortices and an imbalance of activity across associated cortical and subcortical networks subsequent to ...

Altered white matter structure in auditory tracts following early monocular enucleation

Wong, Nikita A.; Rafique, Sara A.; Moro, Stefania S.; Kelly, Krista R.; Steeves, Jennifer K.E. (Elsevier, 2019)

Purpose: Similar to early blindness, monocular enucleation (the removal of one eye) early in life results in crossmodal behavioral and morphological adaptations. Previously it has been shown that partial visual deprivation ...

rTMS reduces cortical imbalance associated with visual hallucinations after occipital stroke

Rafique, S.A.; Richards, J.R.; Steeves, J.K.E. (2016-10)

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of multiday repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the occipital cortex in a patient with continuous visual phosphene hallucinations for more than 2 years following ...

Own-age and own-sex biases in recognition of aged faces

Verdichevski, M; Steeves, J.K.E. (2013-10)

It is surprising how easily we are able to recognize people whom we have not seen in many years, somehow compensating for the aging-related facial changes that occurred. We measured the limits of the ability to recognize ...

Own-age and own-sex biases in recognition of aged faces.

Verdichevski, M; Steeves, J.K.E. (2013-10)

It is surprising how easily we are able to recognize people whom we have not seen in many years, somehow compensating for the aging-related facial changes that occurred. We measured the limits of the ability to recognize ...

Evidence of multisensory plasticity: Asymmetrical medial geniculate body in people with one eye

Moro, S.S.; Kelly, K.R.; McKetton, L; Gallie, B.L.; Steeves, J.K.E. (NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015-10)

The medial geniculate body (MGB) plays a central role in auditory processing with both efferent and afferent tracts to primary auditory cortex. People who have lost one eye early in life have enhanced sound localization, ...

Consecutive TMS-fMRI reveals an inverse relationship in BOLD signal.

Mullin, C.R.; Steeves, J.K.E. (Journal of Neuroscience, 2013-12)

The human visual system is capable of recognizing an infinite number of scenes containing an abundance of rich visual information. There are several cortical regions associated with the representation of a scene, including ...

TMS to lateral occipital cortex disrupts object processing but facilitates scene processing.

Mullin, C.R.; Steeves, J (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011-11)

The study of brain-damaged patients and advancements in neuroimaging have lead to the discovery of discrete brain regions that process visual image categories, such as objects and scenes. However, how these visual image ...

Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence for a contribution of color and texture information to scene classification in a patient with visual form agnosia.

Steeves, J.K.E.; Humphrey, G.K.; Culham, J.C.; Menon, R.S.; Milner, A.D.; Goodale, M.A. (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2004-03)

A common notion is that object perception is a necessary precursor to scene perception. Behavioral evidence suggests, however, that scene perception can operate independently of object perception. Further, neuroimaging has ...