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recuerdos dynamic cueing
Tue, 05/27/2025 - 14:23
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27/05/2025

Memories Evolve: Do Your Cues Keep Up?

Juan Linde-Domingo, a researcher at CIMCYC, and Casper Kerrén, from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, have published an article in the journal Hippocampus. In it, they challenge the widely accepted "encoding specificity hypothesis," which states that retrieval cues must match the original encoding conditions. Instead, they propose the "Dynamic-Cueing Hypothesis." This hypothesis highlights that, since memories are dynamic and transform considerably after being encoded, the cues for retrieving them must also adapt to the current state of those memories.

orgasmos pareja lgb
Fri, 05/23/2025 - 12:59
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23/05/2025

How Do LGB People Rate Their Coupled Orgasms?

Researchers of the LabSex published a study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, in 2024, with the goal of exploring the sexual dynamics in this population group. One of the most consolidated instruments to evaluate SOE is the Orgasm Rating Scale (ORS), which assesses the orgasmic experience using 25 adjectives distributed in four factors (affective, sensory, intimacy, and reward).

ciudad con contrastes en la desigualdad
Thu, 05/22/2025 - 14:26
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22/05/2025

The Hidden Cost of Inequality: Why Living in Unequal Societies Makes Us Less Happy

Our team at Psychology of Social Problems Research Group from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (University of Granada) has been working to better understand whether, how, and under which circumstances economic inequality negatively affects people’s subjective well-being. We argue that perceptions and beliefs about economic inequality are key to understanding how living in an unequal society impacts our subjective well-being. 

funciones ejecutivas preescolares
Tue, 05/20/2025 - 13:53
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20/05/2025

Are There Gender Differences in the Preschoolers Executive Functions Development in Ecuador?

To fill this gap, researchers from CIMCYC, in collaboration with a researcher from the University of Otavalo and the School of Psychology of the University of the Americas, developed a pioneering study in Latin America to analyze the performance of Ecuadorian preschoolers in tests of working memory and inhibitory control, considering different age intervals and gender. 

perception rhythmic attention
Wed, 05/14/2025 - 15:06
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14/05/2025

Perception in rhythmic contexts: Attention in our pupils

In a recent study published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, researchers from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center Rafael Román-Caballero, Elisa Martín-Arévalo, Paulina del Carmen Martín-Sanchez, Juan Lupiáñez and Mariagrazia Capizzi find that this is not such a simple scenario. In their study, these scientists have shown that, while rhythmic contexts benefit the speed with which we are able to discriminate auditory tones (whether they are higher or lower than other reference tones), this benefit also occurs for tones that occur out of time.