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Poor Stop-Signal Task Performance: Mechanisms Revealed through Event-Related Brain Potentials
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
The stop-signal task has been used extensively in order to test abilities of inhibition as
well as cognitive functioning. In previous experiments, a relatively large number of
participants had to be excluded from analysis ...
No Need For the Blindfold: The Influence of Perpetrator Attractiveness on Legal Decision-Making
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)
The idea that "justice is blind" has been called into question by some reports that attractiveness affects judgments of punishment and guilt. However, such studies are handicapped by a number of limitations, which this ...
Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...