AGUILAR , Carlos

People with low vision, especially those with Central Field Loss (CFL), need magnification to read. The flexibility of Electronic Vision Enhancement Systems (EVES) offers several ways of magnifying text. Due to the restricted field of view of EVES, the need for magnification is conflicting with the need to navigate through text (panning). We...

Working memory (WM) is known to be limited in capacity, but mechanisms based on compression of information could contribute to the storage process. It has been shown that chunking governed by compression could be one of these mechanisms. The present study investigated how chunks can be formed using patterns to be discovered on the spot, that...

Prediction is the ability of the brain to quickly activate a target concept in response to arelated stimulus (prime). Experiments point to the existence of an overlap between the populationsof the neurons coding for different stimuli, and other experiments show that prime-targetrelations arise in the process of long term memory formation. The...

The order of stimuli within sequences and the transitional probabilities (TPs) it generates are central information in sequence processing. However, less is known about what type of information and how it is extracted by general learning mechanisms. The present study focused on statistical learning of second-order TPs. Second-order TPs are...

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Where readers move their eyes, while proceeding forward along lines of text, has long been assumed to be determined in a top-down word-based manner. According to this classical view, readers of alphabetic languages would invariably program their saccades towards the center of peripheral target words, as selected based on the (expected) needs of...

Data compression in memory is a cognitive process allowing participants to cope with complexity to reduce information load. However, previous studies have not yet considered the hypothesis that this process could also lead to over-simplifying information due to haphazard amplification of the compression process itself. For instance, we could...

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