Affective valence influences both our cognition and our perception of the world. For example, the speed and quality with which we recognize objects in a …
In this thesis, I explore how objects affect the space around them. I show that spatial information is extracted from even completely novel objects. Information …
The inferior temporal cortex (ITC) is the last unimodal area in the ventral visual pathway. This cortical processing stream emphasizes form, color and texture attributes …
It seems intuitively obvious that active exploration of a new environment would lead to better spatial learning than passive exposure. However, the literature on this …