Joshua NewSummaryAffiliation: Yale University Country: USA Publications
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Spatial adaptations for plant foraging: women excel and calories countJoshua New
Department of Psychology, Yale University, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:2679-84. 2007..Together, these results demonstrate that human spatial cognition is content sensitive, domain specific and designed by natural selection to mesh with important regularities of the ancestral world...
Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertiseJoshua New
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:16598-603. 2007....
"Perceptual scotomas": a functional account of motion-induced blindnessJOSHUA J NEW
Department of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychol Sci 19:653-9. 2008..We describe three experiments demonstrating new phenomena predicted by this account and discuss how it can also explain several previous results...
Subjective time dilation: spatially local, object-based, or a global visual experience?JOSHUA J NEW
Perception and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Vis 9:4.1-11. 2009..As a result, attention influences subjective time dilation as a global visual experience...
The scope of social attention deficits in autism: prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenesJOSHUA J NEW
Yale University, Department of Psychology, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:51-9. 2010..These results suggest that social attention - and its impairment in autism - may not be a unitary phenomenon: impairments in visual processing of specific social cues may occur despite intact categorical prioritization of social agents...
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- Social Attention in Normal and Autistic IndividualsJoshua New; Fiscal Year: 2007..Such results will help to determine the nature and extent of the impairment of social attention in individuals with autism spectrum disorder, and also the scope of 'social prioritization' in intact visual cognition. ..
