Publications by authors named "A Foerster"
Guess what? Only correct choices forge immediate stimulus-response bindings in guessing scenarios.
Atten Percept Psychophys
October 2024
A central mechanism of human action control is the prompt binding between actions and the stimuli provoking them. Perceiving the same stimuli again retrieves any bound responses, facilitating their execution. An open question is whether such binding and retrieval only emerges when stimulus-response rules are known upon taking action or also when agents are forced to guess and receive feedback about whether they were successful or not afterward.
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- The purpose of the study was to look at the safety margins needed when using proton therapy to treat eye problems and see how they compare to commonly used values.
- The researchers figured out how much uncertainty there is when planning and delivering the treatment and tested this using patient data and images of the eye.
- They found that a margin of 2.5 mm is usually good, but some special situations might need bigger margins to make sure the treatment is accurate, especially when using eye images for planning.
We present a novel concept to treat ophthalmic tumors which combines brachytherapy and low-energy x-ray therapy. Brachytherapy withRu applicators is inadequate for intraocular tumors with a height of 7 mm or more. This results from a steep dose gradient, and it is unfeasible to deliver the required dose at the tumor apex without exceeding the maximum tolerable sclera dose of usually 1000 Gy to 1500 Gy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerception and action rely on integrating or binding different features of stimuli and responses. Such bindings are short-lived, but they can be retrieved for a limited amount of time if any of their features is reactivated. This is particularly true for stimulus-response bindings, allowing for flexible recycling of previous action plans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe assessed the relation of creativity and unethical behaviour by manipulating the thinking style of participants ( = 450 adults) and measuring the impact of this manipulation on the prevalence of dishonest behaviour. Participants performed one of three inducer tasks: the alternative uses task to promote divergent thinking, the remote associates task to promote convergent thinking, or a simple classification task for rule-based thinking. Before and after this manipulation, participants conducted the mind game as a straightforward measure of dishonesty.
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