Minority salience and the overestimation of individuals from minority groups in perception and memory.

Our cognitive system is tuned toward spotting the uncommon and unexpected. We propose that individuals coming from minority groups are, by definition, just that—uncommon and often unexpected. Consequently, they are psychologically salient in perception, memory, and visual awareness.

Did you see it? Robust individual differences in the speed with which meaningful visual stimuli break suppression.

Perceptual conscious experiences result from non-conscious processes that precede them. We document a new characteristic of the cognitive system: the speed with which visual meaningful stimuli are prioritized to consciousness over competing noise in visual masking paradigms. In ten experiments (N = 399) we find that an individual's non-conscious visual prioritization speed (NVPS) is ubiquitous across a wide variety of stimuli, and generalizes across visual masks, suppression tasks, and time.

Predictions from masked motion with and without obstacles.

Predicting the future is essential for organisms like Homo sapiens, who live in a dynamic and ever-changing world. Previous research has established that conscious stimuli can lead to non-conscious predictions. Here we examine whether masked stimuli can also induce such predictions.

A land use regression model for ambient ultrafine particles in Montreal, Canada: A comparison of linear regression and a machine learning approach.

Existing evidence suggests that ambient ultrafine particles (UFPs) (<0.1µm) may contribute to acute cardiorespiratory morbidity. However, few studies have examined the long-term health effects of these pollutants owing in part to a need for exposure surfaces that can be applied in large population-based studies.

Characterizing the spatial distribution of ambient ultrafine particles in Toronto, Canada: A land use regression model.

Exposure models are needed to evaluate the chronic health effects of ambient ultrafine particles (<0.1 μm) (UFPs). We developed a land use regression model for ambient UFPs in Toronto, Canada using mobile monitoring data collected during summer/winter 2010-2011.

[Neurocognitive disturbances and psychiatric disorders among patients living with HIV-1 positive in Israel].

Introduction: Neurocognitive dysfunction and psychiatric disorders are common among people living with HIV. A large number of the patients are asymptomatic, but in neurocognitive assessment and specific questionnaires subclinical disturbances can be diagnosed. The aim of this research was to study the rate of neurocognitive disturbances, as well as psychiatric disorders (depression and anxiety) among Israeli people living with HIV, and to find predictors for these disturbances.