Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms Were More Common for Transgender Individuals Whose Gender-Affirming Surgeries Were Cancelled or Delayed Due to COVID-19: A Global Cross-Sectional Study.

Gender-affirming surgeries, which have well-established mental health benefits, were cancelled and delayed for transgender people worldwide during the COVID-19 crisis. Of 253 scheduled gender-affirming surgeries among transgender adults across 35 countries in late 2020, 27% (=69) reported that the COVID-19 crisis limited their access to gender-affirming surgery (i.e.

Music is similar to language in terms of working memory interference.

Some researchers theorize that musicians' greater language ability is mediated by greater working memory because music and language share the same processing resources. Prior work using working memory sentence processing dual-task paradigms have shown that holding verbal information (e.g.

Readers can identify the meanings of words without looking at them: Evidence from regressive eye movements.

Previewing words prior to fixating them leads to faster reading, but does it lead to word identification (i.e., semantic encoding)? We tested this with a gaze-contingent display change study and a subsequent plausibility manipulation.