Publications by authors named "J T Enns"
Pantomimes are human actions that simulate ideas, objects, and events, commonly used in conversation, performance art, and gesture-based interfaces for computing and controlling robots. Yet, their underlying neurocognitive mechanisms are not well understood. In this review, we examine pantomimes through two parallel lines of research: (1) the two visual systems (TVS) framework for visually guided action, and (2) the neuropsychological literature on limb apraxia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn action-observation method for studying social perception: a mini-review.
Front Psychol
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- Understanding social interactions involves reading mental states through non-verbal cues like facial expressions and body language, linking the actions of an actor and the interpretation by an observer.
- The review discusses an action-observation methodology that separates the analysis of how actions are performed and perceived while exploring their dynamic interaction in social exchanges.
- Two research lines are examined: one focusing on individual actions and attention inference, and the other on collaborative task performances, with suggestions for extending the methodology to enhance research on social actions.
Background: Across Canada, Child Protection Services (CPS) disrupt Indigenous families by apprehending their children at alarmingly high rates. The harms borne by children in out-of-home care (OoHC) have been extensively documented. We examined the impact of OoHC on Manitoba children's health and legal system outcomes to provide rigorous evidence on how discretionary decision-making by CPS agencies can affect these outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerception of a picture is influenced by the social information and emotional value it carries for the viewer. There are still many unanswered questions about how social and emotional processing are related, but it is clear they involve overlapping brain areas and are cognitively interconnected. Yet studies of emotion processing using standardized picture datasets typically leave the social content in the pictures free to vary.
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- Colonial policies in Canada have led to significant health disparities for First Nations people, especially regarding maternal and infant health outcomes linked to incarceration.
- A study comparing birth outcomes in Manitoba found that First Nations women who were prenatally incarcerated had higher risks of adverse outcomes like low birthweight and poor Apgar scores compared to those incarcerated after giving birth.
- The results highlight the importance of addressing these health inequities, as prenatal incarceration adversely affects both First Nations and other Manitoban birthing parents, but the outcomes differ between these groups.