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NEVADAToday
NSF awards $2.2 million to advance brain research - Drs. Jacqueline Snow, Gideon Caplovitz and Marian Berryhill are part of two multi-institution research projects described by EPSCoR as holding the promise of transforming daily lives.
NEVADA SILVER AND BLUE MAGAZINE
Interview with Dr. Snow: Understanding How We Think and Behave in the Real World...
Graspable objects grab attention more than images do
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
An interesting paper by Michael Gomez, Rafal Skiba, and Jacqueline Snow in the February 2018 issue of Psychological Science suggests that there are some interesting differences between pictures and real objects, particularly when the objects are close enough to be touched.
NEVADAToday
Does having the potential to act upon an object have a unique influence on behavior and brain responses to the object? That is the question Jacqueline Snow, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, has set out to answer.
Preserved Haptic Shape Processing after Bilateral LOC Lesions
MEDICAL NEWS TODAY
A study published by The Journal of Neuroscience challenges the more traditional scientific belief that using touch to recognize objects depends on visual circuitry in the human brain.
Bringing the Real World into the fMRI Scanner
DISCOVER MAGAZINE
Typically, in an fMRI or other neuroimaging study, any visual stimuli shown to the volunteer are just pictures on a screen. Sometimes videos will be used, but in almost all cases they're just 2D images. Is that adaquate? People have hoped so.