fMRI shows persistent brain activity during a delay while the participant tries to remember the spatial position of a visual cue. Clayton Curtis.

Do intimate partners idealize their loved ones globally or only in certain domains? Gwen Seidman and Patrick Shrout.

Must vision isolate each object in order to recognize it? Can you identify any letter above without looking directly at it? Denis Pelli.

When combining two cues to target location, how should spatial uncertainty of one cue affect the ideal observer's aim? Hadley Tassinari, Todd Hudson, and Mike Landy.

Why do people believe in the American Dream? John Jost, Alison Ledgerwood, and Anesu Mandisodza.

From understanding words to understanding sentences. MEG studies of natural language meaning. Liina Pylkkanen, Brian McElree, and Gregory Murphy.

What brain activity is sensitive to the internal structure of words? Eytan Zweig and Liina Pylkkanen.

Do extra cues to the illuminant in a scene (e.g., shadows, specularities) affect perceived surface roughness judgments? Xian Ho, Mike Landy, and Larry Maloney.

How does illumination affect perceived roughness? Xian Ho, Mike Landy, and Larry Maloney.

What are the social, cognitive, and motivational bases of liberal-conservative divergences? John Jost, Margarita Krochik, and Erin Hennes.

Two examples of incongruent visual stimuli: a word denoting social proximity, "us," located far from the observer. Because spatial distance is associated with social distance, participants are slower to indicate the location of the arrow and to identify the word on it with incongruent stimuli than with congruent stimuli ["us" located near the observer and "them" located far from the observer] Yaacov Trope .

How do babies learn what steepness they can crawl down? Karen Adolph.

How does attention affect visual processing? We used a peripheral cue to elicit an involuntary orienting of attention, and separated neural responses to the cues (blue areas) and to the stimuli (green areas) in the visual cortex. We find that attention increases neural activity, more at higher stages of visual processing. Taosheng Liu, Franco Pestilli, Marisa Carrasco, Neuron 2005.

How do children learn language? Gary Marcus.

Can a neural net categorize like a human? Bob Rehder and Gregory Murphy.

How do we decide whether the ground is too slippery to walk on? Amy Joh, Karen Adolph, Margot Campbell, and Marion Eppler.

There are a dozen distinct, retinotopically-organized visual areas in the human brain that can be identified routinely in individual subjects. What are the functions of these brain areas and how is the neural activity in each area correlated with conscious visual experience? David Heeger.

Motion reveals depth. Jacqueline Snyder, Jeff Mulligan, and Larry Maloney.

Could a vast number of people communicating by cell phone simulate a brain? Ned Block.