John Skoyles
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British anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Skoyles is a neuroscientist and evolutionary psychologist. He studied philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and then did MRC funded research upon neuroscience and dyslexia at University College London.
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- Contrast sensitivity and magnocellular functioning in schizophrenia (2007) (106)
- Human balance, the evolution of bipedalism and dysequilibrium syndrome. (2006) (68)
- On the prevalence of magnocellular deficits in the visual system of non-dyslexic individuals (2004) (66)
- Is coherent motion an appropriate test for magnocellular sensitivity? (2006) (54)
- Attention, reading and dyslexia (2006) (50)
- On identifying magnocellular and parvocellular responses on the basis of contrast-response functions. (2011) (44)
- The evolutionary psychology of healing: A human success story (2012) (26)
- COHERENT MOTION, MAGNOCELLULAR SENSITIVITY AND THE CAUSATION OF DYSLEXIA (2008) (26)
- Peer review versus editorial review and their role in innovative science (2012) (25)
- Up from Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence (2002) (24)
- Is autism due to cerebral-cerebellum disconnection? (2002) (24)
- Speech phones are a replication code. (1998) (23)
- Temporal Frequency and the Magnocellular and Parvocellular Systems (2008) (22)
- Spatial Frequency and the Magno-Parvocellular Distinction—Some Remarks (2008) (20)
- Some remarks on the use of motion VEPs to assess magnocellular sensitivity (2004) (20)
- The memetic origin of language: humans as musical primates (1998) (19)
- The memetic origin of language: humans as musical primates (1998) (19)
- Attention, Dyslexia, and the Line-Motion Illusion (2006) (18)
- Some remarks on the use of visually evoked potentials to measure magnocellular activity (2007) (18)
- Human hand-walkers: five siblings who never stood up (2005) (17)
- The use of visual search to assess attention (2007) (17)
- YELLOW FILTERS, MAGNOCELLULAR RESPONSES, AND READING (2007) (17)
- Are Masking Abnormalities in Schizophrenia Limited to Backward Masking? (2009) (16)
- The origin of classical greek culture: the transparent chain theory of literacy/society interaction (1990) (15)
- Dyslexia: Sensory Deficits or Inattention? (2007) (15)
- The early part of the visual system--from the retina to the visual cortex--contains two parallel streams: the magnocellular and parvocellular systems. (2005) (15)
- Dyslexia, direction selectivity and magnocellular sensitivity (2007) (14)
- Is there a genetic component to body schema? (1990) (14)
- Autism, Context/Noncontext Information Processing, and Atypical Development (2011) (13)
- Visual Search: Magno- and Parvocellular Systems or Color and Luminance Processes? (2008) (13)
- Stereopsis and magnocellular sensitivity in schizophrenia (2009) (13)
- THE USE OF PHANTOM CONTOURS TO ISOLATE MAGNOCELLULAR AND PARVOCELLULAR RESPONSES (2006) (13)
- Alphabet and the Western mind (1984) (12)
- A few remarks on assessing magnocellular sensitivity in Schizophrenic patients. (2007) (12)
- A few remarks on attention and magnocellular deficits in schizophrenia (2008) (12)
- Subjective criteria and illusions in visual testing: some methodological limitations (2014) (11)
- Human metabolic adaptations and prolonged expensive neurodevelopment: A review (2008) (11)
- NEURAL PLASTICITY AND EXAPTATION (1999) (11)
- Metacontrast, target recovery, and the magno- and parvocellular systems: A perspective (2007) (10)
- Right Hemisphere Literacy in the Ancient World (1988) (9)
- Reply to Kéri, S. The magnocellular system and schizophrenia (2008) (9)
- A few remarks on relating reaction time to magnocellular activity (2007) (8)
- Chimpanzees make mean-spirited, not prosocial, choices (2011) (8)
- Dyslexia and rapid visual processing: A commentary (2008) (8)
- Is vision in schizophrenia characterized by a generalized reduction? (2013) (7)
- Without breath and without song? (2000) (7)
- Evolution's 'missing link': a hypothesis upon neural plasticity, prefrontal working memory and the origins of modern cognition. (1997) (7)
- Popper: success or failure? (1992) (7)
- Training the brain using neural-network models (1988) (6)
- Interletter spacing and dyslexia (2012) (6)
- Are masking abnormalities in schizophrenia specific to type-B masking? (2009) (5)
- Backward Masking as a Test of Magnocellular Sensitivity (2010) (5)
- On using Vernier acuity to assess magnocellular sensitivity (2010) (5)
- The Parvocellular System in Amblyopia (2008) (5)
- The time course of visual backward masking deficits in schizophrenia. (2011) (5)
- Temporal order judgment in dyslexia—Task difficulty or temporal processing deficiency? (2010) (5)
- Did ancient people read with their right hemispheres?: A study in neuropalaegraphology (1985) (5)
- Vernier Acuity as a Test of Magnocellular Sensitivity (2010) (4)
- Conflicting data about dyslexia's cause. (2009) (4)
- Human neuromaturation, juvenile extreme energy liability, and adult cognition/cooperation (2012) (4)
- Skeletal muscle-induced hypoglycemia risk, not life history energy trade-off, links high child brain glucose use to slow body growth (2014) (4)
- Motor perception and anatomical realism in Classical Greek art. (1998) (4)
- Natural selection does not explain cultural rates of change (2008) (4)
- Respiratory, postural and spatio-kinetic motor stabilization, internal models, top-down timed motor coordination and expanded cerebello-cerebral circuitry: a review (2008) (4)
- L- and M-Cone Ratios and Magnocellular Sensitivity in Reading (2010) (3)
- Visually evoked potentials, NMDA receptors and the magnocellular system in schizophrenia (2012) (3)
- Mapping of heard speech into articulation information and speech acquisition (2010) (3)
- Mirror script (1992) (3)
- On interpreting responses to low contrast stimuli in terms of magnocellular activity – A few remarks (2010) (3)
- Another variety of vision (1997) (3)
- The Frequency Doubling Illusion and Testing of Magnocellular Sensitivity (2011) (2)
- No new neurobiology yet for autism. (2008) (2)
- A Note from the Poetry Editor (2015) (1)
- Letter to the Editor (2005) (1)
- Optimizing scientific reasoning. (2010) (1)
- Holy Cross Church (1987) (1)
- Top-flight safety model for nuclear industry. (2011) (1)
- How gut sampling and microbial invasiveness/noninvasiveness provides mucosal immunity with a nonmolecular pattern means to distinguish commensals from pathogens: A review (2008) (1)
- Meaning and context: the implications of LSA (latent semantic analysis) for semantics. (2002) (1)
- Active matter: Starlings' patterns are not spontaneous (2016) (1)
- Dyslexia, magnocellular integrity and rapidly presented stimuli (2011) (1)
- The logic of scientific debate: Epistemological quality control practices and Bayesian inference – a neoPopperian perspective (2008) (1)
- Discussion of Louise Gluck's, "The Wild Iris" (2022) (0)
- Early astronomy (1994) (0)
- Brains and Symbols (2011) (0)
- Child brain energy vulnerability: an overlooked but key issue in human neuroscience (2014) (0)
- Dyslexia and the assessment of visual attention (2011) (0)
- Emerging Writer's Contest Winner: Poetry (2020) (0)
- Popper's achievement (1995) (0)
- Animals' rights and wrongs (1983) (0)
- A few remarks on the relationship between visuo-spatial attention deficits and dyslexia (2011) (0)
- Fundamentals of Anaesthesia: Body fluids (2009) (0)
- War prevention (1982) (0)
- On separating the magnocellular from the parvocellular: Responses to two statements by Goodhew et al. (2017) (0)
- Why our brains cherish humanity: Mirror neurons and colamus humanitatem (2008) (0)
- From Working Papers (1994) (0)
- Extreme energy lability in human children: An overlooked and central aspect of human biology (2012) (0)
- EXPERTISE VS GENERAL PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITIES IN HUMAN EVOLUTION Reply to Overskeid on Brain-Expertise (1999) (0)
- Hard Work (2011) (0)
- Peer review versus editorial review and their role in innovative science (2012) (0)
- The Memory of Water (review) (2012) (0)
- In This Painting (2019) (0)
- Definition of the Soul (1998) (0)
- Subjective criteria and illusions in visual testing: some methodological limitations (2013) (0)
- Neurosignifier-Neurosignified, Symbols, and Anthropological Possibility (2012) (0)
- Perceptual deficits and inattention in schizophrenia (2008) (0)
- Excuse for a Love Poem (2016) (0)
- A Brief History of the Moon (1972) (0)
- On separating the magnocellular from the parvocellular: Responses to two statements by Goodhew et al. (2017) (0)
- Laboratory training: Experimentation is science's lifeblood (2014) (0)
- HIS SHIRT (2018) (0)
- Six Poems (2016) (0)
- PhDs and the ESRC (1989) (0)
- This Business of Dying (1974) (0)
- God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike: New & Later Collected Poems (review) (2012) (0)
- Preventing wars (1982) (0)
- Care of the skin (1986) (0)
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