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October 2018

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A new tyrannosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation

Fig 1: Frontals of UMNH VP 28348 in rostral view

October 9, 2018

A new tyrannosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation

Researchers report a new tyrannosaurid represented by an associated skeleton from the lower Campanian Allison Member of the Menefee Formation of New Mexico. The specimen is the holotype of the new genus and species Dynamoterror dynastes.

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October 29, 2018

Don’t worry, be active: how to facilitate the detection of errors in immersive virtual environments

Sara Rigutti, Marta Stragà, Marco Jez, Giulio Baldassi, Andrea Carnaghi, Piero Miceu, Carlo Fantoni

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5844 PubMed 30397547

October 23, 2018

Non-visual exploration of novel objects increases the levels of plasticity factors in the rat primary visual cortex

Catia M. Pereira, Marco Aurelio M. Freire, José R. Santos, Joanilson S. Guimarães, Gabriella Dias-Florencio, Sharlene Santos, Antonio Pereira, Sidarta Ribeiro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5678 PubMed 30370183

October 18, 2018

Thumbs up: movements made by the thumb are smoother and larger than fingers in finger-thumb opposition tasks

Dhanush Rachaveti, Niranjan Chakrabhavi, Vaisakh Shankar, Varadhan SKM

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5763 PubMed 30357012

October 12, 2018

Dissociating predictability, plausibility and possibility of sentence continuations in reading: evidence from late-positivity ERPs

Laura Quante, Jens Bölte, Pienie Zwitserlood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5717 PubMed 30345170

October 11, 2018

The material-weight illusion is a Bayes-optimal percept under competing density priors

Megan A.K. Peters, Ling-Qi Zhang, Ladan Shams