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Africa is home to some of the world’s most functionally diverse guilds of large carnivores. However, they are increasingly under threat from anthropogenic pressures that may exacerbate already intense intra-guild competition. Understanding the coexistence mechanisms employed by these species in human-impacted landscapes could help shed light on some of the more subtle ways in which humans may impact wildlife populations, and inform multi-species conservation planning. We used camera trap data...

Background/Aims: Perceptual-cognitive expertise, measured through quiet eye (QE) duration has been linked to superior golf putting performance. There are however some unanswered questions in relation to how QE duration improves performance and inconsistencies when trying to apply optimal QE duration in practice. Consequently, the overarching aim of this thesis was to identify factors of perceptual-cognitive expertise related to golf putting performance. Methods: To explore the impa...

Current research in cerebellar cognitive and linguistic functions makes plausible the idea that the cerebellum is involved in processing temporally contiguous linguistic input. In order to assess this hypothesis, a lexical decision task was constructed to study the effects of cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic noun-to-verb priming based on association (e.g. ‘soap–cleaning’) or similarity (e.g. ‘robbery–stealing’). The results demonstrated a selective increase in associat...

The neuroanatomical underpinnings of processing lexical semantics and phonology have been investigated in several clinical and imaging studies. However, the effects of epileptic seizures on these processes remain unclear. Addressing this issue, we administered the ‘Ambiguous Word Test’ (Roikou et al., 2003) to 35 epileptic patients (20 diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, 14 left-sided, 6 right-sided, and 15 diagnosed with idiopathic generalized epilepsy) and 39 healthy controls. The test a...