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• The Words and Faces tests are self-administered, computerized recognition memory tasks. • The Words and Faces tests show good convergent and divergent validity with gold standard neuropsychological testing in epilepsy. • The Words and Faces tests show excellent predictive accuracy in identifying patients with impairments on traditional memory measures. • Patients with epilepsy have lower scores on these automated memory measures than healthy controls. • Scores on the Words and Faces tests are associated with AED burden and seizure localization. • The Words and Faces tests are valid, computerized tools that can be used to screen for memory and other cognitive impairment in epilepsy. Cognitive impairment is prevalent in epilepsy and often presents at the time of initial diagnosis. This study sought to validate brief, self-administered, iPad-based recognition memory tasks in a sample of patients with epilepsy and to examine their screening utility in identifying patients with cognitive impairment. The Words and Faces tests were administered to 145 adult patients with epilepsy along with a neuropsychological battery. Correlation analyses examined the convergent and divergent validity of the Words and Faces tests, and a series of logistic regression analyses examined discriminative ability in identifying patients with and without cognitive impairments on neuropsychological measures. Patient performance was compared to that of a healthy control group (n = 223), and the relationship between the Words and Faces test performance and disease-related variables (i.e., antiepileptic medication burden, seizure lateralization/localization) was examined. The Words and Faces tests were positively correlated with traditional paper-and-pencil neuropsychological measures of episodic memory, with generally moderate to large effect sizes (r >.40), while correlations between the Words and Faces tests and non-memory measures were generally small in magnitude (r <.30). Patients with epilepsy had significantly lower scores on Words and Faces tests compared to healthy controls, and performance was associated with antiepileptic medication burden and seizure localization. The Words and Faces tests demonstrated good predictive accuracy in identifying any cognitive impairment (concordance (c) statistic =.77) and excellent predictive accuracy (c =.85) in identifying patients with impairments on traditional memory measures. The Words and Faces tests also demonstrated reasonable discrimination for impairments in non-memory domains including executive function, language, attention, processing speed, and visuospatial ability (c =.62 −.70). Importantly, the Words and Faces Immediate Index performed just as well as the Total Score (which included delayed memory performance), suggesting a short version of this measure is sufficient for identifying patients with cognitive impairment. The Words and Faces tests are valid, computerized tools that can be used to screen for memory and other cognitive impairment in adults with epilepsy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• How visual statistics of the world explain the cognitive apprehension of materiality A positive interaction between cognition and a materialised human world • Examination of theoretical and interpretive implications of ETA analysis of the visual response to prehistoric pottery • Cognitive and physiological results as proof for coevolution between cognitive processes, materialities and social complexity • A positive interaction between cognition and a materialised human world • The human visual cognition system actively internalizes the observed, showing a perceptual coupling The paper examines how materializations of human practices relate to human cognition and to socio-cultural contexts. By combining evidence on the relationship between material culture and perceptual behaviour, we aim to understand the interactions between the mind, objects, and the world. The research is based on data regarding the visual perception of prehistoric pottery that was analyzed using Eye-Tracking techniques in a way that has not been applied previously to archaeological material culture. The datasets come from Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) and range from the Middle Neolithic until the end of the Iron Age (6000–200 BP). They belong to very different contexts that comprise a long-term history through diverse socio-cultural formations. A rigorous methodology makes it possible to unveil cross- and intra-cultural patterns of visual response to materiality, while avoiding presentism and subjective bias. The results provide new insights into the agency of material culture, which contribute to our understanding of the relationship between the mind and the material world, and account for the transitive engagement between the way of thinking, seeing, and making things. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]