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Bratzke, D., Rolke, B., Ulrich, R., & Peters, M. (2007). Central slowing during the night. Psychological Science, 18, 456-461.

1. What evidence do the authors provide for their central slowing hypothesis?
2. What is the PRP paradigm? How is the speed of central processing determined by the PRP paradigm?
3. According to the authors, what time of day was the PRP effect most pronounced? What are the practical implications of these findings?

Hochman, J-R. & Papeo, L. (2014). The invariance problem in infancy: A pupillometry study. Psychological Science, 25, 2038-2046.

1. What is the invariance problem in speech perception? How is resolving the invariance problem a signature of mature speech perception?
2. How do the authors plan to use pupillometry to study speech perception in infants? What evidence exists demonstrating the successful use of pupillometry in studies involving infants?
3. In what way did the authors’ results indicate a developmental change in speech perception in infants? What was the nature of this change?
4. How do the results of this article relate to Hasher and Zacks (1979, 1984) proposal that humans have an innate capacity to automatically process frequency information?