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Abstract

The current issue of PsyCh brings our fourth and final installment to an ongoing special collection on the theme of Single Case Studies. An opening Editorial comments on how the collection as a whole has illustrated the potential of single cases for exploratory research which can disclose previously unrecognized phenomena and thus enrichen research as a whole. Two case studies follow, the first a consideration of the appeal of Chinese abstract artist Lao Zhu's pictures, incorporating neurocognitive analysis in attempting to illuminate the nature of information processing during aesthetic appreciation. The second reports on split‐brain phenomena in an anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture patient who was first evaluated by A. R. Luria in 1976. Two Short Communications follow, the first on motor imagery in two single cases of catatonic schizophrenia, and the second examining the influence of tactile exploration on neural activation patterns for visual imagery in a case of acquired blindness.As regular contributions, the issue then features an original article on an experimental investigation of flexible integration of retinal and extra‐retinal clues during self‐motion perception. Two Special Reports follow, the first considering the utility of investing in the cognitive capital of young children as a framework for policy decisions about the effective use of resources in China's next phase of development towards a more prosperous society. The second is a proposal from Mario Bunge, a highly innovative interdisciplinary thinker, for the reconceptualization of mental pathologies based on recognition of their grounding in brain processes, thereby overcoming the philosophical flaw of psychoneural dualism, in which mental diseases have long been regarded as disorders not of the brain but of an immaterial mind. Two Short Communications then complete the issue, the first being an attempted confirmatory factor analysis of the structure of the Swedish version of the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen, and the second a consideration of models for mechanisms, such as temporal windows, by which neural oscillations are utilized for time perception during information processing in the brain. image