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Precise spike-timing information in the brainstem is well aligned with the needs of communication and the perception of environmental sounds (2025)
Journal Article
Scholes, C., Coombes, S., Palmer, A. R., Rhode, W. S., Mill, R., & Sumner, C. J. (2025). Precise spike-timing information in the brainstem is well aligned with the needs of communication and the perception of environmental sounds. PLoS Biology, 23(6), Article e3003213. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003213

The dynamic fluctuations in the amplitude of sound, known as sound envelopes, are ubiquitous in natural sounds and convey information critical for the recognition of speech, and of sounds generally. We are perceptually most sensitive to slow modulati... Read More about Precise spike-timing information in the brainstem is well aligned with the needs of communication and the perception of environmental sounds.

The Interplay Between Economic Hardship, Anomie, and Conspiracy Beliefs in Shaping Anti-Immigrant Sentiment (2025)
Journal Article
Hattersley, M., Skipper, Y., Douglas, K., & Jolley, D. (2025). The Interplay Between Economic Hardship, Anomie, and Conspiracy Beliefs in Shaping Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70002

As hostility toward immigrants grows, it is essential to explore the psychological factors that contribute to anti-immigrant attitudes. Although the impact of economic hardship, societal anomie, and conspiracy belief on anti-immigration attitudes hav... Read More about The Interplay Between Economic Hardship, Anomie, and Conspiracy Beliefs in Shaping Anti-Immigrant Sentiment.

Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex (2025)
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Duecker, K., Shapiro, K. L., Hanslmayr, S., Griffiths, B. J., Pan, Y., Wolfe, J. M., & Jensen, O. (2025). Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex. Communications Biology, 8(1), Article 912. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08321-3

Visual attention paradigms have revealed that neural excitability in higher-order visual areas is modulated according to a priority map guiding attention towards task-relevant locations. Neural activity in early visual regions, however, has been argu... Read More about Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex.

Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from the Covid and Cognition online study (2025)
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Weinerova, J., Yeung, S., Guo, P., Yau, A., Horne, C., Ghinn, M., Curtis, L., Adlard, F., Bhagat, V., Zhang, S., Kaser, M., Bozic, M., Schluppeck, D., Reid, A., Tibon, R., & Cheke, L. (2025). Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from the Covid and Cognition online study. Cortex, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.019

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, has been shown to have an impact on cognitive function, but the specific aspects of cognition that are affected remain unclear. In this Registered Report, we analysed cognitive data collect... Read More about Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from the Covid and Cognition online study.

Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge (2025)
Journal Article
Pervez, A. (in press). Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2025.2513637

This paper examines the complicity of academic institutions in the ongoing Palestinian genocide, arguing that silence actively sustains settler colonialism, erases Palestinian narratives, and inflicts psychological harm. Drawing on Galtung’s structur... Read More about Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge.

Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions (2025)
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Perez, O., & Urcelay, G. (2025). Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions. npj Science of Learning, 10, Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00325-2

Goal-directed actions are sensitive to the causal association between actions and outcomes, as well as the value of those outcomes. Such sensitivity diminishes when actions become habitual. Based on recent findings in animals, we tested if delaying o... Read More about Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions.

Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation. (2025)
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Lagator, S., Muniz-Diez, C., Beesley, T., & HASELGROVE, M. (in press). Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition,

Valid predictors of an outcome attract more attention than stimuli which are non-predictive. Furthermore, stimuli which have a probabilistic association with an outcome attract more attention than stimuli which have a deterministic association with a... Read More about Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation..

Exploring Public Sentiments of Psychedelics Versus Other Substances: A Reddit-Based Natural Language Processing Study (2025)
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Biba, B., & O’Shea, B. A. (in press). Exploring Public Sentiments of Psychedelics Versus Other Substances: A Reddit-Based Natural Language Processing Study. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2025.2511750

New methods that capture the public’s perception of controversial topics may be valuable. This study investigates public sentiments toward psychedelics and other substances through analyzes of Reddit discussions, using Google’s cloud-based Natural La... Read More about Exploring Public Sentiments of Psychedelics Versus Other Substances: A Reddit-Based Natural Language Processing Study.

Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2023) (2025)
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Prosser, N. S., Hill, E. M., Gow, L., Cavallaro, M., Tildesley, M. J., Keeling, M. J., Kaler, J., Ferguson, E., & Green, M. J. (2025). Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2023). Veterinary Record, https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.5325

Background
Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is an endemic disease in the UK. In England, a voluntary control and eradication scheme, BVDFree England, has been running since 2016.

Methods
We analysed test results from 7005 herds that were submitted t... Read More about Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2023).

Spatial Proximity Determines Overshadowing Between Landmarks in Human Spatial Navigation (2025)
Journal Article
Herrera, E., Austen, J., & URCELAY, G. (in press). Spatial Proximity Determines Overshadowing Between Landmarks in Human Spatial Navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition,

Previous studies involving birds and humans have identified spatial proximity as a source of overshadowing between landmarks in navigation. In Herrera et al. (2024), subjects were trained in an open environment to find a hidden goal with reference to... Read More about Spatial Proximity Determines Overshadowing Between Landmarks in Human Spatial Navigation.