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Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts (2023)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R., & Ronfard, S. (2023). Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts. Developmental Psychology, 59(6), Article 1006–1016. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001512

The human capacity for technological innovation and creative problem-solving far surpasses that of any species but develops quite late. Prior work has typically presented children with problems requiring a single solution, a limited number of resourc... Read More about Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts.

From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures (2023)
Journal Article
Cassaday, H. J., Muir, C., Stevenson, C. W., Bonardi, C., Hock, R., & Waite, L. (2023). From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 202, Article 107757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107757

Inhibitory associative learning counters the effects of excitatory learning, whether appetitively or aversively motivated. Moreover, the affective responses accompanying the inhibitory associations are of opponent valence to the excitatory conditione... Read More about From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures.

No Evidence for Cognitive Impairment in an Experimental Rat Model of Knee Osteoarthritis and Associated Chronic Pain (2023)
Journal Article
Gonçalves, S., Hathway, G. J., Woodhams, S. G., Chapman, V., & Bast, T. (2023). No Evidence for Cognitive Impairment in an Experimental Rat Model of Knee Osteoarthritis and Associated Chronic Pain. Journal of Pain, 24(8), 1478-1492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2023.04.002

Although chronic pain states have been associated with impaired cognitive functions, including memory and cognitive flexibility, the cognitive effects of osteoarthritis (OA) pain remain to be clarified. The aim of this study was to measure cognitive... Read More about No Evidence for Cognitive Impairment in an Experimental Rat Model of Knee Osteoarthritis and Associated Chronic Pain.

Quantifying numerical and spatial reliability of hippocampal and amygdala subdivisions in FreeSurfer (2023)
Journal Article
Kahhale, I., Buser, N. J., Madan, C. R., & Hanson, J. L. (2023). Quantifying numerical and spatial reliability of hippocampal and amygdala subdivisions in FreeSurfer. Brain Informatics, 10(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40708-023-00189-5

On-going, large-scale neuroimaging initiatives can aid in uncovering neurobiological causes and correlates of poor mental health, disease pathology, and many other important conditions. As projects grow in scale with hundreds, even thousands, of indi... Read More about Quantifying numerical and spatial reliability of hippocampal and amygdala subdivisions in FreeSurfer.

Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
van Rossum, M. C. Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning

The brain is not only constrained by energy needed to fuel computation, but it is also constrained by energy needed to form memories. Experiments have shown that learning simple conditioning tasks already carries a significant metabolic cost. Yet, le... Read More about Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning.

How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report (2023)
Journal Article
Newall, P. W. S., James, R. J., & Maynard, O. M. (2024). How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report. Addiction Research and Theory, 32(1), Article 2195171. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2023.2195171

The provision of information to consumers is a common input to tackling various public health issues. By comparison to the information given on food and alcohol products, information on gambling products is either not given at all, or shown in low-pr... Read More about How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report.

Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China (2023)
Journal Article
Zhu, N., & Filik, R. (2023). Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(3), 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001227

Sarcasm is commonly used in everyday language; however, little is currently known about cultural and individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use, particularly across Western and Eastern cultures. To address these gaps in the literature,... Read More about Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China.

Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills (2023)
Journal Article
Huntington, B., Goulding, J., & Pitchford, N. J. (2023). Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(5), 1273-1291. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13317

Interactive apps are commonly used to support the acquisition of foundational skills. Yet little is known about how pedagogical features of such apps affect learning outcomes, attainment and motivation—particularly when deployed in lower‐income conte... Read More about Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills.

Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pache, A., & Van Rossum, M. Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity

When training neural networks for classification tasks with backpropagation, parameters are updated on every trial, even if the sample is classified correctly. In contrast, humans concentrate their learning effort on errors. Inspired by human learnin... Read More about Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity.