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Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging (2020)
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Milham, M., Petkov, C. I., Margulies, D. S., Schroeder, C. E., Basso, M. A., Belin, P., …Zhou, Y.-D. (2020). Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging. Neuron, 105(4), 600-603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.12.023

Nonhuman primate neuroimaging is on the cusp of a transformation, much in the same way its human counterpart was in 2010, when the Human Connectome Project was launched to accelerate progress. Inspired by an open data-sharing initiative, the global c... Read More about Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging.

Affect enhances object-background associations: evidence from behaviour and mathematical modelling (2020)
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Madan, C. R., Knight, A., Kensinger, E., & Mickley Steinmetz, K. (2020). Affect enhances object-background associations: evidence from behaviour and mathematical modelling. Cognition and Emotion, 34(5), 960-969. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1710110

In recognition memory paradigms, emotional details are often recognised better than neutral ones, but at the cost of memory for peripheral details. We previously provided evidence that, when peripheral details must be recalled using central details a... Read More about Affect enhances object-background associations: evidence from behaviour and mathematical modelling.

The power of nothing: Risk preference in pigeons, but not people, is driven primarily by avoidance of zero outcomes (2019)
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Spetch, M. L., Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., Pisklak, J. M., Pisklak, J. M., Madan, C. R., …Spetch, M. L. (2019). The power of nothing: Risk preference in pigeons, but not people, is driven primarily by avoidance of zero outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45(4), 431-445. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000217

Both human and non-human animals regularly need to make choices where the outcomes of their actions are unpredictable or probabilistic in some way. These are often termed “risky” choices. Faced with uncertain rewards, people (Homo sapiens) and pigeon... Read More about The power of nothing: Risk preference in pigeons, but not people, is driven primarily by avoidance of zero outcomes.

Effectiveness of the method of loci is only minimally related to factors that should influence imagined navigation (2019)
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Caplan, J., Legge, E., Cheng, B., & MADAN, C. (2019). Effectiveness of the method of loci is only minimally related to factors that should influence imagined navigation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(10), 2541-2553. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819858041

The method of loci is arguably the most famous mnemonic strategy and is highly effective for memorising lists of non-spatial information in order. As described and instructed, this strategy apparently relies on a spatial/navigational metaphor. The us... Read More about Effectiveness of the method of loci is only minimally related to factors that should influence imagined navigation.

Robust estimation of sulcal morphology (2019)
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Madan, C. R. (2019). Robust estimation of sulcal morphology. Brain Informatics, 6, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40708-019-0098-1

While it is well established that cortical morphology differs in relation to a variety of inter-individual factors, it is often characterized using estimates of volume, thickness, surface area, or gyrification. Here we developed a computational appro... Read More about Robust estimation of sulcal morphology.

Data visualization for inference in tomographic brain imaging (2019)
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Pernet, C. R., & Madan, C. R. (2020). Data visualization for inference in tomographic brain imaging. European Journal of Neuroscience, 51(3), 695-705. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14430

Tomographic brain imaging has a rich iconography. Whilst figures are prepared for scientific communication (i.e., directed to other researchers) they also often end-up on magazine and journal covers (i.e., directed to a lay audience). Scientific figu... Read More about Data visualization for inference in tomographic brain imaging.

Reduced associative memory for negative information: impact of confidence and interactive imagery during study (2019)
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Caplan, J. B., Sommer, T., Madan, C. R., & Fujiwara, E. (2019). Reduced associative memory for negative information: impact of confidence and interactive imagery during study. Cognition and Emotion, 33(8), 1745-1753. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1602028

Although item-memory for emotional information is enhanced, memory for associations between items is often impaired for negative, emotionally arousing compared to neutral information. We tested two possible mechanisms underlying this impairment, usin... Read More about Reduced associative memory for negative information: impact of confidence and interactive imagery during study.

Value bias of verbal memory (2019)
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Caplan, J. B., Tomlinson, S. E., Chakravarty, S., Fujiwara, E., Madan, C., & Ober, I. (2019). Value bias of verbal memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 25-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.03.005

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. A common finding is that items associated with higher reward value are subsequently remembered better than items associated with lower value. A confounding factor is that when a higher value stimuli is presented, this typically s... Read More about Value bias of verbal memory.

Boon, bias or bane? The potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decision-making (2019)
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Tennant, J. P., Penders, B., Ross-Hellauer, T., Marušić, A., Squazzoni, F., Mackay, A. W., …Nicholas, D. (2019). Boon, bias or bane? The potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decision-making. Journal: European Science Editing, 45(1), 2-5. https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2019.45.18013

No formal investigations have been conducted into the efficacy or potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decisions, and the impact of this on the expectations and behaviour of authors, reviewers and journal editors. This article... Read More about Boon, bias or bane? The potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decision-making.

Involvement of hippocampal subfields and anterior-posterior subregions in encoding and retrieval of item, spatial, and associative memories: Longitudinal versus transverse axis (2019)
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Hrybouski, S., MacGillivray, M., Huang, Y., Madan, C. R., Carter, R., Seres, P., & Malykhin, N. V. (2019). Involvement of hippocampal subfields and anterior-posterior subregions in encoding and retrieval of item, spatial, and associative memories: Longitudinal versus transverse axis. NeuroImage, 191, 568-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.061

The functional role of the hippocampal formation in episodic memory has been studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for many years. The hippocampus can be segmented into three major anteroposterior sections, called head, body and... Read More about Involvement of hippocampal subfields and anterior-posterior subregions in encoding and retrieval of item, spatial, and associative memories: Longitudinal versus transverse axis.

Comparative inspiration: from puzzles with pigeons to novel discoveries with humans in risky choice (2019)
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Madan, C., Ludvig, E., & Spetch, M. (2019). Comparative inspiration: from puzzles with pigeons to novel discoveries with humans in risky choice. Behavioural Processes, 160, 10-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.12.009

Both humans and non-human animals regularly encounter decisions involving risk and uncertainty. This paper provides an overview of our research program examining risky decisions in which the odds and outcomes are learned through experience in people... Read More about Comparative inspiration: from puzzles with pigeons to novel discoveries with humans in risky choice.

Breathe Easy EDA: A MATLAB toolbox for psychophysiology data management, cleaning, and analysis (2018)
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Ksander, J. C., Kark, S. M., & Madan, C. R. (2018). Breathe Easy EDA: A MATLAB toolbox for psychophysiology data management, cleaning, and analysis. F1000Research, 7, Article 216. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.13849.2

Electrodermal activity (EDA) recordings are widely used in experimental psychology to measure skin conductance responses (SCRs) that reflect sympathetic nervous system arousal. However, irregular respiration patterns and deep breaths can cause EDA fl... Read More about Breathe Easy EDA: A MATLAB toolbox for psychophysiology data management, cleaning, and analysis.

ElGateau: A Library for Using the Elgato Stream Deck for Experimental Psychology Research (2018)
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Madan, C. (2018). ElGateau: A Library for Using the Elgato Stream Deck for Experimental Psychology Research. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(31), Article 1070. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01070

In experimental psychology research, we often ask participants to press specific keys to correspond to responses in the experiment. For instance, one key for 'old' and another for 'new' in an old/new recognition memory test, 'word' and 'nonword' in a... Read More about ElGateau: A Library for Using the Elgato Stream Deck for Experimental Psychology Research.

Many analysts, one dataset: making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results (2018)
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Silberzahn, R., Uhlmann, E., Martin, D., Anselmi, P., Aust, F., Awtrey, E., …Nosek, B. (2018). Many analysts, one dataset: making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(1), 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245917747646

Twenty-nine teams involving 61 analysts used the same dataset to address the same research question: whether soccer referees are more likely to give red cards to dark skin toned players than light skin toned players. Analytic approaches varied widely... Read More about Many analysts, one dataset: making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results.

Positive emotion enhances association-memory (2018)
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Madan, C. R., Scott, S. M., & Kensinger, E. A. (2019). Positive emotion enhances association-memory. Emotion, 19(4), 733-740. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000465

The influence of emotion on association-memory is often attributed to arousal, but negative stimuli are typically used to test for these effects. While prior studies of negative emotion on association-memory have found impairments, theories suggest t... Read More about Positive emotion enhances association-memory.

Age differences in head motion and estimates of cortical morphology (2018)
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Madan, C. R. (in press). Age differences in head motion and estimates of cortical morphology. PeerJ, 6, Article e5176. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5176

Cortical morphology is known to differ with age, as measured by cortical thickness, fractal dimensionality, and gyrification. However, head motion during MRI scanning has been shown to influence estimates of cortical thickness as well as increase wit... Read More about Age differences in head motion and estimates of cortical morphology.

Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing (2018)
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Heard, A., Madan, C. R., Protzner, A. B., & Pexman, P. M. (2019). Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1072-1

One of the strategies that researchers have used to investigate the role of sensorimotor information in lexical-semantic processing is to examine effects of words’ rated body-object interaction (BOI; the ease with which the human body can interact wi... Read More about Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing.

Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees (2018)
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Tsoi, M., Teitge, B. D., Madan, C. R., & Francescutti, L. H. (2018). Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees. F1000Research, 5, Article 1903. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9026.2

To pursue research, education, and health policy in one’s career, broadly defined as academic medicine, is one of the most important decisions of a trainee doctor’s career. Despite this, there is scant literature on which factors influence trainees’... Read More about Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees.