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Rare and extreme outcomes in risky choice (2023)
Journal Article
Mason, A., Ludvig, E. A., Spetch, M. L., & Madan, C. R. (2023). Rare and extreme outcomes in risky choice. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02415-x

Many real-world decisions involving rare events also involve extreme outcomes. Despite this confluence, decisions-from-experience research has only examined the impact of rarity and extremity in isolation. With rare events, people typically choose as... Read More about Rare and extreme outcomes in risky choice.

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

Artificial intelligence for diagnostic and prognostic neuroimaging in dementia: A systematic review (2023)
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Borchert, R. J., Azevedo, T., Badhwar, A., Bernal, J., Betts, M., Bruffaerts, R., …Rittman, T. (2023). Artificial intelligence for diagnostic and prognostic neuroimaging in dementia: A systematic review. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13412

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroimaging offer new opportunities for diagnosis and prognosis of dementia. Methods We systematically reviewed studies reporting AI for neuroimaging in diagnosis and/or prognosis of cognitive neur... Read More about Artificial intelligence for diagnostic and prognostic neuroimaging in dementia: A systematic review.

Handedness effects on imagery of dominant‐ versus non‐dominant‐hand movements: An electroencephalographic investigation (2023)
Journal Article
Lambert, K. J. M., Chen, Y. Y., Donoff, C., Elke, J., Madan, C. R., & Singhal, A. (2023). Handedness effects on imagery of dominant‐ versus non‐dominant‐hand movements: An electroencephalographic investigation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(5), 3286-3298. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16096

Mental representations of our bodies are thought to influence how we interact with our surroundings. We can examine these mental representations through motor imagery, the imagination of movement using scalp EEG recordings. The visual modality of mot... Read More about Handedness effects on imagery of dominant‐ versus non‐dominant‐hand movements: An electroencephalographic investigation.

Subjective memory measures: metamemory questionnaires currently in use (2023)
Journal Article
Gopi, Y., & Madan, C. R. (2023). Subjective memory measures: metamemory questionnaires currently in use. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231183855

Subjective memory evaluation is important for assessing memory abilities and complaints alongside objective measures. In research and clinical settings, questionnaires are used to examine perceived memory ability, memory complaints, and memory belief... Read More about Subjective memory measures: metamemory questionnaires currently in use.

Using Evidence-Based Learning Strategies to Improve Medical Education (2023)
Journal Article
Madan, C. R. (2023). Using Evidence-Based Learning Strategies to Improve Medical Education. Medical Science Educator, 33, 773-776. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-023-01798-9

Medical education research has been adopting principles from psychology to improve student learning. Here is an overview and illustrative examples of six evidence-based learning strategies that have been thoroughly researched and validated in the psy... Read More about Using Evidence-Based Learning Strategies to Improve Medical Education.

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2023). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.

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.

Memory and Consciousness—Usually in Tandem but Sometimes Apart (2023)
Journal Article
Madan, C. R. (2023). Memory and Consciousness—Usually in Tandem but Sometimes Apart. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 36(2), 128-131. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNN.0000000000000337

Episodic memory, the ability to remember specific events from one's personal past, has been the subject of research for several decades, with a particular emphasis on its relationship with consciousness. In the December 2022 issue of Cognitive and Be... Read More about Memory and Consciousness—Usually in Tandem but Sometimes Apart.

Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change (2023)
Journal Article
The Forecasting Collaborative, Grossmann, I., Rotella, A., Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E. W., …Wilkening, T. (2023). Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(4), 484-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1

How well can social scientists predict societal change, and what processes underlie their predictions? To answer these questions, we ran two forecasting tournaments testing the accuracy of predictions of societal change in domains commonly studied in... Read More about Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change.

Benefits and Challenges in Pivoting to Online When Studying the Cognitive Aging of Memory (2022)
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Gopi, Y., Zhang, R., & Madan, C. (2022). Benefits and Challenges in Pivoting to Online When Studying the Cognitive Aging of Memory. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529799842

This case study discusses challenges and advantages associated with pivoting from lab-based to online research. We outline three experimental studies related to memory and cognitive aging that were shifted online due to the pandemic. Across these pro... Read More about Benefits and Challenges in Pivoting to Online When Studying the Cognitive Aging of Memory.

Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body (2022)
Journal Article
Meregalli, V., Tenconi, E., Madan, C. R., Somà, E., Meneguzzo, P., Ceccato, E., …Collantoni, E. (2023). Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 77(2), 94-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13501

Aim Recent evidence suggests that the body image disturbance often observed in patients with anorexia nervosa also extends to the body schema. According to the embodiment approach, the body schema is not only involved in motor execution, but also in... Read More about Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body.

Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out (2022)
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Mason, A., Madan, C. R., Freas, C. A., Simonsen, N., Ludvig, E. A., & Spetch, M. L. (2022). Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out. Decision, 10(1), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000197

When deciding between different courses of action, both the potential outcomes and the costs of making a choice should be considered. These costs include the cognitive and physical effort of the different options. In many decision contexts, the outco... Read More about Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out.

An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research (2022)
Journal Article
Richie-Halford, A., Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., Covitz, S., Franco, A. R., …Rokem, A. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data, 9, Article 616. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7

We created a set of resources to enable research based on openly-available diffusion MRI (dMRI) data from the Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study. First, we curated the HBN dMRI data (N = 2747) into the Brain Imaging Data Structure and preprocessed it... Read More about An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research.

Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories? (2022)
Working Paper
Wardell, V., Jameson, T. J., Bontkes, O., Le, M. L., Duan, T., St. Jacques, P. L., …Palombo, D. Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories?

Memories of our personal past are not exact accounts of what occurred. Instead, memory reconstructs the past in adaptive–though not always faithful–ways. Using a naturalistic design, here we asked how the visual perspective adopted in the mind’s eye... Read More about Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories?.

Academia and the world beyond: Navigating life after a phd (2022)
Book
Madan, C. (2022). C. Madan (Ed.). Academia and the world beyond: Navigating life after a phd. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82606-2

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "What will you do after?" But many students are too focused on the PhD itself and have not yet had a chance to sufficiently think about post-PhD life. This book is a collection of 22... Read More about Academia and the world beyond: Navigating life after a phd.

Biased confabulation in risky choice (2022)
Journal Article
Mason, A., Madan, C. R., Simonsen, N., Spetch, M. L., & Ludvig, E. A. (2022). Biased confabulation in risky choice. Cognition, 229, Article 105245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105245

When people make risky decisions based on past experience, they must rely on memory. The nature of the memory representations that support these decisions is not yet well understood. A key question concerns the extent to which people recall specific... Read More about Biased confabulation in risky choice.