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Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime (2022)
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Desai, S., & Filik, R. (2022). Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime. Psychology, Crime and Law, https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2096221

Victim emotionality is one of the most influential factors in sexual crime cases. Traditionally, the study of emotionality has been limited to behaviour-descriptors such as conveying panic or appearing shaken, however, such studies must also be exten... Read More about Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime.

Memory rehabilitation: restorative, specific knowledge acquisition, compensatory, and holistic approaches (2022)
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Gopi, Y., Wilding, E., & Madan, C. R. (2022). Memory rehabilitation: restorative, specific knowledge acquisition, compensatory, and holistic approaches. Cognitive Processing, 23, 537-557. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-022-01099-w

Memory impairment following an acquired brain injury can negatively impact daily living and quality of life—but can be reduced by memory rehabilitation. Here, we review the literature on four approaches for memory rehabilitation and their associated... Read More about Memory rehabilitation: restorative, specific knowledge acquisition, compensatory, and holistic approaches.

The role of prediction in learned predictiveness. (2022)
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Eatherington, C. J., & Haselgrove, M. (2022). The role of prediction in learned predictiveness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48(3), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000330

Learning permits even relatively uninteresting stimuli to capture attention if they are established as predictors of important outcomes. Associative theories explain this “learned predictiveness” effect by positing that attention is a function of the... Read More about The role of prediction in learned predictiveness..

Signal detection analysis of contingency assessment: Associative interference and nonreinforcement impact cue-outcome contingency sensitivity, whereas cue density affects bias (2022)
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Jozefowiez, J., Urcelay, G. P., & Miller, R. R. (2022). Signal detection analysis of contingency assessment: Associative interference and nonreinforcement impact cue-outcome contingency sensitivity, whereas cue density affects bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48(3), 190-202. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000334

In a signal detection theory approach to associative learning, the perceived (i.e., subjective) contingency between a cue and an outcome is a random variable drawn from a Gaussian distribution. At the end of the sequence, participants report a positi... Read More about Signal detection analysis of contingency assessment: Associative interference and nonreinforcement impact cue-outcome contingency sensitivity, whereas cue density affects bias.

Bullying and Conspiracy Theories: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorizing (2022)
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Jolley, D., & Lantian, A. (2022). Bullying and Conspiracy Theories: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorizing. Social Psychology, 53(4), 198-208. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000492

Experiences of bullying in the workplace can increase anxiety, paranoia, and hypervigilance to threat in victims. Such factors are also associated with conspiracy beliefs. Two preregistered studies (cross-sectional and experimental) tested whether bu... Read More about Bullying and Conspiracy Theories: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorizing.

Weight dependence in BCM leads to adjustable synaptic competition (2022)
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Albesa-González, A., Froc, M., Williamson, O., & van Rossum, M. C. (2022). Weight dependence in BCM leads to adjustable synaptic competition. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 50(4), 431-444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-022-00824-w

Models of synaptic plasticity have been used to better understand neural development as well as learning and memory. One prominent classic model is the Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro (BCM) model that has been particularly successful in explaining plasticit... Read More about Weight dependence in BCM leads to adjustable synaptic competition.

Endogenous control is insufficient for preventing attentional capture in children and adults (2022)
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Hayre, R. K., Cragg, L., & Allen, H. A. (2022). Endogenous control is insufficient for preventing attentional capture in children and adults. Acta Psychologica, 228, Article 103611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103611

Adults are known to have developed the ability to selectively focus their attention in a goal-driven (endogenous) manner but it is less clear at what stage in development (5-6 & 9-11 years) children can endogenously control their attention and whethe... Read More about Endogenous control is insufficient for preventing attentional capture in children and adults.

Neurochemical profiles of the anterior temporal lobe predict response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic processing (2022)
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Jung, J. Y., Williams, S. R., Nezhad, F. S., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2022). Neurochemical profiles of the anterior temporal lobe predict response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic processing. NeuroImage, 258, Article 119386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119386

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive technique used to modulate cortical excitability in the human brain. However, one major challenge with rTMS is that the responses to stimulation are highly variable across individu... Read More about Neurochemical profiles of the anterior temporal lobe predict response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic processing.

Dual-axes of functional organisation across lateral parietal cortex: the angular gyrus forms part of a multi-modal buffering system (2022)
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Humphreys, G. F., & Tibon, R. (2022). Dual-axes of functional organisation across lateral parietal cortex: the angular gyrus forms part of a multi-modal buffering system. Brain Structure and Function, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02510-0

Decades of neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence have implicated the lateral parietal cortex (LPC) in a myriad of cognitive domains, generating numerous influential theoretical models. However, these theories fail to explain why distinct cogni... Read More about Dual-axes of functional organisation across lateral parietal cortex: the angular gyrus forms part of a multi-modal buffering system.

Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH) (2022)
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Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., McClelland, H., Melson, A. J., Niedzwiedz, C. L., O’Carroll, R. E., …O’Connor, R. C. (2022). Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH). BJPsych Open, 8(4), Article e103. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.58

Background Waves 1 to 3 (March 2020 to May 2020) of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study suggested an improvement in some indicators of mental health across the first 6 weeks of the UK lockdown, however, suicidal ideation increased. A... Read More about Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH).

A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset (2022)
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Vaghari, D., Bruna, R., Hughes, L. E., Nesbitt, D., Tibon, R., Rowe, J. B., …Henson, R. N. (2022). A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset. NeuroImage, 258, Article 119344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119344

Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is vital to reduce the burden of dementia and for developing effective treatments. Neuroimaging can detect early brain changes, such as hippocampal atrophy in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a prodromal st... Read More about A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset.

Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters (2022)
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Noyes, A., Dalby, D., & Lavis, Y. (2022). Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(10), 1347-1361. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2022.2075720

Improving mathematical skills is a priority in England, and a series of policy levers and government change projects have focused on improving mathematical outcomes in further education (FE) in recent years. Yet little is known about the mathematics... Read More about Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters.

Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories (2022)
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Jolley, D., Marques, M. D., & Cookson, D. (2022). Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, Article 101363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101363

The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated how conspiracy beliefs–that explain important events as the secret actions of the powerful–can severely impact health choices (such as reduced infection-prevention behaviours). However, the consequences of conspi... Read More about Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories.

A PCA-Based Active Appearance Model for Characterising Modes of Spatiotemporal Variation in Dynamic Facial Behaviours (2022)
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Watson, D. M., & Johnston, A. (2022). A PCA-Based Active Appearance Model for Characterising Modes of Spatiotemporal Variation in Dynamic Facial Behaviours. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 880548. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.880548

Faces carry key personal information about individuals, including cues to their identity, social traits, and emotional state. Much research to date has employed static images of faces taken under tightly controlled conditions yet faces in the real wo... Read More about A PCA-Based Active Appearance Model for Characterising Modes of Spatiotemporal Variation in Dynamic Facial Behaviours.

What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal? (2022)
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Blackie, L. E., & Jayawickreme, E. (2022). What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?. European Journal of Personality, 36(4), 437-442. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070221104628

Recent research has advocated for the value of conceptualizing post-traumatic growth as positive personality change. However, most research continues to use both methodologically suspect assessment tools and unsupported theoretical assumptions. How c... Read More about What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?.

Online learning and assessment during the Covid-19 pandemic: exploring the impact on undergraduate student well-being (2022)
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Slack, H. R., & Priestley, M. (2023). Online learning and assessment during the Covid-19 pandemic: exploring the impact on undergraduate student well-being. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 48(3), 333-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2022.2076804

Where traditional learning and assessment approaches have previously been found to negatively impact on student well-being, the Covid-19 pandemic provided a novel opportunity to explore alternative online learning and assessment conditions conducive... Read More about Online learning and assessment during the Covid-19 pandemic: exploring the impact on undergraduate student well-being.

Distinct but cooperating brain networks supporting semantic cognition (2022)
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Jung, J., & Lambon Ralph, M. (2023). Distinct but cooperating brain networks supporting semantic cognition. Cerebral Cortex, 33(5), 2021-2036. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac190

Semantic cognition is a complex multifaceted brain function involving multiple processes including sensory, semantic, and domain-general cognitive systems. However, it remains unclear how these systems cooperate with each other to achieve effective s... Read More about Distinct but cooperating brain networks supporting semantic cognition.

No self-advantage in recognizing photographs of one’s own hand: experimental and meta-analytic evidence (2022)
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Holmes, N. P., Spence, C., & Rossetti, Y. (2022). No self-advantage in recognizing photographs of one’s own hand: experimental and meta-analytic evidence. Experimental Brain Research, 240, 2221-2233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06385-9

Visually recognising one’s own body is important both for controlling movement and for one’s sense of self. Twenty previous studies asked healthy adults to make rapid recognition judgements about photographs of their own and other peoples’ hands. Som... Read More about No self-advantage in recognizing photographs of one’s own hand: experimental and meta-analytic evidence.

Neuroanatomical Foundations of Delayed Reward Discounting Decision Making II: Evaluation of Sulcal Morphology and Fractal Dimensionality (2022)
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McIntyre-Wood, C., Madan, C., Owens, M., Amlung, M., Sweet, L. H., & MacKillop, J. (2022). Neuroanatomical Foundations of Delayed Reward Discounting Decision Making II: Evaluation of Sulcal Morphology and Fractal Dimensionality. NeuroImage, 257, Article 119309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119309

Delayed reward discounting (DRD) is a form of decision-making reflecting valuation of smaller immediate rewards versus larger delayed rewards, and high DRD has been linked to several health behaviors, including substance use disorders, attention-defi... Read More about Neuroanatomical Foundations of Delayed Reward Discounting Decision Making II: Evaluation of Sulcal Morphology and Fractal Dimensionality.

Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study (2022)
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O’Connor, D. B., Wilding, S., Ferguson, E., Cleare, S., Wetherall, K., McClelland, H., …O’Connor, R. C. (2023). Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study. Journal of Mental Health, 32(6), 1122-1133. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2022.2069716

Background: The lasting effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic are likely to be significant. Aims: This study tracked worry and rumination levels during the pandemic and investigated whether periods with higher COVID-related worry and ru... Read More about Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study.