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Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study (2022)
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Cutter, M. G., Filik, R., & Paterson, K. B. (2022). Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study. Journal of Memory and Language, 125, Article 104336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2022.104336

We present a replication of Levy, Bicknell, Slattery, and Rayner (2009). In this prior study participants read sentences in which a perceptually confusable preposition (at; confusable with as) or non-confusable preposition (toward) was followed by a... Read More about Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study.

The experiences and needs of supporting individuals of young people who self-harm: A systematic review and thematic synthesis (2022)
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Mughal, F., Mi, T., Dikomitis, L., Tierney, S., Corp, N., Evans, N., …Chew-Graham, C. A. (2022). The experiences and needs of supporting individuals of young people who self-harm: A systematic review and thematic synthesis. eClinicalMedicine, 48, Article 101437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101437

Self-harm in young people is a serious international health concern that impacts on those providing informal support: the supporting individuals of young people. We aimed to highlight the experiences, views, and needs of these supporting individuals... Read More about The experiences and needs of supporting individuals of young people who self-harm: A systematic review and thematic synthesis.

Language systems from lesion-symptom mapping in aphasia: A meta-analysis of voxel-based lesion mapping studies (2022)
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Na, Y., Jung, J. Y., Tench, C. R., Auer, D. P., & Pyun, S. B. (2022). Language systems from lesion-symptom mapping in aphasia: A meta-analysis of voxel-based lesion mapping studies. NeuroImage: Clinical, 35, Article 103038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103038

Background: Aphasia is one of the most common causes of post-stroke disabilities. As the symptoms and impact of post-stroke aphasia are heterogeneous, it is important to understand how topographical lesion heterogeneity in patients with aphasia is as... Read More about Language systems from lesion-symptom mapping in aphasia: A meta-analysis of voxel-based lesion mapping studies.

Prevalence of Victimisation in Autistic Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2022)
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Trundle, G., Jones, K. A., Ropar, D., & Egan, V. (2023). Prevalence of Victimisation in Autistic Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 24(4), 2282-2296. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221093689

Autistic individuals are at an increased risk of experiencing victimisation. Previous reviews have focussed specific types of victimisation. Thus, a clearer picture considering the range of victimisation experiences autistic people face is required.... Read More about Prevalence of Victimisation in Autistic Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
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Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors (2022)
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Ferguson, E., Dawe‐Lane, E., Khan, Z., Reynolds, C., Davison, K., Edge, D., & Brailsford, S. R. (2022). Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors. Transfusion Medicine, 32(4), 276-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/tme.12867

Background: We explore the role of trust, distrust, and the prevailing socio-political context to better understand why people from ethnic minority communities are less likely to be blood donors compared to people from White communities. Recruiting m... Read More about Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors.

Does audio-visual information result in improved health-related decision-making compared with audio-only or visual-only information? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
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Stacey, J. E., Atkin, C., Henshaw, H., Roberts, K. L., Allen, H. A., Justice, L. V., & Badham, S. P. (2022). Does audio-visual information result in improved health-related decision-making compared with audio-only or visual-only information? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 12(4), Article e059599. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059599

INTRODUCTION: Making health-related decisions can be difficult due to the amount and complexity of information available. Audio-visual information may improve memory for health information but whether audio-visual information can enhance health-relat... Read More about Does audio-visual information result in improved health-related decision-making compared with audio-only or visual-only information? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Bridging the big (data) gap: levels of control in small- and large-scale cognitive neuroscience research (2022)
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Tibon, R., Geerligs, L., & Campbell, K. (2022). Bridging the big (data) gap: levels of control in small- and large-scale cognitive neuroscience research. Trends in Neurosciences, 45(7), 507-516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2022.03.011

Recently, cognitive neuroscience has experienced unprecedented growth in the availability of large-scale datasets. These developments hold great methodological and theoretical promise: they allow increased statistical power, the use of nonparametric... Read More about Bridging the big (data) gap: levels of control in small- and large-scale cognitive neuroscience research.

The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation on Self-harm among Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Minority (LGBTQ+) Individuals (2022)
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Kapatais, A., Williams, A. J., & Townsend, E. (2022). The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation on Self-harm among Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Minority (LGBTQ+) Individuals. Archives of Suicide Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2064254

Objective: The present study was conducted to (1) investigate the role of emotion regulation difficulties among self-harming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, or Questioning (LGBTQ+) individuals and (2) to test for a mediating role of emoti... Read More about The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation on Self-harm among Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Minority (LGBTQ+) Individuals.

Attitudes to animal use of named species for different purposes: effects of speciesism, individualising morality, likeability and demographic factors (2022)
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Marriott, S., & Cassaday, H. J. (2022). Attitudes to animal use of named species for different purposes: effects of speciesism, individualising morality, likeability and demographic factors. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), Article 138. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01159-8

Attitudes to animals and their use are becoming increasingly important for the success of conservation and environmental initiatives. Beliefs about animals, their perceived emotional appeal, as well as individuals’ moral capacities are all likely dri... Read More about Attitudes to animal use of named species for different purposes: effects of speciesism, individualising morality, likeability and demographic factors.

Practical recommendations to communicate with patients about health‐related conspiracy theories (2022)
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Marques, M. D., Douglas, K. M., & Jolley, D. (2022). Practical recommendations to communicate with patients about health‐related conspiracy theories. Medical Journal of Australia, 216(8), 381-384. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51475

Health-related conspiracy theories often advance the argument that information is being kept secret from the public by powerful individuals or groups within the government or health industry. They are widespread and are associated with important heal... Read More about Practical recommendations to communicate with patients about health‐related conspiracy theories.

Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change (2022)
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Garcia, S. B., Chałupnik, M., Irving, K., & Haselgrove, M. (2022). Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change. Behavioral Sciences, 12(4), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12040108

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health challenge. Although theoretically informed public health campaigns are more effective for changing behaviour, there is little evidence of their use when campaigns are commissioned to th... Read More about Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change.

Activity Subspaces in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Distinguish States of the World (2022)
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Maggi, S., & Humphries, M. D. (2022). Activity Subspaces in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Distinguish States of the World. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(20), 4131-4146. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1412-21.2022

Medial prefrontal cortex (mPfC) activity represents information about the state of the world, including present behavior, such as decisions, and the immediate past, such as short-term memory. Unknown is whether information about different states of t... Read More about Activity Subspaces in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Distinguish States of the World.

Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls (2022)
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Hand, C. J., Kennedy, A., Filik, R., Pitchford, M., & Robus, C. M. (2023). Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 2514–2528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05557-4

We investigated ASD-diagnosed adults’ and neurotypical (NT) controls’ processing of emoji and emoji influence on the emotionality of otherwise-neutral sentences. Study 1 participants categorised emoji representing the six basic emotions using a fixed... Read More about Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls.

Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls (2022)
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Espahbodi, S., Fernandes, G., Hogervorst, E., Thanoon, A., Batt, M., Fuller, C. W., …Zhang, W. (2022). Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls. BMJ Open, 12(4), Article e054371. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054371

INTRODUCTION: Professional footballers commonly experience sports-related injury and repetitive microtrauma to the foot and ankle, placing them at risk of subsequent chronic pain and osteoarthritis (OA) of the foot and ankle. Similarly, repeated head... Read More about Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls.

Safety Learning in Anxiety, Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition and COVID Concerns (2022)
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Thurston, M. D., & Cassaday, H. J. (2022). Safety Learning in Anxiety, Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition and COVID Concerns. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 866771. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866771

Experimental studies of fear conditioning have identified the effectiveness of safety signals in inhibiting fear and maintaining fear-motivated behaviors. In fear conditioning procedures, the presence of safety signals means that the otherwise expect... Read More about Safety Learning in Anxiety, Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition and COVID Concerns.

Negative Emotion Enhances Memory for the Sequential Unfolding of a Naturalistic Experience (2022)
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Dev, D. K., Wardell, V., Checknita, K. J., Te, A. A., Petrucci, A. S., Le, M. L., …Palombo, D. J. (2022). Negative Emotion Enhances Memory for the Sequential Unfolding of a Naturalistic Experience. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(4), 510-521. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000015

The events of our lives unfold over time. When remembering these events, we often reference information about when they occurred and their sequential unfolding. How does negative emotion affect our ability to reconstruct the elements of an event in t... Read More about Negative Emotion Enhances Memory for the Sequential Unfolding of a Naturalistic Experience.

Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study (2022)
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McDonough, I. M., Mayhugh, C., Moore, M. K., Brasfield, M. B., Letang, S. K., Madan, C. R., & Allen, R. S. (2022). Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study. Brain Sciences, 12(4), Article 496. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040496

Having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias confers a risk for developing these types of neurocognitive disorders in old age, but the mechanisms underlying this risk are understudied. Although the hippocampus is often one of t... Read More about Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study.

Neuroanatomical correlates of working memory performance in Neurofibromatosis 1 (2022)
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Sawyer, C., Green, J., Lim, B., Pobric, G., Jung, J., Vassallo, G., …Garg, S. (2022). Neuroanatomical correlates of working memory performance in Neurofibromatosis 1. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 3(2), Article tgac021. https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgac021

Introduction: Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a single-gene disorder associated with cognitive impairments, particularly with deficits in working memory. Prior research indicates that brain structure is affected in NF1, but it is unclear how these chan... Read More about Neuroanatomical correlates of working memory performance in Neurofibromatosis 1.

The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children? (2022)
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Marsh, L. E., Gil, J., & Kanngiesser, P. (2022). The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?. Developmental Psychology, 58(4), 662-670. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001321

Creating objects can increase our evaluation of them, even when we compare them to physically identical copies (IKEA effect). Here we evaluate the influence of collaboration on the IKEA effect in two societies – the UK and India. 128 5-to-6-year-old... Read More about The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?.