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fRAT: an interactive, Python-based tool forregion-of-interest summaries of functional imaging data (2023)
Journal Article
Howley, E., Francis, S., & Schluppeck, D. (2023). fRAT: an interactive, Python-based tool forregion-of-interest summaries of functional imaging data. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(85), Article 5200. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05200

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is widely used to address basic cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience questions. The specific choice of imaging sequence and parameters used for image acquisition can have a marked effect on the acqui... Read More about fRAT: an interactive, Python-based tool forregion-of-interest summaries of functional imaging data.

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.

Self-harm in university students: A comparative analysis of data from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England (2023)
Journal Article
Clements, C., Farooq, B., Hawton, K., Geulayov, G., Casey, D., Waters, K., …Kapur, N. (2023). Self-harm in university students: A comparative analysis of data from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England. Journal of Affective Disorders, 335, 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.04.112

Background: Increases in poor mental health and suicide have been identified among university students in the UK. However, little is known about self-harm in this group. Aims: To describe and identify care needs of university aged-students who self-h... Read More about Self-harm in university students: A comparative analysis of data from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England.

A double-blind, sham-controlled, trial of home-administered rhythmic 10-Hz median nerve stimulation for the reduction of tics, and suppression of the urge-to-tic, in individuals with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder (2023)
Journal Article
Morera Maiquez, B., Morera Maiquez, B., Smith, C., Dyke, K., Chou, C., Kasbia, B., …Jackson, S. R. (2023). A double-blind, sham-controlled, trial of home-administered rhythmic 10-Hz median nerve stimulation for the reduction of tics, and suppression of the urge-to-tic, in individuals with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder. Journal of Neuropsychology, 17(3), 540-563. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12313

Tourette syndrome (TS) and chronic tic disorder (CTD) are neurological disorders of childhood onset characterized by the occurrence of tics; repetitive, purposeless, movements or vocalizations of short duration which can occur many times throughout a... Read More about A double-blind, sham-controlled, trial of home-administered rhythmic 10-Hz median nerve stimulation for the reduction of tics, and suppression of the urge-to-tic, in individuals with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder.

Is camouflaging autistic traits associated with defeat, entrapment, and lifetime suicidal thoughts? Expanding the Integrated Motivational Volitional Model of Suicide (2023)
Journal Article
Cassidy, S., McLaughlin, E., McGranaghan, R., Pelton, M., O'Connor, R., & Rodgers, J. (2023). Is camouflaging autistic traits associated with defeat, entrapment, and lifetime suicidal thoughts? Expanding the Integrated Motivational Volitional Model of Suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(4), 572-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12965

Introduction The current study explored whether camouflaging autistic traits is associated with defeat and entrapment and lifetime suicidal thoughts, as predicted by the Integrated Volitional Model of Suicide (IMV model). Methods 180 UK undergra... Read More about Is camouflaging autistic traits associated with defeat, entrapment, and lifetime suicidal thoughts? Expanding the Integrated Motivational Volitional Model of Suicide.

The influence of prior experience with mathematics and A-Level science subjects on statistics anxiety in undergraduate psychology students (2023)
Journal Article
McDonald, S., & Barnard, M. P. (2023). The influence of prior experience with mathematics and A-Level science subjects on statistics anxiety in undergraduate psychology students. Psychology Teaching Review, 29(1), 37-50. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsptr.2023.29.1.37

Statistics is a core subject in the psychology undergraduate curriculum and is often associated with increased anxiety among learners. The aim of this study was to identify factors relating to statistics anxiety, and specifically, how prior experienc... Read More about The influence of prior experience with mathematics and A-Level science subjects on statistics anxiety in undergraduate psychology students.

Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts (2023)
Journal Article
Whitt, E., & Haselgrove, M. (2023). Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts. Psychology Teaching Review, 29(1), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsptr.2023.29.1.13

Using games in a classroom setting to help engagement and learning is becoming popular, but controlled investigations into the benefits of games are few. Games are potentially a way to incorporate retrieval practice into a class and garner subsequent... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts.

We need timely access to mental health data: implications of the Goldacre review (2023)
Journal Article
Astle, D. E., Moore, A., Marryat, L., Viding, E., Mansfield, K. L., Fazel, M., …Ford, T. J. (2023). We need timely access to mental health data: implications of the Goldacre review. Lancet Psychiatry, 10(4), 242-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366%2823%2900030-5

The Goldacre review, published in April, 2022, 1 is a landmark evaluation of the use, availability, and safety of National Health Service (NHS) data across all four nations of the UK. The review underscores the necessary role of data in driving healt... Read More about We need timely access to mental health data: implications of the Goldacre review.

Exploring Female Students’ Experiences of ADHD and its Impact on Social, Academic, and Psychological Functioning (2023)
Journal Article
Morley, E., & Tyrrell, A. (2023). Exploring Female Students’ Experiences of ADHD and its Impact on Social, Academic, and Psychological Functioning. Journal of Attention Disorders, 27(10), 1129-1155. https://doi.org/10.1177/10870547231168432

Objective: The aim of research is to provide greater understanding of ADHD in adult females by exploring first-hand experiences of female university students with ADHD in the UK, and the impact of such experiences on social, academic, and psychologic... Read More about Exploring Female Students’ Experiences of ADHD and its Impact on Social, Academic, and Psychological Functioning.

Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish (2023)
Journal Article
Rataj, K., Kakuba, P., Mandera, P., & van Heuven, W. J. (2023). Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish. PLoS ONE, 18(4), Article e0284801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284801

This study presents a Polish semantic priming dataset and semantic similarity ratings for word pairs obtained with native Polish speakers, as well as a range of semantic spaces. The word pairs include strongly related, weakly related, and semanticall... Read More about Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish.

Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure (2023)
Journal Article
Alcalá, J. A., Miller, R. R., Kirkden, R. D., & Urcelay, G. P. (2023). Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure. Learning and Behavior, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00582-4

When multiple cues are associated with the same outcome, organisms tend to select between the cues, with one revealing greater behavioral control at the expense of the others (i.e., cue competition). However, non-human and human studies have not alwa... Read More about Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure.

Interactions between migrant race and social status in predicting acceptance of climate migrants in Norway (2023)
Journal Article
Bye, H. H., Yu, H., Portice, J. S., & Ogunbode, C. A. (2023). Interactions between migrant race and social status in predicting acceptance of climate migrants in Norway. Climatic Change, 176(4), Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03523-2

An emerging stream of research documents that climate migrants are more acceptable than economic migrants to citizens in high-income countries. However, extant research has not considered migrant race, and how race, along with socioeconomic status, i... Read More about Interactions between migrant race and social status in predicting acceptance of climate migrants in Norway.

Cross-language influences in L2 visual word processing: A localist connectionist modelling perspective (2023)
Book Chapter
van Heuven, W. J., & Dijkstra, T. (2023). Cross-language influences in L2 visual word processing: A localist connectionist modelling perspective. In I. Elgort, A. Siyanova-Chanturia, & M. Brysbaert (Eds.), Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition (102-125). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.16.05van

Over the last decades, a variety of verbal models have been proposed to account for empirical findings on bilingual word processing and second language (L2) acquisition. However, in these domains only a small number of computational models have seen... Read More about Cross-language influences in L2 visual word processing: A localist connectionist modelling perspective.

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.

“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. (2024). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, 43(5), 3999-4015. 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.

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.