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A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] (2017)
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Tennant, J. P., Dugan, J. M., Graziotin, D., Jacques, D. C., Waldner, F., Mietchen, D., …Colomb, J. (2017). A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research, 6, Article 1151. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.12037.3

Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its role in our modern digital research and communications infrastruc... Read More about A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review [version 3; peer review: 2 approved].

Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment (2017)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Chapman, P., & Peirce, J. (2018). Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment. Consciousness and Cognition, 58, 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.10.013

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Much heated debate surrounds the extent to which we can process emotional stimuli without awareness. In particular the extent to which masked emotional faces can elicit changes in physiology measurements, such as heart rate and s... Read More about Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment.

GABA concentrations in the anterior temporal lobe predict human semantic processing (2017)
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Jung, J., Williams, S. R., Sanaei Nezhad, F., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2017). GABA concentrations in the anterior temporal lobe predict human semantic processing. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 15748. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15981-7

There is now considerable convergent evidence from multiple methodologies and clinical studies that the human anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is a semantic representational hub. However, the neurochemical nature of the ATL in the semantic processing rem... Read More about GABA concentrations in the anterior temporal lobe predict human semantic processing.

A comparison of the efficacy of three intervention trial types: postal, group, and one-to-one facilitation, prior management and the impact of message framing and repeat messages on the flock prevalence of lameness in sheep (2017)
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Grant, C., Kaler, J., Ferguson, E., O’Kane, H., & Green, L. E. (2018). A comparison of the efficacy of three intervention trial types: postal, group, and one-to-one facilitation, prior management and the impact of message framing and repeat messages on the flock prevalence of lameness in sheep. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2017.11.013

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three knowledge-transfer intervention trial types (postal, group, one-to-one) to promote best practice to treat sheep with footrot. Further aims were to investigate whether farmer behaviour (... Read More about A comparison of the efficacy of three intervention trial types: postal, group, and one-to-one facilitation, prior management and the impact of message framing and repeat messages on the flock prevalence of lameness in sheep.

Comparing multilayer brain networks between groups: Introducing graph metrics and recommendations (2017)
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Mandke, K., Meier, J., Brookes, M. J., O'Dea, R. D., Van Mieghem, P., Stam, C. J., …Tewarie, P. K. (2018). Comparing multilayer brain networks between groups: Introducing graph metrics and recommendations. NeuroImage, 166, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.11.016

There is an increasing awareness of the advantages of multi-modal neuroimaging. Networks obtained from different modalities are usually treated in isolation, which is however contradictory to accumulating evidence that these networks show non-trivial... Read More about Comparing multilayer brain networks between groups: Introducing graph metrics and recommendations.

Exploration and recency as the main proximate causes of probability matching: a reinforcement learning analysis (2017)
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Feher da Silva, C., Victorino, C. G., Caticha, N., & Baldo, M. V. C. (2017). Exploration and recency as the main proximate causes of probability matching: a reinforcement learning analysis. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 15326. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15587-z

Research has not yet reached a consensus on why humans match probabilities instead of maximise in a probability learning task. The most influential explanation is that they search for patterns in the random sequence of outcomes. Other explanations, s... Read More about Exploration and recency as the main proximate causes of probability matching: a reinforcement learning analysis.

Effects of childhood trauma on cortisol levels in suicide attempters and ideators (2017)
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O'Connor, D. B., Green, J. A., Ferguson, E., O’Carroll, R. E., & O'Connor, R. C. (in press). Effects of childhood trauma on cortisol levels in suicide attempters and ideators. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.11.004

Objectives: Suicide is a global health issue. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, has been identified as one potential risk factor for suicide. Recent evidence has indicated that blunted co... Read More about Effects of childhood trauma on cortisol levels in suicide attempters and ideators.

Alexithymia predicts loss chasing for people at risk for problem gambling (2017)
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Bibby, P. A., & Ross, K. E. (in press). Alexithymia predicts loss chasing for people at risk for problem gambling. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 6(4), https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.6.2017.076

Background and aims The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and loss-chasing behavior in people at risk and not at risk for problem gambling. Methods An opportunity sample of 58 (50 males and 8 females)... Read More about Alexithymia predicts loss chasing for people at risk for problem gambling.

Supernatural belief is not modulated by intuitive thinking style or cognitive inhibition (2017)
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Farias, M., van Mulukom, V., Kahane, G., Kreplin, U., Joyce, A., Soares, P., …Möttönen, R. (2017). Supernatural belief is not modulated by intuitive thinking style or cognitive inhibition. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 15100. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14090-9

According to the Intuitive Belief Hypothesis, supernatural belief relies heavily on intuitive thinking—and decreases when analytic thinking is engaged. After pointing out various limitations in prior attempts to support this Intuitive Belief Hypothes... Read More about Supernatural belief is not modulated by intuitive thinking style or cognitive inhibition.

How accurately can other people infer your thoughts -- and does culture matter? (2017)
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Valanides, C., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (in press). How accurately can other people infer your thoughts -- and does culture matter?. PLoS ONE, 12(11), Article e0187586. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187586

This research investigated how accurately people infer what others are thinking after observing a brief sample of their behaviour and whether culture/similarity is a relevant factor. Target participants (14 British and 14 Mediterraneans) were cued to... Read More about How accurately can other people infer your thoughts -- and does culture matter?.

When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect (2017)
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Marsh, L. E., Kanngiesser, P., & Hood, B. (2018). When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect. Cognition, 170, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.012

We elevate our constructions to a special status in our minds. This ‘IKEA’ effect leads us to believe that our creations are more valuable than items that are identical, but constructed by another. This series of studies utilises a developmental pers... Read More about When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect.

Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain (2017)
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Siyanova-Chanturia, A., Conklin, K., Caffarra, S., Kaan, E., & van Heuven, W. J. (2017). Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain. Brain and Language, 175, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2017.10.004

Language comprehension is sensitive to the predictability of the upcoming information. Prediction allows for smooth, expedient and successful communication. While general discourse-based constraints have been investigated in detail, more specific phr... Read More about Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain.

Improvement in children’s fine motor skills following a computerized typing intervention (2017)
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McGlashan, H. L., Blanchard, C. C., Sycamore, N. J., Lee, R., French, B., & Holmes, N. P. (in press). Improvement in children’s fine motor skills following a computerized typing intervention. Human Movement Science, 56(B), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2017.10.013

Children spend a large proportion of their school day engaged in tasks that require manual dexterity. If children experience difficulties with their manual dexterity skills it can have a consequential effect on their academic achievement. The first a... Read More about Improvement in children’s fine motor skills following a computerized typing intervention.

Lateralized occipito-temporal N1 responses to images of salient distorted finger postures (2017)
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Santo, M. G. E., Chen, H., & Schürmann, M. (in press). Lateralized occipito-temporal N1 responses to images of salient distorted finger postures. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 14129. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14474-x

For humans as social beings, other people’s hands are highly visually conspicuous. Exceptionally striking are hands in other than natural configuration which have been found to elicit distinct brain activation. Here we studied response strength and l... Read More about Lateralized occipito-temporal N1 responses to images of salient distorted finger postures.

Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning (2017)
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Smalle, E. H., Panouilleres, M., Szmalec, A., & Möttönen, R. (in press). Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 13966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14547-x

Adults do not learn languages as easily as children do. It has been hypothesized that the late-developing prefrontal cortex that supports executive functions competes with procedural learning mechanisms that are important for language learning. To ad... Read More about Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning.

Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children (2017)
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McGuigan, N., Burdett, E., Burgess, V., Dean, L., Lucas, A., Vale, G., & Whiten, A. (2017). Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735), Article 20160425. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0425

© 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. The experimental study of cumulative culture and the innovations essential to it is a young science, with child studies so rare that the scope of cumulative cultural capacities... Read More about Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children.

Motivated cognition: effects of reward, emotion, and other motivational factors across a variety of cognitive domains (2017)
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Madan, C. R. (2017). Motivated cognition: effects of reward, emotion, and other motivational factors across a variety of cognitive domains. Collabra: Psychology, 3(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.111

A growing body of literature has demonstrated that motivation influences cognitive processing. The breadth of these effects is extensive and span influences of reward, emotion, and other motivational processes across all cognitive domains. As example... Read More about Motivated cognition: effects of reward, emotion, and other motivational factors across a variety of cognitive domains.

New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders (2017)
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Johnston, R., Pitchford, N. J., Roach, N. W., & Ledgeway, T. (2017). New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.09.031

A selective deficit in processing the global (overall) motion, but not form, of spatially extensive objects in the visual scene is frequently associated with several neurodevelopmental disorders, including preterm birth. Existing theories that propos... Read More about New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Exploring thematic nightmare content and associated self-harm risk (2017)
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Hochard, K. D., Ashcroft, S., Carroll, J., Heym, N., & Townsend, E. (2019). Exploring thematic nightmare content and associated self-harm risk. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 49(1), 64-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12402

Nightmares have been shown to be robust predictors of self-harm risk, beyond depressive symptoms and hopelessness at times. However, few studies have investigated associations between nightmare content and increased self-harm risk. The present study... Read More about Exploring thematic nightmare content and associated self-harm risk.

Noncontact measurement of emotional and physiological changes in heart rate from a webcam (2017)
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Madan, C. R., Harrison, T., & Mathewson, K. E. (2018). Noncontact measurement of emotional and physiological changes in heart rate from a webcam. Psychophysiology, 55(4), e13005. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13005

© 2017 Society for Psychophysiological Research Heart rate, measured in beats per minute, can be used as an index of an individual's physiological state. Each time the heart beats, blood is expelled and travels through the body. This blood flow can b... Read More about Noncontact measurement of emotional and physiological changes in heart rate from a webcam.