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Role of the anterior cingulate cortex in the retrieval of novel object recognition memory after a long delay (2017)
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Pezze, M. A., Marshall, H. J., Fone, K. C., & Cassaday, H. J. (2017). Role of the anterior cingulate cortex in the retrieval of novel object recognition memory after a long delay. Learning and Memory, 24(7), 310-317. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.044784.116

Previous in vivo electrophysiological studies suggest that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACgx) is an important substrate of novel object recognition (NOR) memory. However, intervention studies are needed to confirm this conclusion and permanent lesi... Read More about Role of the anterior cingulate cortex in the retrieval of novel object recognition memory after a long delay.

Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games (2017)
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Zhao, K., Ferguson, E., & Smillie, L. D. (in press). Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 3415. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02952-1

Adherence to norms and interventions to norm violations are two important forms of social behaviour modelled in economic games. While both appear to serve a prosocial function, they may represent separate mechanisms corresponding with distinct emotio... Read More about Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games.

Inconsistent Effects of Parietal α-tACS on Pseudoneglect across Two Experiments: A Failed Internal Replication (2017)
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Veniero, D., Benwell, C. S., Ahrens, M. M., & Thut, G. (2017). Inconsistent Effects of Parietal α-tACS on Pseudoneglect across Two Experiments: A Failed Internal Replication. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 952. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00952

© 2017 Veniero, Benwell, Ahrens and Thut. Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) is being investigated as an experimental and clinical interventional technique in human participants. While promising, important limitations have been identified, inc... Read More about Inconsistent Effects of Parietal α-tACS on Pseudoneglect across Two Experiments: A Failed Internal Replication.

A sequence analysis of patterns in self-harm in young people with and without experience of being looked-after in care (2017)
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Wadman, R., Clarke, D., Sayal, K., Armstrong, M., Harroe, C., Majumder, P., …Townsend, E. (2017). A sequence analysis of patterns in self-harm in young people with and without experience of being looked-after in care. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(4), 388-407. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12145

Objectives: Young people in the public care system (‘looked-after’ young people) have high levels of self-harm. Design: This paper reports the first detailed study of factors leading to self-harm over time in looked-after young people in England, usi... Read More about A sequence analysis of patterns in self-harm in young people with and without experience of being looked-after in care.

A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture (2017)
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Burdett, E. R. R., Dean, L. G., & Ronfard, S. (2018). A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 9(4), 807-818. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-017-0345-4

© 2017, The Author(s). Human culture is uniquely complex compared to other species. This complexity stems from the accumulation of culture over time through high- and low-fidelity transmission and innovation. One possible reason for why humans retain... Read More about A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture.

Does gratitude enhance prosociality: a meta-analytic review (2017)
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Ma, L., Tunney, R. J., & Ferguson, E. (2017). Does gratitude enhance prosociality: a meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 143(6), 601-635. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000103

Theoretical models suggest that gratitude is linked to increased prosociality. To date, however, there is a lack of a comprehensive quantitative synthesis of results to support this claim. In this review we aimed to 1) examine the overall strength of... Read More about Does gratitude enhance prosociality: a meta-analytic review.

Scopolamine impairs appetitive but not aversive trace conditioning: role of the medial prefrontal cortex (2017)
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Pezze, M. A., Marshall, H. J., & Cassaday, H. J. (2017). Scopolamine impairs appetitive but not aversive trace conditioning: role of the medial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(26), https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3308-16.2017

The muscarinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptor is an important modulator of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) functions, such as the working memory required to bridge a trace interval in associative leaning. Aversive and appetitive trace conditioning proc... Read More about Scopolamine impairs appetitive but not aversive trace conditioning: role of the medial prefrontal cortex.

Functional coping dynamics and experiential avoidance in a community sample with no self-injury vs. non-suicidal self-injury only vs. those with both non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviour (2017)
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Nielsen, E., Sayal, K., & Townsend, E. (2017). Functional coping dynamics and experiential avoidance in a community sample with no self-injury vs. non-suicidal self-injury only vs. those with both non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviour. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(6), Article 575. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14060575

Although emotional avoidance may be a critical factor in the pathway from psychological distress to self-injury and/or suicidality, little is known about the relative importance of differing functional coping dynamics and experiential avoidance betwe... Read More about Functional coping dynamics and experiential avoidance in a community sample with no self-injury vs. non-suicidal self-injury only vs. those with both non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviour.

Measuring nonlinear signal combination using EEG (2017)
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Cunningham, D. G., Baker, D. H., & Peirce, J. W. (2017). Measuring nonlinear signal combination using EEG. Journal of Vision, 17(5), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1167/17.5.10

Relatively little is known about the processes, both linear and nonlinear, by which signals are combined beyond V1. By presenting two stimulus components simultaneously, flickering at different temporal frequencies (frequency tagging) while measuring... Read More about Measuring nonlinear signal combination using EEG.

Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER (2017)
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Chen, C., Sigurdsson, H. P., Pépés, S. E., Auer, D. P., Morris, P. G., Morgan, P. S., …Jackson, S. R. (2017). Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER. NeuroImage, 156, 207-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.05.044

Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fMRS) has been used to assess the dynamic metabolic responses of the brain to a physiological stimulus non-invasively. However, only limited information on the dynamic functional response of γ-aminobutyric... Read More about Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER.

Seven- to 11-year-olds’ developing ability to recognize natural facial expressions of basic emotions (2017)
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Lang, K., Anthoney, L., & Mitchell, P. (in press). Seven- to 11-year-olds’ developing ability to recognize natural facial expressions of basic emotions. Perception, 46(9), https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006617709674

Being able to recognize facial expressions of basic emotions is of great importance to social development. However, we still know surprisingly little about children’s developing ability to interpret emotions that are expressed dynamically, naturally... Read More about Seven- to 11-year-olds’ developing ability to recognize natural facial expressions of basic emotions.

Safety culture: the Nottingham Veterinary Safety Culture Survey (NVSCS) (2017)
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Oxtoby, C., Mossop, L., White, K., & Ferguson, E. (2017). Safety culture: the Nottingham Veterinary Safety Culture Survey (NVSCS). Veterinary Record, 180(19), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104215

Safety culture is a vital concept in human healthcare because of its influence on staff behaviours in relation to patient safety. Understanding safety culture is essential to ensure the acceptance and sustainability of changes, such as the introducti... Read More about Safety culture: the Nottingham Veterinary Safety Culture Survey (NVSCS).

Criteria for conceptualizing behavioral addiction should be informed by the underlying behavioral mechanism (2017)
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Tunney, R. J., & James, R. J. (2017). Criteria for conceptualizing behavioral addiction should be informed by the underlying behavioral mechanism. Addiction, 112(10), 1720-1721. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13831

The criteria used to determine a behavioral addiction should be based on an understanding of the underlying psychological mechanisms. This should include an analysis of whether the behavior itself has psychological features that might externally dete... Read More about Criteria for conceptualizing behavioral addiction should be informed by the underlying behavioral mechanism.

Cognitive deficits caused by prefrontal cortical and hippocampal neural disinhibition (2017)
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Bast, T., Pezze, M., & McGarrity, S. (2017). Cognitive deficits caused by prefrontal cortical and hippocampal neural disinhibition. British Journal of Pharmacology, 174(19), 3211-3225. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.13850

We review recent evidence concerning the significance of inhibitory GABA transmission and of neural disinhibition, i.e. deficient GABA transmission, within prefrontal cortex and hippocampus for clinically relevant cognitive functions. Both regions su... Read More about Cognitive deficits caused by prefrontal cortical and hippocampal neural disinhibition.

Emotional arousal impairs association-memory: Roles of amygdala and hippocampus (2017)
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Madan, C. R., Fujiwara, E., Caplan, J. B., & Sommer, T. (2017). Emotional arousal impairs association-memory: Roles of amygdala and hippocampus. NeuroImage, 156, 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.065

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Emotional arousal is well-known to enhance memory for individual items or events, whereas it can impair association memory. The neural mechanism of this association memory impairment by emotion is not known: In response to emotio... Read More about Emotional arousal impairs association-memory: Roles of amygdala and hippocampus.

The effect of visual, spatial and temporal manipulations on embodiment and action (2017)
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Ratcliffe, N., & Newport, R. (in press). The effect of visual, spatial and temporal manipulations on embodiment and action. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00227

The feeling of owning and controlling the body relies on the integration and interpretation of sensory input from multiple sources with respect to existing representations of the bodily self. Illusion paradigms involving multisensory manipulations ha... Read More about The effect of visual, spatial and temporal manipulations on embodiment and action.

A Normalization Mechanism for Estimating Visual Motion across Speeds and Scales (2017)
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Gekas, N., Meso, A. I., Masson, G. S., & Mamassian, P. (2017). A Normalization Mechanism for Estimating Visual Motion across Speeds and Scales. Current Biology, 27(10), 1514-1520.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.022

Interacting with the natural environment leads to complex stimulations of our senses. Here we focus on the estimation of visual speed, a critical source of information for the survival of many animal species as they monitor moving prey or approaching... Read More about A Normalization Mechanism for Estimating Visual Motion across Speeds and Scales.