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Prefrontal cortex activation and young driver behaviour: a fNIRS study (2016)
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Road traffic accidents consistently show a significant over-representation for young, novice and particularly male drivers. This research examines the prefrontal cortex activation of young drivers and the changes in activation associated with manipul... Read More about Prefrontal cortex activation and young driver behaviour: a fNIRS study.

Involvement of human primary somatosensory cortex in vibrotactile detection depends on task demand (2016)
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Detecting and discriminating sensory stimuli are fundamental functions of the nervous system. Electrophysiological and lesion studies suggest that macaque primary somatosensory cortex (SI) is critically involved in discriminating between stimuli, but... Read More about Involvement of human primary somatosensory cortex in vibrotactile detection depends on task demand.

Difficulties predicting time-to-arrival in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (2016)
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Background: Previous research suggests people with ASD may have various difficulties in processing and interacting with motion in the environment. We investigated whether individuals with ASD have difficulty judging the location of moving objects i... Read More about Difficulties predicting time-to-arrival in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults (2016)
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Background: Self-harm (SH; intentional self-poisoning or self-injury) is common, often repeated, and associated with suicide. This is an update of a broader Cochrane review first published in 1998, previously updated in 1999, and now split into three... Read More about Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults.

Fine motor skills predict maths ability better than they predict reading ability in the early primary school years (2016)
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Fine motor skills have long been recognised as an important foundation for development in other domains. However, more precise insights into the role of fine motor skills, and their relationships to other skills in mediating early educational achieve... Read More about Fine motor skills predict maths ability better than they predict reading ability in the early primary school years.

Central perimetric sensitivity estimates are directly influenced by the fixation target (2016)
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Purpose: Perimetry is increasingly being used to measure sensitivity at central visual field locations. For many tasks, the central (0°, 0°) location is functionally the most important, however threshold estimates at this location may be affected by... Read More about Central perimetric sensitivity estimates are directly influenced by the fixation target.

The effects of taboo-related distraction on driving performance (2016)
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Roadside billboards containing negative and positive emotional content have been shown to influence driving performance, however, the impact of highly arousing taboo information is unknown. Taboo information more reliably evokes emotional arousal and... Read More about The effects of taboo-related distraction on driving performance.

Judging the morality of utilitarian actions: How poor utilitarian accessibility makes judges irrational (2016)
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Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral dilemmas in psychology, experimental philosophy, and neuropsychology has shown that respondents judge utilitarian personal moral actions (footbridge d... Read More about Judging the morality of utilitarian actions: How poor utilitarian accessibility makes judges irrational.

Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability (2016)
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Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive personality change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-samp... Read More about Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability.

Intervening to change behaviour and save energy in the workplace: a systematic review of available evidence (2016)
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Workplaces worldwide are a major source of carbon emissions and changing energy use behaviour in these environments has the capacity for large carbon savings. This paper reviews and synthesises empirical evidence to identify what types of behaviour c... Read More about Intervening to change behaviour and save energy in the workplace: a systematic review of available evidence.

Feature-Based Change Detection Reveals Inconsistent Individual Differences in Visual Working Memory Capacity (2016)
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Perceptual learning shapes multisensory causal inference via two distinct mechanisms (2016)
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To accurately represent the environment, our brains must integrate sensory signals from a common source while segregating those from independent sources. A reasonable strategy for performing this task is to restrict integration to cues that coincide... Read More about Perceptual learning shapes multisensory causal inference via two distinct mechanisms.

Cortical complexity as a measure of age-related brain atrophy (2016)
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© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The structure of the human brain changes in a variety of ways as we age. While a sizeable literature has examined age-related differences in cortical thickness, and to a lesser degree, gyrification, here we examined differences i... Read More about Cortical complexity as a measure of age-related brain atrophy.

Sociodemographic predictors of latent class membership of problematic and disordered gamblers (2016)
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This paper reports a series of analyses examining the predictors of gambling subtypes identified from a latent class analysis of problem gambling assessment data, pooled from four health and gambling surveys conducted in Britain between 2007 and 2012... Read More about Sociodemographic predictors of latent class membership of problematic and disordered gamblers.

Gender influences on brain responses to errors and post-error adjustments (2016)
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Sexual dimorphisms have been observed in many species, including humans, and extend to the prevalence and presentation of important mental disorders associated with performance monitoring malfunctions. However, precisely which underlying differences... Read More about Gender influences on brain responses to errors and post-error adjustments.

Modulation of post-movement beta rebound by contraction force and rate of force development (2016)
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Movement induced modulation of the beta rhythm is one of the most robust neural oscillatory phenomena in the brain. In the preparation and execution phases of movement, a loss in beta amplitude is observed (movement related beta decrease (MRBD)). Thi... Read More about Modulation of post-movement beta rebound by contraction force and rate of force development.

Commentary: A construct divided: prosocial behavior as helping, sharing, and comforting subtypes (2016)
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Mouse and human genetic analyses associate Kalirin with ventral striatal activation during impulsivity and with alcohol misuse (2016)
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Impulsivity is associated with a spectrum of psychiatric disorders including drug addiction. To investigate genetic associations with impulsivity and initiation of drug taking, we took a two-step approach. First, we identified genes whose expression... Read More about Mouse and human genetic analyses associate Kalirin with ventral striatal activation during impulsivity and with alcohol misuse.

Potentiation rather than distraction in a trace fear conditioning procedure (2016)
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Trace conditioning procedures are defined by the introduction of a trace interval between conditioned stimulus (CS, e.g. noise or light) offset and unconditioned stimulus (US, e.g. footshock). The introduction of an additional stimulus as a distracto... Read More about Potentiation rather than distraction in a trace fear conditioning procedure.

Epidemiology and trends in non-fatal self-harm in three centres in England, 2000–2012: findings from the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England (2016)
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Objectives: Self-harm is a major health problem in many countries, with potential adverse outcomes including suicide and other causes of premature death. It is important to monitor national trends in this behaviour. We examined trends in non-fatal se... Read More about Epidemiology and trends in non-fatal self-harm in three centres in England, 2000–2012: findings from the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England.