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View preference in urban environments (2020)
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With people spending up to 90% of their time in indoor spaces, windows and the visual connection that they afford to the outside, can play an important role in ensuring physical and psychological well-being. This is particularly relevant in urban set... Read More about View preference in urban environments.

Motivators of and barriers to becoming a COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor: A survey study (2020)
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Objectives: To determine the motivators and barriers to COVID-19 convalescent plasma donation by those in the United Kingdom who have been diagnosed with or who have had symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) but who have not donated. Background: Convales... Read More about Motivators of and barriers to becoming a COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor: A survey study.

What young people say about impulsivity in the short-term build up to self-harm: A qualitative study using card-sort tasks (2020)
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Youth who self-harm report high levels of trait impulsivity and identify impulsive behaviour as a proximal factor directly preceding a self-harm act. Yet, impulsivity is a multidimensional construct and distinct impulsivity-related facets relate diff... Read More about What young people say about impulsivity in the short-term build up to self-harm: A qualitative study using card-sort tasks.

Discrimination, HIV conspiracy theories and pre-exposure prophylaxis acceptability in gay men (2020)
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Background: Combination prevention, which includes pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), is essential for achieving the zero HIV infections target in the UK by 2030. It is important to assess attitudes towards PrEP in at-risk populations. This study focus... Read More about Discrimination, HIV conspiracy theories and pre-exposure prophylaxis acceptability in gay men.

Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task (2020)
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Humans are distinctive in their dependence upon products of culture for survival, products that have evolved cumulatively over generations such that many cannot now be created by a single individual. Why the cultural capacity of humans appears unriva... Read More about Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task.

The interrelationship between the face and vocal tract configuration during audiovisual speech (2020)
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It is well established that speech perception is improved when we are able to see the speaker talking along with hearing their voice, especially when the speech is noisy. While we have a good understanding of where speech integration occurs in the br... Read More about The interrelationship between the face and vocal tract configuration during audiovisual speech.

Understanding farmers' naturalistic decision making around prophylactic antibiotic use in lambs using a grounded theory and natural language processing approach (2020)
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The routine use of antibiotics for prevention of disease in neonatal lambs has been highlighted as inappropriate, yet research suggests that many farmers in the UK still carry out this practice. The aim of the study was to understand farmers' natural... Read More about Understanding farmers' naturalistic decision making around prophylactic antibiotic use in lambs using a grounded theory and natural language processing approach.

Deliberate Practice in Simulation-Based Surgical Skills Training: A Scoping Review (2020)
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BACKGROUND: In recent years there has been a shift from traditional Halstedian methods toward more simulation-based medical education (SBME) for developing surgical skills. Questions remain about the role and value of SBME, although feedback and enga... Read More about Deliberate Practice in Simulation-Based Surgical Skills Training: A Scoping Review.

White matter hyperintensities at critical crossroads for executive function and verbal abilities in small vessel disease (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. The presence of white matter lesions in patients with cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is among the main causes of cognitive decline. We investigated the relation between... Read More about White matter hyperintensities at critical crossroads for executive function and verbal abilities in small vessel disease.

Age?related decrements in cortical gyrification: Evidence from an accelerated longitudinal dataset (2020)
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Cortical gyrification has been found to decrease due to aging, but thus far this has only been examined in cross‐sectional samples. Interestingly, the topography of these age‐related differences in gyrification follows a distinct gradient along the c... Read More about Age?related decrements in cortical gyrification: Evidence from an accelerated longitudinal dataset.

Electro-physiology Models of Cells with Spherical Geometry with Non-conducting Center (2020)
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We study the flow of electrical currents in spherical cells with a non-conducting core, so that current flow is restricted to a thin shell below the cell’s membrane. Examples of such cells are fat storing cells (adipocytes). We derive the relation be... Read More about Electro-physiology Models of Cells with Spherical Geometry with Non-conducting Center.

Editorial: Human-Nature Interactions: Perspectives on Conceptual and Methodological Issues (2020)
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Structural complexity is negatively associated with brain activity: a novel multimodal test of compensation theories of aging (2020)
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Fractal dimensionality (FD) measures the complexity within the folds and ridges of cortical and subcortical structures. We tested the degree that FD might provide a new perspective on the atrophy-compensation hypothesis: age or disease-related atroph... Read More about Structural complexity is negatively associated with brain activity: a novel multimodal test of compensation theories of aging.

Muscimol-induced inactivation of the anterior cingulate cortex does not impair trace fear conditioning in the rat (2020)
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Previous studies suggest that trace conditioning depends on the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). To examine the role of ACC in trace fear conditioning further, 48 rats were surgically prepared for infusion with saline or 62.5 or 125 µg/side muscimol... Read More about Muscimol-induced inactivation of the anterior cingulate cortex does not impair trace fear conditioning in the rat.

No Excess of Mathematics Anxiety in Adolescents Born Very Preterm (2020)
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Objective: To assess whether adolescents born very preterm (VP; [less than] 32 weeks' gestation) have an excess of mathematics anxiety compared with their classmates born at term. Methods: This cohort study included 127 adolescents born VP (51... Read More about No Excess of Mathematics Anxiety in Adolescents Born Very Preterm.

A data-driven characterisation of natural facial expressions when giving good and bad news (2020)
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Facial expressions carry key information about an individual’s emotional state. Research into the perception of facial emotions typically employs static images of a small number of artificially posed expressions taken under tightly controlled experim... Read More about A data-driven characterisation of natural facial expressions when giving good and bad news.

Neurotype-Matching, but Not Being Autistic, Influences Self and Observer Ratings of Interpersonal Rapport (2020)
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The Double Empathy Problem suggests that communicative difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people are due to bi-directional differences in communicative style and a reciprocal lack of understanding. If true, there should be increased simil... Read More about Neurotype-Matching, but Not Being Autistic, Influences Self and Observer Ratings of Interpersonal Rapport.

Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study (2020)
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Background: The effects of COVID-19 on the population’s mental health and wellbeing are likely to be profound and long-lasting. Aims: To investigate the trajectory of mental health and wellbeing during the first six weeks of lockdown in adults in... Read More about Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study.

Editorial Into a new decade (2020)
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Exploring word memorability: How well do different word properties explain item free-recall probability? (2020)
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What makes some words more memorable than others? Words can vary in many dimensions, and a variety of lexical, semantic, and affective properties have previously been associated with variability in recall performance. Free recall data were used from... Read More about Exploring word memorability: How well do different word properties explain item free-recall probability?.