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Autism, Attachment, and Alexithymia: Investigating Emoji Comprehension (2022)
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Emoji are often misinterpreted. This study investigated whether individual differences known to impact facial emotion recognition would also affect emoji recognition. Participants completed an online emoji classification task, and then completed ques... Read More about Autism, Attachment, and Alexithymia: Investigating Emoji Comprehension.

The effects of simulated hemianopia on eye movements during text reading (2022)
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Vision loss is a common, devastating complication of cerebral strokes. In some cases the complete contra-lesional visual field is affected, leading to problems with routine tasks and, notably, the ability to read. Although visual information crucial... Read More about The effects of simulated hemianopia on eye movements during text reading.

Endocannabinoid metabolism inhibition has no effect on spontaneous fear recovery or extinction resistance in Lister hooded rats (2022)
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Endocannabinoid transmission is emerging as a target for treating anxiety-related disorders, given its regulation of fear extinction. Boosting anandamide levels via inhibition of its metabolism by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) can enhance extinct... Read More about Endocannabinoid metabolism inhibition has no effect on spontaneous fear recovery or extinction resistance in Lister hooded rats.

T4TE: Team for TMS−EEG to improve reproducibility through an open collaborative initiative (2022)
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Attention and Interhemispheric Communication: Implications for Language Dominance (2022)
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Dominance of the left hemisphere for language processing is a prominent feature of brain organisation. Whereas structural models clarify the functional asymmetry due to direct access to local language circuits, dynamic models propose functional state... Read More about Attention and Interhemispheric Communication: Implications for Language Dominance.

Probable COVID-19 infection is associated with subsequent poorer mental health and greater loneliness in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (2022)
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with psychological distress. In addition to physical effects including fatigue and cognitive impairment, contracting COVID-19 itself may also be related to subsequent negative mental health outcomes. The pres... Read More about Probable COVID-19 infection is associated with subsequent poorer mental health and greater loneliness in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study.

10 Simple Rules for a Supportive Lab Environment (2022)
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The transition to principal investigator (PI), or lab leader, can be challenging, partially due to the need to fulfil new managerial and leadership responsibilities. One key aspect of this role, which is often not explicitly discussed, is creating a... Read More about 10 Simple Rules for a Supportive Lab Environment.

How multiple threats to safety affects quality of life for picky eating adults: A new explanatory model (2022)
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Picky eating describes a pattern of eating characterised by a narrow dietary range with rejection of both novel and familiar foods. Research has suggested that picky eating in adulthood is associated with several negative psychosocial outcomes includ... Read More about How multiple threats to safety affects quality of life for picky eating adults: A new explanatory model.

Cross-cultural effects on drivers’ use of explicit and implicit communicative cues to predict intentions of other road users (2022)
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This study explored whether British and Malaysian drivers differ in their use of explicit (turn signals) and implicit (e.g., vehicle position, speed) communicative cues when judging the intention of other road users. Participants viewed videoclips of... Read More about Cross-cultural effects on drivers’ use of explicit and implicit communicative cues to predict intentions of other road users.

Task-dependent plasticity in distributed neural circuits after transcranial direct current stimulation of the human motor cortex: A proof-of-concept study (2022)
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The ability of non-invasive brain stimulation to induce neuroplasticity and cause long-lasting functional changes is of considerable interest for the reversal of chronic pain and disability. Stimulation of the primary motor cortex (M1) has provided s... Read More about Task-dependent plasticity in distributed neural circuits after transcranial direct current stimulation of the human motor cortex: A proof-of-concept study.

Assessing the factors that influence the donation of a deceased family member's organs in an opt-out system for organ donation (2022)
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Rationale: Family, and sometimes longstanding friends, have considerable influence over organ donation, through agreeing or disagreeing to the donation of a deceased individual’s organs. To date, most research has been undertaken within opt-in system... Read More about Assessing the factors that influence the donation of a deceased family member's organs in an opt-out system for organ donation.

Climate justice is social justice in the Global South (2022)
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Non-suicidal self-injury and its relation to suicide through acquired capability: investigating this causal mechanism in a mainly late-diagnosed autistic sample (2022)
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Background Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been linked with a higher risk of suicide attempts in autistic and non-autistic people. In the general population, NSSI may confer acquired capability for suicide by eroding one’s fear and avoidance of... Read More about Non-suicidal self-injury and its relation to suicide through acquired capability: investigating this causal mechanism in a mainly late-diagnosed autistic sample.

Inventing and Reinventing the Cog: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions” (2022)
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Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety (2022)
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Background: Men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) have been deferred from donating blood. However, recent evidence supports the adoption of donor screening based on individuals' sexual behavior over population-based criteria. We explore how best to frame c... Read More about Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety.

Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model (2022)
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Phenomena such as engagement, attention and curiosity rely heavily on the “optimal-level of stimulation (or arousal)” model, which suggests they are driven by stimuli being neither too simple nor too complex. Two points often overlooked in psychology... Read More about Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model.

Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body (2022)
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Aim Recent evidence suggests that the body image disturbance often observed in patients with anorexia nervosa also extends to the body schema. According to the embodiment approach, the body schema is not only involved in motor execution, but also in... Read More about Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body.

Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out (2022)
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When deciding between different courses of action, both the potential outcomes and the costs of making a choice should be considered. These costs include the cognitive and physical effort of the different options. In many decision contexts, the outco... Read More about Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out.

Non-invasive brain stimulation modulates GABAergic activity in neurofibromatosis 1 (2022)
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Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a single-gene disorder associated with cognitive phenotypes common to neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism. GABAergic dysregulation underlies working memory impairments seen in NF1. This mechanistic experimental s... Read More about Non-invasive brain stimulation modulates GABAergic activity in neurofibromatosis 1.

Effects of face repetition on ventral visual stream connectivity using dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data (2022)
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Stimulus repetition normally causes reduced neural activity in brain regions that process that stimulus. Some theories claim that this “repetition suppression” reflects local mechanisms such as neuronal fatigue or sharpening within a region, whereas... Read More about Effects of face repetition on ventral visual stream connectivity using dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data.