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Social seeking declines in young adolescents (2017)
Journal Article

The desire to engage with others is an important motivational force throughout our lifespan. It is known that social behaviour and preferences change from childhood to adulthood, but whether this change is linked with any changes in social motivation... Read More about Social seeking declines in young adolescents.

Advances in Studying Brain Morphology: The Benefits of Open-Access Data (2017)
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Until recently, neuroimaging data for a research study needed to be collected within one’s own lab. However, when studying inter-individual differences in brain structure, a large sample of participants is necessary. Given the financial costs involve... Read More about Advances in Studying Brain Morphology: The Benefits of Open-Access Data.

Translating advances in the molecular basis of schizophrenia into novel cognitive treatment strategies (2017)
Journal Article

The presence and severity of cognitive symptoms, including working memory, executive dysfunction and attentional impairment, contributes materially to functional impairment in schizophrenia. Cognitive symptoms have proven resistant to both first- and... Read More about Translating advances in the molecular basis of schizophrenia into novel cognitive treatment strategies.

Distractor-resistant short-term memory is supported by transient changes in neural stimulus representations (2017)
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Goal-directed behavior in a complex world requires the maintenance of goal-relevant information despite multiple sources of distraction. However, the brain mechanisms underlying distractor-resistant working or short-term memory (STM) are not fully un... Read More about Distractor-resistant short-term memory is supported by transient changes in neural stimulus representations.

Visual perception in dyslexia is limited by sub-optimal scale selection (2017)
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Readers with dyslexia are purported to have a selective visual impairment but the underlying nature of the deficit remains elusive. Here, we used a combination of behavioural psychophysics and biologically-motivated computational modeling to investig... Read More about Visual perception in dyslexia is limited by sub-optimal scale selection.

Handedness effects of imagined fine motor movements (2017)
Journal Article

Previous studies of movement imagery have found inter-individual differences in the ability to imagine whole-body movements. The majority of these studies have used subjective scales to measure imagery ability, which may be confounded by other factor... Read More about Handedness effects of imagined fine motor movements.

Abnormal clock gene expression and locomotor activity rhythms in two month-old female APPSwe/PS1dE9 mice (2017)
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In addition to cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is also characterized by agitation and disruptions in activity and sleep. These symptoms typically occur in the evening or at night and have been referred to as ‘sundowning’. These symptoms a... Read More about Abnormal clock gene expression and locomotor activity rhythms in two month-old female APPSwe/PS1dE9 mice.

Temporal order judgements of dynamic gaze stimuli reveal a postdictive prioritisation of averted over direct shifts (2017)
Journal Article

We studied temporal order judgements (TOJs) of gaze shift behaviours and evaluated the impact of gaze direction (direct and averted gaze) and face context information (both eyes set within a single face or each eye within two adjacent hemifaces) on T... Read More about Temporal order judgements of dynamic gaze stimuli reveal a postdictive prioritisation of averted over direct shifts.

The integration of occlusion and disparity information for judging depth in autism spectrum disorder (2017)
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In autism spectrum disorder (ASD), atypical integration of visual depth cues may be due to flattened perceptual priors or selective fusion. The current study attempts to disentangle these explanations by psychophysically assessing within-modality int... Read More about The integration of occlusion and disparity information for judging depth in autism spectrum disorder.

Microstructural abnormalities in white and gray matter in obese adolescents with and without type 2 diabetes (2017)
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Aims/hypotheses. In adults, type 2 diabetes and obesity have been associated with structural brain changes, even in the absence of dementia. Some evidence suggested similar changes in adolescents with type 2 diabetes but comparisons with a non-obese... Read More about Microstructural abnormalities in white and gray matter in obese adolescents with and without type 2 diabetes.

Prevention is better than cure: Addressing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories (2017)
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The current research tested if explicit anti?conspiracy arguments could be an effective method of addressing the potentially harmful effects of anti?vaccine conspiracy theories. In two studies, participants were presented with anti?conspiracy argumen... Read More about Prevention is better than cure: Addressing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

Perspective effects during reading: evidence from text change-detection (2017)
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We report two text change-detection studies in which we investigate the influence of reading perspective on text memory. In Experiment 1, participants read from the perspective of one of two characters in a series of short stories, and word changes w... Read More about Perspective effects during reading: evidence from text change-detection.

The contribution of nonrigid motion and shape information to object perception in pigeons and humans (2017)
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The ability to perceive and recognize objects is essential to many animals, including humans. Until recently, models of object recognition have primarily focused on static cues, such as shape, but more recent research is beginning to show that motion... Read More about The contribution of nonrigid motion and shape information to object perception in pigeons and humans.

Extraction of synaptic input properties in vivo (2017)
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Knowledge of synaptic input is crucial for understanding synaptic integration and ultimately neural function. However, in vivo, the rates at which synaptic inputs arrive are high, so that it is typically impossible to detect single events. We show he... Read More about Extraction of synaptic input properties in vivo.

Pupil response hazard rates predict perceived gaze durations (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s). We investigated the mechanisms for evaluating perceived gaze-shift duration. Timing relies on the accumulation of endogenous physiological signals. Here we focused on arousal, measured through pupil dilation, as a candidate timi... Read More about Pupil response hazard rates predict perceived gaze durations.

Saving energy in the workplace: why, and for whom? (2017)
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Saving energy at work might be considered altruistic, because often no personal benefits accrue. However, we consider the possibility that it can be a form of impure-altruism in that the individual experiences some rewards. We develop a scale to meas... Read More about Saving energy in the workplace: why, and for whom?.

Learned changes in outcome associability (2017)
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When a cue reliably predicts an outcome, the associability of that cue will change. Associative theories of learning propose this change will persist even when the same cue is paired with a different outcome. These theories, however, do not extend th... Read More about Learned changes in outcome associability.

Role of the anterior cingulate cortex in the retrieval of novel object recognition memory after a long delay (2017)
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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.

Modulating perceptual complexity and load reveals degradation of the visual working memory network in ageing (2017)
Journal Article

Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games (2017)
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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.