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The Effects of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Vaccination Intentions (2014)
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The current studies investigated the potential impact of anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs, and exposure to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, on vaccination intentions. In Study 1, British parents completed a questionnaire measuring beliefs in anti-vac... Read More about The Effects of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Vaccination Intentions.

Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents (2014)
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Despite the recognition that cortical thickness is heritable and correlates with intellectual ability in children and adolescents, the genes contributing to individual differences in these traits remain unknown. We conducted a large-scale association... Read More about Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents.

Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology (2014)
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Background and Objectives While blood donation is traditionally described as a behaviour motivated by pure altruism, the assessment of altruism in the blood donation literature has not been theoretically informed. Drawing on theories of altruism fro... Read More about Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology.

Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm (2014)
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When studying animal behaviour within an open environment, movement-related data are often important for behavioural analyses. Therefore, simple and efficient techniques are needed to present and analyze the data of such movements. However, it is cha... Read More about Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm.

SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English (2014)
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We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based... Read More about SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English.

Developmental Changes in Motor Control: Insights From Bimanual Coordination (2014)
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Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task (2014)
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The watermaze delayed matching-to-place (DMP) task was modified to include probe trials, to quantify search preference for the correct place. Using a zone-analysis of search-preference, a gradual decay of one-trial memory in rats was observed over 24... Read More about Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task.

Understanding teaching assistant self-efficacy in role and in training: its susceptibility to influence (2014)
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There has been a noted growth in the number of teaching assistants (TAs) in mainstream schools (DfE, 2013a). Research is inconclusive about their efficacy at changing outcomes for children (Alborz et al 2009; Blatchford et al, 2009) and has proposed... Read More about Understanding teaching assistant self-efficacy in role and in training: its susceptibility to influence.

Dissociations in the effect of delay on object recognition: evidence for an associative model of recognition memory (2014)
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Rats were administered 3 versions of an object recognition task: In the spontaneous object recognition task (SOR) animals discriminated between a familiar object and a novel object; in the temporal order task they discriminated between 2 familiar obj... Read More about Dissociations in the effect of delay on object recognition: evidence for an associative model of recognition memory.

Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise (2013)
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Two appetitive conditioning experiments with rats investigated the mechanisms and properties of unblocking that results from the surprising omission of an expected post-trial unconditioned stimulus (US). Experiment 1 demonstrated unblocking under cir... Read More about Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise.

Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task (2013)
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Despite the compelling contribution of the study of event related potentials (ERPs) and eye movements to cognitive neuroscience, these two approaches have largely evolved independently. We designed an eye-movement visual search paradigm that allowed... Read More about Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task.

Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response? (2013)
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Can adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) infer what happened to someone from their emotional response? Millikan has argued that in everyday life, others' emotions are most commonly used to work out the antecedents of behavior, an ability terme... Read More about Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response?.

Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome (2013)
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Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the occurrence of motor and vocal tics. TS has been linked to the impaired operation of cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuits that give rise to hyper-excitability of cort... Read More about Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome.

Visual motion integration is mediated by directional ambiguities in local motion signals (2013)
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The output of primary visual cortex (V1) is a piecemeal representation of the visual scene and the response of any one cell cannot unambiguously guide sensorimotor behavior. It remains unsolved how subsequent stages of cortical processing combine (“p... Read More about Visual motion integration is mediated by directional ambiguities in local motion signals.

Self-Related Consequences of Death Fear and Death Denial (2013)
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This study explores self-related outcomes (e.g., esteem, self-concept clarity, existential well-being) as a function of the interaction between self-reported levels of death fear and death denial. Consistent with the idea that positive existential gr... Read More about Self-Related Consequences of Death Fear and Death Denial.

Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning (2013)
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Studies in rats, involving hippocampal lesions and hippocampal drug infusions, have implicated the hippocampus in the modulation of anxiety-related behaviors and conditioned fear. The ventral hippocampus is considered to be more important for anxiety... Read More about Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning.

Cortical thickness, cortical and subcortical volume, and white matter integrity in patients with their first episode of major depression (2013)
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Background The uncertainty over the true morphological changes in brains with major depressive disorder (MDD) underlines the necessity of comprehensive studies with multimodal structural brain imaging analyses. This study aimed to evaluate the dif... Read More about Cortical thickness, cortical and subcortical volume, and white matter integrity in patients with their first episode of major depression.

Oxytocin Receptor Genotype Modulates Ventral Striatal Activity to Social Cues and Response to Stressful Life Events (2013)
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Background Common variants in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) have been shown to influence social and affective behavior and to moderate the effect of adverse experiences on risk for social-affective problems. However, the intermediate neurobiologi... Read More about Oxytocin Receptor Genotype Modulates Ventral Striatal Activity to Social Cues and Response to Stressful Life Events.

Learning on the IGT follows emergence of knowledge but not differential somatic activity (2013)
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The importance of unconscious autonomic activity vs. knowledge in influencing behavior on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has been the subject of debate. The task's developers, Bechara and colleagues, have claimed that behavior on the IGT is influenced... Read More about Learning on the IGT follows emergence of knowledge but not differential somatic activity.

Risk Prediction Error Coding in Orbitofrontal Neurons (2013)
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Risk is a ubiquitous feature of life. It plays an important role in economic decisions by affecting subjective reward value. Informed decisions require accurate risk information for each choice option. However, risk is often not constant but changes... Read More about Risk Prediction Error Coding in Orbitofrontal Neurons.