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Decoding working memory of stimulus contrast in early visual cortex (2013)
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Xing, Y., Ledgeway, T., McGraw, P. V., & Schluppeck, D. (2013). Decoding working memory of stimulus contrast in early visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(25), https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3754-12.2013

Most studies of the early stages of visual analysis (V1-V3) have focused on the properties of neurons that support processing of elemental features of a visual stimulus or scene, such as local contrast, orientation, or direction of motion. Recent evi... Read More about Decoding working memory of stimulus contrast in early visual cortex.

Probabilistic inference of short-term synaptic plasticity in neocortical microcircuits (2013)
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Costa, R. P., Sjöström, P. J., & van Rossum, M. C. (2013). Probabilistic inference of short-term synaptic plasticity in neocortical microcircuits. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2013.00075

Short-term synaptic plasticity is highly diverse across brain area, cortical layer, cell type, and developmental stage. Since short-term plasticity (STP) strongly shapes neural dynamics, this diversity suggests a specific and essential role in neural... Read More about Probabilistic inference of short-term synaptic plasticity in neocortical microcircuits.

Do personality traits predict individual differences in excitatory and inhibitory learning? (2013)
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He, Z., Cassaday, H. J., Bonardi, C., & Bibby, P. A. (2013). Do personality traits predict individual differences in excitatory and inhibitory learning?. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(245), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00245

Conditioned inhibition (CI) is demonstrated in classical conditioning when a stimulus is used to signal the omission of an otherwise expected outcome. This basic learning ability is involved in a wide range of normal behavior – and thus its disruptio... Read More about Do personality traits predict individual differences in excitatory and inhibitory learning?.

Spatial compression impairs prism adaptation in healthy individuals (2013)
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Scriven, R. J., & Newport, R. (2013). Spatial compression impairs prism adaptation in healthy individuals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, Article 165. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00165

Neglect patients typically present with gross inattention to one side of space following damage to the contralateral hemisphere. While prism-adaptation (PA) is effective in ameliorating some neglect behaviors, the mechanisms involved and their relati... Read More about Spatial compression impairs prism adaptation in healthy individuals.

Incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary through brief multi-modal exposure (2013)
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Bisson, M.-J., van Heuven, W. J., Conklin, K., & Tunney, R. J. (2013). Incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary through brief multi-modal exposure. PLoS ONE, 8(4), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060912

First language acquisition requires relatively little effort compared to foreign language acquisition and happens more naturally through informal learning. Informal exposure can also benefit foreign language learning, although evidence for this has b... Read More about Incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary through brief multi-modal exposure.

Understanding the role of the ‘self’ in the social priming of mimicry (2013)
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Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (2013). Understanding the role of the ‘self’ in the social priming of mimicry. PLoS ONE, 8(4), Article e60249. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060249

People have a tendency to unconsciously mimic other's actions. This mimicry has been regarded as a prosocial response which increases social affiliation. Previous research on social priming of mimicry demonstrated an assimilative relationship between... Read More about Understanding the role of the ‘self’ in the social priming of mimicry.

Regional structural differences across functionally parcellated Brodmann areas of human primary somatosensory cortex (2013)
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Ultra-high-field (UHF) MRI is ideally suited for structural and functional imaging of the brain. High-resolution structural MRI can be used to map the anatomical boundaries between functional domains of the brain by identifying changes related to the... Read More about Regional structural differences across functionally parcellated Brodmann areas of human primary somatosensory cortex.

The timing and magnitude of Stroop interference and facilitation in monolinguals and bilinguals (2013)
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Coderre, E. L., van Heuven, W. J., & Conklin, K. (2013). The timing and magnitude of Stroop interference and facilitation in monolinguals and bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16(Specia), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728912000405

Executive control abilities and lexical access speed in Stroop performance were investigated in English monolinguals and two groups of bilinguals (English–Chinese and Chinese–English) in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Predictions were ba... Read More about The timing and magnitude of Stroop interference and facilitation in monolinguals and bilinguals.

Paradoxical effects of low dose MDMA on latent inhibition in the rat (2013)
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Nelson, A. J., Thur, K. E., Marsden, C., & Cassaday, H. J. (2013). Paradoxical effects of low dose MDMA on latent inhibition in the rat. Neuropharmacology, 67(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.11.012

The cognitive effects of MDMA ('Ecstasy') are controversial, particularly in the case of acute administration of low doses. Latent inhibition (LI) refers to the reduction in conditioning to a stimulus that has received non-reinforced pre-exposure, an... Read More about Paradoxical effects of low dose MDMA on latent inhibition in the rat.

Improved spontaneous object recognition following spaced preexposure trials: evidence for an associative account of recognition memory (2013)
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Whitt, E., & Robinson, J. (2013). Improved spontaneous object recognition following spaced preexposure trials: evidence for an associative account of recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(2), 174-179. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031344

Rodents' biased exploration of a novel object over a familiar object is taken as an indication of recognition memory. According to a general associative model of memory, the biased exploration is a consequence of reduced processing of the familiar ob... Read More about Improved spontaneous object recognition following spaced preexposure trials: evidence for an associative account of recognition memory.

D-amphetamine and antipsychotic drug effects on latent inhibition in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors (2013)
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Bay-Richter, C., O'Callaghan, M., Mathur, N., O'Tuathaigh, C., Heery, D., Fone, K. C., …Moran, P. (in press). D-amphetamine and antipsychotic drug effects on latent inhibition in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38(8), https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2013.50

Drugs that induce psychosis, such as D-amphetamine (AMP), and those that alleviate it, such as antipsychotics, are suggested to exert behavioral effects via dopamine receptor D2 (D2). All antipsychotic drugs are D2 antagonists, but D2 antagonism und... Read More about D-amphetamine and antipsychotic drug effects on latent inhibition in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors.

Luminance cues constrain chromatic blur discrimination in natural scene stimuli (2013)
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Sharman, R. J., McGraw, P. V., & Peirce, J. W. (2013). Luminance cues constrain chromatic blur discrimination in natural scene stimuli. Journal of Vision, 13(4), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1167/13.4.14

Introducing blur into the color components of a natural scene has very little effect on its percept, whereas blur introduced into the luminance component is very noticeable. Here we quantify the dominance of luminance information in blur detection an... Read More about Luminance cues constrain chromatic blur discrimination in natural scene stimuli.

Complexity and specificity of experimentally-induced expectations in motion perception (2013)
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Gekas, N., Chalk, M., Seitz, A. R., & Series, P. (2013). Complexity and specificity of experimentally-induced expectations in motion perception. Journal of Vision, 13(4), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1167/13.4.8

Our perceptions are fundamentally altered by our expectations, i.e., priors about the world. In previous statistical learning experiments (Chalk, Seitz, & Seriès, 2010), we investigated how such priors are formed by presenting subjects with white low... Read More about Complexity and specificity of experimentally-induced expectations in motion perception.

Haemodynamic Responses to Radial Motion in the Visual Cortex (2013)
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Wijeakumar, S., Shahani, U., Simpson, W. A., & McCulloch, D. L. (2013). Haemodynamic Responses to Radial Motion in the Visual Cortex. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 21(4), 231-236. https://doi.org/10.1255/jnirs.1056

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an optical imaging technique that relies on emitting near-infrared light into cortical tissue to measure changes in haemoglobin concentrations as a result of stimulation. The purpose of this study was... Read More about Haemodynamic Responses to Radial Motion in the Visual Cortex.

A Weber-like law for perceptual learning (2013)
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Astle, A. T., Li, R. W., Webb, B. S., Levi, D. M., & McGraw, P. V. (2013). A Weber-like law for perceptual learning. Scientific Reports, 3, Article 1158. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01158

What determines how much an organism can learn? One possibility is that the neural factors that limit sensory performance prior to learning, place an upper limit on the amount of learning that can take place. We tested this idea by comparing learning... Read More about A Weber-like law for perceptual learning.

Noise levels and noise perception from small and micro wind turbines (2013)
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Taylor, J., Eastwick, C., Lawrence, C., & Wilson, R. (in press). Noise levels and noise perception from small and micro wind turbines. Renewable Energy, 55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2012.11.031

Noise concerns frequently pose a barrier to widespread implementation of wind turbines and while the perception of noise from large turbines has been investigated, there is a relative gap in the research for small and micro wind turbines. This paper... Read More about Noise levels and noise perception from small and micro wind turbines.

Feedback inhibition enables theta-nested gamma oscillations and grid firing fields (2013)
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Pastoll, H., Solanka, L., van Rossum, M. C., & Nolan, M. F. (2013). Feedback inhibition enables theta-nested gamma oscillations and grid firing fields. Neuron, 77(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.032

Cortical circuits are thought to multiplex firing rate codes with temporal codes that rely on oscillatory network activity, but the circuit mechanisms that combine these coding schemes are unclear. We establish with optogenetic activation of layer II... Read More about Feedback inhibition enables theta-nested gamma oscillations and grid firing fields.

The social consequences of conspiracism: Exposure to conspiracy theories decreases intentions to engage in politics and to reduce one's carbon footprint (2013)
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Jolley, D., & Douglas, K. M. (2014). The social consequences of conspiracism: Exposure to conspiracy theories decreases intentions to engage in politics and to reduce one's carbon footprint. British Journal of Psychology, 105(1), 35-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12018

The current studies explored the social consequences of exposure to conspiracy theories. In Study 1, participants were exposed to a range of conspiracy theories concerning government involvement in significant events such as the death of Diana, Princ... Read More about The social consequences of conspiracism: Exposure to conspiracy theories decreases intentions to engage in politics and to reduce one's carbon footprint.