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Lateralized occipito-temporal N1 responses to images of salient distorted finger postures (2017)
Journal Article
Santo, M. G. E., Chen, H., & Schürmann, M. (in press). Lateralized occipito-temporal N1 responses to images of salient distorted finger postures. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 14129. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14474-x

For humans as social beings, other people’s hands are highly visually conspicuous. Exceptionally striking are hands in other than natural configuration which have been found to elicit distinct brain activation. Here we studied response strength and l... Read More about Lateralized occipito-temporal N1 responses to images of salient distorted finger postures.

Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning (2017)
Journal Article
Smalle, E. H., Panouilleres, M., Szmalec, A., & Möttönen, R. (in press). Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 13966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14547-x

Adults do not learn languages as easily as children do. It has been hypothesized that the late-developing prefrontal cortex that supports executive functions competes with procedural learning mechanisms that are important for language learning. To ad... Read More about Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning.

Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children (2017)
Journal Article
McGuigan, N., Burdett, E., Burgess, V., Dean, L., Lucas, A., Vale, G., & Whiten, A. (2017). Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735), Article 20160425. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0425

© 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. The experimental study of cumulative culture and the innovations essential to it is a young science, with child studies so rare that the scope of cumulative cultural capacities... Read More about Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children.

Motivated cognition: effects of reward, emotion, and other motivational factors across a variety of cognitive domains (2017)
Journal Article
Madan, C. R. (2017). Motivated cognition: effects of reward, emotion, and other motivational factors across a variety of cognitive domains. Collabra: Psychology, 3(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.111

A growing body of literature has demonstrated that motivation influences cognitive processing. The breadth of these effects is extensive and span influences of reward, emotion, and other motivational processes across all cognitive domains. As example... Read More about Motivated cognition: effects of reward, emotion, and other motivational factors across a variety of cognitive domains.

Exploring thematic nightmare content and associated self-harm risk (2017)
Journal Article
Hochard, K. D., Ashcroft, S., Carroll, J., Heym, N., & Townsend, E. (2019). Exploring thematic nightmare content and associated self-harm risk. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 49(1), 64-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12402

Nightmares have been shown to be robust predictors of self-harm risk, beyond depressive symptoms and hopelessness at times. However, few studies have investigated associations between nightmare content and increased self-harm risk. The present study... Read More about Exploring thematic nightmare content and associated self-harm risk.

New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders (2017)
Journal Article
Johnston, R., Pitchford, N. J., Roach, N. W., & Ledgeway, T. (2017). New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.09.031

A selective deficit in processing the global (overall) motion, but not form, of spatially extensive objects in the visual scene is frequently associated with several neurodevelopmental disorders, including preterm birth. Existing theories that propos... Read More about New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Noncontact measurement of emotional and physiological changes in heart rate from a webcam (2017)
Journal Article
Madan, C. R., Harrison, T., & Mathewson, K. E. (2018). Noncontact measurement of emotional and physiological changes in heart rate from a webcam. Psychophysiology, 55(4), e13005. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13005

© 2017 Society for Psychophysiological Research Heart rate, measured in beats per minute, can be used as an index of an individual's physiological state. Each time the heart beats, blood is expelled and travels through the body. This blood flow can b... Read More about Noncontact measurement of emotional and physiological changes in heart rate from a webcam.

Risk preferences in surrogate decision making (2017)
Journal Article
Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., & Tunney, R. J. (in press). Risk preferences in surrogate decision making. Experimental Psychology, 64(4), https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000371

There is growing evidence that decisions made on behalf of other people differ from the decisions we make for ourselves because we are less affected by the subjective experience of their outcome. As a result, the decisions we make for other people ca... Read More about Risk preferences in surrogate decision making.

N1 responses to images of hands in occipito-temporal event-related potentials (2017)
Journal Article
Espírito Santo, M. G., Maxim, O. S., & Schürmann, M. (2017). N1 responses to images of hands in occipito-temporal event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia, 106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.09.012

Hands, much like faces, convey social information, instructions and intentions to an observer. While the neural processes of face perception have been widely studied, it was only recently that fMRI identified occipito-temporal areas sensitive to stat... Read More about N1 responses to images of hands in occipito-temporal event-related potentials.

Models of Neural Homeostasis (2017)
Book Chapter
Toutounji, H. (2017). Models of Neural Homeostasis. In A. A. Moustafa (Ed.), Computational Models of Brain and Behavior (257-269). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119159193.ch19

Neurons can regulate their own excitability, either by modulating synaptic drive, or by adapting the somatic apparatus of spike generation. These homeostatic processes are thought to keep neural activity within healthy limits, and to stabilize the He... Read More about Models of Neural Homeostasis.

Structural and functional correlates for language efficiency in auditory word processing (2017)
Journal Article
Jung, J., Kim, S., Cho, H., & Nam, K. (2017). Structural and functional correlates for language efficiency in auditory word processing. PLoS ONE, 12(9), Article e0184232. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184232

© 2017 Jung et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credi... Read More about Structural and functional correlates for language efficiency in auditory word processing.

Thinking for themselves?: the effect of informant independence on children’s endorsement of testimony from a consensus (2017)
Journal Article
Einav, S. (2018). Thinking for themselves?: the effect of informant independence on children’s endorsement of testimony from a consensus. Social Development, 27(1), 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12264

Testimony agreement across a number of people can be a reassuring sign of a claim’s reliability. However, reliability may be undermined if informants do not respond independently. In this case, social consensus may be a result of indiscriminate copyi... Read More about Thinking for themselves?: the effect of informant independence on children’s endorsement of testimony from a consensus.

Experience of self-harm and its treatment in looked-after young people: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Wadman, R., Armstrong, M., Clarke, D., Harroe, C., Majumder, P., Sayal, K., …Townsend, E. (in press). Experience of self-harm and its treatment in looked-after young people: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Archives of Suicide Research, 22(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2017.1355286

Objectives: We report the first Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis examination of self-harm and experience of clinical services in young people in the public care system. Methods: Qualitative interviews with 24 looked-after young people. Result... Read More about Experience of self-harm and its treatment in looked-after young people: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning (2017)
Journal Article
Brown, B. J., Kim, S., Saunders, H., Bachmann, C., Thompson, J., Ropar, D., …Jackson, G. M. (2017). A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning. Current Biology, 27(17), 2713-2717.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.062

Contagious yawning, in which yawning is triggered involuntarily when we observe another person yawn, is a common form of echophenomena—the automatic imitation of another’s words (echolalia) or actions (echopraxia) [1]. The neural basis for echophenom... Read More about A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning.

Public prioritisation of energy affordability in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Demski, C., Evensen, D., Pidgeon, N., & Spence, A. (2017). Public prioritisation of energy affordability in the UK. Energy Policy, 110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.08.044

Much research has focused on the so-called ‘energy trilemma’ – i.e., three leading energy policy issues: energy security, affordability, and climate change mitigation. Whilst substantial understanding exists of why people support climate-friendly ene... Read More about Public prioritisation of energy affordability in the UK.

Motion-based super-resolution in the peripheral visual field (2017)
Journal Article
Patrick, J. A., Roach, N. W., & McGraw, P. V. (2017). Motion-based super-resolution in the peripheral visual field. Journal of Vision, 17(9), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1167/17.9.15

Improvements in foveal acuity for moving targets have been interpreted as evidence for the ability of the visual system to combine information over space and time, in order to reconstruct the image at a higher resolution (super-resolution). Here, we... Read More about Motion-based super-resolution in the peripheral visual field.

Judging personality from a brief sample of behaviour: detecting where others stand on trait continua (2017)
Journal Article
Wu, W., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (in press). Judging personality from a brief sample of behaviour: detecting where others stand on trait continua. European Journal of Personality, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2116

Trait inferences occur routinely and rapidly during social interaction, sometimes based on scant or fleeting information. In this research, participants (perceivers) made inferences of targets’ big-five traits after briefly watching or listening to a... Read More about Judging personality from a brief sample of behaviour: detecting where others stand on trait continua.

The effect of lighting conditions and use of headlights on drivers’ perception and appraisal of approaching vehicles at junctions (2017)
Journal Article
Lee, Y. M., & Sheppard, E. (2018). The effect of lighting conditions and use of headlights on drivers’ perception and appraisal of approaching vehicles at junctions. Ergonomics, 61(3), 444-455. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2017.1364790

Use of Daytime Running Lights (DRL) is mandatory in many countries for motorcycles, and in some for cars. However, in developing countries DRLs may be optional or compliance low. The effect of car or motorcycle headlights and lighting conditions on M... Read More about The effect of lighting conditions and use of headlights on drivers’ perception and appraisal of approaching vehicles at junctions.

Motor timing and covariation with time perception: investigating the role of handedness (2017)
Journal Article
O’Regan, L., Spapé, M. M., & Serrien, D. J. (2017). Motor timing and covariation with time perception: investigating the role of handedness. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, Article 147. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00147

Time is a fundamental dimension of our behavior and enables us to guide our actions and to experience time such as predicting collisions or listening to music. In this study, we investigate the regulation and covariation of motor timing and time perc... Read More about Motor timing and covariation with time perception: investigating the role of handedness.