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Quantifying numerical and spatial reliability of hippocampal and amygdala subdivisions in FreeSurfer (2023)
Journal Article
Kahhale, I., Buser, N. J., Madan, C. R., & Hanson, J. L. (2023). Quantifying numerical and spatial reliability of hippocampal and amygdala subdivisions in FreeSurfer. Brain Informatics, 10(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40708-023-00189-5

On-going, large-scale neuroimaging initiatives can aid in uncovering neurobiological causes and correlates of poor mental health, disease pathology, and many other important conditions. As projects grow in scale with hundreds, even thousands, of indi... Read More about Quantifying numerical and spatial reliability of hippocampal and amygdala subdivisions in FreeSurfer.

Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
van Rossum, M. C. Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning

The brain is not only constrained by energy needed to fuel computation, but it is also constrained by energy needed to form memories. Experiments have shown that learning simple conditioning tasks already carries a significant metabolic cost. Yet, le... Read More about Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning.

How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report (2023)
Journal Article
Newall, P. W. S., James, R. J., & Maynard, O. M. (2024). How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report. Addiction Research and Theory, 32(1), Article 2195171. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2023.2195171

The provision of information to consumers is a common input to tackling various public health issues. By comparison to the information given on food and alcohol products, information on gambling products is either not given at all, or shown in low-pr... Read More about How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report.

Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China (2023)
Journal Article
Zhu, N., & Filik, R. (2023). Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(3), 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001227

Sarcasm is commonly used in everyday language; however, little is currently known about cultural and individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use, particularly across Western and Eastern cultures. To address these gaps in the literature,... Read More about Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China.

Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills (2023)
Journal Article
Huntington, B., Goulding, J., & Pitchford, N. J. (2023). Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(5), 1273-1291. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13317

Interactive apps are commonly used to support the acquisition of foundational skills. Yet little is known about how pedagogical features of such apps affect learning outcomes, attainment and motivation—particularly when deployed in lower‐income conte... Read More about Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills.

Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pache, A., & Van Rossum, M. Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity

When training neural networks for classification tasks with backpropagation, parameters are updated on every trial, even if the sample is classified correctly. In contrast, humans concentrate their learning effort on errors. Inspired by human learnin... Read More about Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity.

Rule Abstraction Is Facilitated by Auditory Cuing in REM Sleep (2023)
Journal Article
Pereira, S. I. R., Santamaria, L., Andrews, R., Schmidt, E., Van Rossum, M. C., & Lewis, P. (2023). Rule Abstraction Is Facilitated by Auditory Cuing in REM Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(21), 3838-3848. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1966-21.2022

Sleep facilitates abstraction, but the exact mechanisms underpinning this are unknown. Here, we aimed to determine whether triggering reactivation in sleep could facilitate this process. We paired abstraction problems with sounds, then replayed these... Read More about Rule Abstraction Is Facilitated by Auditory Cuing in REM Sleep.

The role of anxiety and depression in suicidal thoughts for autistic and non-autistic people: A theory-driven network analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Pelton, M. K., Crawford, H., Bul, K., Robertson, A. E., Adams, J., de Beurs, D., …Cassidy, S. (2023). The role of anxiety and depression in suicidal thoughts for autistic and non-autistic people: A theory-driven network analysis. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(3), 426-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12954

Background: Autistic adults experience more frequent suicidal thoughts and mental health difficulties than non-autistic adults, but research has yet to explain how these experiences are connected. This study explored how anxiety and depression contri... Read More about The role of anxiety and depression in suicidal thoughts for autistic and non-autistic people: A theory-driven network analysis.

Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe (2023)
Journal Article
James, R. J., & Ferguson, E. (2023). Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe. Journal of Pain, 24(6), 1104-1115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2023.03.006

The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of economic (eg, GDP per capita), political (eg, healthcare spending), cultural (country-level aggregates norms) and individual correlates (eg, depression) of pain in a secondary analysis of a sample... Read More about Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe.

Memory and Consciousness—Usually in Tandem but Sometimes Apart (2023)
Journal Article
Madan, C. R. (2023). Memory and Consciousness—Usually in Tandem but Sometimes Apart. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 36(2), 128-131. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNN.0000000000000337

Episodic memory, the ability to remember specific events from one's personal past, has been the subject of research for several decades, with a particular emphasis on its relationship with consciousness. In the December 2022 issue of Cognitive and Be... Read More about Memory and Consciousness—Usually in Tandem but Sometimes Apart.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of suicidality in autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability (2023)
Journal Article
Newell, V., Phillips, L., Jones, C., Townsend, E., Richards, C., & Cassidy, S. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of suicidality in autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability. Molecular Autism, 14, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-023-00544-7

Background: Suicidality is highly prevalent in autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disabilities, and high autistic traits are found in adults who have attempted suicide. However, prevalence rates for both autistic and possibly autistic... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of suicidality in autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability.

The characteristics, life problems and clinical management of older adults who self-harm: Findings from the multicentre study of self-harm in England (2023)
Journal Article
Patel, A., Ness, J., Kelly, S., Waters, K., Townsend, E., Kapur, N., …Hawton, K. (2023). The characteristics, life problems and clinical management of older adults who self-harm: Findings from the multicentre study of self-harm in England. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 38(3), Article e5895. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5895

Background
Older adults have a high risk of suicide following self-harm. Contemporary information on self-harm in this population is needed to inform care provision.

Objectives
To examine subgroup differences in the incidence of self-harm, socio... Read More about The characteristics, life problems and clinical management of older adults who self-harm: Findings from the multicentre study of self-harm in England.

Less biased yet more defensive: The impact of control processes (2023)
Journal Article
Vitriol, J. A., O’Shea, B. A., & Calanchini, J. (2023). Less biased yet more defensive: The impact of control processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 30(1), 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000468

Educational and training programs designed to reduce racial bias often focus on increasing people’s awareness of psychological sources of their biases. However, when people learn about their biases, they often respond defensively, which can undermine... Read More about Less biased yet more defensive: The impact of control processes.

Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study (2023)
Journal Article
Newall, P. W., Hayes, T., Singmann, H., Weiss-Cohen, L., Ludvig, E. A., & Walasek, L. (2023). Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2023.2

In October 2021, a majority of the UK gambling industry implemented a new UK safer gambling message, “take time to think”, which features on gambling advertising and websites. An effective safer gambling message could plausibly affect several relevan... Read More about Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study.

Adapted suicide safety plans to address self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Rodgers, J., Goodwin, J., Nielsen, E., Bhattarai, N., Heslop, P., Kharatikoopaei, E., …Cassidy, S. (2023). Adapted suicide safety plans to address self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9, Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01264-8

Background: Suicide prevention is a national priority for the UK government. Autistic people are at greater risk of experiencing self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviours than the general population. Safety plans are widely used in suicide preve... Read More about Adapted suicide safety plans to address self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial.

Slightly perturbing the arm influences choices between multiple targets (2023)
Journal Article
Hadjipanayi, V., Brenner, E., & Crowe, E. M. (2023). Slightly perturbing the arm influences choices between multiple targets. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 85, 1777-1783. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02680-x

We constantly make choices about how to interact with objects in the environment. Do we immediately consider changes in our posture when making such choices? To find out, we examined whether motion in the background, which is known to influence the t... Read More about Slightly perturbing the arm influences choices between multiple targets.

TMS combined with EEG: Recommendations and open issues for data collection and analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Hernandez-Pavon, J. C., Veniero, D., Bergmann, T. O., Belardinelli, P., Bortoletto, M., Casarotto, S., …Ilmoniemi, R. J. (2023). TMS combined with EEG: Recommendations and open issues for data collection and analysis. Brain Stimulation, 16(2), 567-593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2023.02.009

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) evokes neuronal activity in the targeted cortex and connected brain regions. The evoked brain response can be measured with electroencephalography (EEG). TMS combined with simultaneous EEG (TMS−EEG) is widely u... Read More about TMS combined with EEG: Recommendations and open issues for data collection and analysis.

Challenging inhibitory control with high- and low-calorie food: A behavioural and TMS study (2023)
Journal Article
Bianco, V., Veniero, D., D’Acunto, A., Koch, G., & Picazio, S. (2023). Challenging inhibitory control with high- and low-calorie food: A behavioural and TMS study. Frontiers in Nutrition, 10, Article 1016017. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1016017

Most people are often tempted by their impulses to “indulge” in high-calorie food, even if this behaviour is not consistent with their goal to control weight in the long term and might not be healthy. The outcome of this conflict is strongly dependen... Read More about Challenging inhibitory control with high- and low-calorie food: A behavioural and TMS study.

Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods (2023)
Journal Article
E. R. Blackie, L., Weststrate, N. M., Turner, K., Adler, J. M., & McLean, K. C. (2023). Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods. Journal of Research in Personality, 103, Article 104359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104359

After adversity, individuals sometimes report adversarial growth - positive changes in their identity, relationships, and worldviews. We examined how narrative methods enhanced understanding of adversarial growth compared to standard questionnaires.... Read More about Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods.