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Higher level domain specific skills in mathematics; The relationship between algebra, geometry, executive function skills and mathematics achievement (2023)
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Spiller, J., Clayton, S., Cragg, L., Johnson, S., Simms, V., & Gilmore, C. (2023). Higher level domain specific skills in mathematics; The relationship between algebra, geometry, executive function skills and mathematics achievement. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0291796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291796

Algebra and geometry are important components of mathematics that are often considered gatekeepers for future success. However, most studies that have researched the cognitive skills required for success in mathematics have only considered the domain... Read More about Higher level domain specific skills in mathematics; The relationship between algebra, geometry, executive function skills and mathematics achievement.

Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception (2023)
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Crowe, E. M., Smeets, J. B., & Brenner, E. (2023). Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception. Journal of Vision, 23(12), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.12.7

Objects in one's environment do not always move at a constant velocity but often accelerate or decelerate. People are very poor at visually judging acceleration and normally make systematic errors when trying to intercept accelerating objects. If the... Read More about Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception.

Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment (2023)
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Einav, S., Spence, A., Blackie, L. E., Cassidy, S., & Allen, H. A. (2023). Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment. Psychology Learning and Teaching, https://doi.org/10.1177/14757257231209178

Psychological literacy refers to the ability of a psychology student to use psychological knowledge, rather than merely learn it, in the context of personal, social, and organizational issues. Embedding psychological literacy in assessment is a criti... Read More about Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment.

Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks (2023)
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Wijeakumar, S., Forbes, S. H., Magnotta, V. A., Deoni, S., Jackson, K., Singh, V. P., …Spencer, J. P. (2023). Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01725-3

Stunting is associated with poor long-term cognitive, academic, and economic outcomes, yet the mechanisms through which stunting impacts cognition in early development remain unknown. In a first-ever neuroimaging study conducted in infants from rural... Read More about Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks.

Exploring the nuances of cooperation in public health – a critical reflection of default policies and reputation effects: a reply to 'Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: The cases of vaccination and organ donation' by Larson and Toledo (2023)
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Ferguson, E., & Mills, R. (2023). Exploring the nuances of cooperation in public health – a critical reflection of default policies and reputation effects: a reply to 'Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: The cases of vaccination and organ donation' by Larson and Toledo. Global Discourse / Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 13(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897Y2023D000000008

Dopamine D1-like receptors modulate synchronized oscillations in the hippocampal–prefrontal–amygdala circuit in contextual fear (2023)
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Stubbendorff, C., Hale, E., Bast, T., Cassaday, H. J., Martin, S. J., Suwansawang, S., …Stevenson, C. W. (2023). Dopamine D1-like receptors modulate synchronized oscillations in the hippocampal–prefrontal–amygdala circuit in contextual fear. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 17631. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44772-6

Contextual fear conditioning (CFC) is mediated by a neural circuit that includes the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala, but the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the regulation of CFC by neuromodulators remain unclear. Dopamine D1-l... Read More about Dopamine D1-like receptors modulate synchronized oscillations in the hippocampal–prefrontal–amygdala circuit in contextual fear.

Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience (2023)
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Bouyer, L. N., Arnold, D. H., Johnston, A., & Taubert, J. (2023). Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 115, Article 103583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103583

Human vision is shaped by historic and by predictive processes. The lingering impact of visual adaptation, for instance, can act to exaggerate differences between past and present inputs, whereas predictive processes can promote extrapolation effects... Read More about Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience.

Tracking online searches for gambling activities and operators in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Google Trends™ analysis (2023)
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Houghton, S., Boy, F., Bradley, A., James, R., Wardle, H., & Dymond, S. (2023). Tracking online searches for gambling activities and operators in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Google Trends™ analysis. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(4), 983-991. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2023.00055

Background: Whilst some research has explored the impact of COVID-19 on gambling behaviour, little is yet known about online search behaviours for gambling during this period. The current study explored gambling-related online searches before, during... Read More about Tracking online searches for gambling activities and operators in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Google Trends™ analysis.

Effects of information exposure on risk perception and worry about ocean acidification: Evidence from Norway and the UK (2023)
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Doran, R., & OGUNBODE, C. (2023). Effects of information exposure on risk perception and worry about ocean acidification: Evidence from Norway and the UK. Climate Risk Management, 42, Article 100565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100565

This paper reports on an investigation in which risk perception and worry were assessed before and after information about possible consequences of ocean acidification was presented in the form of short-written messages. Study 1 (N = 289, Norway samp... Read More about Effects of information exposure on risk perception and worry about ocean acidification: Evidence from Norway and the UK.

Use of 31P magnetisation transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure ATP changes after 670 nm transcranial photobiomodulation in older adults (2023)
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Fear, E. J., Torkelsen, F. H., Zamboni, E., Chen, K., Scott, M., Jeffery, G., …Kennerley, A. J. (2023). Use of 31P magnetisation transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure ATP changes after 670 nm transcranial photobiomodulation in older adults. Aging Cell, 22(11), Article e14005. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14005

Mitochondrial function declines with age, and many pathological processes in neurodegenerative diseases stem from this dysfunction when mitochondria fail to produce the necessary energy required. Photobiomodulation (PBM), long‐wavelength light therap... Read More about Use of 31P magnetisation transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure ATP changes after 670 nm transcranial photobiomodulation in older adults.

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors (2023)
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Hinojosa, B. M., Meese, W. B., Howell, J. L., Lindgren, K. P., O’Shea, B., Teachman, B. A., & Werntz, A. (2023). Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(12), Article e12905. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12905

We investigated the role of implicit and explicit associations between harm and COVID-19 vaccines using a large sample (N = 4668) of online volunteers. The participants completed a brief implicit association test and explicit measures to evaluate the... Read More about Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors.

The effect of unisensory and multisensory information on lexical decision and free recall in young and older adults (2023)
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Atkin, C., Stacey, J. E., Roberts, K. L., Allen, H. A., Henshaw, H., & Badham, S. P. (2023). The effect of unisensory and multisensory information on lexical decision and free recall in young and older adults. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 16575. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41791-1

Studies using simple low-level stimuli show that multisensory stimuli lead to greater improvements in processing speed for older adults than young adults. However, there is insufficient evidence to explain how these benefits influence performance for... Read More about The effect of unisensory and multisensory information on lexical decision and free recall in young and older adults.

Refusing to Pay Taxes: Loneliness, Conspiracy Theorizing, and Non-Normative Political Action (2023)
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Jolley, D., Paterson, J., & Thomas, R. (2023). Refusing to Pay Taxes: Loneliness, Conspiracy Theorizing, and Non-Normative Political Action. Social Psychology, 54(5), 308-319. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000529

Conspiracy theorising can motivate non-normative intentions (e.g., tax evasion and violence). However, less is known about the contributors of these conspiracy-inspired intentions or if they translate into behaviours. Two studies (N = 1,155) found a... Read More about Refusing to Pay Taxes: Loneliness, Conspiracy Theorizing, and Non-Normative Political Action.

No evidence of fast mapping in healthy adults using an implicit memory measure: failures to replicate the lexical competition results of Coutanche and Thompson-Schill (2014) (2023)
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Gurunandan, K., Cooper, E., Tibon, R., Henson, R. N., & Greve, A. (2023). No evidence of fast mapping in healthy adults using an implicit memory measure: failures to replicate the lexical competition results of Coutanche and Thompson-Schill (2014). Memory, 31(10), 1320-1339 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2262188

Fast mapping (FM) is a hypothetical, incidental learning process that allows rapid acquisition of new words. Using an implicit reaction time measure in a FM paradigm, Coutanche and Thompson-Schill (Coutanche, M. N., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2014). F... Read More about No evidence of fast mapping in healthy adults using an implicit memory measure: failures to replicate the lexical competition results of Coutanche and Thompson-Schill (2014).

Predicting suicidal ideation in psychiatrically hospitalized veterans using the death/suicide Implicit Association Test: A prospective cohort study (2023)
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Smith, E. G., Howard, A., Schultz, M., Li, M., Salvatore, P., & O'Shea, B. A. (2023). Predicting suicidal ideation in psychiatrically hospitalized veterans using the death/suicide Implicit Association Test: A prospective cohort study. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(6), 994-1009. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12998

Introduction We investigated whether the Death/Suicide Implicit Association Test (D/S-IAT) predicted suicidal ideation (SI) in psychiatric inpatients. Methods One hundred eighty veterans admitted for either SI or suicidal behavior (SB) (the prim... Read More about Predicting suicidal ideation in psychiatrically hospitalized veterans using the death/suicide Implicit Association Test: A prospective cohort study.

The Effects of Goal–Landmark Distance on Overshadowing: a Replication in Humans (Homo sapiens) of Goodyear and Kamil (2004) (2023)
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Herrera, E., Austen, J. M., & Urcelay, G. P. (2023). The Effects of Goal–Landmark Distance on Overshadowing: a Replication in Humans (Homo sapiens) of Goodyear and Kamil (2004). Journal of Comparative Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000362

Goodyear and Kamil (2004) assessed the ability of Clark’s nutcrackers to find buried food based on a cross-shaped array of landmarks at different distances from the goal. Their findings suggested that proximal landmarks overshadowed learning about di... Read More about The Effects of Goal–Landmark Distance on Overshadowing: a Replication in Humans (Homo sapiens) of Goodyear and Kamil (2004).

Home enrichment is associated with visual working memory function in preschoolers (2023)
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Davidson, C., Caes, L., Shing, Y. L., McKay, C., Rafetseder, E., & Wijeakumar, S. (2024). Home enrichment is associated with visual working memory function in preschoolers. Mind, Brain, and Education, 18(1), 72-84. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12383

Home enrichment plays an important role in shaping children's development. In the current study, we inquired whether home enrichment was associated with pre-schoolers' visual working memory (VWM) function, a critical cognitive system necessary for ma... Read More about Home enrichment is associated with visual working memory function in preschoolers.

The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements (2023)
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Khanzhyn, D., van Heuven, W. J. B., & Rataj, K. (2023). The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02323-0

Studies using a relatedness judgement task have found differences between prime-target word pairs that vary in the degree of semantic relatedness. However, the influence of working memory load on semantic processing in this task and the role of the t... Read More about The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements.