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EMD386088 (5 mg/kg) has no effect on latent inhibition shown to both light and noise stimuli (2019)
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Cassaday, H. J., & Thur, K. E. (2020). EMD386088 (5 mg/kg) has no effect on latent inhibition shown to both light and noise stimuli. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 34(1), 145-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881119882855

Activation of 5-HT6 receptors stimulates attentional switching and 5-HT6 receptor antagonists are putative drugs for psychosis. Latent inhibition (LI) provides a pre-clinical model of attentional switching and ‘antipsychotic-like’ action and is known... Read More about EMD386088 (5 mg/kg) has no effect on latent inhibition shown to both light and noise stimuli.

Advancing functional connectivity research from association to causation (2019)
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Reid, A. T., Headley, D. B., Mill, R. D., Sanchez-Romero, R., Uddin, L. Q., Marinazzo, D., …Cole, M. W. (2019). Advancing functional connectivity research from association to causation. Nature Neuroscience, 22(11), 1751-1760. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0510-4

Cognition and behavior emerge from brain network interactions, such that investigating causal interactions should be central to the study of brain function. Approaches that characterize statistical associations among neural time series—functional con... Read More about Advancing functional connectivity research from association to causation.

Imaging functional recovery following ischemic stroke: clinical and preclinical fMRI studies (2019)
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Crofts, A., Kelly, M. E., & Gibson, C. L. (2020). Imaging functional recovery following ischemic stroke: clinical and preclinical fMRI studies. Journal of Neuroimaging, 30(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jon.12668

Disability and effectiveness of physical therapy are highly variable following ischemic stroke due to different brain regions being affected. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of patients in the months and years following stroke ha... Read More about Imaging functional recovery following ischemic stroke: clinical and preclinical fMRI studies.

Using drift diffusion modeling to understand inattentive behavior in preterm and term-born children. (2019)
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Retzler, J., Retzler, C., Groom, M., Johnson, S., & Cragg, L. (2020). Using drift diffusion modeling to understand inattentive behavior in preterm and term-born children. Neuropsychology, 34(1), 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000590

Objective: Children born very preterm are at increased risk of inattention, but it remains unclear whether the underlying processes are the same as in their term-born peers. Drift diffusion modelling (DDM) may better characterise the cognitive proces... Read More about Using drift diffusion modeling to understand inattentive behavior in preterm and term-born children..

The ‘Saw but Forgot’ error: A role for short-term memory failures in understanding junction crashes? (2019)
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Robbins, C. J., Allen, H. A., Miller, K. A., & Chapman, P. (2019). The ‘Saw but Forgot’ error: A role for short-term memory failures in understanding junction crashes?. PLoS ONE, 14(9), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222905

Motorcyclists are involved in an exceptionally high number of crashes for the distance they travel, with one of the most common incidents being where another road user pulls out into the path of an oncoming motorcycle frequently resulting in a fatal... Read More about The ‘Saw but Forgot’ error: A role for short-term memory failures in understanding junction crashes?.

A New Methodological Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Intervention Implementation on Learning Outcomes (2019)
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Pitchford, N. (2019). A New Methodological Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Intervention Implementation on Learning Outcomes. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2019.1657081

Randomised control trials (RCTs) are commonly regarded as the 'gold standard' for evaluating educational interventions. While this experimental design is valuable in establishing causal relationships between the tested intervention and outcomes, reli... Read More about A New Methodological Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Intervention Implementation on Learning Outcomes.

To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Contest (2019)
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Ferguson, E., Quigley, E., Powell, G., Stewart, L., Harrison, F., & Tallentire, H. (2019). To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Contest. Royal Society Open Science, 6(9), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181441

Consistent with a sexual selection account of cooperation, based on female choice, men, in romantic contexts, in general display mutually-beneficial behaviour and women choose men who do so. This evidence is based on a two-choice-architecture (cooper... Read More about To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Contest.

The Minds of God, Mortals, and In-betweens: Children's Developing Understanding of Extraordinary and Ordinary Minds across Four Countries (2019)
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Burdett, E. R., Wigger, J. B., & Barrett, J. L. (2019). The Minds of God, Mortals, and In-betweens: Children's Developing Understanding of Extraordinary and Ordinary Minds across Four Countries. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 13(2), 212–221. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000285

Several theory-of-mind (ToM) studies have explored how children differentiate ordinary minds (humans, dogs) and extraordinary minds (God, spirits), but these studies have yielded divergent results and interpretations and have not offered cross-cultur... Read More about The Minds of God, Mortals, and In-betweens: Children's Developing Understanding of Extraordinary and Ordinary Minds across Four Countries.

How does drivers’ visual search change as a function of experience? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
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Robbins, C., & Chapman, P. (2019). How does drivers’ visual search change as a function of experience? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 132, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.105266

Novice drivers are statistically over-represented in reported road crashes, with recent evidence suggesting that some of this increased crash involvement may be a result of limitations in their cognitive processing. Such processing has typically been... Read More about How does drivers’ visual search change as a function of experience? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Effects of single session cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation on tic symptoms in Tourette's syndrome (2019)
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Dyke, K., Jackson, G. M., Nixon, E., & Jackson, S. R. (2019). Effects of single session cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation on tic symptoms in Tourette's syndrome. Experimental Brain Research, 237(11), 2853–2863. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05637-5

Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by motor and phonic tics. For some, tics can be managed using medication and/or forms of behavioural therapy, however, adverse side effects and access to specialist resources can be bar... Read More about Effects of single session cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation on tic symptoms in Tourette's syndrome.

Identifying nonlinear dynamical systems via generative recurrent neural networks with applications to fMRI (2019)
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Koppe, G., Toutounji, H., Kirsch, P., Lis, S., & Durstewitz, D. (2019). Identifying nonlinear dynamical systems via generative recurrent neural networks with applications to fMRI. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(8), Article e1007263. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007263

A major tenet in theoretical neuroscience is that cognitive and behavioral processes are ultimately implemented in terms of the neural system dynamics. Accordingly, a major aim for the analysis of neurophysiological measurements should lie in the ide... Read More about Identifying nonlinear dynamical systems via generative recurrent neural networks with applications to fMRI.

Evaluation of the Central Vein Sign as a Diagnostic Imaging Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis (2019)
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Sinnecker, T., Clarke, M. A., Meier, D., Enzinger, C., Calabrese, M., De Stefano, N., …MAGNIMS Study Group. (2019). Evaluation of the Central Vein Sign as a Diagnostic Imaging Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis. JAMA Neurology, 76(12), 1446-1456. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.2478

© 2019 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Importance: The central vein sign has been proposed as a specific imaging biomarker for distinguishing between multiple sclerosis (MS) and not MS, mainly based on findings from ultrahigh-field... Read More about Evaluation of the Central Vein Sign as a Diagnostic Imaging Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis.

The power of nothing: Risk preference in pigeons, but not people, is driven primarily by avoidance of zero outcomes (2019)
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Spetch, M. L., Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., Pisklak, J. M., Pisklak, J. M., Madan, C. R., …Spetch, M. L. (2019). The power of nothing: Risk preference in pigeons, but not people, is driven primarily by avoidance of zero outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45(4), 431-445. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000217

Both human and non-human animals regularly need to make choices where the outcomes of their actions are unpredictable or probabilistic in some way. These are often termed “risky” choices. Faced with uncertain rewards, people (Homo sapiens) and pigeon... Read More about The power of nothing: Risk preference in pigeons, but not people, is driven primarily by avoidance of zero outcomes.

STDP Forms Associations between Memory Traces in Networks of Spiking Neurons (2019)
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Rao, A., Pokorny, C., Ison, M. J., Legenstein, R., Maass, W., & Papadimitriou, C. (2020). STDP Forms Associations between Memory Traces in Networks of Spiking Neurons. Cerebral Cortex, 30(3), 952-968. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz140

Memory traces and associations between them are fundamental for cognitive brain function. Neuron recordings suggest that distributed assemblies of neurons in the brain serve as memory traces for spatial information, real-world items, and concepts. Ho... Read More about STDP Forms Associations between Memory Traces in Networks of Spiking Neurons.

Beyond Description: The Predictive Role of Affect, Memory, and Context in the Decision to Donate or Not Donate Blood (2019)
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Ferguson, E., Masser, B. M., Merx, E., & Williams, L. A. (2020). Beyond Description: The Predictive Role of Affect, Memory, and Context in the Decision to Donate or Not Donate Blood. Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy, 47(2), 175–185. https://doi.org/10.1159/000501917

Research on the recruitment and retention of blood donors has typically drawn on a homogeneous set of descriptive theories, viewing the decision to become and remain a donor as the outcome of affectively cold, planned, and rational decision-making by... Read More about Beyond Description: The Predictive Role of Affect, Memory, and Context in the Decision to Donate or Not Donate Blood.

The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model (2019)
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James, R. J. E., & Ferguson, E. (2020). The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model. Psychological Medicine, 50(10), 1663-1671. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719001673

Background: Pain and depression are common in the population and co-morbid with each other. Both are also predictive of one another other, and are also associated with cognitive function; people who are in greater pain and more depressed respectively... Read More about The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model.

Web Scraping Using R (2019)
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Bradley, A., & James, R. J. E. (2019). Web Scraping Using R. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(3), 264-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919859535

The ubiquitous use of the Internet in daily life means that there are now large reservoirs of data that can provide fresh insights into human behavior. One of the key barriers preventing more researchers from utilizing online data is that they do not... Read More about Web Scraping Using R.

On the Likelihood of Surrogates Conforming to the Substituted Judgment Standard When Making End-of-Life Decisions for Their Partner (2019)
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Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., & Tunney, R. J. (2019). On the Likelihood of Surrogates Conforming to the Substituted Judgment Standard When Making End-of-Life Decisions for Their Partner. Medical Decision Making, 39(6), 651-660. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989x19862800

A considerable proportion of end-of-life decisions are made by the patient’s next-of-kin, who can be asked to follow the substituted judgment standard and decide based on the patient’s wishes. The question of whether these surrogate decision makers a... Read More about On the Likelihood of Surrogates Conforming to the Substituted Judgment Standard When Making End-of-Life Decisions for Their Partner.

Distinguishing suicide ideation from suicide attempts: Further test of the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour (2019)
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Branley-Bell, D., O'Connor, D. B., Green, J. A., Ferguson, E., O'Carroll, R. E., & O'Connor, R. C. (2019). Distinguishing suicide ideation from suicide attempts: Further test of the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 117, 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.07.007

Suicidal behaviour poses a significant public health concern. Research into the factors that distinguish between the emergence of suicide ideation and the enactment of a suicide attempt is crucial. This study tests central tenets of the Integrated Mo... Read More about Distinguishing suicide ideation from suicide attempts: Further test of the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour.