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Sensory and motor differences in Autism Spectrum Conditions and developmental coordination disorder in children: a cross-syndrome study (2018)
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Hannant, P., Cassidy, S., Van de Weyer, R., & Mooncey, S. (2018). Sensory and motor differences in Autism Spectrum Conditions and developmental coordination disorder in children: a cross-syndrome study. Human Movement Science, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2018.01.010

Recent research has shown that Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) can present with some similar symptomology as Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). This paper therefore explored the similarities and differences in coordination and sensory respon... Read More about Sensory and motor differences in Autism Spectrum Conditions and developmental coordination disorder in children: a cross-syndrome study.

TMS over the supramarginal gyrus delays selection of appropriate grasp orientation during reaching and grasping tools for use (2018)
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McDowell, T., Holmes, N. P., Sunderland, A., & Schürmann, M. (2018). TMS over the supramarginal gyrus delays selection of appropriate grasp orientation during reaching and grasping tools for use. Cortex, 103, 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.002

Tool use, a ubiquitous part of human behaviour, requires manipulation control and knowledge of tool purpose. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological research posit that these two processes are supported by separate brain regions, ventral premotor and inf... Read More about TMS over the supramarginal gyrus delays selection of appropriate grasp orientation during reaching and grasping tools for use.

Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK (2018)
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Boyce, C. J., Delaney, L., Ferguson, E., & Wood, A. M. (2018). Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK. Journal of Affective Disorders, 234, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.03.003

Background: Central banks set economy-wide interest rates to meet exclusively economic objectives. There is a strong link between indebtedness and psychiatric morbidity at the individual level, with interest rates being an important factor determinin... Read More about Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK.

Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study (2018)
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Kunkel, A., Filik, R., Mackenzie, I. G., & Leuthold, H. (2018). Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(2), 389-409. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0577-5

Recently, we showed that when participants passively read about moral transgressions (e.g., adultery) they implicitly engage in the evaluative (good–bad) categorization of incoming information, as indicated by a larger event-related brain potential (... Read More about Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study.

Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities (2018)
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Pitchford, N. J., Kamchedzera, E., Hubber, P. J., & Chigeda, A. (2018). Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 262. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00262

Interactive apps delivered on touch-screen tablets can be effective at supporting the acquisition of basic skills in mainstream primary school children. This technology may also be beneficial for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabiliti... Read More about Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Selective modulation of visual sensitivity during fixation (2018)
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Scholes, C. D., McGraw, P. V., & Roach, N. W. (in press). Selective modulation of visual sensitivity during fixation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 119(6), https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00819.2017

During periods of steady fixation, we make small amplitude ocular movements, termed microsaccades, at a rate of 1-2 every second. Early studies provided evidence that visual sensitivity is reduced during microsaccades - akin to the well-established s... Read More about Selective modulation of visual sensitivity during fixation.

How to characterize the function of a brain region (2018)
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Genon, S., Reid, A., Langner, R., Amunts, K., & Eickhoff, S. B. (2018). How to characterize the function of a brain region. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.01.010

Many brain regions have been defined, but a comprehensive formalization of each region’s function in relation to human behavior is still lacking. Current knowledge comes from various fields, which have diverse conceptions of ‘functions’. We briefly r... Read More about How to characterize the function of a brain region.

Justify your alpha (2018)
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Lakens, D., Adolfi, F. G., Albers, C. J., Anvari, F., Apps, M. A., Argamon, S. E., …Zwaan, R. A. (in press). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x

In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to p ≤ .005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.

The interaction of social and perceivable causal factors in shaping ‘over-imitation’ (2018)
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Burdett, E. R., McGuigan, N., Harrison, R., & Whiten, A. (2018). The interaction of social and perceivable causal factors in shaping ‘over-imitation’. Cognitive Development, 47, 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.02.001

Over-imitation has become a well-documented phenomenon. However there is evidence that both social and visible, physically causal factors can influence the occurrence of over-imitation in children. Here we explore the interplay between these two fact... Read More about The interaction of social and perceivable causal factors in shaping ‘over-imitation’.

FISSA: a neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals (2018)
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Keemink, S. W., Lowe, S. C., Pakan, J. M., Dylda, E., van Rossum, M. C., & Rochefort, N. L. (in press). FISSA: a neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 3493. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21640-2

In vivo calcium imaging has become a method of choice to image neuronal population activity throughout the nervous system. These experiments generate large sequences of images. Their analysis is computationally intensive and typically involves motion... Read More about FISSA: a neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals.

Facilitation of motor excitability during listening to spoken sentences is not modulated by noise or semantic coherence (2018)
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Panouillères, M. T., Boyles, R., Chesters, J., Watkins, K. E., & Möttönen, R. (2018). Facilitation of motor excitability during listening to spoken sentences is not modulated by noise or semantic coherence. Cortex, 103, 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.02.007

Comprehending speech can be particularly challenging in a noisy environment and in the absence of semantic context. It has been proposed that the articulatory motor system would be recruited especially in difficult listening conditions. However, it r... Read More about Facilitation of motor excitability during listening to spoken sentences is not modulated by noise or semantic coherence.

Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold (2018)
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Tsikandilakis, M., & Chapman, P. (2018). Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold. Perception, 47(4), 432-450. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618760738

© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018. The biological preparedness model suggests that survival-related visual cues elicit physiological changes without awareness to enable us to respond to our environment. Previous studies have reported some evidence for thi... Read More about Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold.

Situation-based contingencies underlying wisdom-content manifestations: examining intellectual humility in daily life (2018)
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Zachry, C. E., Phan, L. V., Blackie, L. E., & Jayawickreme, E. (2018). Situation-based contingencies underlying wisdom-content manifestations: examining intellectual humility in daily life. Journals of Gerontology, Series B, 73(8), 1404–1415. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby016

Objectives: Existing assessments of intellectual humility (IH)—a key component of wisdom—do not examine its manifestation in daily life while sufficiently focusing on the core idea of the construct: owning up to one’s intellectual shortcomings. The p... Read More about Situation-based contingencies underlying wisdom-content manifestations: examining intellectual humility in daily life.

TMS SMART: Scalp Mapping of Annoyance Ratings and Twitches caused by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (2018)
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Meteyard, L., & Holmes, N. P. (2018). TMS SMART: Scalp Mapping of Annoyance Ratings and Twitches caused by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 299, 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.02.008

Background: The magnetic pulse generated during transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) also stimulates cutaneous nerves and muscle fibres, with the most commonly reported side effect being muscle twitches and sometimes painful sensations. These sens... Read More about TMS SMART: Scalp Mapping of Annoyance Ratings and Twitches caused by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

Cortical excitability correlates with the event-related desynchronization during brain-computer interface control (2018)
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Daly, I., Blanchard, C. C., & Holmes, N. P. (in press). Cortical excitability correlates with the event-related desynchronization during brain-computer interface control. Journal of Neural Engineering, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aa9c8c

Objective: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on motor control have been suggested as tools for stroke rehabilitation. Some initial successes have been achieved with this approach, however the mechanism by which they work is not yet fully underst... Read More about Cortical excitability correlates with the event-related desynchronization during brain-computer interface control.

Detecting Multiple Change Points Using Adaptive Regression Splines With Application to Neural Recordings (2018)
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Toutounji, H., & Durstewitz, D. (2018). Detecting Multiple Change Points Using Adaptive Regression Splines With Application to Neural Recordings. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 12, Article 67. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2018.00067

Time series, as frequently the case in neuroscience, are rarely stationary, but often exhibit abrupt changes due to attractor transitions or bifurcations in the dynamical systems producing them. A plethora of methods for detecting such change points... Read More about Detecting Multiple Change Points Using Adaptive Regression Splines With Application to Neural Recordings.

Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review (2018)
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Smith, A. M., Niemeyer, K. E., Katz, D. S., Barba, L. A., Githinji, G., Gymrek, M., …Vanderplas, J. T. (in press). Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review. PeerJ Computer Science, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.147

This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of... Read More about Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review.

Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan (2018)
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Madan, C. R., & Kensinger, E. A. (2018). Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan. European Journal of Neuroscience, 47(5), 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13835

Despite inter-individual differences in cortical structure, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have demonstrated a large degree of population-level consistency in age-related differences in brain morphology. The present study assessed how accur... Read More about Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan.

Traits associated with central pain augmentation in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort (2018)
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Akin-Akinyosoye, K., Frowd, N., Marshall, L., Stocks, J., Fernandes, G. S., Valdes, A. M., …Walsh, D. A. (2018). Traits associated with central pain augmentation in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort. PAIN, 159(6), 1035–1044. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001183

This study aimed to identify self-report correlates of central pain augmentation in individuals with knee pain. A subset of participants (n=420) in the Knee Pain and related health In the Community (KPIC) baseline survey undertook pressure pain thres... Read More about Traits associated with central pain augmentation in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort.