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Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls (2022)
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Hand, C. J., Kennedy, A., Filik, R., Pitchford, M., & Robus, C. M. (2023). Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 2514–2528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05557-4

We investigated ASD-diagnosed adults’ and neurotypical (NT) controls’ processing of emoji and emoji influence on the emotionality of otherwise-neutral sentences. Study 1 participants categorised emoji representing the six basic emotions using a fixed... Read More about Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls.

Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls (2022)
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Espahbodi, S., Fernandes, G., Hogervorst, E., Thanoon, A., Batt, M., Fuller, C. W., …Zhang, W. (2022). Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls. BMJ Open, 12(4), Article e054371. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054371

INTRODUCTION: Professional footballers commonly experience sports-related injury and repetitive microtrauma to the foot and ankle, placing them at risk of subsequent chronic pain and osteoarthritis (OA) of the foot and ankle. Similarly, repeated head... Read More about Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls.

Negative Emotion Enhances Memory for the Sequential Unfolding of a Naturalistic Experience (2022)
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Dev, D. K., Wardell, V., Checknita, K. J., Te, A. A., Petrucci, A. S., Le, M. L., …Palombo, D. J. (2022). Negative Emotion Enhances Memory for the Sequential Unfolding of a Naturalistic Experience. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(4), 510-521. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000015

The events of our lives unfold over time. When remembering these events, we often reference information about when they occurred and their sequential unfolding. How does negative emotion affect our ability to reconstruct the elements of an event in t... Read More about Negative Emotion Enhances Memory for the Sequential Unfolding of a Naturalistic Experience.

Safety Learning in Anxiety, Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition and COVID Concerns (2022)
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Thurston, M. D., & Cassaday, H. J. (2022). Safety Learning in Anxiety, Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition and COVID Concerns. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 866771. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866771

Experimental studies of fear conditioning have identified the effectiveness of safety signals in inhibiting fear and maintaining fear-motivated behaviors. In fear conditioning procedures, the presence of safety signals means that the otherwise expect... Read More about Safety Learning in Anxiety, Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition and COVID Concerns.

Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study (2022)
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McDonough, I. M., Mayhugh, C., Moore, M. K., Brasfield, M. B., Letang, S. K., Madan, C. R., & Allen, R. S. (2022). Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study. Brain Sciences, 12(4), Article 496. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040496

Having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias confers a risk for developing these types of neurocognitive disorders in old age, but the mechanisms underlying this risk are understudied. Although the hippocampus is often one of t... Read More about Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study.

The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children? (2022)
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Marsh, L. E., Gil, J., & Kanngiesser, P. (2022). The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?. Developmental Psychology, 58(4), 662-670. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001321

Creating objects can increase our evaluation of them, even when we compare them to physically identical copies (IKEA effect). Here we evaluate the influence of collaboration on the IKEA effect in two societies – the UK and India. 128 5-to-6-year-old... Read More about The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?.

Neuroanatomical correlates of working memory performance in Neurofibromatosis 1 (2022)
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Sawyer, C., Green, J., Lim, B., Pobric, G., Jung, J., Vassallo, G., …Garg, S. (2022). Neuroanatomical correlates of working memory performance in Neurofibromatosis 1. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 3(2), Article tgac021. https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgac021

Introduction: Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a single-gene disorder associated with cognitive impairments, particularly with deficits in
working memory. Prior research indicates that brain structure is affected in NF1, but it is unclear how these chan... Read More about Neuroanatomical correlates of working memory performance in Neurofibromatosis 1.

Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset (2022)
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Whiteford, S., Hoon, A. E., James, R., Tunney, R., & Dymond, S. (2022). Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 6, Article 100194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100194

In-play betting involves making multiple bets during a sporting event and is an increasingly popular form of gambling. Behavioural analysis of large datasets of in-play betting may aid in the prediction of at-risk patterns of gambling. However, datas... Read More about Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset.

Temporal and Spatial Contiguity Are Necessary for Competition Between Events (2022)
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Herrera, E., Alcalá, J. A., Tazumi, T., Buckley, M. G., Prados, J., & Urcelay, G. P. (2022). Temporal and Spatial Contiguity Are Necessary for Competition Between Events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(3), 321–347

Over the last 50 years, cue competition phenomena have shaped theoretical developments in animal and human learning. However, recent failures to observe competition effects in standard conditioning procedures, as well as the lengthy and ongoing debat... Read More about Temporal and Spatial Contiguity Are Necessary for Competition Between Events.

Hand movements respond to any motion near the endpoint (2022)
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Crowe, E. M., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2022). Hand movements respond to any motion near the endpoint. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84(6), 1820-1825. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02471-w

Hand movements are pulled in the direction of motion near their planned endpoints. Is this an automatic response to motion signals near those positions, or do we consider what is moving? To find out, we asked participants to hit a target that moved r... Read More about Hand movements respond to any motion near the endpoint.

Self-harm in people experiencing homelessness: an investigation of incidence, characteristics and outcomes using data from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England (2022)
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Clements, C., Farooq, B., Hawton, K., Geulayov, G., Casey, D., Waters, K., …Kapur, N. (2022). Self-harm in people experiencing homelessness: an investigation of incidence, characteristics and outcomes using data from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England. BJPsych Open, 8(2), Article e74. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.30

Background
People who experience homelessness are thought to be at high risk of suicide, but little is known about self-harm in this population.

Aims
To examine characteristics and outcomes in people experiencing homelessness who presented to ho... Read More about Self-harm in people experiencing homelessness: an investigation of incidence, characteristics and outcomes using data from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England.

Exploring the Common Mechanisms of Motion-Based Visual Prediction (2022)
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Hu, D., Ison, M., & Johnston, A. (2022). Exploring the Common Mechanisms of Motion-Based Visual Prediction. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 827029. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.827029

Human vision supports prediction for moving stimuli. Here we take an individual differences approach to investigate whether there could be a common processing rate for motion-based visual prediction across diverse motion phenomena. Motion Induced Spa... Read More about Exploring the Common Mechanisms of Motion-Based Visual Prediction.

Trying to solve the ‘worst situation’ together: participatory autism research (2022)
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Costley, D., Emerson, A., Ropar, D., Sheppard, E., McCubbing, A., Campbell Bass, S., …Ward Penny, J. (2022). Trying to solve the ‘worst situation’ together: participatory autism research. Educational Action Research, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2021.2019075

The importance of participatory autism research is discussed in relation to a project involving six autistic researchers and five non-autistic university researchers collaborating to investigate anxiety in autistic adolescents. The paper describes th... Read More about Trying to solve the ‘worst situation’ together: participatory autism research.

A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff: evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions (2022)
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Holloway, C., Munro, N., Cossburn, K., & Ropar, D. (2022). A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff: evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 45(3), 434-447. https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-11-2021-0159

Purpose: Autistic people have reported particularly negative experiences in police custody, which can lead to significant long-term personal and legal consequences. Research has suggested providing autism training to police forces would help improve... Read More about A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff: evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions.

Good scientific practice in EEG and MEG research: Progress and perspectives (2022)
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Niso, G., Krol, L. R., Combrisson, E., Dubarry, A., Elliott, M. A., François, C., …Chaumon, M. (2022). Good scientific practice in EEG and MEG research: Progress and perspectives. NeuroImage, 257, Article 119056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119056

Good scientific practice (GSP) refers to both explicit and implicit rules, recommendations, and guidelines that help scientists to produce work that is of the highest quality at any given time, and to efficiently share that work with the community fo... Read More about Good scientific practice in EEG and MEG research: Progress and perspectives.

A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety (2022)
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Haynes, A. C., Lywood, A., Crowe, E. M., Fielding, J. L., Rossiter, J. M., & Kent, C. (2022). A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety. PLoS ONE, 17(3), Article e0259838. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259838

Anxiety disorders affect approximately one third of people during their lifetimes and are the ninth leading cause of global disability. Current treatments focus on therapy and pharmacological interventions. However, therapy is costly and pharmacologi... Read More about A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety.

The interactive functional biases of manual, language and attention systems (2022)
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Serrien, D. J., & O’Regan, L. (2022). The interactive functional biases of manual, language and attention systems. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications / Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications - a SpringerOpen journal, 7(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00365-x

Hemispheric lateralisation is a fundamental principle of functional brain organisation. We studied two core cognitive functions - language and visuospatial attention - that typically lateralise in opposite cerebral hemispheres. In this work, we teste... Read More about The interactive functional biases of manual, language and attention systems.

Subregions of DLPFC Display Graded yet Distinct Structural and Functional Connectivity (2022)
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Jung, J. Y., Lambon Ralph, M. A., & Jackson, R. L. (2022). Subregions of DLPFC Display Graded yet Distinct Structural and Functional Connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(15), 3241-3252. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1216-21.2022

The human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC; approximately corresponding to Brodmann areas 9 and 46) has demonstrable roles in diverse executive functions such as working memory, cognitive flexibility, planning, inhibition, and abstract reasoning... Read More about Subregions of DLPFC Display Graded yet Distinct Structural and Functional Connectivity.

Cortical complexity estimation using fractal dimension: A systematic review of the literature on clinical and nonclinical samples (2022)
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Meregalli, V., Alberti, F., Madan, C. R., Meneguzzo, P., Miola, A., Trevisan, N., …Collantoni, E. (2022). Cortical complexity estimation using fractal dimension: A systematic review of the literature on clinical and nonclinical samples. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(6), 1547-1583. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15631

Fractal geometry has recently been proposed as a useful tool for characterizing the complexity of the brain cortex, which is likely to derive from the recurrence of sulci–gyri convolution patterns. The index used to describe the cortical complexity i... Read More about Cortical complexity estimation using fractal dimension: A systematic review of the literature on clinical and nonclinical samples.

Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions (2022)
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Ballance, B. C., Tuen, Y. J., Petrucci, A. S., Orwig, W., Safi, O. K., Madan, C. R., & Palombo, D. J. (2022). Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(12), 2332–2348. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221086637

How does imagining future events—whether positive or negative—influence our choices in the present? Prior work has shown the simulation of hypothetical future events, dubbed episodic future thinking, can alter the propensity to engage in delay discou... Read More about Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions.