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Caregiver executive functions are associated with infant visual working memory (2024)
Journal Article
Amaireh, G., Caes, L., Theyer, A., Davidson, C., & Wijeakumar, S. (2024). Caregiver executive functions are associated with infant visual working memory. Infant and Child Development, 33(6), Article e2543. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2543

Caregiver executive functions (EFs) play an integral role in shaping cognitive development. Here, we investigated how caregiver EF abilities (86 caregivers; Mage = 33.4 years, SD = 4.5) was associated with visual working memory (VWM) in infants (86 i... Read More about Caregiver executive functions are associated with infant visual working memory.

The prototypical UK blood donor, homophily and blood donation: Blood donors are like you, not me (2024)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Bowen, S., Mills, R., Reynolds, C., Davison, K., Lawrence, C., Maharaj, R., Starmer, C., Barr, A., Williams, T., Croucher, M., & Brailsford, S. R. (in press). The prototypical UK blood donor, homophily and blood donation: Blood donors are like you, not me. Vox Sanguinis, https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.13731

Background and Objectives
Homophily represents the extent to which people feel others are like them and encourages the uptake of activities they feel people like them do. Currently, there are no data on blood donor homophily with respect to (i) peop... Read More about The prototypical UK blood donor, homophily and blood donation: Blood donors are like you, not me.

From Economic Inequality to Intolerance: The Role of Conspiracy Beliefs in Anti-Immigrant Sentiment (2024)
Report
Jolley, D., Hattersley, M., Skipper, Y., & Douglas, K. (2024). From Economic Inequality to Intolerance: The Role of Conspiracy Beliefs in Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. University of Nottingham

On 31st December 2023, a disused pub in Dublin, Ireland, was set ablaze in a suspected arson attack. Earlier that month, the building had been subject to protests amid claims that the building would be used to house asylum seekers, leading to suggest... Read More about From Economic Inequality to Intolerance: The Role of Conspiracy Beliefs in Anti-Immigrant Sentiment.

A psychological mechanism for the development of anxiety (2024)
Journal Article
Urcelay, G. P. (2024). A psychological mechanism for the development of anxiety. Behavioral Neuroscience, 138(4), 281–290. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000607

Although numerous behavioural constructs have been proposed to account for anxiety disorders, how these develop within an individual has been difficult to predict. In this perspective, I selectively review clinical and experimental evidence suggestin... Read More about A psychological mechanism for the development of anxiety.

Perfect Assessment and Feedback in Psychology: Students’ Perspectives (2024)
Journal Article
Quigley, M., & Whitt, E. (2024). Perfect Assessment and Feedback in Psychology: Students’ Perspectives. Practitioner Research in Higher Education,

Assessment and feedback constitute crucial components of the pedagogic process within higher education. However, students report dissatisfaction with these processes and fail to engage with the feedback they receive. This study therefore sought to ex... Read More about Perfect Assessment and Feedback in Psychology: Students’ Perspectives.

Investigating the effects of context, visual working memory, and inhibitory control in hybrid visual search (2024)
Journal Article
Barbosa, A., Ruarte, G., Ries, A. J., Kamienkowski, J. E., & Ison, M. J. (2024). Investigating the effects of context, visual working memory, and inhibitory control in hybrid visual search. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, Article 1436564. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1436564

Introduction:

In real-life scenarios, individuals frequently engage in tasks that involve searching for one of the distinct items stored in memory. This combined process of visual search and memory search is known as hybrid search. To date, most... Read More about Investigating the effects of context, visual working memory, and inhibitory control in hybrid visual search.

Impact of Apolipoprotein E ε4 in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Voxel-Based Morphometry Studies (2024)
Journal Article
Bailey, M., Ilchovska, Z. G., Hosseini, A. A., & Jung, J. (2024). Impact of Apolipoprotein E ε4 in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Voxel-Based Morphometry Studies. Journal of Clinical Neurology, 20(5), 469-477. https://doi.org/10.3988/jcn.2024.0176

Background and Purpose

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most-prevalent form of dementia and imposes substantial burdens at the personal and societal levels. The apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele is a genetic factor known to increase AD risk and ex... Read More about Impact of Apolipoprotein E ε4 in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Voxel-Based Morphometry Studies.

Test Performance in Optional Shift and Configural Acquired Equivalence Are Positively Correlated (2024)
Journal Article
García, S. B., George, D. N., & Robinson, J. (2024). Test Performance in Optional Shift and Configural Acquired Equivalence Are Positively Correlated. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 50(4), 235-246. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000384

In two experiments, participants completed two computer-based tasks: a configural acquired equivalence procedure and an optional-shift procedure. Both revealed that test performance was positively correlated, even when controlling for nonspecific var... Read More about Test Performance in Optional Shift and Configural Acquired Equivalence Are Positively Correlated.

Older adults do not show enhanced benefits from multisensory information on speeded perceptual discrimination tasks (2024)
Journal Article
Atkin, C., Stacey, J. E., Allen, H. A., Henshaw, H., Roberts, K. L., & Badham, S. P. (2024). Older adults do not show enhanced benefits from multisensory information on speeded perceptual discrimination tasks. Neurobiology of Aging, 142, 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.08.003

Some research has shown that older adults benefit more from multisensory information than do young adults. However, more recent evidence has shown that the multisensory age benefit varies considerably across tasks. In the current study, older (65 – 8... Read More about Older adults do not show enhanced benefits from multisensory information on speeded perceptual discrimination tasks.

Retinotopy drives the variation in scene responses across visual field map divisions of the occipital place area (2024)
Journal Article
Scrivener, C. L., Zamboni, E., Morland, A. B., & Silson, E. H. (2024). Retinotopy drives the variation in scene responses across visual field map divisions of the occipital place area. Journal of Vision, 24(8), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.8.10

The occipital place area (OPA) is a scene-selective region on the lateral surface of human occipitotemporal cortex that spatially overlaps multiple visual field maps, as well as portions of cortex that are not currently defined as retinotopic. Here w... Read More about Retinotopy drives the variation in scene responses across visual field map divisions of the occipital place area.

Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article
McDonald, S., Huntington, B., & Allen, H. (2024). Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.56230/osotl.108

The present investigation sought to evaluate the influence of active and blended learning approaches to teaching on student engagement, learning gains, confidence, and sense of belonging in their psychology course. Two-hundred and eighty-four student... Read More about Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design.

Do neuroticism and efficacy beliefs moderate the relationship between climate change worry and mental wellbeing? (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunbode, C. A., Salmela-Aro, K., Maran, D. A., van den Broek, K., Doran, R., Lins, S., Torres-Marín, J., Navarro-Carrillo, G., Rocchi, G., & Schermer, J. A. (2024). Do neuroticism and efficacy beliefs moderate the relationship between climate change worry and mental wellbeing?. Journal of Affective Disorders, 364, 37-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.08.018

Background: Research on the nature and prevalence of phenomena like climate anxiety (or eco-anxiety) is increasing rapidly but there is little understanding of the conditions under which climate change worry becomes more or less likely to significant... Read More about Do neuroticism and efficacy beliefs moderate the relationship between climate change worry and mental wellbeing?.

The cultural construction of “executive function” (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kroupin, I., Davis, H. E., Burdett, E., Cuata, A. B., Hartley, V., & Henrich, J. The cultural construction of “executive function”

In theory, the term "executive function" (EF) refers to universal features of the mind. Yet, almost all results described as measuring "EF" may actually reflect culturally-specific cognitive capacities. After all, typical EF measures require forms of... Read More about The cultural construction of “executive function”.

Do moral values change with the seasons? (2024)
Journal Article
Hohm, I., O'Shea, B. A., & Schaller, M. (2024). Do moral values change with the seasons?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(33), Article e2313428121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313428121

Moral values guide consequential attitudes and actions. Here, we report evidence of seasonal variation in Americans’ endorsement of some—but not all—moral values. Studies 1 and 2 examined a decade of data from the United States (total N = 232,975) an... Read More about Do moral values change with the seasons?.

Renewal of instrumental avoidance in humans. (2024)
Journal Article
Urcelay, G. P., Symmons, K., Amos, B., Toutounji, H., & Prével, A. (2024). Renewal of instrumental avoidance in humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 50(3), 197–209. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000383

The ABA renewal effect occurs when behaviour is trained in one context (A), extinguished in a second context (B), and test occurs in the training context (A). Two mechanisms that explain ABA renewal are context summation at test and contextual modula... Read More about Renewal of instrumental avoidance in humans..

The role of task on the human brain's responses to, and representation of, visual regularity defined by reflection and rotation (2024)
Journal Article
Zamboni, E., Makin, A. D., Bertamini, M., & Morland, A. B. (2024). The role of task on the human brain's responses to, and representation of, visual regularity defined by reflection and rotation. NeuroImage, 297, Article 120760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120760

Identifying and segmenting objects in an image is generally achieved effortlessly and is facilitated by the presence of symmetry: a principle of perceptual organisation used to interpret sensory inputs from the retina into meaningful representations... Read More about The role of task on the human brain's responses to, and representation of, visual regularity defined by reflection and rotation.

Policy Brief: Autism and Policing (2024)
Report
Ropar, D., & Holloway-George, C. (2024). Policy Brief: Autism and Policing. University of Nottingham

More than one in 100 people in the UK are autistic. Despite the prevalence of autism within society, autistic people face barriers in
their everyday lives. One example of this is within the criminal justice system.

Autistic people are more likely... Read More about Policy Brief: Autism and Policing.

Motor cortex latent dynamics encode spatial and temporal arm movement parameters independently. (2024)
Journal Article
Colins Rodriguez, A., Perich, M. G., Miller, L., & Humphries, M. D. (2024). Motor cortex latent dynamics encode spatial and temporal arm movement parameters independently. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(35), Article e1777232024. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1777-23.2024

The fluid movement of an arm requires multiple spatiotemporal parameters to be set independently. Recent studies have argued that arm movements are generated by the collective dynamics of neurons in motor cortex. An untested prediction of this hypoth... Read More about Motor cortex latent dynamics encode spatial and temporal arm movement parameters independently..

The fear factor: examining the impact of fear on vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs (2024)
Journal Article
Jolley, D., Shepherd, L., & Maughan, A. (2024). The fear factor: examining the impact of fear on vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs. Psychology and Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2381235

Objectives: While anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs can reduce vaccine intentions, longitudinal research shows that vaccine hesitancy can increase conspiracy beliefs. In three experiments (N = 949), we examined the effect of fear about a vaccine on vac... Read More about The fear factor: examining the impact of fear on vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs.

“Going Through Life on Hard Mode”—The Experience of Late Diagnosis of Autism and/or ADHD: A Qualitative Study (2024)
Journal Article
French, B., & Cassidy, S. (2024). “Going Through Life on Hard Mode”—The Experience of Late Diagnosis of Autism and/or ADHD: A Qualitative Study. Autism in Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2024.0085

Background: In the United Kingdom, more than 2.5 million adults with undiagnosed neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), can face difficulties accessing diagnosis and support. Our qualitative... Read More about “Going Through Life on Hard Mode”—The Experience of Late Diagnosis of Autism and/or ADHD: A Qualitative Study.