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The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientiousness and Too Little Anxiety Are Detrimental to the Acquisition of Medical Knowledge and Skill (2014)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Semper, H., Yates, J., Fitzgerald, E., Skatova, A., & James, D. (2014). The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientiousness and Too Little Anxiety Are Detrimental to the Acquisition of Medical Knowledge and Skill. PLoS ONE, 9(9), Article e8860

Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present circumstances. This suggests that traits that are generally viewed as positi... Read More about The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientiousness and Too Little Anxiety Are Detrimental to the Acquisition of Medical Knowledge and Skill.

The Effects of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Vaccination Intentions (2014)
Journal Article
Jolley, D., & Douglas, K. M. (2014). The Effects of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Vaccination Intentions. PLoS ONE, 9(2), Article e89177. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089177

The current studies investigated the potential impact of anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs, and exposure to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, on vaccination intentions. In Study 1, British parents completed a questionnaire measuring beliefs in anti-vac... Read More about The Effects of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Vaccination Intentions.

Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents (2014)
Journal Article
Desrivières, S., the IMAGEN Consortium, Lourdusamy, A., Tao, C., Toro, R., Jia, T., Loth, E., Medina, L. M., Kepa, A., Fernandes, A., Ruggeri, B., Carvalho, F. M., Cocks, G., Banaschewski, T., Barker, G. J., Bokde, A. L. W., Büchel, C., Conrod, P. J., Flor, H., Heinz, A., …Schumann, G. (2015). Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents. Molecular Psychiatry, 20(2), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2013.197

Despite the recognition that cortical thickness is heritable and correlates with intellectual ability in children and adolescents, the genes contributing to individual differences in these traits remain unknown. We conducted a large-scale association... Read More about Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents.

Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology (2014)
Journal Article
Evans, R., & Ferguson, E. (2014). Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology. Vox Sanguinis, 106(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.12080

Background and Objectives
While blood donation is traditionally described as a behaviour motivated by pure altruism, the assessment of altruism in the blood donation literature has not been theoretically informed. Drawing on theories of altruism fro... Read More about Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology.

Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm (2014)
Journal Article
Madan, C. R., & Spetch, M. L. (2014). Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm. F1000Research, 3, 19. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-19.v1

When studying animal behaviour within an open environment, movement-related data are often important for behavioural analyses. Therefore, simple and efficient techniques are needed to present and analyze the data of such movements. However, it is cha... Read More about Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm.

SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English (2014)
Journal Article
van Heuven, W. J., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2014). SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.850521

We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the
SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of
the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based... Read More about SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English.

Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task (2014)
Journal Article
da Silva, B. M., Bast, T., & Morris, R. G. (2014). Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task. Learning and Memory, 21, https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.032169.113

The watermaze delayed matching-to-place (DMP) task was modified to include probe trials, to quantify search preference for the correct place. Using a zone-analysis of search-preference, a gradual decay of one-trial memory in rats was observed over 24... Read More about Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task.

Understanding teaching assistant self-efficacy in role and in training: its susceptibility to influence (2014)
Journal Article
Higgins, H. J., & Gulliford, A. (2014). Understanding teaching assistant self-efficacy in role and in training: its susceptibility to influence. Educational Psychology in Practice, 30(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/02667363.2014.896250

There has been a noted growth in the number of teaching assistants (TAs) in mainstream schools (DfE, 2013a). Research is inconclusive about their efficacy at changing outcomes for children (Alborz et al 2009; Blatchford et al, 2009) and has proposed... Read More about Understanding teaching assistant self-efficacy in role and in training: its susceptibility to influence.

Dissociations in the effect of delay on object recognition: evidence for an associative model of recognition memory (2014)
Journal Article
Tam, S. K., Robinson, J., Jennings, D. J., & Bonardi, C. (2014). Dissociations in the effect of delay on object recognition: evidence for an associative model of recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000003

Rats were administered 3 versions of an object recognition task: In the spontaneous object recognition task (SOR) animals discriminated between a familiar object and a novel object; in the temporal order task they discriminated between 2 familiar obj... Read More about Dissociations in the effect of delay on object recognition: evidence for an associative model of recognition memory.

Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise (2013)
Journal Article
Haselgrove, M., Tam, S. K. E., & Jones, P. M. (2013). Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(4), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032569

Two appetitive conditioning experiments with rats investigated the mechanisms and properties of unblocking that results from the surprising omission of an expected post-trial unconditioned stimulus (US). Experiment 1 demonstrated unblocking under cir... Read More about Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise.

An Analytical Approach to Single Node Delay-Coupled Reservoir Computing (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schumacher, J., Toutounji, H., & Pipa, G. (2013, September). An Analytical Approach to Single Node Delay-Coupled Reservoir Computing. Presented at 23rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Sofia, Bulgaria

Reservoir computing has been successfully applied in difficult time series prediction tasks by injecting an input signal into a spatially extended reservoir of nonlinear subunits to perform history-dependent nonlinear computation. Recently, the netwo... Read More about An Analytical Approach to Single Node Delay-Coupled Reservoir Computing.

Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task (2013)
Journal Article
Kaunitz, L. N., Kamienkowski, J. E., Varatharajah, A., Sigman, M., Quian Quiroga, R., & Ison, M. J. (2014). Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task. NeuroImage, 89, 297-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.006

Despite the compelling contribution of the study of event related potentials (ERPs) and eye movements to cognitive neuroscience, these two approaches have largely evolved independently. We designed an eye-movement visual search paradigm that allowed... Read More about Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task.

Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response? (2013)
Journal Article
Cassidy, S., Ropar, D., Mitchell, P., & Chapman, P. (2014). Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response?. Autism Research, 7(1), 112-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1351

Can adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) infer what happened to someone from their emotional response? Millikan has argued that in everyday life, others' emotions are most commonly used to work out the antecedents of behavior, an ability terme... Read More about Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response?.

Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome (2013)
Journal Article
Draper, A., Jude, L., Jackson, G. M., & Jackson, S. R. (2013). Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome. Journal of Neuropsychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12033

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the occurrence of motor and vocal tics. TS has been linked to the impaired operation of cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuits that give rise to hyper-excitability of cort... Read More about Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome.

Visual motion integration is mediated by directional ambiguities in local motion signals (2013)
Journal Article
Rocchi, F., Ledgeway, T., & Webb, B. S. (2013). Visual motion integration is mediated by directional ambiguities in local motion signals. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 7, Article 167. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2013.00167

The output of primary visual cortex (V1) is a piecemeal representation of the visual scene and the response of any one cell cannot unambiguously guide sensorimotor behavior. It remains unsolved how subsequent stages of cortical processing combine (“p... Read More about Visual motion integration is mediated by directional ambiguities in local motion signals.

Self-Related Consequences of Death Fear and Death Denial (2013)
Journal Article
Cozzolino, P. J., Blackie, L. E., & Meyers, L. S. (2014). Self-Related Consequences of Death Fear and Death Denial. Death Studies, 38(6), 418-422. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2013.780110

This study explores self-related outcomes (e.g., esteem, self-concept clarity, existential well-being) as a function of the interaction between self-reported levels of death fear and death denial. Consistent with the idea that positive existential gr... Read More about Self-Related Consequences of Death Fear and Death Denial.

Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning (2013)
Journal Article
Zhang, W.-N., Bast, T., Yan, X., & Feldon, J. (2014). Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 262, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.044

Studies in rats, involving hippocampal lesions and hippocampal drug infusions, have implicated the hippocampus in the modulation of anxiety-related behaviors and conditioned fear. The ventral hippocampus is considered to be more important for anxiety... Read More about Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning.

Individual differences in the effectiveness of text cohesion for science text comprehension (2013)
Journal Article
Hall, S., Basran, J., Paterson, K. B., Kowalski, R., Filik, R., & Maltby, J. (2014). Individual differences in the effectiveness of text cohesion for science text comprehension. Learning and Individual Differences, 29, 74-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2013.10.014

The present study examined associations between individual differences and comprehension capabilities of secondary school children when reading texts about science topics of varying levels of cohesion (i.e. low versus high cohesion). We administered... Read More about Individual differences in the effectiveness of text cohesion for science text comprehension.