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Implicit attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) foods: a comparison of context-free and context-dependent evaluations (2006)
Journal Article
Spence, A., & Townsend, E. (2006). Implicit attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) foods: a comparison of context-free and context-dependent evaluations. Appetite, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2005.09.003

Past research on attitudes towards GM food has focused on measuring explicit attitudes. Here we compared implicit attitudes towards GM foods with explicit attitudes towards GM foods. We used the Go No-Go task to investigate context-free implicit eval... Read More about Implicit attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) foods: a comparison of context-free and context-dependent evaluations.

The effect of the adenosine A2A antagonist KW-6002 on motor and motivational processes in the rat (2005)
Journal Article
O’Neill, M., & Brown, V. J. (2006). The effect of the adenosine A2A antagonist KW-6002 on motor and motivational processes in the rat. Psychopharmacology, 184(1), 46-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-005-0240-z

Rationale

It is well established that humans and rats respond to an imperative stimulus more rapidly as a function of the foreperiod preceding the target, and with this decrease in mean response time, there is also an increase in anticipatory (pri... Read More about The effect of the adenosine A2A antagonist KW-6002 on motor and motivational processes in the rat.

Seeing it my way: a case of a selective deficit in inhibiting self-perspective (2005)
Journal Article
Samson, D., Apperly, I. A., Kathirgamanathan, U., & Humphreys, G. W. (2005). Seeing it my way: a case of a selective deficit in inhibiting self-perspective. Brain, 128(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh464

Little is known about the functional and neural architecture of social reasoning, one major obstacle being that we crucially lack the relevant tools to test potentially different social reasoning components. In the case of belief reasoning, previous... Read More about Seeing it my way: a case of a selective deficit in inhibiting self-perspective.

Poor encoding of position by contrast-defined motion (2004)
Journal Article
Allen, H. A., Ledgeway, T., & Hess, R. F. (2004). Poor encoding of position by contrast-defined motion. Vision Research, 44(17), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2004.03.025

Second-order (contrast-defined) motion stimuli lead to poor performance on a number of tasks, including discriminating form from motion and visual search. To investigate this deficiency, we tested the ability of human observers to monitor multiple re... Read More about Poor encoding of position by contrast-defined motion.

Visual mechanisms of motion analysis and motion perception (2003)
Journal Article
Derrington, A., Allen, H. A., & Delicato, L. (2003). Visual mechanisms of motion analysis and motion perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141903

Psychophysical experiments on feature tracking suggest that most of our sensitivity to chromatic motion and to second-order motion depends on feature tracking. There is no reason to suppose that the visual system contains motion sensors dedicated to... Read More about Visual mechanisms of motion analysis and motion perception.

Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients (2003)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Lincoln, N. B., & Clarke, D. D. (2003). Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients. Clinical Rehabilitation, 17(3), 312-317. https://doi.org/10.1191/0269215503cr613oa

Objective: To test the ability of a previously generated logistic regression model to predict caregiver strain from carer mood, negative affectivity and perceived patient functional ability.

Design: Postal prospective survey.

Setting: Spouses o... Read More about Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients.

Is Experts' Knowledge Modular? (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gobet, F. Is Experts' Knowledge Modular?. Presented at Proceedings of the 23rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This paper explores, both with empirical data and with computer simulations, the extent to which modularity characterises experts' knowledge. We discuss a replication of Chase and Simon's (1973) classic method of identifying 'chunks', i.e., perceptua... Read More about Is Experts' Knowledge Modular?.

There is more than one way to solve a problem: Evaluating a learning environment that supports the development of children's multiplication skills (1998)
Journal Article
Ainsworth, S., Wood, D., & O'Malley, C. (1998). There is more than one way to solve a problem: Evaluating a learning environment that supports the development of children's multiplication skills. Learning and Instruction, 8(2), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4752%2897%2900013-3

Interpretation of the nature of mathematical understanding has changed recently. These changes have prompted calls for different instructional methods in the primary classroom. COPPERS is a mathematical learning environment which explores how such go... Read More about There is more than one way to solve a problem: Evaluating a learning environment that supports the development of children's multiplication skills.

The inverse forecast effect (1997)
Journal Article
Clarke, D., & Blake, H. (1997). The inverse forecast effect

Social behaviour depends crucially on the way events are linked over time, and on how these linkages are perceived. From a given event, people may be able to infer what followed, or what preceded it. However these two tasks are not as similar as they... Read More about The inverse forecast effect.

On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model (1995)
Journal Article
Wood, D., Wood, H., Ainsworth, S., & O’Malley, C. (1995). On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model. Cognition and Instruction, 13(4), 565-581. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1304_7

Eight pairs of girls and 8 pairs of boys at each of three age groups (3, 5, and 7 years) took part in a three-phase investigation. One child in each pair was taught how to assemble a construction task by a computer-assisted tutoring system. That chil... Read More about On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model.

What’s special about the ethical challenges of studying disorders with altered brain activity?
Book Chapter
Cassaday, H. J. What’s special about the ethical challenges of studying disorders with altered brain activity?. In G. Lee, J. Illes, & F. Ohl (Eds.), Ethical issues in behavioral neuroscience. Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2014_333

Where there is no viable alternative, studies of neuronal activity are conducted on animals. The use of animals, particularly for invasive studies of the brain, raises a number of ethical issues. Practical or normative ethics are enforced by legislat... Read More about What’s special about the ethical challenges of studying disorders with altered brain activity?.

Effects of SKF-83566 and haloperidol on performance on progressive ratio schedules maintained by sucrose and corn oil reinforcement: quantitative analysis using a new model derived from the Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement (MPR)
Journal Article
Olarte-Sánchez, C., Valencia-Torres, L., Cassaday, H. J., Bradshaw, C., & Szabadi, E. Effects of SKF-83566 and haloperidol on performance on progressive ratio schedules maintained by sucrose and corn oil reinforcement: quantitative analysis using a new model derived from the Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement (MPR). Psychopharmacology, 230(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-013-3189-3

Rationale
Mathematical models can assist the interpretation of the effects of interventions on schedule-controlled behaviour and help to differentiate between processes that may be confounded in traditional performance measures such as response rate... Read More about Effects of SKF-83566 and haloperidol on performance on progressive ratio schedules maintained by sucrose and corn oil reinforcement: quantitative analysis using a new model derived from the Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement (MPR).

Effect of orexin-B-saporin-induced lesions of the lateral hypothalamus on performance on a progressive ratio schedule
Journal Article
Olarte-Sánchez, C., Valencia Torres, L., Body, S., Cassaday, H. J., Bradshaw, C., & Szabadi, E. Effect of orexin-B-saporin-induced lesions of the lateral hypothalamus on performance on a progressive ratio schedule. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 26(6), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881111409607

It has been suggested that a sub-population of orexinergic neurones whose somata lie in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) play an important role in regulating the reinforcing value of both food and drugs. This experiment examined the effect of disr... Read More about Effect of orexin-B-saporin-induced lesions of the lateral hypothalamus on performance on a progressive ratio schedule.

Spontaneous evaluations: similarities and differences between the affect heuristic and implicit attitudes
Journal Article
Spence, A., & Townsend, E. Spontaneous evaluations: similarities and differences between the affect heuristic and implicit attitudes. Cognition and Emotion, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930701298432

The affect heuristic and implicit attitudes are two separate concepts that have arisen within different literatures but that have a number of similarities. This paper compares these two constructs with the aim of clarifying exactly what they are and... Read More about Spontaneous evaluations: similarities and differences between the affect heuristic and implicit attitudes.

Discrimination and identification of azimuth using spectral shape
Journal Article
Shub, D. E., Carr, S. P., Kong, Y., & Colburn, H. S. Discrimination and identification of azimuth using spectral shape. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124(5), https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2981634

Monaural measurements of minimum audible angle (MAA) (discrimination between two locations) and absolute identification (AI) of azimuthal locations in the frontal horizontal plane are reported. All experiments used roving-level fixed-spectral-shape s... Read More about Discrimination and identification of azimuth using spectral shape.