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From ideation to action: differentiating between those who think about suicide and those who attempt suicide in a national study of young adults (2018)
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Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., Eschle, S., Ferguson, E., O’Connor, D. B., O’Carroll, R. E., & O’Connor, R. C. (2018). From ideation to action: differentiating between those who think about suicide and those who attempt suicide in a national study of young adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 241, 475-483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.07.074

Background: Although many suicide risk factors have been identified, there is still relatively little known about the factors that differentiate those who think about suicide from those who make a suicide attempt. Aims: Using the integrated motivat... Read More about From ideation to action: differentiating between those who think about suicide and those who attempt suicide in a national study of young adults.

Vision dominates audition in adults but not children: A meta-analysis of the Colavita effect (2018)
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Hirst, R. J., Cragg, L., & Allen, H. A. (2018). Vision dominates audition in adults but not children: A meta-analysis of the Colavita effect. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 94, 286-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.07.012

The Colavita effect occurs when participants respond only to the visual element of an audio-visual stimulus. This visual dominance effect is proposed to arise from asymmetric facilitation and inhibition between modalities. It has also been proposed t... Read More about Vision dominates audition in adults but not children: A meta-analysis of the Colavita effect.

The moderating effect of trait anxiety on anxiety-related thoughts and actions whilst driving (2018)
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Barnard, M. P., & Chapman, P. (2018). The moderating effect of trait anxiety on anxiety-related thoughts and actions whilst driving. Personality and Individual Differences, 135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.07.027

Whilst there is evidence for the impact of driving anxiety on behaviour, less exists for the impact of trait anxiety; what does exist is inconclusive. The current study explored the possibility that trait anxiety interacts with driving anxiety to imp... Read More about The moderating effect of trait anxiety on anxiety-related thoughts and actions whilst driving.

“They aren’t all like that”: perceptions of clinical services, as told by self-harm online communities (2018)
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Williams, A. J., Nielsen, E., & Coulson, N. S. (2018). “They aren’t all like that”: perceptions of clinical services, as told by self-harm online communities. Journal of Health Psychology, 135910531878840. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318788403

Self-harm is a critical public health issue, with strikingly low rates of attendance to clinical services. By offering support, anonymity, and open discussions, online communities hold useful insights into the factors which influence help-seeking beh... Read More about “They aren’t all like that”: perceptions of clinical services, as told by self-harm online communities.

An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people’s self-harm in the context of interpersonal stressors and supports: parents, peers and clinical services (2018)
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Wadman, R., Vostanis, P., Sayal, K., Majumder, P., Harroe, C., Clarke, D., …Townsend, E. (2018). An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people’s self-harm in the context of interpersonal stressors and supports: parents, peers and clinical services. Social Science and Medicine, 212, 120-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.021

Rationale: Self-harm in young people is of significant clinical concern. Multiple psychological, social and clinical factors contribute to self-harm, but it remains a poorly understood phenomenon with limited effective treatment options. Objective: T... Read More about An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people’s self-harm in the context of interpersonal stressors and supports: parents, peers and clinical services.

Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing (2018)
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Heard, A., Madan, C. R., Protzner, A. B., & Pexman, P. M. (2019). Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1072-1

One of the strategies that researchers have used to investigate the role of sensorimotor information in lexical-semantic processing is to examine effects of words’ rated body-object interaction (BOI; the ease with which the human body can interact wi... Read More about Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing.

Randomized controlled trial of SecondStory, an intervention targeting posttraumatic growth, with bereaved adults (2018)
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Roepke, A. M., Tsukayama, E., Forgeard, M., Blackie, L., & Jayawickreme, E. (2018). Randomized controlled trial of SecondStory, an intervention targeting posttraumatic growth, with bereaved adults. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 86(6), 518-532. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000307

Objective: People often report positive psychological changes after adversity, a phenomenon known as posttraumatic growth (PTG). Few PTG-focused interventions have been rigorously tested, and measurement strategies have had significant limitations. T... Read More about Randomized controlled trial of SecondStory, an intervention targeting posttraumatic growth, with bereaved adults.

Children’s trust in print: what is the impact of late exposure to reading instruction? (2018)
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Einav, S., Rydland, V., Grøver, V., Robinson, E. J., & Harris, P. L. (2018). Children’s trust in print: what is the impact of late exposure to reading instruction?. Infant and Child Development, 27(6), Article e2102. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2102

Prior research in England has indicated that, unlike pre-readers, young children who have learned to decode simple words view print-based information as a more authoritative source of knowledge than purely oral information. We predicted that children... Read More about Children’s trust in print: what is the impact of late exposure to reading instruction?.

Raising early achievement in math with interactive apps: a randomized control trial (2018)
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Outhwaite, L. A., Faulder, M., Gulliford, A., & Pitchford, N. J. (2019). Raising early achievement in math with interactive apps: a randomized control trial. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(2), 284-298. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000286

Improving provision and raising achievement in early math for young children is of national importance. Child-centered apps offer an opportunity to develop strong foundations in learning math as they deliver one-to-one instruction. Reported here is t... Read More about Raising early achievement in math with interactive apps: a randomized control trial.

Mapping the Neural Dynamics of Korean–English Bilinguals With Medium Proficiency During Auditory Word Processing (2018)
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Jung, J., Nam, K., Cho, H., & Kim, S. (2018). Mapping the Neural Dynamics of Korean–English Bilinguals With Medium Proficiency During Auditory Word Processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 983. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00983

Bilingualism is a worldwide phenomenon and provides an opportunity to understand how the brain represents language processing. Although many studies have investigated the neural mechanism of bilingualism, it still remain unclear how brain systems are... Read More about Mapping the Neural Dynamics of Korean–English Bilinguals With Medium Proficiency During Auditory Word Processing.

Modulation of orbitofrontal-striatal reward activity by dopaminergic functional polymorphisms contributes to a predisposition to alcohol misuse in early adolescence (2018)
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Baker, T. E., Castellanos-Ryan, N., Schumann, G., Cattrell, A., Flor, H., Nees, F., …Conrod, P. J. (in press). Modulation of orbitofrontal-striatal reward activity by dopaminergic functional polymorphisms contributes to a predisposition to alcohol misuse in early adolescence. Psychological Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718001459

Background: Abnormalities in reward circuit function are considered a core feature of addiction. Yet, it is still largely unknown whether these abnormalities stem from chronic drug use, a genetic predisposition, or both. Methods: In the present s... Read More about Modulation of orbitofrontal-striatal reward activity by dopaminergic functional polymorphisms contributes to a predisposition to alcohol misuse in early adolescence.

Drivers’ visual search behavior toward vulnerable road users at junctions as a function of cycling experience (2018)
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Robbins, C. J., & Chapman, P. (2018). Drivers’ visual search behavior toward vulnerable road users at junctions as a function of cycling experience. Human Factors, 60(7), 889-901. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720818778960

Objective The current study investigated the behaviour and visual attention of two groups of drivers with differing pedal cycling experience (pedal cyclists and non-pedal cyclists), towards vulnerable road users at junctions in a driving simulator.... Read More about Drivers’ visual search behavior toward vulnerable road users at junctions as a function of cycling experience.

The colorectal surgeon’s personality may influence the rectal anastomotic decision (2018)
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Moug, S., Henderson, N., Tiernan, J., Bisset, C., Ferguson, E., Harji, D., …Fearnhead, N. (2018). The colorectal surgeon’s personality may influence the rectal anastomotic decision. Colorectal Disease, 20(11), 970-980. https://doi.org/10.1111/codi.14293

Aim. Colorectal surgeons regularly make the decision to anastomose, defunction or form an end colostomy when performing rectal surgery. This study aimed to define personality traits of colorectal surgeons and explore any influence of such traits on t... Read More about The colorectal surgeon’s personality may influence the rectal anastomotic decision.

Selective binding of facial features reveals dynamic expression fragments (2018)
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Harrison, C., Binetti, N., Mareschal, I., & Johnston, A. (2018). Selective binding of facial features reveals dynamic expression fragments. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 9031. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27242-2

The temporal correspondence between two arbitrarily chosen pairs of alternating features can generally be reported for rates up to 3–4 Hz. This limit is however surpassed for specialised visual mechanisms that encode conjunctions of features. Here we... Read More about Selective binding of facial features reveals dynamic expression fragments.

Somatotopy in the human somatosensory system (2018)
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Sanchez Panchuelo, R., Besle, J., Schluppeck, D., Humberstone, M., & Francis, S. (2018). Somatotopy in the human somatosensory system. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, Article 235. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00235

Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have demonstrated digit somatotopy in primary somatosensory cortex (SI), and even shown that at high spatial resolution it is possible to resolve within-digit somatotopy. However, fMRI stu... Read More about Somatotopy in the human somatosensory system.

An ensemble code in medial prefrontal cortex links prior events to outcomes during learning (2018)
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Maggi, S., Peyrache, A., & Humphries, M. D. (2018). An ensemble code in medial prefrontal cortex links prior events to outcomes during learning. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 2204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04638-2

The prefrontal cortex is implicated in learning the rules of an environment through trial and error. But it is unclear how such learning is related to the prefrontal cortex’s role in short-term memory. Here we ask if the encoding of short-term memory... Read More about An ensemble code in medial prefrontal cortex links prior events to outcomes during learning.

Ceiling effects in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) suggest that non-parametric scoring methods are required (2018)
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French, B., Sycamore, N. J., McGlashan, H. L., Blanchard, C. C., & Holmes, N. P. (in press). Ceiling effects in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) suggest that non-parametric scoring methods are required. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198426. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198426

Initially designed to identify children's movement impairments in clinical settings, the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) is also widely used to evaluate children's movement in research. Standardised scores on the test are calculat... Read More about Ceiling effects in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) suggest that non-parametric scoring methods are required.

Relationships Between Neuronal Oscillatory Amplitude and Dynamic Functional Connectivity (2018)
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Tewarie, P., Hunt, B. A. E., O'Neill, G. C., Byrne, A., Aquino, K., Bauer, M., …Brookes, M. J. (2018). Relationships Between Neuronal Oscillatory Amplitude and Dynamic Functional Connectivity. Cerebral Cortex, 29(6), 2668-2681. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy136

Event related fluctuations of neural oscillatory amplitude are reported widely in the context of cognitive processing and are typically interpreted as a marker of brain ‘activity’. However, the precise nature of these effects remains unclear; in part... Read More about Relationships Between Neuronal Oscillatory Amplitude and Dynamic Functional Connectivity.

Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm: a national prevalence study of young adults (2018)
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O’Connor, R. C., Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., Eschle, S., Drummond, J., Ferguson, E., …O'Carroll, R. E. (2018). Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm: a national prevalence study of young adults. BJPsych Open, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2018.14

Background: There are few prevalence studies of suicide attempts (SAs) and non-suicidal self-harm (NSSH). Aims: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of thoughts of NSSH, suicidal thoughts, NSSH and SAs among 18-34 year olds in Scotland for t... Read More about Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm: a national prevalence study of young adults.