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Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model (2022)
Journal Article
Ibáñez de Aldecoa, P., Burdett, E., & Gustafsson, E. (2022). Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model. Developmental Review, 66, Article 101051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2022.101051

Phenomena such as engagement, attention and curiosity rely heavily on the “optimal-level of stimulation (or arousal)” model, which suggests they are driven by stimuli being neither too simple nor too complex. Two points often overlooked in psychology... Read More about Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model.

Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body (2022)
Journal Article
Meregalli, V., Tenconi, E., Madan, C. R., Somà, E., Meneguzzo, P., Ceccato, E., …Collantoni, E. (2023). Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 77(2), 94-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13501

Aim Recent evidence suggests that the body image disturbance often observed in patients with anorexia nervosa also extends to the body schema. According to the embodiment approach, the body schema is not only involved in motor execution, but also in... Read More about Beyond body image: what body schema and motor imagery can tell us about the way patients with anorexia nervosa experience their body.

Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out (2022)
Journal Article
Mason, A., Madan, C. R., Freas, C. A., Simonsen, N., Ludvig, E. A., & Spetch, M. L. (2022). Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out. Decision, 10(1), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000197

When deciding between different courses of action, both the potential outcomes and the costs of making a choice should be considered. These costs include the cognitive and physical effort of the different options. In many decision contexts, the outco... Read More about Risky choice and memory for effort: Hard work stands out.

Non-invasive brain stimulation modulates GABAergic activity in neurofibromatosis 1 (2022)
Journal Article
Garg, S., Williams, S., Jung, J., Pobric, G., Nandi, T., Lim, B., …Stivaros, S. (2022). Non-invasive brain stimulation modulates GABAergic activity in neurofibromatosis 1. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 18297. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21907-9

Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a single-gene disorder associated with cognitive phenotypes common to neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism. GABAergic dysregulation underlies working memory impairments seen in NF1. This mechanistic experimental s... Read More about Non-invasive brain stimulation modulates GABAergic activity in neurofibromatosis 1.

Effects of face repetition on ventral visual stream connectivity using dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data (2022)
Journal Article
Lee, S. M., Tibon, R., Zeidman, P., Yadav, P. S., & Henson, R. (2022). Effects of face repetition on ventral visual stream connectivity using dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data. NeuroImage, 264, Article 119708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119708

Stimulus repetition normally causes reduced neural activity in brain regions that process that stimulus. Some theories claim that this “repetition suppression” reflects local mechanisms such as neuronal fatigue or sharpening within a region, whereas... Read More about Effects of face repetition on ventral visual stream connectivity using dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data.

Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2022)
Journal Article
Tunney, R. J., & James, R. (2022). Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Royal Society Open Science, 9(10), Article 220102. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220102

We report the results of a pre-registered analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing that was designed to test the hypothesis that economic scarcity is associated with individual differences in decision-making. We tested this hypo... Read More about Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study (2022)
Journal Article
Yasdiman, M. B., Townsend, E., & Blackie, L. E. R. (2022). Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 998836. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.998836

Research has found an inverse relationship between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and suicidal ideation in military and community samples that holds when controlling for other suicide risk factors. However, further research is needed into the underlying... Read More about Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study.

Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms (2022)
Journal Article
Viidu, D. A., Ferguson, E., Kaart, T., & Mõtus, K. (2022). Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 959548. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.959548

Although calf mortality is a multifactorial problem, little is known about the attitudes and personalities of calf care workers (CCWs) and their association with calf mortality. This study aimed to describe the attitudes, satisfaction, and personalit... Read More about Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms.

An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research (2022)
Journal Article
Richie-Halford, A., Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., Covitz, S., Franco, A. R., …Rokem, A. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data, 9, Article 616. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7

We created a set of resources to enable research based on openly-available diffusion MRI (dMRI) data from the Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study. First, we curated the HBN dMRI data (N = 2747) into the Brain Imaging Data Structure and preprocessed it... Read More about An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research.

The spatial properties of adaptation-induced distance compression (2022)
Journal Article
Jovanovic, L., McGraw, P. V., Roach, N. W., & Johnston, A. (2022). The spatial properties of adaptation-induced distance compression. Journal of Vision, 22(11), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.11.7

Exposure to a dynamic texture reduces the perceived separation between objects, altering the mapping between physical relations in the environment and their neural representations. Here we investigated the spatial tuning and spatial frame of referenc... Read More about The spatial properties of adaptation-induced distance compression.

Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation (2022)
Journal Article
Lee, S. T., van Heuven, W. J., Price, J. M., & Leong, C. X. R. (2023). Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation. Behavior Research Methods, 55, Article 3585-3601. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01977-3

Translation equivalents are widely used in bilingual research concerning word processing (e.g., Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013; Jouravlev & Jared, 2020) and second-language vocabulary learning (e.g., Bracken et al., 2017; Degani et al., 2014). Although t... Read More about Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation.

The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China (2022)
Journal Article
Howell, J. L., Sweeny, K., Hua, J., Werntz, A., Hussain, M., Hinojosa, B. M., …Teachman, B. A. (2022). The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China. Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001163

Uncertainty about the future often leads to worries about what the future will bring, which can have negative consequences for health and well-being. However, if worry can act as a motivator to promote efforts to prevent undesirable future outcomes,... Read More about The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China.

Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries (2022)
Journal Article
Ogunbode, C., Doran, R., Hanss, D., Ojala, M., Salmela-Aro, K., van den Broek, K. L., …Karasu, M. (2022). Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, Article 101887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101887

This study explored the correlates of climate anxiety in a diverse range of national contexts. We analysed cross-sectional data gathered in 32 countries (N = 12,246). Our results show that climate anxiety is positively related to rate of exposure to... Read More about Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries.

Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude (2022)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Burdett, E. (2122). Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 9(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2022-0009

This article considers the social evolutionary research on gratitude and reciprocity and focuses on two mechanisms, upstream reciprocity and increased gratitude to strangers, that have strong consonance with various theological accounts of gift-givin... Read More about Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude.

Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review (2022)
Journal Article
James, R. J., Dixon, G., Dragomir, M. G., Thirlwell, E., & Hitcham, L. (2023). Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review. Addictive Behaviors, 137, Article 107503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107503

It has been claimed that smartphone usage constitutes a behavioral addiction, characterised by compulsive, excessive use of one's phone and psychological withdrawal or distress when the phone is absent. However, there is uncertainty about key phenome... Read More about Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review.

Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories? (2022)
Working Paper
Wardell, V., Jameson, T. J., Bontkes, O., Le, M. L., Duan, T., St. Jacques, P. L., …Palombo, D. Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories?

Memories of our personal past are not exact accounts of what occurred. Instead, memory reconstructs the past in adaptive–though not always faithful–ways. Using a naturalistic design, here we asked how the visual perspective adopted in the mind’s eye... Read More about Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories?.

Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant (2022)
Journal Article
Cutter, M. G., Paterson, K. B., & Filik, R. (2023). Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant. British Journal of Psychology, 114(1), 39-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12594

Controversy exists as to whether, compared to young adults, older adults are more, equally or less likely to make linguistic predictions while reading. While previous studies have examined age effects on the prediction of upcoming words, the predicti... Read More about Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant.

Strong perceptual consequences of low-level visual predictions: A new illusion (2022)
Journal Article
Jovanovic, L., Trichanh, M., Martin, B., & Giersch, A. (2023). Strong perceptual consequences of low-level visual predictions: A new illusion. Cognition, 230, Article 105279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105279

Predicting information is considered to be an efficient strategy to minimise processing costs by exploiting regularities in the environment, and to allow for adaptation in case of irregularities, i.e. prediction errors. How such errors impact conscio... Read More about Strong perceptual consequences of low-level visual predictions: A new illusion.

Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task (2022)
Journal Article
French, B., Di Chiaro, N. V., & Holmes, N. P. (2022). Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task. Experimental Brain Research, 240, 2715-2723. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06450-3

The grating orientation discrimination task (GOT) is a sensitive and reliable measure of tactile spatial resolution, or acuity. We used the GOT in three experiments to investigate the effects of hand posture and hand visibility on spatial acuity. Par... Read More about Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task.