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Measurement properties of tools used to assess suicidality in autistic and general population adults: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Cassidy, S. A., Bradley, L. A., Bowen, E., Wigham, S., & Rodgers, J. (2018). Measurement properties of tools used to assess suicidality in autistic and general population adults: a systematic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 62, 56-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.05.002

Adults diagnosed with autism are at significantly increased risk of suicidal thoughts, suicidal behaviours and dying by suicide. However, it is unclear whether any validated tools are currently available to effectively assess suicidality in autistic... Read More about Measurement properties of tools used to assess suicidality in autistic and general population adults: a systematic review.

What do young adolescents think about taking part in longitudinal self-harm research?: findings from a school-based study (2018)
Journal Article
Lockwood, J., Townsend, E., Royes, L., Daley, D., & Sayal, K. (2018). What do young adolescents think about taking part in longitudinal self-harm research?: findings from a school-based study. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 12(23), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-018-0230-7

Background: Research about self-harm in adolescence is important given the high incidence in youth, and strong links to suicide and other poor outcomes. Clarifying the impact of involvement in school based self-harm studies on young adolescents is an... Read More about What do young adolescents think about taking part in longitudinal self-harm research?: findings from a school-based study.

Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals (2018)
Journal Article
Wen, Y., Filik, R., & van Heuven, W. J. (in press). Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 6869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25072-w

Silent word reading leads to the activation of orthographic (spelling), meaning, as well as phonological (sound) information. For bilinguals, native language information can also be activated automatically when they read words in their second languag... Read More about Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals.

“I am Rwandan”: unity and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda (2018)
Journal Article
Blackie, L. E., & Hitchcott, N. (2018). “I am Rwandan”: unity and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.1.1480

Drawing on a corpus of ten oral interviews with survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, we examine how the government’s policy of unity and reconciliation has shaped post-genocide identities and intergroup relatio... Read More about “I am Rwandan”: unity and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda.

Predictive coding of the statistical parameters of uncertain rewards by orbitofrontal neurons (2018)
Journal Article
O’Neill, M., & Schultz, W. (2018). Predictive coding of the statistical parameters of uncertain rewards by orbitofrontal neurons. Behavioural Brain Research, 355, 90-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.04.041

Uncertain reward outcomes are characterised by statistical parameters that capture the numerical values of the underlying probability distributions of reward values, including the expected value, risk (variance) and probability. Here we show coding o... Read More about Predictive coding of the statistical parameters of uncertain rewards by orbitofrontal neurons.

Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees (2018)
Journal Article
Tsoi, M., Teitge, B. D., Madan, C. R., & Francescutti, L. H. (2018). Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees. F1000Research, 5, Article 1903. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9026.2

To pursue research, education, and health policy in one’s career, broadly defined as academic medicine, is one of the most important decisions of a trainee doctor’s career. Despite this, there is scant literature on which factors influence trainees’... Read More about Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees.

Positive Clinical Psychology and Schema Therapy (ST): the development of the Young Positive Schema Questionnaire (YPSQ) to complement the Young Schema Questionnaire 3 Short Form (YSQ-S3) (2018)
Journal Article
Louis, J. P., Wood, A. M., Lockwood, G., Ho, M. R., & Ferguson, E. (2018). Positive Clinical Psychology and Schema Therapy (ST): the development of the Young Positive Schema Questionnaire (YPSQ) to complement the Young Schema Questionnaire 3 Short Form (YSQ-S3). Psychological Assessment, 30(9), 1199-1213. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000567

Negative schemas have been widely recognized as being linked to psychopathology and mental health, and they are central to the Schema Therapy (ST) model. This study is the first to report on the psychometric properties of the Young Positive Schema Qu... Read More about Positive Clinical Psychology and Schema Therapy (ST): the development of the Young Positive Schema Questionnaire (YPSQ) to complement the Young Schema Questionnaire 3 Short Form (YSQ-S3).

Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia (2018)
Journal Article
Humphries, M. D., Obeso, J. A., & Dreyer, J. K. (2018). Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2017-315922

Movement disorders arise from the complex interplay of multiple changes to neural circuits. Successful treatments for these disorders could interact with these complex changes in myriad ways, and as a consequence their mechanisms of action and their... Read More about Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia.

Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography (2018)
Journal Article
Sigurdsson, H. P., Pépés, S. E., Jackson, G. M., Draper, A., Morgan, P. S., & Jackson, S. R. (2018). Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography. Cortex, 104, 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.04.004

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by repetitive and intermittent motor and vocal tics. TS is thought to reflect fronto-striatal dysfunction and the aetiology of the disorder has been linked to widespread alteration... Read More about Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography.

General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer (2018)
Journal Article
James, R. J. E., Walsh, D. A., & Ferguson, E. (2018). General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer. BMC Medicine, 16, Article 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1031-9

Background: While the heterogeniety of pain progression has been studied in chronic diseases, it is unclear the extent to which patterns of pain progression among people in general as well as across different diseases impacts on social, civic and po... Read More about General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer.

Treatment as usual (TAU) as a control condition in trials of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapy for self-harm: impact of content and quality on outcomes in a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Witt, K., de Moraes, D. P., Salisbury, T. T., Arensman, E., Gunnell, D., Hazell, P., …Hawton, K. (2018). Treatment as usual (TAU) as a control condition in trials of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapy for self-harm: impact of content and quality on outcomes in a systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.04.025

Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the mainstay of evaluations of the efficacy of psychosocial interventions. In a recent Cochrane systematic review we analysed the efficacy of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapies compared t... Read More about Treatment as usual (TAU) as a control condition in trials of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapy for self-harm: impact of content and quality on outcomes in a systematic review.

Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling (2018)
Journal Article
Wen, Y., & van Heuven, W. J. (2018). Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.03.004

Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence suggests that Chinese translations of English words are automatically activated when Chinese-English bilinguals read English words (e.g., Thierry & Wu, 2007; Wu & Thierry, 2010; Zhang, van Heuven, & Conkl... Read More about Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling.

Criterion-free measurement of motion transparency perception at different speeds (2018)
Journal Article
Rocchi, F., Ledgeway, T., & Webb, B. S. (2018). Criterion-free measurement of motion transparency perception at different speeds. Journal of Vision, 18(4), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.4.5

Transparency perception often occurs when objects within the visual scene partially occlude each other or move at the same time, at different velocities across the same spatial region. Although transparent motion perception has been extensively studi... Read More about Criterion-free measurement of motion transparency perception at different speeds.

A probabilistic, distributed, recursive mechanism for decision-making in the brain (2018)
Journal Article
Caballero, J. A., Humphries, M. D., & Gurney, K. N. (2018). A probabilistic, distributed, recursive mechanism for decision-making in the brain. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(4), Article e1006033. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006033

Decision formation recruits many brain regions, but the procedure they jointly execute is unknown. Here we characterize its essential composition, using as a framework a novel recursive Bayesian algorithm that makes decisions based on spike-trains wi... Read More about A probabilistic, distributed, recursive mechanism for decision-making in the brain.

Does observability affect prosociality? (2018)
Journal Article
Bradley, A., Lawrence, C., & Ferguson, E. (2018). Does observability affect prosociality?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1875), Article 20180116. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0116

The observation of behaviour is a key theoretical parameter underlying a number of models of prosociality. However, the empirical findings showing the effect of observability on prosociality are mixed. In this meta-analysis, we explore the boundary c... Read More about Does observability affect prosociality?.

Neural networks and neurocomputational modeling (2018)
Book Chapter
Toutounji, H., Hertäg, L., & Durstewitz, D. (2018). Neural networks and neurocomputational modeling. In . E. Wagenmakers (Ed.), Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Vol. V: Methodology. (4th edition). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119170174.epcn517

This chapter reviews methods of neurocomputational modeling, ranging from biophysically detailed single neuron and synapse models to connectionist?style, abstract network formalisms. These methods form an arsenal of mathematical tools that draw on dy... Read More about Neural networks and neurocomputational modeling.

Visual crowding is unaffected by adaptation-induced spatial compression (2018)
Journal Article
Chambers, A. L., Roach, N. W., & Johnston, A. (2018). Visual crowding is unaffected by adaptation-induced spatial compression. Journal of Vision, 18(3), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.3.12

It has recently been shown that adapting to a densely textured stimulus alters the perception of visual space, such that the distance between two points subsequently presented in the adapted region appears reduced (Hisakata, Nishida, & Johnston, 2016... Read More about Visual crowding is unaffected by adaptation-induced spatial compression.

Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice (2018)
Journal Article
Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., McMillan, N., Xu, Y., & Spetch, M. L. (2018). Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(12), 1905-1918. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000414

© 2018 American Psychological Association. Extreme stimuli are often more salient in perception and memory than moderate stimuli. In risky choice, when people learn the odds and outcomes from experience, the extreme outcomes (best and worst) also sta... Read More about Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice.

New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males (2018)
Journal Article
Ralph-Nearman, C., & Filik, R. (in press). New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males. American Journal of Men's Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988318763516

The aim of the current study was to develop, test, and re-test two new male body dissatisfaction scales: The Male Body Scale (MBS; consisting of emaciated to obese figures) and the Male Fit Body Scale (MFBS; consisting of emaciated to muscular figure... Read More about New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males.

Multisensory perception: magnetic disruption of attention in human parietal lobe (2018)
Journal Article
Holmes, N. P., & Tamè, L. (in press). Multisensory perception: magnetic disruption of attention in human parietal lobe. Current Biology, 28(6), Article R259-R261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.078

Paying attention to sounds and touches at the same time is demanding. New research shows how the parietal lobe of the human brain mediates multisensory perception of stimulus frequency and intensity