Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations (2016)
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Garrison, J., Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Smailes, D., Fernyhough, C., & Simons, J. (2017). Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations. Cortex, 91, 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.11.011

People with schizophrenia who hallucinate show impairments in reality monitoring (the ability to distinguish internally generated information from information obtained from external sources) compared to non-hallucinating patients and healthy individu... Read More about Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations.

Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos (2016)
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Schamberg, I., Cheney, D. L., Clay, Z., Hohmann, G., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2016). Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos. Animal Behaviour, 122, 109-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.10.003

The vocal repertoire of nonhuman primates is largely fixed. Individuals produce their species-specific vocalizations from a young age, and do not acquire new call types over their lifetime. Despite these limitations, however, monkeys and apes are abl... Read More about Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos.

A Comparison Between Bonobos and Chimpanzees: A Review and Update (2016)
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Gruber, T., & Clay, Z. (2016). A Comparison Between Bonobos and Chimpanzees: A Review and Update. Evolutionary Anthropology, 25(5), 239-252. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21501

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (P. paniscus) are our closest living relatives, with the human lineage diverging from the Pan lineage only around five to seven Mya, but possibly as early as eight Mya.1–2 Chimpanzees and bonobos even share g... Read More about A Comparison Between Bonobos and Chimpanzees: A Review and Update.

Visual attention and academic performance in children with developmental disabilities and behavioural attention deficits (2016)
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Kirk, H. E., Gray, K., Riby, D. M., Taffe, J., & Cornish, K. M. (2016). Visual attention and academic performance in children with developmental disabilities and behavioural attention deficits. Developmental Science, 20(6), Article e12468. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12468

Despite well-documented attention deficits in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), distinctions across types of attention problems and their association with academic attainment has not been fully explored. This study exam... Read More about Visual attention and academic performance in children with developmental disabilities and behavioural attention deficits.

Sensory Atypicalities in Dyads of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Their Parents (2016)
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Glod, M., Riby, D., Honey, E., & Rodgers, J. (2017). Sensory Atypicalities in Dyads of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Their Parents. Autism Research, 10(3), 531-538. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1680

Sensory atypicalities are a common feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To date, the relationship between sensory atypicalities in dyads of children with ASD and their parents has not been investigated. Exploring these relationships can contrib... Read More about Sensory Atypicalities in Dyads of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Their Parents.

A systematic review of the evidence for hyporesponsivity in ASD (2016)
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Watts, S., Rodgers, J., & Riby, D. (2016). A systematic review of the evidence for hyporesponsivity in ASD. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 3(4), 286-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-016-0084-y

Sensory modulation difficulties are common in children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Whilst both hyporesponsivity and hyperresponsivity have been established in ASD comparative to typically developing controls, it has been proposed that hypore... Read More about A systematic review of the evidence for hyporesponsivity in ASD.

Personal space regulation in Williams syndrome: The effect of familiarity (2016)
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Lough, E., Flynn, E., & Riby, D. (2016). Personal space regulation in Williams syndrome: The effect of familiarity. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(10), 3207-3215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2864-8

Personal space refers to a protective barrier that we strive to maintain around our body. We examined personal space regulation in young people with Williams syndrome (WS) and their typically developing, chronological age-matched peers using a parent... Read More about Personal space regulation in Williams syndrome: The effect of familiarity.

The developmental trajectory of parent-report and objective sleep profiles in autism spectrum disorder: Associations with anxiety and bedtime routines (2016)
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Fletcher, F., Foster-Owens, M., Conduit, R., Rinehart, N., Riby, D., & Cornish, K. (2017). The developmental trajectory of parent-report and objective sleep profiles in autism spectrum disorder: Associations with anxiety and bedtime routines. Autism, 21(4), 493-503. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361316653365

The present study compared the course of parent-report and actigraphy-derived sleep profiles over a 1-year period, in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children. The Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire and 1... Read More about The developmental trajectory of parent-report and objective sleep profiles in autism spectrum disorder: Associations with anxiety and bedtime routines.

Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations (2016)
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Alderson-Day, B., Diederen, K., Fernyhough, C., Ford, J. M., Horga, G., Margulies, D. S., …Jardri, R. (2016). Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 42(5), 1110-1123. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw078

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the potential for alterations to the brain’s resting-state networks (RSNs) to explain various kinds of psychopathology. RSNs provide an intriguing new explanatory framework for hallucinations, wh... Read More about Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations.

Parent insights into atypicalities of social approach behaviour in Williams syndrome (2016)
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Lough, E., Rodgers, J., Janes, E., Little, K., & Riby, D. (2016). Parent insights into atypicalities of social approach behaviour in Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 60(11), 1097-1108. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.12279

Background Individuals with Williams syndrome have been reported to show high levels of social interest and a desire to interact with others irrespective of their familiarity. This high social motivation, when combined with reduced intellectual capac... Read More about Parent insights into atypicalities of social approach behaviour in Williams syndrome.

Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech (2016)
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Hurlburt, R. T., Alderson-Day, B., Kühn, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech. PLoS ONE, 11(2), Article e0147932. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147932

Psychology and cognitive neuroscience often use standardized tasks to elicit particular experiences. We explore whether elicited experiences are similar to spontaneous experiences. In an MRI scanner, five participants performed tasks designed to elic... Read More about Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech.

Bonobos (Pan paniscus) vocally protest against violations of social expectations (2016)
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Clay, Z., Ravaux, L., de Waal, F. B., & Zuberbühler, K. (2016). Bonobos (Pan paniscus) vocally protest against violations of social expectations. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130(1), 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040088

Research has shown that great apes possess certain expectations about social regularities and both perceive and act according to social rules within their group. During natural and experimentally induced contexts, such as the inequitable distribution... Read More about Bonobos (Pan paniscus) vocally protest against violations of social expectations.

Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions (2016)
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Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Ellison, A., Jardri, R., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, Article 515. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00515

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are the experience of hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker. Results from recent attempts to treat AVHs with neurostimulation (rTMS or tDCS) to the left temporoparietal junction have not been conclusive,... Read More about Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions.

Obstacles and catalysts to peaceful coexistence in chimpanzees and bonobos. (2016)
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Clay, Z., de Waal, F. B., & Furuichi, T. (2016). Obstacles and catalysts to peaceful coexistence in chimpanzees and bonobos. Behaviour, 153(9-11), 1293-1330. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003335

As our closest living relatives, comparisons of the social lives and behavioural ecologies of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) provide relevant insights into the evolutionary constraints of peaceful coexistence in Hominid soci... Read More about Obstacles and catalysts to peaceful coexistence in chimpanzees and bonobos..

Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how? (2016)
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Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(7-8), 163-194

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are experiences of hearing voices in the absence of an external speaker. Standard explanatory models propose that AVH arise from misattributed verbal cognitions (i.e. inner speech), but provide little account of h... Read More about Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?.