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Evidence That a Brief Meditation Exercise Can Reduce Prejudice Toward Homeless People. (2014)
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Parks, S., Birtel, M. D., & Crisp, R. J. (2014). Evidence That a Brief Meditation Exercise Can Reduce Prejudice Toward Homeless People. Social Psychology, 45(6), 458-465. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000212

Recent research has shown that integrating social and clinical psychological perspectives can be effective when designing prejudice-interventions, with psychotherapeutic techniques successful at tackling anxiety in intergroup contexts. This research... Read More about Evidence That a Brief Meditation Exercise Can Reduce Prejudice Toward Homeless People..

Real-time fMRI brain-computer interface: development of a "motivational feedback" subsystem for the regulation of visual cue reactivity (2014)
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Sokunbi, M., Linden, D., Habes, I., Johnston, S., & Ihssen, N. (2014). Real-time fMRI brain-computer interface: development of a "motivational feedback" subsystem for the regulation of visual cue reactivity. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, Article 392. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00392

Here we present a novel neurofeedback subsystem for the presentation of motivationally relevant visual feedback during the self-regulation of functional brain activation. Our “motivational neurofeedback” approach uses functional magnetic resonance im... Read More about Real-time fMRI brain-computer interface: development of a "motivational feedback" subsystem for the regulation of visual cue reactivity.

Deletion of α-neurexin II results in autism-related behaviors in mice (2014)
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Dachtler, J., Glasper, J., Cohen, R., Ivorra, J., Swiffen, D., Jackson, A., …Clapcote, S. (2014). Deletion of α-neurexin II results in autism-related behaviors in mice. Translational Psychiatry, 4(11), Article e484. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2014.123

Autism is a common and frequently disabling neurodevelopmental disorder with a strong genetic basis. Human genetic studies have discovered mutations disrupting exons of the NRXN2 gene, which encodes the synaptic adhesion protein α-neurexin II (Nrxn2α... Read More about Deletion of α-neurexin II results in autism-related behaviors in mice.

Body-selective areas in the visual cortex are less active in children than in adults (2014)
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Ross, P., de Gelder, B., Crabbe, F., & Grosbras, M. (2014). Body-selective areas in the visual cortex are less active in children than in adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 941. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00941

Our ability to read other people’s non-verbal signals gets refined throughout childhood and adolescence. How this is paralleled by brain development has been investigated mainly with regards to face perception, showing a protracted functional develop... Read More about Body-selective areas in the visual cortex are less active in children than in adults.

Colour constancy for an unseen surface (2014)
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Norman, L., Akins, K., Heywood, C., & Kentridge, R. (2014). Colour constancy for an unseen surface. Current Biology, 24(23), 2822-2826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.009

The illumination of a scene strongly affects our perception of objects in that scene, e.g., the pages of a book illuminated by candlelight will appear quite yellow relative to other types of artificial illuminants. Yet at the same time, the reader st... Read More about Colour constancy for an unseen surface.

Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation (2014)
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Buckley, M., Smith, A., & Haselgrove, M. (2015). Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(6), 1183-1202. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.977925

A number of navigational theories state that learning about landmark information should not interfere with learning about shape information provided by the boundary walls of an environment. A common test of such theories has been to assess whether la... Read More about Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation.

The perception of gloss: A review (2014)
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Chadwick, A., & Kentridge, R. (2015). The perception of gloss: A review. Vision Research, 109(Part B), 221-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2014.10.026

Gloss is a relatively little studied visual property of objects’ surfaces. The earliest recorded scientific reference to gloss appears to have been by Ingersoll in 1921: studies at this time were based on the assumption that gloss could be understood... Read More about The perception of gloss: A review.

Reciprocal Influences Between Negative Life Events and Callous-Unemotional Traits (2014)
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Kimonis, E., Centifanti, L., Allen, J., & Frick, P. (2014). Reciprocal Influences Between Negative Life Events and Callous-Unemotional Traits. Journal of abnormal child psychology (Dordrecht. Online), 42(8), 1287-1298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9882-9

Children with conduct problems and co-occurring callous-unemotional (CU) traits show more severe, stable, and aggressive antisocial behaviors than those without CU traits. Exposure to negative life events has been identified as an important contribut... Read More about Reciprocal Influences Between Negative Life Events and Callous-Unemotional Traits.

The effect of US signalling and the US–CS interval on backward conditioning in mice (2014)
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Sanderson, D. J., Cuell, S. F., & Bannerman, D. M. (2014). The effect of US signalling and the US–CS interval on backward conditioning in mice. Learning and Motivation, 48, 22-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2014.08.002

The effect of US signalling and the US–CS interval in backward conditioning was assessed in mice. For one group of mice the presentation of food was signalled by a tone and for another group, food was unsignalled. For half of the mice, within each gr... Read More about The effect of US signalling and the US–CS interval on backward conditioning in mice.

The effect of dynamic proximity cues on counterfactual plausibility (2014)
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Covey, J., & Zhang, Q. (2014). The effect of dynamic proximity cues on counterfactual plausibility. Judgment and Decision Making, 9(6), 586-592

Previous research has found that people consult closeness or proximity cues when they evaluate the plausibility or likelihood of a counterfactual alternative to reality. In this paper we asked whether the plausibility of counterfactuals extends to dy... Read More about The effect of dynamic proximity cues on counterfactual plausibility.

The environment and life history strategies: neighborhood and individual-level models (2014)
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Copping, L., & Campbell, A. (2015). The environment and life history strategies: neighborhood and individual-level models. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(3), 182-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.10.005

Life history trajectories have been shown to be sensitive to local environmental conditions. Using English census data (2001), Copping, Campbell, and Muncer (2013) demonstrated that ecological indicators affect life history strategies (affecting leve... Read More about The environment and life history strategies: neighborhood and individual-level models.

On the psychological barriers to the workplace: When and why metastereotyping undermines employability beliefs of women and ethnic minorities. (2014)
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Owuamalam, C. K., & Zagefka, H. (2014). On the psychological barriers to the workplace: When and why metastereotyping undermines employability beliefs of women and ethnic minorities. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20(4), 521-528. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037645

We investigated the effect of beliefs about how one expects one’s group to be viewed by a dominant outgroup (i.e. meta-stereotypes) on disadvantaged group members’ employability beliefs. Grounded in the research on stereotype threat, we hypothesised... Read More about On the psychological barriers to the workplace: When and why metastereotyping undermines employability beliefs of women and ethnic minorities..

Trial History Effects in the Ventral Attentional Network (2014)
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Scalf, P., Ahn, J., Beck, D., & Lleras, A. (2014). Trial History Effects in the Ventral Attentional Network. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(12), 2789-2797. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00678

The ventral attentional network (VAN) is thought to drive “stimulus driven attention” [e.g., Asplund, C. L., Todd, J. J., Snyder, A. P., & Marois, R. A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention. Nat... Read More about Trial History Effects in the Ventral Attentional Network.

Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults (2014)
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Smailes, D., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20(1), 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2014.973487

Introduction. People who experience intrusive thoughts are at increased risk of developing hallucinatory experiences, as are people who have weak reality discrimination skills. No study has yet examined whether these two factors interact to make a pe... Read More about Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults.

Systematic revisions to inherent notions may shape improvements in cognitive infrastructure (2014)
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Meleady, R., & Crisp, R. J. (2014). Systematic revisions to inherent notions may shape improvements in cognitive infrastructure. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(5), 495-496. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003804

The proposed inherence heuristic centers on perceivers' failure to systematically consider external, historical factors when explaining observed patterns. We stress that this does not preclude the potential of subsequently encountered information to... Read More about Systematic revisions to inherent notions may shape improvements in cognitive infrastructure.

Verbal Problem-Solving Difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Atypical Language Development (2014)
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Alderson-Day, B. (2014). Verbal Problem-Solving Difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Atypical Language Development. Autism Research, 7(6), 720-730. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1424

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) adopt less efficient strategies than typically developing (TD) peers on the Twenty Questions Task (TQT), a measure of verbal problem-solving skills. Although problems with the TQT are typically associate... Read More about Verbal Problem-Solving Difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Atypical Language Development.

Does visual working memory represent the predicted locations of future target objects? An event-related brain potential study (2014)
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Grubert, A., & Eimer, M. (2015). Does visual working memory represent the predicted locations of future target objects? An event-related brain potential study. Brain Research, 1626, 258-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2014.10.011

During the maintenance of task-relevant objects in visual working memory, the contralateral delay activity (CDA) is elicited over the hemisphere opposite to the visual field where these objects are presented. The presence of this lateralised CDA comp... Read More about Does visual working memory represent the predicted locations of future target objects? An event-related brain potential study.

The Effects of a Distracting N-Back Task on Recognition Memory Are Reduced by Negative Emotional Intensity (2014)
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Buratto, L. G., Pottage, C. L., Brown, C., Morrison, C. M., & Schaefer, A. (2014). The Effects of a Distracting N-Back Task on Recognition Memory Are Reduced by Negative Emotional Intensity. PLoS ONE, 9(10), Article e110211. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110211

Memory performance is usually impaired when participants have to encode information while performing a concurrent task. Recent studies using recall tasks have found that emotional items are more resistant to such cognitive depletion effects than non-... Read More about The Effects of a Distracting N-Back Task on Recognition Memory Are Reduced by Negative Emotional Intensity.