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Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition (2014)
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Hanley, M., Riby, D., McCormack, T., Carty, C., Coyle, L., Crozier, N., …McPhillips, M. (2014). Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(7), 908-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2014.03.020

Eye-tracking studies have shown how people with autism spend significantly less time looking at socially relevant information on-screen compared to those developing typically. This has been suggested to impact on the development of socio-cognitive sk... Read More about Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition.

Developmental changes in children's facial preferences (2014)
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Boothroyd, L., Meins, E., Vukovic, J., & Burt, D. (2014). Developmental changes in children's facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5), 376-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.05.002

Facial averageness, symmetry, health, and femininity are positively associated with adults' judgements of attractiveness, but little is known about the age at which preferences for individual facial traits develop. We investigated preferences for the... Read More about Developmental changes in children's facial preferences.

Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends (2014)
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Davis, P., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends. Infant and Child Development, 23(6), 622-633. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1869

Relations between having an imaginary companion (IC) and (i) descriptions of a real-life friend, (ii) theory of mind performance, and (iii) reported prosocial behaviour and behavioural difficulties were investigated in a sample of 5-year-olds (N = 15... Read More about Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends.

Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure. (2014)
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Goclowska, M. A., Baas, M., Crisp, R. J., & De Dreu, C. K. (2014). Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(8), 959-971. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214533132

Although people and events that disconfirm observers’ expectancies can increase their creativity, sometimes such social schema violations increase observers’ rigidity of thought and undermine creative cognition. Here we examined whether individual di... Read More about Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure..

Development of prenatal lateralization: evidence from fetal mouth movements (2014)
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Reissland, N., Francis, B., Aydin, E., Mason, J., & Exley, K. (2014). Development of prenatal lateralization: evidence from fetal mouth movements. Physiology & Behavior, 131, 160-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.04.035

Background: Human lateralized behaviors relate to the asymmetric development of the brain. Research of the prenatal origins of laterality is equivocal with some studies suggesting that fetuses exhibit lateralized behavior and other not finding such l... Read More about Development of prenatal lateralization: evidence from fetal mouth movements.

Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs. (2014)
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Vezzali, L., Crisp, R. J., Stathi, S., & Giovannini, D. (2015). Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(1), 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214527853

Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new cognitive intervention designed to improve intergroup relations. In two studies, we examined whether it could also facilitate intercultural communication among international students and hos... Read More about Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs..

New normative standards of conditional reasoning and the dual-source model (2014)
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Singmann, H., Klauer, C., & Over, D. (2014). New normative standards of conditional reasoning and the dual-source model. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 316. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00316

There has been a major shift in research on human reasoning toward Bayesian and probabilistic approaches, which has been called a new paradigm. The new paradigm sees most everyday and scientific reasoning as taking place in a context of uncertainty,... Read More about New normative standards of conditional reasoning and the dual-source model.

The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination (2014)
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Smailes, D., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 45(3), 389-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.04.001

Background and objectives: People who experience auditory hallucinations tend to show weak reality discrimination skills, so that they misattribute internal, self-generated events to an external, non-self source. We examined whether inducing negative... Read More about The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination.

Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation (2014)
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Bae, G., Olkkonen, M., Allred, S., Wilson, C., & Flombaum, J. (2014). Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation. Journal of Vision, 14(4), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.4.7

Working memory for color has been the central focus in an ongoing debate concerning the structure and limits of visual working memory. Within this area, the delayed estimation task has played a key role. An implicit assumption in color working memory... Read More about Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation.

Functional Interaction between Right Parietal and Bilateral Frontal Cortices during Visual Search Tasks Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Imaging and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (2014)
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Ellison, A., Ball, K., Moseley, P., Dowsett, J., Smith, D., Weis, S., & Lane, A. (2014). Functional Interaction between Right Parietal and Bilateral Frontal Cortices during Visual Search Tasks Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Imaging and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e93767. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093767

The existence of a network of brain regions which are activated when one undertakes a difficult visual search task is well established. Two primary nodes on this network are right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) and right frontal eye fields. Both ha... Read More about Functional Interaction between Right Parietal and Bilateral Frontal Cortices during Visual Search Tasks Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Imaging and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.

Preserved fine-tuning of face perception and memory: evidence from the own-race bias in high- and low-performing older adults (2014)
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Komes, J., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2014). Preserved fine-tuning of face perception and memory: evidence from the own-race bias in high- and low-performing older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 6, Article 60. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00060

Previous research suggests specific deficits in face perception and memory in older adults, which could reflect a dedifferentiation in the context of a general broadening of cognitive architecture with advanced age. Such dedifferentiation could manif... Read More about Preserved fine-tuning of face perception and memory: evidence from the own-race bias in high- and low-performing older adults.

Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Parenting Distress and Conduct Problems Over Time (2014)
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Fanti, K., & Centifanti, L. (2014). Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Parenting Distress and Conduct Problems Over Time. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 45(2), 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-013-0389-3

The present short-term longitudinal study examines the bidirectional effects among paternal-reported and maternal-reported involvement, distress and conduct-problems (CP) in children ages 7–12 years with callous-unemotional (CU) traits as a potential... Read More about Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Parenting Distress and Conduct Problems Over Time.

Deeper processing is beneficial during episodic memory encoding for adults with Williams syndrome (2014)
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Greer, J., Hamilton, C., Riby, D., & Riby, L. (2014). Deeper processing is beneficial during episodic memory encoding for adults with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35(7), 1720-1726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2014.03.004

Previous research exploring declarative memory in Williams syndrome (WS) has revealed impairment in the processing of episodic information accompanied by a relative strength in semantic ability. The aim of the current study was to extend this literat... Read More about Deeper processing is beneficial during episodic memory encoding for adults with Williams syndrome.

Spatial Transformations of Bodies and Objects in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2014)
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Pearson, A., Marsh, L., Hamilton, A., & Ropar, D. (2014). Spatial Transformations of Bodies and Objects in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44(9), 2277-2289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2098-6

Previous research into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has shown people with autism to be impaired at visual perspective taking. However it is still unclear to what extent the spatial mechanisms underlying this ability contribute to these difficulties... Read More about Spatial Transformations of Bodies and Objects in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Salience-based integration of redundant signals in visual pop-out search: evidence from behavioral and electrophysiological measures (2014)
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Krummenacher, J., Grubert, A., Töllner, T., & Müller, H. (2014). Salience-based integration of redundant signals in visual pop-out search: evidence from behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Journal of Vision, 14(3), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.3.26

Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence is presented suggesting that, in visual search for feature singleton targets, multidimensional signals are integrated at a preselective stage of processing. Observers searched for a target that was consist... Read More about Salience-based integration of redundant signals in visual pop-out search: evidence from behavioral and electrophysiological measures.

Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome (2014)
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Lough, E., Flynn, E., & Riby, D. (2014). Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-014-0029-2

The Internet poses a new kind of threat, especially for those individuals already vulnerable in society. The current paper draws on the social phenotypes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Williams syndrome (WS) to propose that indivi... Read More about Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome.

The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population (2014)
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Levita, L., Bois, C., Healey, A., Smyllie, E., Papakonstantinou, E., Hartley, T., & Lever, C. (2014). The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population. Biology of mood & anxiety disorders, 4, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/2045-5380-4-4

Background: Animal studies have suggested that the hippocampus may play an important role in anxiety as part of the Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS), which mediates reactivity to threat and punishment and can predict an individual’s response to an... Read More about The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population.

Perceptions of Female Body Size and Shape in China, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom (2014)
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Mo, J., Cheung, K. W., Gledhill, L. J., Pollet, T. V., Boothroyd, L. G., & Tovée, M. J. (2014). Perceptions of Female Body Size and Shape in China, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. Cross-Cultural Research, 48(1), 78-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397113510272

Photographs of 50 women were rated for attractiveness, health, and fertility recorded by four sets of participants—Rural-Chinese (n = 50), Chinese participants in Hong Kong (n = 50), Chinese participants living in the United Kingdom (n = 50), and par... Read More about Perceptions of Female Body Size and Shape in China, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

When vision is not an option: children's integration of auditory and haptic information is suboptimal (2014)
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Petrini, K., Remark, A., Smith, L., & Nardini, M. (2014). When vision is not an option: children's integration of auditory and haptic information is suboptimal. Developmental Science, 17(3), 376-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12127

When visual information is available, human adults, but not children, have been shown to reduce sensory uncertainty by taking a weighted average of sensory cues. In the absence of reliable visual information (e.g. extremely dark environment, visual d... Read More about When vision is not an option: children's integration of auditory and haptic information is suboptimal.