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Exogenous attention to unseen objects? (2015)
Journal Article
Norman, L., Heywood, C., & Kentridge, R. (2015). Exogenous attention to unseen objects?. Consciousness and Cognition, 35, 319-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.02.015

Attention and awareness are closely related phenomena, but recent evidence has shown that not all attended stimuli give rise to awareness. Controversy still remains over whether, and the extent to which, a dissociation between attention and awareness... Read More about Exogenous attention to unseen objects?.

Ultrasound observations of subtle movements: a pilot study comparing fetuses of smoking and non-smoking mothers (2015)
Journal Article
Reissland, N., Francis, B., Kumarendran, K., & Mason, J. (2015). Ultrasound observations of subtle movements: a pilot study comparing fetuses of smoking and non-smoking mothers. Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child, 104(6), 596-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.13001

Aim: One way to assess fetal health of smokers is to ask mothers to count perceived movements, an unreliable method hiding differences in prenatal development. The aim of this pilot study was to assess subtle fetal movements in ultrasound-scans and e... Read More about Ultrasound observations of subtle movements: a pilot study comparing fetuses of smoking and non-smoking mothers.

Neural Correlates of Human Echolocation of Path Direction During Walking (2015)
Journal Article
Fiehler, K., Schütz, I., Meller, T., & Thaler, L. (2015). Neural Correlates of Human Echolocation of Path Direction During Walking. Multisensory Research, 28(1-2), 195-226. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-00002491

Echolocation can be used by blind and sighted humans to navigate their environment. The current study investigated the neural activity underlying processing of path direction during walking. Brain activity was measured with fMRI in three blind echolo... Read More about Neural Correlates of Human Echolocation of Path Direction During Walking.

Psychological Correlates of Sensory Processing Patterns in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review (2015)
Journal Article
Glod, M., Riby, D., Honey, E., & Rodgers, J. (2015). Psychological Correlates of Sensory Processing Patterns in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2(2), 199-221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-015-0047-8

Existing evidence suggests that there is a relationship between sensory processing difficulties and the clinical and non-clinical features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current review aimed to evaluate evidence of the psychological correlate... Read More about Psychological Correlates of Sensory Processing Patterns in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review.

Visual search is postponed during the period of the AB: An event-related potential study (2015)
Journal Article
Lagroix, H., Grubert, A., Spalek, T., Di Lollo, V., & Eimer, M. (2015). Visual search is postponed during the period of the AB: An event-related potential study. Psychophysiology, 52(8), 1031-1038. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12435

In the phenomenon known as the attentional blink (AB), perception of the second of two rapidly sequential targets (T2) is impaired when presented shortly after the first (T1). Studies in which T2 consisted of a pop-out search array provided evidence... Read More about Visual search is postponed during the period of the AB: An event-related potential study.

The Developmental Trajectory of Intramaze and Extramaze Landmark Biases in Spatial Navigation: An Unexpected Journey (2015)
Journal Article
Buckley, M., Smith, A., & Haselgrove, M. (2015). The Developmental Trajectory of Intramaze and Extramaze Landmark Biases in Spatial Navigation: An Unexpected Journey. Developmental Psychology, 51(6), 771-791. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039054

Adults learning to navigate to a hidden goal within an enclosed space have been found to prefer information provided by the distal cues of an environment, as opposed to proximal landmarks within the environment. Studies with children, however, have s... Read More about The Developmental Trajectory of Intramaze and Extramaze Landmark Biases in Spatial Navigation: An Unexpected Journey.

Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties (2015)
Journal Article
Menzel, C., Hayn-Leichsenring, G., Langner, O., Wiese, H., & Redies, C. (2015). Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties. PLoS ONE, 10(4), Article e0122801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122801

We investigated whether low-level processed image properties that are shared by natural scenes and artworks – but not veridical face photographs – affect the perception of facial attractiveness and age. Specifically, we considered the slope of the ra... Read More about Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties.

Change Blindness (2015)
Book Chapter
Kentridge, R. (2015). Change Blindness. In J. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences (344-349). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.51024-1

Change blindness is a phenomenon in which major changes to a visual scene go unnoticed. There are many methods of inducing change blindness, for example, by presenting a blank image between presentation of the original and changed pictures. Change bl... Read More about Change Blindness.

Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods (2015)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Pechey, R., & Marteau, T. (2015). Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods. Appetite, 91, 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.03.034

Recent studies report that using green labels to denote healthier foods, and red to denote less healthy foods increases consumption of green- and decreases consumption of red-labelled foods. Other symbols (e.g. emoticons conveying normative approval... Read More about Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods.

Nasotemporal ERP differences: evidence for increased inhibition of temporal distractors (2015)
Journal Article
Huber-Huber, C., Grubert, A., Ansorge, U., & Eimer, M. (2015). Nasotemporal ERP differences: evidence for increased inhibition of temporal distractors. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113(7), 2210-2219. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00344.2014

Previous research has demonstrated behavioral advantages for stimuli in the temporal relative to the nasal visual hemifield. To investigate whether this nasotemporal asymmetry reflects a genuinely attentional bias, we recorded event-related potential... Read More about Nasotemporal ERP differences: evidence for increased inhibition of temporal distractors.

Uncertain deduction and conditional reasoning (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, J. S. B., Thompson, V., & Over, D. (2015). Uncertain deduction and conditional reasoning. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 398. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00398

There has been a paradigm shift in the psychology of deductive reasoning. Many researchers no longer think it is appropriate to ask people to assume premises and decide what necessarily follows, with the results evaluated by binary extensional logic.... Read More about Uncertain deduction and conditional reasoning.

Worsening cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative pathology progressively increase risk for delirium (2015)
Journal Article
Davis, D. H. J., Skelly, D. .., Murray, C., Hennessy, E., Bowen, J., Norton, S., …Cunningham, C. (2015). Worsening cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative pathology progressively increase risk for delirium. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(4), 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2014.08.005

Background: Delirium is a profound neuropsychiatric disturbance precipitated by acute illness. Although dementia is the major risk factor this has typically been considered a binary quantity (i.e., cognitively impaired versus cognitively normal) with... Read More about Worsening cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative pathology progressively increase risk for delirium.

The effect of memory and context changes on color matches to real objects (2015)
Journal Article
Allred, S., & Olkkonen, M. (2015). The effect of memory and context changes on color matches to real objects. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77(5), 1608-1624. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0810-4

Real-world color identification tasks often require matching the color of objects between contexts and after a temporal delay, thus placing demands on both perceptual and memory processes. Although the mechanisms of matching colors between different... Read More about The effect of memory and context changes on color matches to real objects.

Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey (2015)
Journal Article
Woods, A., Jones, N., Alderson-Day, B., Callard, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(4), 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2815%2900006-1

Background: Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding of the variation in subjective experiences of hallucination is central... Read More about Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey.

Punishment as a Means of Competition: Implications for Strong Reciprocity Theory (2015)
Journal Article
Paál, T., & Bereczkei, T. (2015). Punishment as a Means of Competition: Implications for Strong Reciprocity Theory. PLoS ONE, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120394

Strong negative reciprocity, that is, sanctions imposed on norm violators at the punisher’s own expense, has powerful cooperation-enhancing effects in both real-life and experimental game situations. However, it is plausible that punishment may obtai... Read More about Punishment as a Means of Competition: Implications for Strong Reciprocity Theory.

Children's prosocial behavioural intentions towards outgroup members (2015)
Journal Article
Abrams, D., Van de Vyver, J., Pelletier, J., & Cameron, L. (2015). Children's prosocial behavioural intentions towards outgroup members. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(3), 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12085

When will children decide to help outgroup peers? We examined how intergroup competition, social perspective taking (SPT), and empathy influence children's (5–10 years, N = 287) prosocial intentions towards outgroup members. Study 1 showed that, in a... Read More about Children's prosocial behavioural intentions towards outgroup members.

The neuronal correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion (2015)
Journal Article
Hjelmervik, H., Westerhausen, R., Hirnstein, M., Specht, K., & Hausmann, M. (2015). The neuronal correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion. NeuroImage, 113, 196-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.066

Difficulties in left–right discrimination (LRD) are commonly experienced in everyday life situations. Here we investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of LRD and the specific role of left angular gyrus. Given that previous behavioral research report... Read More about The neuronal correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion.

Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences (2015)
Journal Article
Vukovic, J., Boothroyd, L., Meins, E., & Burt, D. (2015). Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(4), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.03.004

Humans have been shown to display phenomena resembling sexual imprinting, whereby adults are attracted to features in potential mates which resemble their opposite sex parent. In humans this may be particularly so when the parent–child relationship i... Read More about Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences.