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Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms (2018)
Journal Article
Davis, P. E., Webster, L. A., Fernyhough, C., Ralston, K., Kola-Palmer, S., & Stain, H. J. (2019). Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 271, 150-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.046

Hallucination and dissociation have been found to be associated with imaginary friend play in childhood (CIC). Past studies have not investigated how this play relates to adult prodromal symptoms or how childhood adversity mediates the relationship.... Read More about Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms.

A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences (2018)
Journal Article
Buckley, M. G., & Bast, T. (2018). A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences. Hippocampus, 28(11), 796-812. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22992

Watermaze tests of place learning and memory in rodents and corresponding reverse‐translated human paradigms in real or virtual environments are key tools to study hippocampal function. In common variants, the animal or human participant has to find... Read More about A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences.

Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting (2018)
Journal Article
Casteau, S., & Smith, D. (2020). Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting. Cortex, 122, 170-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.007

The relationship between covert shift of attention and the oculomotor system has been the subject of numerous studies. A widely held view, known as Premotor Theory, is that covert attention depends upon activation of the oculomotor system. However, r... Read More about Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting.

Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision (2018)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Wen, L., Thaler, L., & Nardini, M. (2018). Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 16880. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35046-7

Humans are effective at dealing with noisy, probabilistic information in familiar settings. One hallmark of this is Bayesian Cue Combination: combining multiple noisy estimates to increase precision beyond the best single estimate, taking into accoun... Read More about Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision.

The effect of attachment and environmental manipulations on cooperative behavior in the prisoner’s dilemma game (2018)
Journal Article
Taheri, M., Rotshtein, P., & Beierholm, U. (2018). The effect of attachment and environmental manipulations on cooperative behavior in the prisoner’s dilemma game. PLoS ONE, 13(11), Article e0205730. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205730

Cooperation and competition are vital for human survival and for social progress. In this study we examine the impact of external (environmental) and internal (individual differences) factors on the tendency to cooperate or compete in social conflict... Read More about The effect of attachment and environmental manipulations on cooperative behavior in the prisoner’s dilemma game.

Language lateralisation measured across linguistic and national boundaries (2018)
Journal Article
Hausmann, M., Brysbaert, M., Van der Haegen, L., Lewald, J., Specht, K., Hirnstein, M., …Mohr, C. (2019). Language lateralisation measured across linguistic and national boundaries. Cortex, 111, 134-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.10.020

The visual half-field technique has been shown to be a reliable and valid neuropsychological measurement of language lateralisation, typically showing higher accuracy and faster correct responses for linguistic stimuli presented in the right visual f... Read More about Language lateralisation measured across linguistic and national boundaries.

Paracingulate sulcus morphology and hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups (2018)
Journal Article
Garrison, J., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Simons, J., & Sommer, I. (2019). Paracingulate sulcus morphology and hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 45(4), 733-741. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby157

Hallucinations are a characteristic symptom of psychotic mental health conditions that are also experienced by many individuals without a clinical diagnosis. Hallucinations in schizophrenia have been linked to differences in the length of the paracin... Read More about Paracingulate sulcus morphology and hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups.

Suppression of salient stimuli inside the focus of attention (2018)
Journal Article
Kerzel, D., Barras, C., & Grubert, A. (2018). Suppression of salient stimuli inside the focus of attention. Biological Psychology, 139, 106-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.10.010

We investigated how attention is distributed when one of two attended stimuli stands out from the visual context. Participants judged whether the line orientations within two geometric shapes at two predictable locations were same or different, which... Read More about Suppression of salient stimuli inside the focus of attention.

Comparing a foetus diagnosed with Prader–Willi syndrome with non-affected foetuses during light and sound stimulation using 4D ultrasound (2018)
Journal Article
Reissland, N., Makhmud, A., & Froggatt, S. (2019). Comparing a foetus diagnosed with Prader–Willi syndrome with non-affected foetuses during light and sound stimulation using 4D ultrasound. Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child, 108(2), 375-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.14622

Prader‐Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex neuro‐genetic disorder with estimated prevalence varying from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 30,000 with an equal number of males and females affected. A study of the incidence of PWS in France reported thirty‐eight infa... Read More about Comparing a foetus diagnosed with Prader–Willi syndrome with non-affected foetuses during light and sound stimulation using 4D ultrasound.

Health Interventions in Volcanic Eruptions—Community Wearability Assessment of Respiratory Protection against Volcanic Ash from Mt Sinabung, Indonesia (2018)
Journal Article
Galea, K., Covey, J., Mutia Timur, S., Horwell, C., Nugroho, F., & Mueller, W. (2018). Health Interventions in Volcanic Eruptions—Community Wearability Assessment of Respiratory Protection against Volcanic Ash from Mt Sinabung, Indonesia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(11), Article 2359. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112359

Inhalation of ash can be of great concern for affected communities, during and after volcanic eruptions. Governmental and humanitarian agencies recommend and distribute a variety of respiratory protection (RP), commonly surgical masks but, also, indu... Read More about Health Interventions in Volcanic Eruptions—Community Wearability Assessment of Respiratory Protection against Volcanic Ash from Mt Sinabung, Indonesia.

Dissociable Processing of Emotional and Neutral Body Movements Revealed by μ-Alpha and Beta Rhythms (2018)
Journal Article
Siqi-Liu, A., Harris, A. M., Atkinson, A. P., & Reed, C. L. (2018). Dissociable Processing of Emotional and Neutral Body Movements Revealed by μ-Alpha and Beta Rhythms. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(4), 1269-1279. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy094

Both when actions are executed and observed, electroencephalography (EEG) has shown reduced alpha-band (8–12 Hz) oscillations over sensorimotor cortex. This ‘μ-alpha’ suppression is thought to reflect mental simulation of action, which has been argue... Read More about Dissociable Processing of Emotional and Neutral Body Movements Revealed by μ-Alpha and Beta Rhythms.

Impact of warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages on parental selection: An online experimental study (2018)
Journal Article
Mantzari, E., Vasiljevic, M., Turney, I., Pilling, M., & Marteau, T. (2018). Impact of warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages on parental selection: An online experimental study. Preventive Medicine Reports, 12, 259-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.10.016

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are one of the largest added sugar sources to diets in the UK and USA, particularly among young people. Warning labels, including calorie information labels, could reduce SSB consumption but uncertainty surrounds the... Read More about Impact of warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages on parental selection: An online experimental study.

Higher fundamental frequency in bonobos is explained by larynx morphology (2018)
Journal Article
Grawunder, S., Crockford, C., Clay, Z., Kalan, A., Stevens, J., Stoessel, A., & Hohmann, G. (2018). Higher fundamental frequency in bonobos is explained by larynx morphology. Current Biology, 28(20), R1188-R1189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.030

Acoustic signals, shaped by natural and sexual selection, reveal ecological and social selection pressures [1]. Examining acoustic signals together with morphology can be particularly revealing. But this approach has rarely been applied to primates,... Read More about Higher fundamental frequency in bonobos is explained by larynx morphology.

The developmental transcriptome of the human heart (2018)
Journal Article
Pervolaraki, E., Dachtler, J., Anderson, R., & Holden, A. (2018). The developmental transcriptome of the human heart. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 15362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33837-6

The human heart develops through complex mechanisms producing morphological and functional changes during gestation. We have recently demonstrated using diffusion tensor MRI that over the relatively short space of 40 days, between 100–140 days gestat... Read More about The developmental transcriptome of the human heart.

Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring (2018)
Journal Article
Moseley, P., Mitrenga, K., Ellison, A., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring. Neuropsychologia, 120, 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.10.001

Source monitoring, or the ability to recall the origin of information, is a crucial aspect of remembering past experience. One facet of this, reality monitoring, refers to the ability to distinguish between internally generated and externally generat... Read More about Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring.

Genetic Variation in the Psychiatric Risk Gene CACNA1C Modulates Reversal Learning Across Species (2018)
Journal Article
Sykes, L., Haddon, J., Lancaster, T. M., Sykes, A., Azzouni, K., Ihssen, N., …Hall, J. (2019). Genetic Variation in the Psychiatric Risk Gene CACNA1C Modulates Reversal Learning Across Species. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 45(5), 1024-1032. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby146

Genetic variation in CACNA1C, which encodes the alpha-1 subunit of Cav1.2 L-type voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs), has been strongly linked to risk for psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. How genetic variation in... Read More about Genetic Variation in the Psychiatric Risk Gene CACNA1C Modulates Reversal Learning Across Species.

Sex hormonal effects on brain lateralization (2018)
Book Chapter
Hausmann, M., & Burt, D. (2018). Sex hormonal effects on brain lateralization. In C. Schultheiss, & P. Mehta (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of social neuroendocrinology (357-370). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315200439-21

Functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs) refer to variation in neural function between the left and right cerebral hemisphere. Small but robust sex differences in FCAs are frequently observed. However, there are considerable inconsistencies between stu... Read More about Sex hormonal effects on brain lateralization.

Properties of Familiar Face Representations: Only Contrast Positive Faces Contain All Information Necessary for Efficient Recognition (2018)
Journal Article
Wiese, H., Chan, C., & Tüttenberg, S. (2019). Properties of Familiar Face Representations: Only Contrast Positive Faces Contain All Information Necessary for Efficient Recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(9), 1583-1598. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000665

It is difficult to recognize the identity of a face presented in negative contrast. This difficulty, however, is substantially reduced when only the eye region is contrast positive in an otherwise negative face image, and recognition of these so-call... Read More about Properties of Familiar Face Representations: Only Contrast Positive Faces Contain All Information Necessary for Efficient Recognition.

On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action (2018)
Journal Article
Baumeister, R., Lau, S., Maranges, H., & Clark, C. (2018). On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 1925. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01925

In this essay, we aim to counter and qualify the epiphenomenalist challenge proposed in this special issue on the grounds of empirical and theoretical arguments. The current body of scientific knowledge strongly indicates that conscious thought is a... Read More about On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action.