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Working Memory Predictors of Written Mathematics in 7-8 Year Old Children (2019)
Journal Article
Allen, K., Giofrè, D., Higgins, S., & Adams, J. (2020). Working Memory Predictors of Written Mathematics in 7-8 Year Old Children. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(2), 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819871243

There is extensive evidence for the involvement of working memory in mathematical attainment. This study aims to identify the relative contributions of verbal, spatial-simultaneous, and spatial-sequential working memory measures in written mathematic... Read More about Working Memory Predictors of Written Mathematics in 7-8 Year Old Children.

Stopping wolves in the wild and legitimizing meat consumption: Effects of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance on animal-related behaviors (2019)
Journal Article
Becker, J. C., Radke, H. R., & Kutlaca, M. (2019). Stopping wolves in the wild and legitimizing meat consumption: Effects of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance on animal-related behaviors. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(6), 804-817. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430218824409

In the present research, we applied the dual process model of ideology and prejudice to beliefs and behavioral intentions toward animals. In Study 1 (N = 126), we demonstrate in a community sample that right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) predicts suppo... Read More about Stopping wolves in the wild and legitimizing meat consumption: Effects of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance on animal-related behaviors.

Mothers' and fathers' joint profiles for testosterone and oxytocin in a small-scale fishing-farming community: Variation based on marital conflict and paternal contributions (2019)
Journal Article
Gettler, L. T., Sarma, M. S., Lew-Levy, S., Bond, A., Trumble, B. C., & Boyette, A. H. (2019). Mothers' and fathers' joint profiles for testosterone and oxytocin in a small-scale fishing-farming community: Variation based on marital conflict and paternal contributions. Brain and Behavior, 9, https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1367

The development of visually guided stepping (2019)
Journal Article
Mowbray, R., Gottwald, J., Zhao, M., Atkinson, A., & Cowie, D. (2019). The development of visually guided stepping. Experimental Brain Research, 237(11), 2875-2883. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05629-5

Adults use vision during stepping and walking to fine-tune foot placement. However, the developmental profile of visually guided stepping is unclear. We asked (1) whether children use online vision to fine-tune precise steps and (2) whether preci- si... Read More about The development of visually guided stepping.

Stria terminalis, amygdala, and temporoparietal junction networks facilitate efficient emotion processing under expectations (2019)
Journal Article
Dzafic, I., Oestreich, L., Martin, A. K., Mowry, B., & Burianová, H. (2019). Stria terminalis, amygdala, and temporoparietal junction networks facilitate efficient emotion processing under expectations. Human Brain Mapping, 40(18), 5382-5396. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24779

Rapid emotion processing is an ecologically essential ability for survival in social environments in which threatening or advantageous encounters dynamically and rapidly occur. Efficient emotion recognition is subserved by different processes, depend... Read More about Stria terminalis, amygdala, and temporoparietal junction networks facilitate efficient emotion processing under expectations.

Older adults sacrifice response speed to preserve multisensory integration performance (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, S. A., Beierholm, U., Meijer, D., & Noppeney, U. (2019). Older adults sacrifice response speed to preserve multisensory integration performance. Neurobiology of Aging, 84, 148-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.08.017

Ageing has been shown to impact multisensory perception, but the underlying computational mechanisms are unclear. For effective interactions with the environment, observers should integrate signals that share a common source, weighted by their reliab... Read More about Older adults sacrifice response speed to preserve multisensory integration performance.

Tribalism Is Human Nature (2019)
Journal Article
Clark, C. J., Liu, B. S., Winegard, B. M., & Ditto, P. H. (2019). Tribalism Is Human Nature. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(6), 587-592. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419862289

Humans evolved in the context of intense intergroup competition, and groups comprised of loyal members more often succeeded than groups comprised of nonloyal members. Therefore, selective pressures have sculpted human minds to be tribal, and group lo... Read More about Tribalism Is Human Nature.

Common and unique effects of HD-tDCS to the social brain across cultural groups (2019)
Journal Article
Martin, A., Su, P., & Meinzer, M. (2019). Common and unique effects of HD-tDCS to the social brain across cultural groups. Neuropsychologia, 133, Article 107170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107170

Cultural background influences social cognition, however no study has examined brain stimulation differences attributable to cultural background. 104 young adults [52 South-East Asian Singaporeans (SEA); 52 Caucasian Australians (CA)] received anodal... Read More about Common and unique effects of HD-tDCS to the social brain across cultural groups.

A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children’s Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development (2019)
Journal Article
Geva, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2019). A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children’s Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01708

Inner speech emerges in early childhood, in parallel with the maturation of the dorsal language stream. To date, the developmental relations between these two processes have not been examined. We review evidence that the dorsal language stream has a... Read More about A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children’s Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development.

Using Variable Natural Environment Brain-Computer Interface Stimuli for Real-time Humanoid Robot Navigation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aznan, N., Connolly, J., Al Moubayed, N., & Breckon, T. (2019). Using Variable Natural Environment Brain-Computer Interface Stimuli for Real-time Humanoid Robot Navigation. In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) ; proceedings (4889-4895). https://doi.org/10.1109/icra.2019.8794060

This paper addresses the challenge of humanoid robot teleoperation in a natural indoor environment via a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). We leverage deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based image and signal understanding to facilitate both real-... Read More about Using Variable Natural Environment Brain-Computer Interface Stimuli for Real-time Humanoid Robot Navigation.

Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations (2019)
Journal Article
Mitrenga, K. J., Alderson-Day, B., May, L., Moffatt, J., Moseley, P., & Fernyhough, C. (2019). Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations. PLoS ONE, 14(8), Article e0221127. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221127

People rapidly make first impressions of others, often based on very little information–minimal exposure to faces or voices is sufficient for humans to make up their mind about personality of others. While there has been considerable research on voic... Read More about Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations.

The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off, Self-Interest, and Moral Principles in Health and Safety Valuation (2019)
Journal Article
Arroyos Calvera, D., Covey, J., Loomes, G., & McDonald, R. (2019). The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off, Self-Interest, and Moral Principles in Health and Safety Valuation. Social Science & Medicine, 238, Article 112477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112477

Policy makers try to take account of public preferences when making trade-offs between policy options. Yet most estimates of the value of health and safety reflect only individuals’ self-interested preferences, neglecting their preferences over the d... Read More about The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off, Self-Interest, and Moral Principles in Health and Safety Valuation.

Who teaches children to forage? Exploring the primacy of child-to-child teaching among Hadza and BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania and Congo (2019)
Journal Article
Lew-Levy, S., Kissler, S. M., Boyette, A. H., Crittenden, A. N., Mabulla, I. A., & Hewlett, B. S. (2020). Who teaches children to forage? Exploring the primacy of child-to-child teaching among Hadza and BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania and Congo. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(1), 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.07.003

Teaching is cross-culturally widespread but few studies have considered children as teachers as well as learners. This is surprising, since forager children spend much of their time playing and foraging in child-only groups, and thus, have access to... Read More about Who teaches children to forage? Exploring the primacy of child-to-child teaching among Hadza and BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania and Congo.

Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content (2019)
Journal Article
Hausmann, M., Innes, B., Birch, Y., & Kentridge, R. (2021). Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content. Emotion, 21(1), 175-183. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000648

It is widely agreed that hemispheric asymmetries in emotional face perception exist. However, the mechanisms underlying this lateralization are not fully understood. In the present study, we tested whether (a) these asymmetries are driven by the low... Read More about Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content.

Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network (2019)
Journal Article
Javadi, A., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margois, A., Tan, H. M., Kumaran, D., …Spiers, H. J. (2019). Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1908), Article 20191016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1016

Successful navigation can require realizing the current path choice was a mistake and the best strategy is to retreat along the recent path: ‘back-track’. Despite the wealth of studies on the neural correlates of navigation little is known about back... Read More about Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network.

Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking (2019)
Journal Article
Bailey-Ross, C., Beresford, A., Smith, D., & Warwick, C. (2019). Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(Supplement 1), i17-i35. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz027

Eye-tracking—the process of capturing and measuring human eye movement—is becoming an increasingly prevalent tool in the cultural heritage sector to understand visual processing and audience behaviours. Yet, most applications to date have focused on... Read More about Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking.