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Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations? (2019)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., Watson, A., Bernini, M., Moseley, P., & Alderson-Day, B. (2019). Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1665. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01665

Interacting with imaginary companions (ICs) is now considered a natural part of childhood for many children, and has been associated with a range of positive developmental outcomes. Recent research has explored how the phenomenon of ICs in childhood... Read More about Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?.

Don’t Hurt my Outgroup Friend: Imagined Contact Promotes Intentions to Counteract Bullying (2019)
Journal Article
Vezzali, L., Birtel, M., Di Bernardoa, G., Stathi, S., Crisp, R., Cadamuroa, A., & Visintin, E. (2020). Don’t Hurt my Outgroup Friend: Imagined Contact Promotes Intentions to Counteract Bullying. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 23(5), 643-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219852404

A growing body of research has shown that imagined intergroup contact can improve outgroup attitudes. The aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of a multifaceted form of imagined contact in counteracting bullying in school childre... Read More about Don’t Hurt my Outgroup Friend: Imagined Contact Promotes Intentions to Counteract Bullying.

Two-step actions in infancy—the TWAIN model (2019)
Journal Article
Gottwald, J. M., Gredebäck, G., & Lindskog, M. (2019). Two-step actions in infancy—the TWAIN model. Experimental Brain Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05604-0

In this paper, we propose a novel model—the TWAIN model—to describe the durations of two-step actions in a reach-to-place task in human infants. Previous research demonstrates that infants and adults plan their actions across multiple steps. They adj... Read More about Two-step actions in infancy—the TWAIN model.

Language as a Tool: Motor Proficiency Using a Tool Predicts Individual Linguistic Abilities (2019)
Journal Article
Brozzoli, C., Roy, A. C., Lidborg, L. H., & Lövdén, M. (2019). Language as a Tool: Motor Proficiency Using a Tool Predicts Individual Linguistic Abilities. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1639. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01639

Different disciplines converge to trace language evolution from motor skills. The human ability to use tools has been advocated as a fundamental step toward the emergence of linguistic processes in the brain. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging resea... Read More about Language as a Tool: Motor Proficiency Using a Tool Predicts Individual Linguistic Abilities.

Changes in presynaptic calcium signalling accompany age-related deficits in hippocampal LTP and cognitive impairment (2019)
Journal Article
Pereda, D., Al-Osta, I., Okorocha, A., Easton, A., & Hartell, N. (2019). Changes in presynaptic calcium signalling accompany age-related deficits in hippocampal LTP and cognitive impairment. Aging Cell, 18(5), Article e13008. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13008

The loss of cognitive function accompanying healthy aging is not associated with extensive or characteristic patterns of cell death, suggesting it is caused by more subtle changes in synaptic properties. In the hippocampal CA1 region, long‐term poten... Read More about Changes in presynaptic calcium signalling accompany age-related deficits in hippocampal LTP and cognitive impairment.

Simulating Brain Signals: Creating Synthetic EEG Data via Neural-Based Generative Models for Improved SSVEP Classification (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aznan, N., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Bonner, S., Connolly, J., Al Moubayed, N., & Breckon, T. (2019). Simulating Brain Signals: Creating Synthetic EEG Data via Neural-Based Generative Models for Improved SSVEP Classification. In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) ; proceedings (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn.2019.8852227

Despite significant recent progress in the area of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), there are numerous shortcomings associated with collecting Electroencephalography (EEG) signals in real-world environments. These include, but are not limited to, subj... Read More about Simulating Brain Signals: Creating Synthetic EEG Data via Neural-Based Generative Models for Improved SSVEP Classification.

Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age (2019)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Chere, B., Bird, L., Taylor, E., Roome, H., Keenaghan, S., …Nardini, M. (2019). Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age. Cognition, 193, Article 104014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104014

Cue combination occurs when two independent noisy perceptual estimates are merged together as a weighted average, creating a unified estimate that is more precise than either single estimate alone. Surprisingly, this effect has not been demonstrated... Read More about Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age.

Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability (2019)
Journal Article
Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(12), 2788-2800. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819859840

Exposure to multiple varying face images of the same person encourages the formation of identity representations which are sufficiently robust to allow subsequent recognition from new, never-before seen images. While recent studies suggest that ident... Read More about Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability.

Human Click-Based Echolocation of Distance: Superfine Acuity and Dynamic Clicking Behaviour (2019)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., De Vos, H., Kish, D., Antoniou, M., Baker, C., & Hornikx, M. (2019). Human Click-Based Echolocation of Distance: Superfine Acuity and Dynamic Clicking Behaviour. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 20(5), 499-510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-019-00728-0

Some people who are blind have trained themselves in echolocation using mouth clicks. Here, we provide the first report of psychophysical and clicking data during echolocation of distance from a group of 8 blind people with experience in mouth click-... Read More about Human Click-Based Echolocation of Distance: Superfine Acuity and Dynamic Clicking Behaviour.

Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting (2019)
Journal Article
Tüttenberg, S., & Wiese, H. (2020). Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting. British Journal of Psychology, 111(3), 570-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12413

People are better at remembering faces of their own relative to another ethnic group. This so‐called own‐race bias (ORB) has been explained in terms of differential perceptual expertise for own‐ and other‐race faces or, alternatively, as resulting fr... Read More about Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting.

Efficient visual information sampling develops late in childhood (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, P., Landin, L., McLean, A., Juni, M., Maloney, L., Nardini, M., & Dekker, T. (2019). Efficient visual information sampling develops late in childhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(7), 1138-1152. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000629

It is often unclear which course of action gives the best outcome. We can reduce this uncertainty by gathering more information; but gathering information always comes at a cost. For example, a sports player waiting too long to judge a ball’s traject... Read More about Efficient visual information sampling develops late in childhood.

Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood (2019)
Journal Article
Dekker, T., Schwarzkopf, D., de Haas, B., Nardini, M., & Sereno, M. (2019). Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.01.001

Visuospatial abilities such as contrast sensitivity and Vernier acuity improve until late in childhood, but the neural mechanisms supporting these changes are poorly understood. We tested to which extent this development might reflect improved spatia... Read More about Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood.

Trait procrastination undermines outcome and efficacy expectancies for achieving health-related possible selves (2019)
Journal Article
Sirois, F. M. (2019). Trait procrastination undermines outcome and efficacy expectancies for achieving health-related possible selves. Current Psychology, 40(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00338-2

People often fail at following through with their health behaviour goals. How health goals are cognitively represented holds promise for understanding successful health behaviour change. Health-related possible selves (HPS) reflect cognitive represen... Read More about Trait procrastination undermines outcome and efficacy expectancies for achieving health-related possible selves.

Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study (2019)
Journal Article
Javadi, A., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margolis, A., Tan, H. M., Kumaran, D., …Spiers, H. J. (2019). Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(8), 1227-1247. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01414

Central to the concept of the “cognitive map” is that it confers behavioral flexibility, allowing animals to take efficient detours, exploit shortcuts, and avoid alluring, but unhelpful, paths. The neural underpinnings of such naturalistic and flexib... Read More about Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study.

Later but not early stages of familiar face recognition depend strongly on attentional resources: Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2019)
Journal Article
Wiese, H., Ingram, B. T., Elley, M. L., Tüttenberg, S. C., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2019). Later but not early stages of familiar face recognition depend strongly on attentional resources: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cortex, 120, 147-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.06.004

In everyday life we usually recognise personally familiar faces efficiently and without apparent effort. This study examined to which extent the neural processes involved in recognising personally familiar faces depend on attentional resources by ana... Read More about Later but not early stages of familiar face recognition depend strongly on attentional resources: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

On the Generalization of Intergroup Contact: A Taxonomy of Transfer Effects (2019)
Journal Article
Meleady, R., Crisp, R., Hodson, G., & Earle, M. (2019). On the Generalization of Intergroup Contact: A Taxonomy of Transfer Effects. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(5), 430-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419848682

The contact hypothesis proposes that bringing groups together under favorable conditions can improve intergroup relations. It is now well established that intergroup contact can improve attitudes not only toward the out-group as a whole but also towa... Read More about On the Generalization of Intergroup Contact: A Taxonomy of Transfer Effects.