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Child and adolescent foraging: New directions in evolutionary research. (2024)
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Pretelli, I., Crittenden, A. N., Dounias, E., Friant, S., Koster, J., Kramer, K. L., …Lew-Levy, S. (2024). Child and adolescent foraging: New directions in evolutionary research. Evolutionary Anthropology, Article e22020. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22020

Young children and adolescents in subsistence societies forage for a wide range of resources. They often target child-specific foods, they can be very successful foragers, and they share their produce widely within and outside of their nuclear family... Read More about Child and adolescent foraging: New directions in evolutionary research..

The effects of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on fetal movement profiles (2024)
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Reissland, N., Ustun, B., & Einbeck, J. (2024). The effects of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on fetal movement profiles. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 24(1), 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06259-8

Purpose: The current study investigated the direct impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on fetal movements, addressing a critical research gap. While previous research has predominantly examined the effects of lockdown on maternal health and postnatal out... Read More about The effects of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on fetal movement profiles.

Potential factors contributing to observed sex differences in virtual-reality-induced sickness. (2024)
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Bannigan, G. M., de Sousa, A. A., Scheller, M., Finnegan, D. J., & Proulx, M. J. (2024). Potential factors contributing to observed sex differences in virtual-reality-induced sickness. Experimental Brain Research, 242, 463-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06760-0

Virtual reality (VR) technology has been widely adopted for several professional and recreational applications. Despite rapid innovation in hardware and software, one of the long prevailing issues for end users of VR is the experience of VR sickness.... Read More about Potential factors contributing to observed sex differences in virtual-reality-induced sickness..

Dyadic inter-group cooperation in shotgun hunting activities in a Congo Basin village. (2024)
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Kandza, V. H., Jang, H., Kiabiya Ntamboudila, F., Lew-Levy, S., & Boyette, A. H. (2024). Dyadic inter-group cooperation in shotgun hunting activities in a Congo Basin village. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, Article e22. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2024.14

Understanding the dynamics of inter-group cooperation in human adaptation has been the subject of recent empirical and theoretical studies in evolutionary anthropology, beginning to fill gaps in our knowledge of how interactions across political, eco... Read More about Dyadic inter-group cooperation in shotgun hunting activities in a Congo Basin village..

The role of the eye region for neural correlates of familiar face recognition: The N250r reveals no evidence for eye-centred face representations (2023)
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Quinn, B. P., Popova, T., Green, P. C., Talfourd-Cook, R., & Wiese, H. (2023). The role of the eye region for neural correlates of familiar face recognition: The N250r reveals no evidence for eye-centred face representations. Visual Cognition, 31(7), 501-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2315787

Humans recognize familiar faces highly accurately. However, it is unclear precisely what information is stored in the underlying long-term face representations. While some have emphaszsed the importance of the eye region, other evidence has shown tha... Read More about The role of the eye region for neural correlates of familiar face recognition: The N250r reveals no evidence for eye-centred face representations.

Precision in spatial working memory examined with mouse pointing (2023)
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McAteer, S. M., McAteer, S. M., McGregor, A., Smith, D. T., & Smith, D. T. (2024). Precision in spatial working memory examined with mouse pointing. Vision Research, 215, Article 108343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2023.108343

The capacity of visuospatial working memory (VSWM) is limited. However, there is continued debate surrounding the nature of this capacity limitation. The resource model (Bays et al., 2009) proposes that VSWM capacity is limited by the precision with... Read More about Precision in spatial working memory examined with mouse pointing.

Recommendations for a better understanding of sex and gender in neuroscience of mental health (2023)
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Wierenga, L. M., Ruigrok, A., Aksnes, E. R., Barth, C., Beck, D., Burke, S., …Bos, M. G. N. (2024). Recommendations for a better understanding of sex and gender in neuroscience of mental health. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 4(2), Article 100283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.100283

There are prominent sex/gender differences in the prevalence, expression and lifespan course of mental health and neurodiverse conditions. Yet the underlying sex and gender related mechanisms and their interactions are still not fully understood. Thi... Read More about Recommendations for a better understanding of sex and gender in neuroscience of mental health.

How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review. (2023)
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Dougall, I., Vasiljevic, M., Wright, J. D., & Weick, M. (2024). How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review. Social Science & Medicine, 343, Article 116542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116542

Rationale: Meta-reviews synthesising research on social class and mental health and wellbeing are currently limited and focused on specific facets of social class (e.g., social capital) or mental health and wellbeing (e.g., mental health disorders),... Read More about How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review..

Comparing social perceptions of culturally emic protagonists using the Stereotype Content Model: A scale development and adaption process across four languages and eight countries (2023)
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Schemmerling, M., Friehs, M., Kotzur, P. F., Bastias, F., De Keersmaecker, J., Macedo, F. G., …Boehnke, K. (2023). Comparing social perceptions of culturally emic protagonists using the Stereotype Content Model: A scale development and adaption process across four languages and eight countries. Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 4(1), 350-362. https://doi.org/10.1027/2698-1866/a000067

Cross-cultural comparisons are often based on a single itemset that is used in several cultures and languages being translated semantically correct. In contrast, a new, emic, approach measures the same construct with individually created items for ea... Read More about Comparing social perceptions of culturally emic protagonists using the Stereotype Content Model: A scale development and adaption process across four languages and eight countries.

Knockout of NMDARs in CA1 and dentate gyrus fails to impair temporal control of conditioned behaviour in mice (2023)
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Strickland, J., Austen, J., Sprengel, R., & Sanderson, D. (2024). Knockout of NMDARs in CA1 and dentate gyrus fails to impair temporal control of conditioned behaviour in mice. Hippocampus, 34(3), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23593

The hippocampus has been implicated in temporal learning. Plasticity within the hippocampus requires NMDA receptor-dependent glutamatergic neurotransmission. We tested the prediction that hippocampal NMDA receptors are required for learning about tim... Read More about Knockout of NMDARs in CA1 and dentate gyrus fails to impair temporal control of conditioned behaviour in mice.

A Scoping Review of the Effects of Ambient Air Quality on Cognitive Frailty (2023)
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Hodgson, J. R., Benkowitz, C., Castellani, B. C., Ellison, A., Yassaie, R., Twohig, H., …Fowler-Davis, S. (2024). A Scoping Review of the Effects of Ambient Air Quality on Cognitive Frailty. Environments, 11(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11010004

Environmental and public health research has given considerable attention to the impact of air quality on brain health, with systematic reviews being widespread. No literature review has been conducted for cognitive frailty—a multidimensional syndrom... Read More about A Scoping Review of the Effects of Ambient Air Quality on Cognitive Frailty.

Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time (2023)
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Abakoumkin, G., Tseliou, E., McCabe, K. O., Lemay, E. P., Stroebe, W., Agostini, M., …Leander, N. P. (2024). Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2), Article e12909. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12909

Virus mitigation behavior has been and still is a powerful means to fight the COVID-19 pandemic irrespective of the availability of pharmaceutical means (e.g., vaccines). We drew on health behavior theories to predict health-protective (coping-specif... Read More about Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time.

Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults (2023)
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Andres, F. E., Thornborrow, T., Bowie, W. N., Chamorro, A. M., De la Rosa, G., Evans, E. H., …Boothroyd, L. G. (2023). Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults. Journal of eating disorders, 11(1), Article 219. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00942-5

Background: Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a growing concern in Latin America; reliable and culturally appropriate scales are necessary to support body image research in Spanish speaking Latin American countries. We sought to validate a Latin-American... Read More about Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults.

Experience sampling reveals the role that covert goal states play in task-relevant behavior (2023)
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Mckeown, B., Strawson, W. H., Zhang, M., Turnbull, A., Konu, D., Karapanagiotidis, T., …Smallwood, J. (2023). Experience sampling reveals the role that covert goal states play in task-relevant behavior. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 21710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48857-0

Cognitive neuroscience has gained insight into covert states using experience sampling. Traditionally, this approach has focused on off-task states. However, task-relevant states are also maintained via covert processes. Our study examined whether ex... Read More about Experience sampling reveals the role that covert goal states play in task-relevant behavior.

Balance between solitude and socializing: everyday solitude time both benefits and harms well-being (2023)
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Weinstein, N., Vuorre, M., Adams, M., & Nguyen, T. (2023). Balance between solitude and socializing: everyday solitude time both benefits and harms well-being. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 21160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44507-7

Two literatures argue that time alone is harmful (i.e., isolation) and valuable (i.e., positive solitude). We explored whether people benefit from a balance between their daily solitude and social time, such that having ‘right’ quantities of both max... Read More about Balance between solitude and socializing: everyday solitude time both benefits and harms well-being.