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Positive parenting in adolescence is associated with well-(adaptive-) functioning adult offspring [Invited Commentary] (2011)
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Muñoz, L. C. (2012). Positive parenting in adolescence is associated with well-(adaptive-) functioning adult offspring [Invited Commentary]. Evidence-based medicine, 17(4), 127-128. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmed.2011.100353

Context: Parenting behaviours clearly have an effect on children but how they impact adult behaviour has received less attention. Johnson et al aimed to determine the association between parenting behaviours and the coping skills, interpersonal skill... Read More about Positive parenting in adolescence is associated with well-(adaptive-) functioning adult offspring [Invited Commentary].

The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion (2011)
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Alba-Ferrara, L., Hausmann, M., Mitchel, R. L., & Weis, S. (2011). The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion. PLoS ONE, 6(12), Article e28701. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028701

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Emotional prosody comprehension (EPC), the ability to interpret another person's feelings by listening to their tone of voice, is crucial for effective social communication. Previous studies assessing the neural correlates of EPC have fou... Read More about The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion.

Testing the dorsal stream attention hypothesis: Electrophysiological correlates and the effects of ventral stream damage (2011)
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Marrett, N., de-Wit, L., Roser, M., Kentridge, R., Milner, A., & Lambert, A. (2011). Testing the dorsal stream attention hypothesis: Electrophysiological correlates and the effects of ventral stream damage. Visual Cognition, 19(9), 1089-1121. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2011.622729

The roles of dorsal and ventral processing streams in visual orienting and conscious perception were examined in two experiments. The first employed high density EEG with source localisation. The second comprised a neuropsychological case study. Visu... Read More about Testing the dorsal stream attention hypothesis: Electrophysiological correlates and the effects of ventral stream damage.

Infant Pupil Diameter Changes in Response to Others' Positive and Negative Emotions (2011)
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Geangu, E., Hauf, P., Bhardwaj, R., & Bentz, W. (2011). Infant Pupil Diameter Changes in Response to Others' Positive and Negative Emotions. PLoS ONE, 6(11), Article e27132. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027132

It has been suggested that infants resonate emotionally to others' positive and negative affect displays, and that these responses become stronger towards emotions with negative valence around the age of 12-months. In this study we measured 6- and 12... Read More about Infant Pupil Diameter Changes in Response to Others' Positive and Negative Emotions.

When words and pictures come alive: Relating the modality of intrusive thoughts to modalities of hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations (2011)
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McCarthy-Jones, S., Barnes, L., Hill, G., Marwood, L., Moseley, P., & Fernyhough, C. (2011). When words and pictures come alive: Relating the modality of intrusive thoughts to modalities of hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(6), 787-790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.003

Hypnagogic and hypnopompic (H&H) hallucinations are those experienced on the borders of sleep and waking. Intrusive thoughts have been proposed to relate to the occurrence of such experiences. In a sample of students (N = 299), the present study inve... Read More about When words and pictures come alive: Relating the modality of intrusive thoughts to modalities of hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations.

The Structure of Bonobo Copulation Calls During Reproductive and Non-Reproductive Sex. (2011)
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Clay, Z., & Zuberbühler, K. (2011). The Structure of Bonobo Copulation Calls During Reproductive and Non-Reproductive Sex. Ethology: international journal of behavioural biology, 117(12), 1158-1169. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01975.x

Copulation calls in primates are usually identified as sexually selected signals that promote the reproductive success of the caller. In this study, we investigated the acoustic structure of copulation calls in bonobos (Pan paniscus), a great ape kno... Read More about The Structure of Bonobo Copulation Calls During Reproductive and Non-Reproductive Sex..

Dissociations within short-term memory in GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit knockout mice (2011)
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Taylor, A. M., Niewoehner, B., Seeburg, P. H., Sprengel, R., Rawlins, J. N. P., Bannerman, D. M., & Sanderson, D. J. (2011). Dissociations within short-term memory in GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit knockout mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 224(1), 8-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.016

GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit knockout mice display a selective impairment on short-term recognition memory tasks. In this study we tested whether GluA1 is important for short-term memory that is necessary for bridging the discontiguity between cues in... Read More about Dissociations within short-term memory in GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit knockout mice.

Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007 (2011)
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Tiffin, P., Arnott, B., Moore, H., & Summerbell, C. (2011). Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 5, Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-5-31

A number of studies have reported significant associations between obesity and poor psychological wellbeing in children but findings have been inconsistent. Methods: This study utilised data from 3,898 children aged 5-16 years obtained from the Healt... Read More about Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007.

Uncertainty and Cognitive Control (2011)
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Mushtaq, F., Bland, A., & Schaefer, A. (2011). Uncertainty and Cognitive Control. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, Article 249. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00249

A growing trend of neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational research has investigated the topic of outcome uncertainty in decision-making. Although evidence to date indicates that humans are very effective in learning to adapt to uncertain situati... Read More about Uncertainty and Cognitive Control.

Dynamic changes in functional cerebral connectivity of spatial cognition during the menstrual cycle (2011)
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Weis, S., Hausmann, M., Stoffers, B., & Sturm, W. (2011). Dynamic changes in functional cerebral connectivity of spatial cognition during the menstrual cycle. Human Brain Mapping, 32(10), 1544-1556. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21126

Functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs) in women have been shown to vary with changing levels of sex hormones during the menstrual cycle. Previous studies have suggested that interhemispheric interaction forms a key component in generating FCAs and it... Read More about Dynamic changes in functional cerebral connectivity of spatial cognition during the menstrual cycle.

Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces (2011)
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Dzhelyova, M., Ellison, A., & Atkinson, A. (2011). Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2782-2796. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2011.21604

Judging the sex of faces relies on cues related to facial morphology and spatial relations between features, whereas judging the trustworthiness of faces relies on both structural and expressive cues that signal affective valence. Right occipital fac... Read More about Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces.

Lack of power enhances visual perceptual discrimination (2011)
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Weick, M., Guinote, A., & Wilkinson, D. (2011). Lack of power enhances visual perceptual discrimination. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(3), 208-213. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024258

Powerless individuals face much challenge and uncertainty. As a consequence, they are highly vigilant and closely scrutinize their social environments. The aim of the present research was to determine whether these qualities enhance performance in mo... Read More about Lack of power enhances visual perceptual discrimination.

Cholinergic mechanisms of episodic memory: What specific behavioural tasks can tell us about specific neural mechanisms (2011)
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Easton, A., & Eacott, M. J. (2013). Cholinergic mechanisms of episodic memory: What specific behavioural tasks can tell us about specific neural mechanisms. Brain Research Bulletin, 92, 21-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.09.008

Understanding the neural basis of episodic memory is crucial for understanding how to treat memory loss in normal ageing as well as in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. However, it is only recently that episodic memory has been able to be reliab... Read More about Cholinergic mechanisms of episodic memory: What specific behavioural tasks can tell us about specific neural mechanisms.

The human prefrontal cortex mediates integration of potential causes behind observed outcomes (2011)
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Wunderlich, K., Beierholm, U. R., Bossaerts, P., & O'Doherty, J. P. (2011). The human prefrontal cortex mediates integration of potential causes behind observed outcomes. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106(3), 1558-1569. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.01051.2010

Prefrontal cortex has long been implicated in tasks involving higher order inference in which decisions must be rendered, not only about which stimulus is currently rewarded, but also which stimulus dimensions are currently relevant. However, the pre... Read More about The human prefrontal cortex mediates integration of potential causes behind observed outcomes.

Differential outcomes aid the formation of categorical relationships between stimuli (2011)
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Easton, A., Child, S., & Lopez-Crespo, G. (2011). Differential outcomes aid the formation of categorical relationships between stimuli. Behavioural Brain Research, 222(1), 270-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.036

The differential outcome effect is when learning is enhanced through the application of different outcomes to different conditions of a task. Here we explore whether one difference in learning with differential outcomes is an enhanced categorisation... Read More about Differential outcomes aid the formation of categorical relationships between stimuli.

Medial septal cholinergic neurons are necessary for context-place memory but not episodic-like memory (2011)
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Easton, A., Fitchett, A., Eacott, M., & Baxter, M. (2011). Medial septal cholinergic neurons are necessary for context-place memory but not episodic-like memory. Hippocampus, 21(9), 1021-1027. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20814

Loss of cholinergic cortical input is associated with diseases in which episodic memory impairment is a prominent feature, but the degree to which this neurochemical lesion can account for memory impairment in humans with neurodegenerative diseases r... Read More about Medial septal cholinergic neurons are necessary for context-place memory but not episodic-like memory.

Assessing the forms and functions of aggression using self-report: Factor structure and invariance of the peer conflict scale in youths (2011)
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Marsee, M. A., Barry, C. T., Childs, K. K., Frick, P. J., Kimonis, E. R., Muñoz, L. C., Aucoin, K. J., Fassnacht, G. M., Kunimatsu, M. M., & Lau, K. S. (2011). Assessing the forms and functions of aggression using self-report: Factor structure and invariance of the peer conflict scale in youths. Psychological Assessment, 23(3), 792-804. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023369

This study examined the structure of a self-report measure of the forms and functions of aggression in 855 adolescents (582 boys, 266 girls) aged 12 to 19 years recruited from high school, detained, and residential settings. The Peer Conflict Scale (... Read More about Assessing the forms and functions of aggression using self-report: Factor structure and invariance of the peer conflict scale in youths.