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Toward an integrated approach to perception and action: conference report and future directions (2011)
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Gordon, G., Kaplan, D., Lankow, B., Little, D., Sherwin, J., Suter, B., & Thaler, L. (2011). Toward an integrated approach to perception and action: conference report and future directions. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2011.00020

This article was motivated by the conference entitled “Perception & Action – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Systems Theory,” which took place September 14–16, 2010 at the Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. The goal of the conference was to brin... Read More about Toward an integrated approach to perception and action: conference report and future directions.

Parental monitoring and youth behavior problems: moderation by callous-unemotional traits over time (2011)
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Muñoz, L. C., Pakalniskiene, V., & Frick, P. J. (2011). Parental monitoring and youth behavior problems: moderation by callous-unemotional traits over time. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 20(5), 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-011-0172-6

Prior research suggests that parents’ monitoring behaviors are related to the conduct problems of children but not to the conduct problems of children with callous-unemotional traits. However, these studies have been cross-sectional. The present shor... Read More about Parental monitoring and youth behavior problems: moderation by callous-unemotional traits over time.

Interpersonal trust and market value moderates the bias in women’s preferences away from attractive high-status men (2011)
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Chu, S., Farr, D., Munoz, L. C., & Lycett, J. (2011). Interpersonal trust and market value moderates the bias in women’s preferences away from attractive high-status men. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(2), 143-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.033

Women appear to exhibit a subtle reluctance to engage in long-term relationships with physically attractive, high-status men. We propose that this bias away from men of very high market value is based on fear that these males may desert a relationshi... Read More about Interpersonal trust and market value moderates the bias in women’s preferences away from attractive high-status men.

Competitive short-term and long-term memory processes in spatial habituation (2011)
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Sanderson, D. J., & Bannerman, D. M. (2011). Competitive short-term and long-term memory processes in spatial habituation. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 37(2), 189-199. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021461

Exposure to a spatial location leads to habituation of exploration such that, in a novelty preference test, rodents subsequently prefer exploring a novel location to the familiar location. According to Wagner's (1981) theory of memory, short-term and... Read More about Competitive short-term and long-term memory processes in spatial habituation.

The Role of Syllables in Anagram Solution: A Rasch Analysis (2011)
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Adams, J., Stone, M., Vincent, R., & Muncer, S. (2011). The Role of Syllables in Anagram Solution: A Rasch Analysis. The Journal of General Psychology, 138(2), 94-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2010.540592

Anagrams are frequently used by experimental psychologists interested in how the mental lexicon is organized. Until very recently, research has overlooked the importance of syllable structure in solving anagrams and assumed that solution difficulty w... Read More about The Role of Syllables in Anagram Solution: A Rasch Analysis.

The Syllable Effect in Anagram Solution: Unrecognised Evidence from Past Studies (2011)
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Muncer, S., & Knight, D. (2011). The Syllable Effect in Anagram Solution: Unrecognised Evidence from Past Studies. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 40(2), 111-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-010-9159-6

Six previous studies of the variables affecting anagram solution are re-examined for the evidence that number of syllables contributes to solution difficulty. It was shown that the number of syllables in a solution word was confounded with imagery fo... Read More about The Syllable Effect in Anagram Solution: Unrecognised Evidence from Past Studies.

Empathy and bullying: Exploring the influence of callous-unemotional traits (2011)
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Muñoz, L., Qualter, P., & Padgett, G. (2011). Empathy and bullying: Exploring the influence of callous-unemotional traits. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 42(2), 183-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-010-0206-1

Although knowing and feeling the emotions of other people might result in less bullying, we argue that not caring about these feelings will also be important. That is, what good is empathy, if one does not care about the feelings or values of others?... Read More about Empathy and bullying: Exploring the influence of callous-unemotional traits.

Investigating the status of biological stimuli as objects of attention in multiple object tracking (2011)
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de-Wit, L., Lefevre, C., Kentridge, R., Rees, G., & Saygin, A. (2011). Investigating the status of biological stimuli as objects of attention in multiple object tracking. PLoS ONE, 6(3), Article e16232. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016232

Background: Humans are able to track multiple simultaneously moving objects. A number of factors have been identified that can influence the ease with which objects can be attended and tracked. Here, we explored the possibility that object tracking a... Read More about Investigating the status of biological stimuli as objects of attention in multiple object tracking.

Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit impairs recency-dependent object recognition memory (2011)
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Sanderson, D. J., Hindley, E., Smeaton, E., Denny, N., Taylor, A., Barkus, C., …Bannerman, D. M. (2011). Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit impairs recency-dependent object recognition memory. Learning & Memory, 18(3), 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.2083411

Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit impairs short-term spatial recognition memory. It has been suggested that short-term recognition depends upon memory caused by the recent presentation of a stimulus that is independent of contextual–retriev... Read More about Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit impairs recency-dependent object recognition memory.

Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals. (2011)
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Clay, Z., Pika, S., Gruber, T., & Zuberbuhler, K. (2011). Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals. Biology Letters, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1227

During mating events, females of many primate species produce loud and distinct vocalizations known as ‘copulation calls’. The adaptive significance of these signals is considered to be in promoting the caller's direct reproductive success. Here, we... Read More about Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals..

On-line ostracism affects children differently from adolescents and adults (2011)
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Abrams, D., Weick, M., Thomas, D., Colbe, H., & Franklin, K. (2011). On-line ostracism affects children differently from adolescents and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29(1), 110-123. https://doi.org/10.1348/026151010x494089

This research examines adults', and for the first time, children's and adolescents' reaction to being ostracized and included, using an on-line game, 'Cyberball' with same and opposite sex players. Ostracism strongly threatened four primary needs (es... Read More about On-line ostracism affects children differently from adolescents and adults.

The role of online visual feedback for the control of target-directed and allocentric hand movements (2011)
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Thaler, L., & Goodale, M. (2011). The role of online visual feedback for the control of target-directed and allocentric hand movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(2), 846-859. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00743.2010

Studies that have investigated how sensory feedback about the moving hand is used to control hand movements have relied on paradigms such as pointing or reaching that require subjects to acquire target locations. In the context of these target-direct... Read More about The role of online visual feedback for the control of target-directed and allocentric hand movements.

Perceiving the facial correlates of sociosexuality: Further evidence (2011)
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Boothroyd, L., Cross, C., Gray, A., Coombes, C., & Gregson-Curtis, K. (2011). Perceiving the facial correlates of sociosexuality: Further evidence. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(3), 422-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.017

Certain physical traits are associated with individuals’ tendency towards short-term sexual relationships (as assayed by the Sociosexual Orientation Inventory). Observers may be able to accurately detect sociosexuality at zero acquaintance. Here we s... Read More about Perceiving the facial correlates of sociosexuality: Further evidence.

The emotional startle effect is disrupted by a concurrent working memory task (2011)
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King, R., & Schaefer, A. (2011). The emotional startle effect is disrupted by a concurrent working memory task. Psychophysiology, 48(2), 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01062.x

Working memory (WM) processes are often thought to play an important role in the cognitive regulation of negative emotions. However, little is known about how they influence emotional processing. We report two experiments that tested whether a concur... Read More about The emotional startle effect is disrupted by a concurrent working memory task.

The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception (2011)
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Cavina-Pratesi, C., Kuhn, G., Ietswaart, M., & Milner, A. (2011). The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception. PLoS ONE, 6(2), Article e16568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016568

Background Most of us are poor at faking actions. Kinematic studies have shown that when pretending to pick up imagined objects (pantomimed actions), we move and shape our hands quite differently from when grasping real ones. These differences betwee... Read More about The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception.

Disinhibited behaviors in young children: Relations with impulsivity and autonomic psychophysiology (2011)
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Munoz, L. C., & Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, X. (2011). Disinhibited behaviors in young children: Relations with impulsivity and autonomic psychophysiology. Biological Psychology, 86(3), 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.01.007

Cardiac activity has long been considered as a psychophysiological marker of adaptive psychological adjustment. Irregularities in autonomic nervous system activity have long been implicated in both externalizing and disinhibitory behaviors. The prese... Read More about Disinhibited behaviors in young children: Relations with impulsivity and autonomic psychophysiology.

Individual differences in infants' emotional resonance to a peer in distress: Self-other awareness and emotion regulation (2011)
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Geangu, E., Benga, O., Stahl, D., & Striano, T. (2011). Individual differences in infants' emotional resonance to a peer in distress: Self-other awareness and emotion regulation. Social Development, 20(3), 450-470. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00596.x

In this study, relations between emotional resonance responses to another’s distress, emotion regulation and self-other discrimination were investigated in infants 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old. We measured the emotional reactions to the pain cry of a peer... Read More about Individual differences in infants' emotional resonance to a peer in distress: Self-other awareness and emotion regulation.

Sex differences in impulsivity: A meta-analysis (2011)
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Cross, C., Copping, L., & Campbell, A. (2011). Sex differences in impulsivity: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 137(1), 97-130. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021591

Men are overrepresented in socially problematic behaviors, such as aggression and criminal behavior, which have been linked to impulsivity. Our review of impulsivity is organized around the tripartite theoretical distinction between reward hypersensi... Read More about Sex differences in impulsivity: A meta-analysis.