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Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology (2013)
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Mather, E. (2013). Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(AUG), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00491

In this brief essay, I seek to demonstrate the significance of exploratory behavior for understanding cognitive development. Historically, organisms were thought to act solely in the service of achieving biologically significant goals, such as satisf... Read More about Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology.

The effect of partner-directed emotion in social exchange decision-making (2013)
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Eimontaite, I., Nicolle, A., Schindler, I., & Goel, V. (2013). The effect of partner-directed emotion in social exchange decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(JUL), Article UNSP 469. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00469

Despite the prevalence of studies examining economic decision-making as a purely rational phenomenon, common sense suggests that emotions affect our decision-making particularly in a social context. To explore the influence of emotions on economic de... Read More about The effect of partner-directed emotion in social exchange decision-making.

To Dash or to Dawdle: Verb-Associated Speed of Motion Influences Eye Movements during Spoken Sentence Comprehension (2013)
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Lindsay, S., Scheepers, C., & Kamide, Y. (2013). To Dash or to Dawdle: Verb-Associated Speed of Motion Influences Eye Movements during Spoken Sentence Comprehension. PLoS ONE, 8(6), Article e67187. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067187

In describing motion events verbs of manner provide information about the speed of agents or objects in those events. We used eye tracking to investigate how inferences about this verb-associated speed of motion would influence the time course of att... Read More about To Dash or to Dawdle: Verb-Associated Speed of Motion Influences Eye Movements during Spoken Sentence Comprehension.

Observational monitoring of clinical signs during the last stage of habituation in a wild Western Gorilla Group at Bai Hokou, Central African Republic (2013)
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Morton, F. B., Todd, A. F., Lee, P., & Masi, S. (2013). Observational monitoring of clinical signs during the last stage of habituation in a wild Western Gorilla Group at Bai Hokou, Central African Republic. Folia primatologica, 84(2), 118-133. https://doi.org/10.1159/000350916

Anthropozoonotic disease transmission to great apes is a critical conservation concern, and has raised ethical doubts regarding ape habituation. We monitored over a 3-year period clinical signs within a group of wild western gorillas (G. gorilla) und... Read More about Observational monitoring of clinical signs during the last stage of habituation in a wild Western Gorilla Group at Bai Hokou, Central African Republic.

Towards an understanding of how children read and spell irregular words: the role of nonword and orthographic processing skills (2013)
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Johnston, R., McGeown, S., & Moxon, G. E. (2014). Towards an understanding of how children read and spell irregular words: the role of nonword and orthographic processing skills. Journal of Research in Reading, 37(1), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrir.12007

This study examined, in 180 children aged from 6 to 9years, to what extent irregular word reading and spelling were predicted by vocabulary knowledge, reading frequency, orthographic processing and nonword reading skill. Consistent with models of rea... Read More about Towards an understanding of how children read and spell irregular words: the role of nonword and orthographic processing skills.

Cue familiarity and ‘don’t know’ responding in episodic memory tasks (2013)
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Mazzoni, G., Hanczakowski, M., Pasek, T., & Zawadzka, K. (2013). Cue familiarity and ‘don’t know’ responding in episodic memory tasks. Journal of Memory and Language, 69(3), 368-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.04.005

Metacognitive monitoring and control are two interdependent mechanisms by which people regulate encoding and retrieval processes in memory. While much is known about monitoring, and how the results of monitoring processes affect control at encoding,... Read More about Cue familiarity and ‘don’t know’ responding in episodic memory tasks.

Seeing triggers acting, hearing does not trigger saying: Evidence from children's weak inhibition (2013)
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Simpson, A., Cooper, N. R., Gillmeister, H., & Riggs, K. J. (2013). Seeing triggers acting, hearing does not trigger saying: Evidence from children's weak inhibition. Cognition, 128(2), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.03.015

There is evidence to suggest action imitation is automatic in adults and children. Children's weak inhibitory control means that automatic activation can have dramatic effects on behaviour. In three developmental studies, we investigated whether verb... Read More about Seeing triggers acting, hearing does not trigger saying: Evidence from children's weak inhibition.

Contagious scratching: shared feelings but not shared body locations (2013)
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Ward, J., Burckhardt, V., & Holle, H. (2013). Contagious scratching: shared feelings but not shared body locations. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7(122), Article ARTN 122. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00122

A commentary on: The neural basis of contagious itch and why some people are more prone to it by Holle, H., Warne, K., Seth, A. K., Critchley, H. D., and Ward, J. (2012). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 19816–19821.

Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007). (2013)
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Hanczakowski, M., & Mazzoni, G. (2013). Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(3), 953-958. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030531

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is the finding of impaired memory performance for information stored in long-term memory due to retrieval of a related set of information. This phenomenon is often assigned to operations of a specialized mechanism r... Read More about Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007)..

Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease (2013)
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Anderson, R. J., Simpson, A. C., Channon, S., Samuel, M., & Brown, R. G. (2013). Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease. Behavioral Neuroscience, 127(2), 184-192. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030250

Cognitive impairment is a recognized feature of Parkinson's disease (PD), which, even if mild, can impact some aspects of a patient's ability to deal with everyday life. The current study examined the ability to solve social problems in three groups... Read More about Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease.

Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories (2013)
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Swannell, E. R., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2013). Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories. Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society, 14(2), 332-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2011.638689

The effect of list length on children's false memories was investigated using list and story versions of the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure. Short (7 items) and long (14 items) sequences of semantic associates were presented to children age... Read More about Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories.

Constraint theory: A cognitive, motivational theory of dependence (2013)
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Hammersley, R. (2014). Constraint theory: A cognitive, motivational theory of dependence. Addiction research & theory, 22(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3109/16066359.2013.779678

Aims: A new theory of substance dependence is presented that models dependence as the absence of cognitive constraints on substance use. Methods: (1) Critical review of the predominant paradigm that assumes that substance dependence is a pathological... Read More about Constraint theory: A cognitive, motivational theory of dependence.

Kinematics fingerprints of leader and follower role-taking during cooperative joint actions (2013)
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Sacheli, L. M., Tidoni, E., Pavone, E. F., Aglioti, S. M., & Candidi, M. (2013). Kinematics fingerprints of leader and follower role-taking during cooperative joint actions. Experimental Brain Research, 226(4), 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-013-3459-7

Performing online complementary motor adjustments is quintessential to joint actions since it allows interacting people to coordinate efficiently and achieve a common goal. We sought to determine whether, during dyadic interactions, signaling strateg... Read More about Kinematics fingerprints of leader and follower role-taking during cooperative joint actions.

Bootstrapping the early lexicon: how do children use old knowledge to create new meanings? (2013)
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Mather, E. (2013). Bootstrapping the early lexicon: how do children use old knowledge to create new meanings?. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, Article 96. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00096

Compared to other aspects of language development, such as acquiring grammar, we perhaps take for granted the complexity of building a lexicon. More than 50 years ago the philosopher W.V.O. Quine provided a now famous example of what makes word learn... Read More about Bootstrapping the early lexicon: how do children use old knowledge to create new meanings?.

Visual surround suppression in schizophrenia (2013)
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Tibber, M. S., Anderson, E. J., Bobin, T., Antonova, E., Seabright, A., Wright, B., Carlin, P., Shergill, S. S., & Dakin, S. C. (2013). Visual surround suppression in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(FEB), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00088

Compared to unaffected observers patients with schizophrenia (SZ) show characteristic differences in visual perception, including a reduced susceptibility to the influence of context on judgments of contrast – a manifestation of weaker surround suppr... Read More about Visual surround suppression in schizophrenia.

Beyond Face Value: Does Involuntary Emotional Anticipation Shape the Perception of Dynamic Facial Expressions? (2013)
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Palumbo, L., & Jellema, T. (2013). Beyond Face Value: Does Involuntary Emotional Anticipation Shape the Perception of Dynamic Facial Expressions?. PLoS ONE, 8(2), Article e56003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056003

Emotional facial expressions are immediate indicators of the affective dispositions of others. Recently it has been shown thatearly stages of social perception can already be influenced by (implicit) attributions made by the observer about the agent'... Read More about Beyond Face Value: Does Involuntary Emotional Anticipation Shape the Perception of Dynamic Facial Expressions?.

Taking personality selection bias seriously in animal cognition research: A case study in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) (2013)
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Morton, F. B., Lee, P. C., & Buchanan-Smith, H. M. (2013). Taking personality selection bias seriously in animal cognition research: A case study in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella). Animal Cognition, 16(4), 677-684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-013-0603-5

In most experimental work on animal cognition, researchers attempt to control for multiple interacting variables by training subjects prior to testing, allowing subjects to participate voluntarily, and providing subjects with food rewards. However, d... Read More about Taking personality selection bias seriously in animal cognition research: A case study in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella).

Personality traits in people with synaesthesia: do synaesthetes have an atypical personality profile? (2013)
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Banissy, M. J., Holle, H., Cassell, J., Annett, L., Tsakanikos, E., Walsh, V., Spiller, M. J., & Ward, J. (2013). Personality traits in people with synaesthesia: do synaesthetes have an atypical personality profile?. Personality and individual differences, 54(7), 828-831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.018

People with synaesthesia not only have – by definition – unusual experiences (e.g., numbers triggering colour), they also have a different cognitive profile (e.g., in terms of their memory and perceptual abilities) and a bias towards certain interest... Read More about Personality traits in people with synaesthesia: do synaesthetes have an atypical personality profile?.

Superior numerical abilities following early visual deprivation (2013)
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Castronovo, J., & Delvenne, J. F. (2013). Superior numerical abilities following early visual deprivation. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 49(5), 1435-1440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.12.018

In numerical cognition vision has been assumed to play a predominant role in the elaboration of the numerical representations and skills. However, this view has been recently challenged by the discovery that people with early visual deprivation not o... Read More about Superior numerical abilities following early visual deprivation.