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Optional-shift behaviour in rats: a novel procedure for assessing attentional processes in discrimination learning (2007)
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Duffaud, A. M., Killcross, S., & George, D. N. (2007). Optional-shift behaviour in rats: a novel procedure for assessing attentional processes in discrimination learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(4), 534-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210601154487

A novel, optional-shift procedure was used to assess changes in the attention paid to stimuli that occur over the course of discrimination learning. In Phase 1, rats were trained on a conditional instrumental discrimination using audiovisual stimulus... Read More about Optional-shift behaviour in rats: a novel procedure for assessing attentional processes in discrimination learning.

How may refined carbohydrates affect satiety and mood? (2007)
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Hammersley, R., Reid, M., & Duffy, M. (2007). How may refined carbohydrates affect satiety and mood?. Nutrition Bulletin, 32(SUPPL.1), 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-3010.2007.00605.x

Effects of refined carbohydrates on satiety and mood remain controversial. After a brief review of findings, some conceptual distinctions underlying mood and satiety are discussed; the physiological processes, cognitive processes and behaviours invol... Read More about How may refined carbohydrates affect satiety and mood?.

Numerical estimation in blind subjects: evidence of the impact of blindness and its following experience (2007)
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Castronovo, J. (2007). Numerical estimation in blind subjects: evidence of the impact of blindness and its following experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 7(9), 528. https://doi.org/10.1167/7.9.528

Vision was for a long time considered as essential in the elaboration of the semantic numerical representation (e.g., Simon, 1999). However, early visual deprivation does not prevent the elaboration of a numerical representation with similar spatial... Read More about Numerical estimation in blind subjects: evidence of the impact of blindness and its following experience.

Illness by suggestion: Expectancy, modeling, and gender in the production of psychosomatic symptoms (2007)
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Lorber, W., Mazzoni, G., & Kirsch, I. (2007). Illness by suggestion: Expectancy, modeling, and gender in the production of psychosomatic symptoms. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 33(1), 112-116. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15324796abm3301_13

Background: Expectancy and modeling have been cited as factors in mass psychogenic illness (MPI), which reportedly affects more women than men. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to assess the effects of expectancy and modeling in a controlled labo... Read More about Illness by suggestion: Expectancy, modeling, and gender in the production of psychosomatic symptoms.

Evidence for word length coding during visual word recognition (2007)
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Skarratt, P. A., McDonald, S., & Lavidor, M. (2008). Evidence for word length coding during visual word recognition. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20(1), 12-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440601046647

In a masked priming procedure manipulating orthographic neighbourhood size, the priming word activates a number of word candidates of which the target could be one. Whether the target is one of the candidates or not determines how quickly it is recog... Read More about Evidence for word length coding during visual word recognition.

Semantic numerical representation in blind subjects: The role of vision in the spatial format of the mental number line (2007)
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Castronovo, J., & Seron, X. (2007). Semantic numerical representation in blind subjects: The role of vision in the spatial format of the mental number line. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(1), 101-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210600598635

Does vision play a role in the elaboration of the semantic representation of small and large numerosities, notably in its spatial format? To investigate this issue, we decided to compare in the auditory modality the performance of congenitally and ea... Read More about Semantic numerical representation in blind subjects: The role of vision in the spatial format of the mental number line.

Long-term dietary compensation for added sugar: Effects of supplementary sucrose drinks over a 4-week period (2007)
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Reid, M., Hammersley, R., Hill, A. J., & Skidmore, P. (2007). Long-term dietary compensation for added sugar: Effects of supplementary sucrose drinks over a 4-week period. British Journal of Nutrition, 97(1), 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114507252705

The long-term physiological effects of refined carbohydrates on appetite and mood remain unclear. Reported effects when subjects are not blind may be due to expectations and have rarely been studied for more than 24 h. The present study compared the... Read More about Long-term dietary compensation for added sugar: Effects of supplementary sucrose drinks over a 4-week period.

Temporal and spatio-temporal attention to tactile stimuli in extinction patients (2006)
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Guerrini, C., & Aglioti, S. M. (2006). Temporal and spatio-temporal attention to tactile stimuli in extinction patients. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 42(1), 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452%2808%2970318-6

The temporal deployment of attention to tactile stimuli delivered to the same or to a symmetrical position of the body was assessed in 6 Right-Brain Damaged (RBD) patients with left tactile extinction and 6 healthy controls. Two different tasks calle... Read More about Temporal and spatio-temporal attention to tactile stimuli in extinction patients.

Transfer between two- and three-dimensional representations of faces (2006)
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Liu, C. H., Ward, J., & Young, A. W. (2006). Transfer between two- and three-dimensional representations of faces. Visual Cognition, 13(1), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280500143391

Because stereoscopic depth cues are not present in an ordinary photograph, matching a two-dimensional (2-D) photograph to a three-dimensional (3-D) face requires establishing a correspondence between information derived from monocular depth cues and... Read More about Transfer between two- and three-dimensional representations of faces.

Face recognition in pictures is affected by perspective transformation but not by the centre of projection (2006)
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Liu, C. H., & Ward, J. (2006). Face recognition in pictures is affected by perspective transformation but not by the centre of projection. Perception, 35(12), 1637-1650. https://doi.org/10.1068/p5545

Recognition of unfamiliar faces is susceptible to image differences caused by angular sizes subtended from the face to the camera. Research on perception of cubes suggests that apparent distortions of a shape due to large camera angle are correctable... Read More about Face recognition in pictures is affected by perspective transformation but not by the centre of projection.

Magnetic stimulation of the left visual cortex impairs expert word recognition (2006)
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Skarratt, P. A., & Lavidor, M. (2006). Magnetic stimulation of the left visual cortex impairs expert word recognition. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 18(10), 1749-1758. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.10.1749

One of the hallmarks of expert reading is the ability to identify arrays of several letters quickly and in parallel. Such length-independent reading has only been found for word stimuli appearing in the right visual hemifield (RVF). With left hemifie... Read More about Magnetic stimulation of the left visual cortex impairs expert word recognition.

Treatment for substance use problems among young offenders: Difficulties and dilemmas for implementation and evaluation in the UK (2006)
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Hammersley, R., Reid, M., & Minkes, J. (2006). Treatment for substance use problems among young offenders: Difficulties and dilemmas for implementation and evaluation in the UK. Educational and Child Psychology, 23(2), 40-51

© The British Psychological Society 2006. Youth offending is assumed in part to be caused by substance use problems, consequently policy and practice in youth justice emphasise their treatment. We review four types of difficulty for substance use tre... Read More about Treatment for substance use problems among young offenders: Difficulties and dilemmas for implementation and evaluation in the UK.

Delayed response to animate implied motion in human motion processing areas (2006)
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Lorteije, J. A., Kenemans, J. L., Jellema, T., van der Lubbe, R. H., de Heer, F., & van Wezel, R. J. (2006). Delayed response to animate implied motion in human motion processing areas. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 18(2), 158-168. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.2.158

Viewing static photographs of objects in motion evokes higher fMRI activation in the human medial temporal complex ( MT+) than looking at similar photographs without this implied motion. As MT+ is traditionally thought to be involved in motion percep... Read More about Delayed response to animate implied motion in human motion processing areas.

The use of 3D information in face recognition (2005)
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Liu, C. H., & Ward, J. (2006). The use of 3D information in face recognition. Vision Research, 46(6-7), 768-773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2005.10.008

Effects of shading in face recognition have often alluded to 3D shape processing. However, research to date has failed to demonstrate any use of important 3D information. Stereopsis adds no advantage in face encoding [Liu, C. H., Ward, J., & Young,... Read More about The use of 3D information in face recognition.

The discrimination of structure: III. Representation of spatial relationships. (2005)
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Haselgrove, M., George, D. N., & Pearce, J. M. (2005). The discrimination of structure: III. Representation of spatial relationships. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31(4), 433-448. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.31.4.433

Pigeons received a discrimination in which the spatial relationship between 2 adjacent rectangles filled with different colors signaled the trial outcome. Test trials then involved the same rectangles separated horizontally by a gap. The tests in Exp... Read More about The discrimination of structure: III. Representation of spatial relationships..

The influence of hippocampal lesions on the discrimination of structure and on spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia). (2005)
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Pearce, J. M., George, D. N., Haselgrove, M., Erichsen, J. T., & Good, M. A. (2005). The influence of hippocampal lesions on the discrimination of structure and on spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia). Behavioral Neuroscience, 119(5), 1316-1330. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1316

Pigeons (Columba livia) were trained with a spatial structural discrimination, which was based on the spatial relationship among the components of a pattern, and a feature-binding structural discrimination, which was based on how different visual fea... Read More about The influence of hippocampal lesions on the discrimination of structure and on spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia)..

VRVision: A new tool for the display of 3-D images in behavioral research (2005)
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Ward, J., & Liu, C. H. (2005). VRVision: A new tool for the display of 3-D images in behavioral research. Behavior research methods, 37(3), 464-469. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03192715

Researchers using three-dimensional (3-D) scenes in their studies often spend a lot of time prerendering the scenes into a set of images for later presentations. To improve efficiency, we have developed a new plug-in program for MATLAB that eliminate... Read More about VRVision: A new tool for the display of 3-D images in behavioral research.

Imitative learning of stimulus-response and response-outcome associations in pigeons (2005)
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Saggerson, A. L., George, D. N., & Honey, R. C. (2005). Imitative learning of stimulus-response and response-outcome associations in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31(3), 289-300. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.31.3.289

A novel automated procedure was used to study imitative learning in pigeons. In Experiments 1 and 2, observer pigeons witnessed a demonstrator pigeon successfully performing an instrumental discrimination in which different discriminative stimuli ind... Read More about Imitative learning of stimulus-response and response-outcome associations in pigeons.

Relationships between the Food Expectancy Questionnaire (FEQ) and the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) (2005)
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Reid, M., Bunting, J., & Hammersley, R. (2005). Relationships between the Food Expectancy Questionnaire (FEQ) and the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ). Appetite, 45(2), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2005.03.012

The outcome expectancies of 250 respondents were examined using the Food Expectancy Questionnaire (FEQ), comparing expectancies about four different foods: fruit, vegetables, chocolate and sweets and plain biscuits. These expectancies were related to... Read More about Relationships between the Food Expectancy Questionnaire (FEQ) and the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ).