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Personality traits in people with synaesthesia: do synaesthetes have an atypical personality profile? (2013)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Neural bases for individual differences in the subjective experience of short durations (less than 2 seconds) (2013)
Journal Article
Tipples, J., Brattan, V., & Johnston, P. (2013). Neural bases for individual differences in the subjective experience of short durations (less than 2 seconds). PLoS ONE, 8(1), e54669. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054669

The current research was designed to establish whether individual differences in timing performance predict neural activation in the areas that subserve the perception of short durations ranging between 400 and 1600 milliseconds. Seventeen participan... Read More about Neural bases for individual differences in the subjective experience of short durations (less than 2 seconds).

The role of inhibitory control in the development of human figure drawing in young children (2013)
Journal Article
Riggs, K. J., Jolley, R. P., & Simpson, A. (2013). The role of inhibitory control in the development of human figure drawing in young children. Journal of experimental child psychology, 114(4), 537-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.10.003

We investigated the role of inhibitory control in young children's human figure drawing. We used the Bear-Dragon task as a measure of inhibitory control and used the classification system devised by Cox and Parkin to measure the development of human... Read More about The role of inhibitory control in the development of human figure drawing in young children.

Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition (2013)
Journal Article
Tidoni, E., Borgomaneri, S., di Pellegrino, G., & Avenanti, A. (2013). Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(2), 611-623. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2228-11.2013

The ability to infer deceptive intents from nonverbal behavior is critical for social interactions. By combining single-pulse and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in healthy humans, we provide both correlational and causative eviden... Read More about Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition.

Factorial validity of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48 (2012)
Journal Article
Perry, J. L., Clough, P. J., Crust, L., Earle, K., & Nicholls, A. R. (2013). Factorial validity of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48. Personality and individual differences, 54(5), 587-592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.020

The purpose of this study was to assess the factorial validity of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48 (Clough, Earle, & Sewell, 2002). In total, 8207 participants (male n= 4019, female n= 3922, unspecified = 266) aged between 16 and 68. years (M=... Read More about Factorial validity of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48.

And yet they act together: Interpersonal perception modulates visuo-motor interference and mutual adjustments during a joint-grasping task (2012)
Journal Article
Sacheli, L. M., Candidi, M., Pavone, E. F., Tidoni, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2012). And yet they act together: Interpersonal perception modulates visuo-motor interference and mutual adjustments during a joint-grasping task. PLoS ONE, 7(11), e50223. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050223

Prediction of “when” a partner will act and “what” he is going to do is crucial in joint-action contexts. However, studies on face-to-face interactions in which two people have to mutually adjust their movements in time and space are lacking. Moreove... Read More about And yet they act together: Interpersonal perception modulates visuo-motor interference and mutual adjustments during a joint-grasping task.

Neural basis of contagious itch and why some people are more prone to it (2012)
Journal Article
Holle, H., Warne, K., Seth, A. K., Critchley, H. D., & Ward, J. (2012). Neural basis of contagious itch and why some people are more prone to it. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(48), 19816-19821. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1216160109

Watching someone scratch himself can induce feelings of itchiness in the perceiver. This provides a unique opportunity to characterize the neural basis of subjective experiences of itch, independent of changes in peripheral inputs. In this study, we... Read More about Neural basis of contagious itch and why some people are more prone to it.

Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger's Syndrome (2012)
Journal Article
Slocombe, K., Alavrez, I., Branigan, H., Jellema, T., Burnett, H., Fischer, A., Li, Y. H., Garrod, S., & Levita, L. (2013). Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger's Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(6), 1423 - 1436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1698-2

Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (AS)often have difficulties with social interactions and conversations.We investigated if these difficulties could beattributable to a deficit in the ability to linguistically convergewith an interlocutor, which i... Read More about Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger's Syndrome.

Drugs (2012)
Book
Dalgarno, P., & Hammersley, R. (2012). Drugs. Dunedin Academic Press

Self-enhancement and cardiovascular reactivity: Limitations of the hemodynamic profile-compensation deficit (HP-CD) model of blood pressure regulation (2012)
Journal Article
Why, Y. P., & Chen, M. R. (2013). Self-enhancement and cardiovascular reactivity: Limitations of the hemodynamic profile-compensation deficit (HP-CD) model of blood pressure regulation. Biological Psychology, 92(2), 205-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.08.010

We examined the consistency of results obtained when examining the relationship between selfenhancement and cardiovascular reactivity via analysing raw cardiovascular data and compared this with the hemodynamic profile–compensation deficit (HP–CD) mo... Read More about Self-enhancement and cardiovascular reactivity: Limitations of the hemodynamic profile-compensation deficit (HP-CD) model of blood pressure regulation.

Mental capacity and working memory in chemistry: Algorithmic versus open-ended problem solving (2012)
Journal Article
Clair-Thompson, H. S., Overton, T., & Bugler, M. (2012). Mental capacity and working memory in chemistry: Algorithmic versus open-ended problem solving. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 13(4), 484-489. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2rp20084h

Previous research has revealed that problem solving and attainment in chemistry are constrained by mental capacity and working memory. However, the terms mental capacity and working memory come from different theories of cognitive resources, and are... Read More about Mental capacity and working memory in chemistry: Algorithmic versus open-ended problem solving.

Neuroimaging resolution of the altered state hypothesis (2012)
Journal Article
Mazzoni, G., Venneri, A., McGeown, W. J., & Kirsch, I. (2013). Neuroimaging resolution of the altered state hypothesis. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 49(2), 400-410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.08.005

A controversy in the field of hypnosis has centered on the question of whether there is a uniquely hypnotic state of consciousness and, if so, whether it is causally related to responsiveness to suggestion. Evidence from brain imaging studies has bee... Read More about Neuroimaging resolution of the altered state hypothesis.

Are adolescents with high mental toughness levels more resilient against stress? (2012)
Journal Article
Gerber, M., Kalak, N., Lemola, S., Clough, P. J., Perry, J. L., Puehse, U., Elliot, C., Holsboer-Trachsler, E., & Brand, S. (2013). Are adolescents with high mental toughness levels more resilient against stress?. Stress and Health, 29(2), 164-171. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2447

Mental toughness has been explored predominantly within sport contexts. Nevertheless, it is difficult to conceive mental toughness as only applicable to athletes. This study examines whether mentally tough participants exhibit resilience against stre... Read More about Are adolescents with high mental toughness levels more resilient against stress?.

Amnesia and the DRM Paradigm: How Encoding Factors (Do Not) Affect Lure Recognition (2012)
Journal Article
Van Damme, I., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2012). Amnesia and the DRM Paradigm: How Encoding Factors (Do Not) Affect Lure Recognition. Psychologica Belgica, 52(2-3), 95-120. https://doi.org/10.5334/pb-52-2-3-95

In the DRM paradigm, participants are presented with, and their memory is tested for, lists of words that are associatively related to a non-presented lure word. Recent studies have revealed that amnesic patients show heightened immediate, but dimini... Read More about Amnesia and the DRM Paradigm: How Encoding Factors (Do Not) Affect Lure Recognition.

A configural theory of attention and associative learning (2012)
Journal Article
George, D. N., & Pearce, J. M. (2012). A configural theory of attention and associative learning. Learning and Behavior, 40(3), 241-254. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-012-0078-2

A formal account of the relationship between attention and associative learning is presented within the framework of a configural theory of discrimination learning. The account is based on a connectionist network in which the entire pattern of stimul... Read More about A configural theory of attention and associative learning.

True and false DRM memories: differences detected with an implicit task (2012)
Journal Article
Marini, M., Agosta, S., Mazzoni, G., Barba, G. D., & Sartori, G. (2012). True and false DRM memories: differences detected with an implicit task. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(AUG), 0 - 0. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00310

Memory is prone to illusions. When people are presented with lists of words associated with a non-presented critical lure, they produce a high level of false recognitions (false memories) for non-presented related stimuli indistinguishable, at the ex... Read More about True and false DRM memories: differences detected with an implicit task.

Sex, gender identity and adolescent's academic motivation and classroom behaviour (2012)
Book Chapter
Bugler, M., St Clair-Thompson, H., & McGeown, S. P. (2012). Sex, gender identity and adolescent's academic motivation and classroom behaviour. In S. McGeown (Ed.), Psychology of Gender Differences (107-129). Nova Science Publishers

© 2012 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Sex differences or gender differences have long been investigated within the school environment; however the distinction between the two is often unclear. Whilst sex refers to differences between males and females... Read More about Sex, gender identity and adolescent's academic motivation and classroom behaviour.

At the crossroads: Attention, contingency awareness, and evaluative conditioning (2012)
Journal Article
Blask, K., Walther, E., Halbeisen, G., & Weil, R. (2012). At the crossroads: Attention, contingency awareness, and evaluative conditioning. Learning and Motivation, 43(3), 99-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2012.03.004

Evaluative conditioning (EC) refers to changes in the evaluation of a conditioned stimulus (CS) due to its repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus (US). One of the most debated topics in EC research is whether or not EC is dependent on contin... Read More about At the crossroads: Attention, contingency awareness, and evaluative conditioning.

Visual cognition during real social interaction (2012)
Journal Article
Skarratt, P., Cole, G. G., & Kuhn, G. (2012). Visual cognition during real social interaction. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 6, 42979. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00196

Laboratory studies of social visual cognition often simulate the critical aspects of joint attention by having participants interact with a computer-generated avatar. Recently, there has been a movement toward examining these processes during authent... Read More about Visual cognition during real social interaction.