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Visual cognition during real social interaction (2012)
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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.

(Re-)conceptualisation in asperger's syndrome and typical individuals with varying degrees of autistic-like traits (2012)
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Burnett, H., & Jellema, T. (2013). (Re-)conceptualisation in asperger's syndrome and typical individuals with varying degrees of autistic-like traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(1), 211 - 223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1567-z

The abilities to form new concepts from scratch(conceptualisation), and to flexibly switch from one conceptto another (re-conceptualisation), were investigated inadults with Asperger's Syndrome and in typically-developedadults with low and high autis... Read More about (Re-)conceptualisation in asperger's syndrome and typical individuals with varying degrees of autistic-like traits.

Prefrontal control during a semantic decision task that involves idiom comprehension: A transcranial direct current stimulation study (2012)
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Sela, T., Ivry, R. B., & Lavidor, M. (2012). Prefrontal control during a semantic decision task that involves idiom comprehension: A transcranial direct current stimulation study. Neuropsychologia, 50(9), 2271-2280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.031

Language processing and comprehension can be understood in terms of both linguistic and non-linguistic processes. To make a decision regarding the meaning of complex linguistic inputs such as idiomatic expressions, one has to perform multiple complex... Read More about Prefrontal control during a semantic decision task that involves idiom comprehension: A transcranial direct current stimulation study.

Imagining novel futures: The roles of event plausibility and familiarity (2012)
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Anderson, R. J. (2012). Imagining novel futures: The roles of event plausibility and familiarity. Memory, 20(5), 443-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.677450

The constructive episodic simulation hypothesis suggests that episodic memory supports the simulation of future events through extraction and recombination of stored information. The current study explicitly investigated the use of past episodic thou... Read More about Imagining novel futures: The roles of event plausibility and familiarity.

When less is more: Evidence for a facilitative cathodal tDCS effect in attentional abilities (2012)
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Lavidor, M., & Weiss, M. (2012). When less is more: Evidence for a facilitative cathodal tDCS effect in attentional abilities. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 24(9), 1826-1833. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00248

Many previous studies reported that the hyperpolarization of cortical neurons following cathodal stimulation (in transcranial direct current stimulation) has resulted in cognitive performance degradation. Here, we challenge this assumption by showing... Read More about When less is more: Evidence for a facilitative cathodal tDCS effect in attentional abilities.

Identifying the cognitive basis of mental toughness: Evidence from the directed forgetting paradigm (2012)
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Dewhurst, S. A., Anderson, R. J., Cotter, G., Crust, L., & Clough, P. J. (2012). Identifying the cognitive basis of mental toughness: Evidence from the directed forgetting paradigm. Personality and individual differences, 53(5), 587-590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.036

The concept of mental toughness has been found to be related to outcome performance measures in sport and other competitive situations. Despite this, little attention has been devoted to understanding the cognitive mechanisms that underlie mental tou... Read More about Identifying the cognitive basis of mental toughness: Evidence from the directed forgetting paradigm.

Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference (2012)
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Li, M. K., Bergström, Z. M., O'Connor, R. J., Li, M. K.-H., & Simons, J. S. (2012). Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference. Brain research, 1455, 90-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.03.043

Interference between competing memories is a major source of retrieval failure, yet, surprisingly little is known about how competitive memory activation arises in the brain. One possibility is that interference during episodic retrieval might be pro... Read More about Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference.

Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning (2012)
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George, D. N., & Kruschke, J. K. (2012). Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning. Learning and Behavior, 40(4), 530-541. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-012-0072-8

In a category-learning experiment, we assessed whether participants were able to selectively attend to different components of a compound stimulus in two distinct contexts. The participants were presented with stimulus compounds for which they had to... Read More about Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning.

How do alternative ways of responding influence 3- and 4-year-olds' performance on tests of executive function and theory of mind? (2012)
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Carroll, D. J., Riggs, K. J., Apperly, I. A., Graham, K., & Geoghegan, C. (2012). How do alternative ways of responding influence 3- and 4-year-olds' performance on tests of executive function and theory of mind?. Journal of experimental child psychology, 112(3), 312-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.03.001

A total of 69 preschool children were tested on measures of false belief understanding (the Unexpected Transfer task), inhibitory control (the Grass/Snow task), and strategic reasoning (the Windows task). For each task, children indicated their respo... Read More about How do alternative ways of responding influence 3- and 4-year-olds' performance on tests of executive function and theory of mind?.

Dissociating positive and negative influences of verbal processing on the recognition of pictures of faces and objects (2012)
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Nakabayashi, K., Burton, A. M., Brandimonte, M. A., & Lloyd-Jones, T. J. (2012). Dissociating positive and negative influences of verbal processing on the recognition of pictures of faces and objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(2), 376-390. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025782

Four experiments investigated the role of verbal processing in the recognition of pictures of faces and objects. We used (a) a stimulus-encoding task where participants learned sequentially presented pictures in control, articulatory suppression, and... Read More about Dissociating positive and negative influences of verbal processing on the recognition of pictures of faces and objects.

Impact of high mathematics education on the number sense. (2012)
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Castronovo, J., & Göbel, S. M. (2012). Impact of high mathematics education on the number sense. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e33832. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033832

In adult number processing two mechanisms are commonly used: approximate estimation of quantity and exact calculation. While the former relies on the approximate number sense (ANS) which we share with animals and preverbal infants, the latter has bee... Read More about Impact of high mathematics education on the number sense..

Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits (2012)
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Hudson, M., Nijboer, T. C. W., & Jellema, T. (2012). Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(12), 2534-2545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1510-3

We investigated if variation in autistic traits inthe typically-developed population (using the AutismspectrumQuotient, AQ) influenced implicit learning ofsocial information. In the learning phase, participantsrepeatedly observed two identities whose... Read More about Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits.

Body fat fluctuations among female adolescents with restrained eating behaviours (2012)
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Lai, Z., Why, Y. P., Koh, D. S. Q., Ng, V. A. C., & Lim, C. L. (2012). Body fat fluctuations among female adolescents with restrained eating behaviours. Appetite, 59(1), 17-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.03.017

Body fat fluctuation during varying competing academic demand was examined among female adolescents with high (n=24) or low (n=24) restrained eating behaviours. Body fat, perceived stress, energy intake, and exercise behaviour were measured three tim... Read More about Body fat fluctuations among female adolescents with restrained eating behaviours.

The role of novelty in early word learning (2012)
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Mather, E., & Plunkett, K. (2012). The role of novelty in early word learning. Cognitive science, 36(7), 1157-1177. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01239.x

What mechanism implements the mutual exclusivity bias to map novel labels to objects without names? Prominent theoretical accounts of mutual exclusivity (e.g., Markman, 1989, 1990) propose that infants are guided by their knowledge of object names. H... Read More about The role of novelty in early word learning.

Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech (2012)
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Holle, H., Obermeier, C., Schmidt-Kassow, M., Friederici, A. D., Ward, J., & Gunter, T. C. (2012). Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(MAR), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00074

Recent research suggests that the brain routinely binds together information from gesture and speech. However, most of this research focused on the integration of representational gestures with the semantic content of speech. Much less is known about... Read More about Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech.

Electrophysiological responses to violations of expectation from eye gaze and arrow cues (2012)
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Tipples, J., Johnston, P., & Mayes, A. (2013). Electrophysiological responses to violations of expectation from eye gaze and arrow cues. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(5), 509-514. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss024

Isolating processes within the brain that are specific to human behavior is a key goal for social neuroscience. The current research was an attempt to test whether recent findings of enhanced negative ERPs in response to unexpected human gaze are uni... Read More about Electrophysiological responses to violations of expectation from eye gaze and arrow cues.

Creating Non-Believed Memories for Recent Autobiographical Events (2012)
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Clark, A., Nash, R. A., Fincham, G., & Mazzoni, G. (2012). Creating Non-Believed Memories for Recent Autobiographical Events. PLoS ONE, 7(3), 1334 - 1340. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032998

A recent study showed that many people spontaneously report vivid memories of events that they do not believe to have occurred [1]. In the present experiment we tested for the first time whether, after powerful false memories have been created, debri... Read More about Creating Non-Believed Memories for Recent Autobiographical Events.

Recalling unpresented hostile words: false memories predictors of traditional and cyberbullying (2012)
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Vannucci, M., Nocentini, A., Mazzoni, G., & Menesini, E. (2012). Recalling unpresented hostile words: false memories predictors of traditional and cyberbullying. European journal of developmental psychology, 9(2), 182-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2011.646459

This study investigated the relationship between hostile false memories (violent and verbal/aggressive) and engagement in traditional and cyberbullying, controlling for their co-occurrence. Two hundred eleven adolescents completed measures of traditi... Read More about Recalling unpresented hostile words: false memories predictors of traditional and cyberbullying.

Task- and response related dissociations between neglect in near and far space: A morphometric case study (2012)
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Aimola, L., Schindler, I., & Venneri, A. (2012). Task- and response related dissociations between neglect in near and far space: A morphometric case study. Behavioural neurology, 27(3), 245-257. https://doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2012-110243

Introduction: Patients with unilateral neglect may show line bisection errors selectively in either near (within hand reaching) or far (beyond hand reaching) space which suggests that these two spatial areas are coded differently by the brain. This e... Read More about Task- and response related dissociations between neglect in near and far space: A morphometric case study.

Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain (2012)
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McGeown, W. J., Venneri, A., Kirsch, I., Nocetti, L., Roberts, K., Foan, L., & Mazzoni, G. (2012). Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain. Consciousness and cognition, 21(1), 100-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.015

This functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study investigated high and low suggestible people responding to two visual hallucination suggestions with and without a hypnotic induction. Participants in the study were asked to see color while loo... Read More about Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain.