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Facial emotion modulates the neural mechanisms responsible for short interval time perception (2013)
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Tipples, J., Brattan, V., & Johnston, P. (2015). Facial emotion modulates the neural mechanisms responsible for short interval time perception. Brain topography, 28(1), 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-013-0350-6

Emotionally arousing events can distort our sense of time. We used mixed block/event-related fMRI design to establish the neural basis for this effect. Nineteen participants were asked to judge whether angry, happy and neutral facial expressions that... Read More about Facial emotion modulates the neural mechanisms responsible for short interval time perception.

Disowned recollections: Denying true experiences undermines belief in occurrence but not judgments of remembering (2013)
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Mazzoni, G., Clark, A., & Nash, R. A. (2014). Disowned recollections: Denying true experiences undermines belief in occurrence but not judgments of remembering. Acta Psychologica, 145(1), 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.11.007

Recent research findings have illustrated that false memories induced in the laboratory can be dissociated from the beliefs that the events had in fact occurred. In this study we assessed whether this dissociability is a quality peculiar to false mem... Read More about Disowned recollections: Denying true experiences undermines belief in occurrence but not judgments of remembering.

The costs of giving up: Action versus inaction asymmetries in regret (2013)
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Nicolle, A., & Riggs, K. (2013). The costs of giving up: Action versus inaction asymmetries in regret. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(6), 702. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13001143

Kurzban et al.'s opportunity cost model of mental effort relies heavily on counterfactual thinking. We suggest that a closer inspection of the role of counterfactual emotions, and particularly of action/inaction asymmetries in anticipated regret, may... Read More about The costs of giving up: Action versus inaction asymmetries in regret.

The selective role of premotor cortex in speech perception: A contribution to phoneme judgements but not speech comprehension (2013)
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Krieger-Redwood, K., Gareth Gaskell, M., Lindsay, S., & Jefferies, E. (2013). The selective role of premotor cortex in speech perception: A contribution to phoneme judgements but not speech comprehension. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 25(12), 2179-2188. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00463

Several accounts of speech perception propose that the areas involved in producing language are also involved in perceiving it. In line with this view, neuroimaging studies show activation of premotor cortex (PMC) during phoneme judgment tasks; howev... Read More about The selective role of premotor cortex in speech perception: A contribution to phoneme judgements but not speech comprehension.

Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming (2013)
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Mather, E., Estes, Z., & Jones, L. L. (2014). Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 71(1), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.10.004

Integrative priming is the facilitated recognition of a target word following a prime word with which it can be combined to produce a sub-type of the target (e.g., a lake bird is a type of bird). Such priming occurs even in the absence of lexical ass... Read More about Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming.

Weight maintenance over 12 months after weight loss resulting from participation in a 12-week randomised controlled trial comparing all meal provision to self-directed diet in overweight adults (2013)
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Whitham, C., Mellor, D. D., Goodwin, S., Reid, M., & Atkin, S. L. (2014). Weight maintenance over 12 months after weight loss resulting from participation in a 12-week randomised controlled trial comparing all meal provision to self-directed diet in overweight adults. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 27(4), 384-390. https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.12178

Background: The results of weight maintenance after initial weight loss are reported infrequently, although, when they have been reported, the outcomes are generally poor and weight regain is common. Methods: After an initial 12-week randomised inter... Read More about Weight maintenance over 12 months after weight loss resulting from participation in a 12-week randomised controlled trial comparing all meal provision to self-directed diet in overweight adults.

Personality and facial morphology: Links to assertiveness and neuroticism in capuchins (Sapajus [Cebus] apella) (2013)
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Wilson, V., Lefevre, C. E., Morton, F. B., Brosnan, S. F., Paukner, A., & Bates, T. C. (2014). Personality and facial morphology: Links to assertiveness and neuroticism in capuchins (Sapajus [Cebus] apella). Personality and individual differences, 58, 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.10.008

Personality has important links to health, social status, and life history outcomes (e.g. longevity and reproductive success). Human facial morphology appears to signal aspects of one's personality to others, raising questions about the evolutionary... Read More about Personality and facial morphology: Links to assertiveness and neuroticism in capuchins (Sapajus [Cebus] apella).

Developmental differences in holistic interference of facial part recognition (2013)
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Nakabayashi, K., & Liu, C. H. (2013). Developmental differences in holistic interference of facial part recognition. PLoS ONE, 8(10), e77504. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077504

Research has shown that adults' recognition of a facial part can be disrupted if the part is learnt without a face context but tested in a whole face. This has been interpreted as the holistic interference effect. The present study investigated wheth... Read More about Developmental differences in holistic interference of facial part recognition.

Effects on obese women of the sugar sucrose added to the diet over 28 d: a quasi-randomised, single-blind, controlled trial (2013)
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Reid, M., Hammersley, R., Duffy, M., & Ballantyne, C. (2014). Effects on obese women of the sugar sucrose added to the diet over 28 d: a quasi-randomised, single-blind, controlled trial. British Journal of Nutrition, 111(3), 563-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007114513002687

To investigate whether obese women can compensate for sucrose added to the diet when it is given blind, rather than gaining weight or exhibiting dysfunctional regulation of intake, in the present study, forty-one healthy obese (BMI 30–35 kg/m2) women... Read More about Effects on obese women of the sugar sucrose added to the diet over 28 d: a quasi-randomised, single-blind, controlled trial.

Weight loss in a UK commercial all meal provision study: A randomised controlled trial (2013)
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Mellor, D. D., Whitham, C., Goodwin, S., Morris, M., Reid, M., & Atkin, S. L. (2014). Weight loss in a UK commercial all meal provision study: A randomised controlled trial. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 27(4), 377-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.12171

Background: Effective approaches are needed to address the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity. The present study investigated whether all meal provision was a more effective and acceptable method for weight loss than a self-directed diet... Read More about Weight loss in a UK commercial all meal provision study: A randomised controlled trial.

Involuntary social cue integration in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (2013)
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Tumkaya, S., Karadag, F., Jellema, T., Oguzhanoglu, N. K., Ozdel, O., Atesci, F. C., & Varma, G. (2014). Involuntary social cue integration in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 55(1), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.08.007

Objective Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have inferior social functioning compared to healthy controls, but the exact nature of these social deficits, and the underpinning mechanisms, are unknown. We sought to investigate social fu... Read More about Involuntary social cue integration in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Gender differences in adolescents' academic motivation and classroom behaviour (2013)
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Bugler, M., McGeown, S. P., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2015). Gender differences in adolescents' academic motivation and classroom behaviour. Educational psychology, 35(5), 541-556. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2013.849325

© 2013 Taylor & Francis. The present study investigated gender differences in adolescents’ academic motivation and classroom behaviour and gender differences in the extent to which motivation was associated with, and predicted, classroom behaviour.... Read More about Gender differences in adolescents' academic motivation and classroom behaviour.

Conditional Reasoning and Emotional Experience: A Review of the Development of Counterfactual Thinking (2013)
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Beck, S. R., Weisberg, D. P., Burns, P., & Riggs, K. J. (2014). Conditional Reasoning and Emotional Experience: A Review of the Development of Counterfactual Thinking. Studia Logica, 102(4), 673-689. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-013-9508-1

What do human beings use conditional reasoning for? A psychological consequence of counterfactual conditional reasoning is emotional experience, in particular, regret and relief. Adults' thoughts about what might have been influence their evaluations... Read More about Conditional Reasoning and Emotional Experience: A Review of the Development of Counterfactual Thinking.

Prepotency in action: Does children's knowledge of an artifact affect their ability to inhibit acting on it? (2013)
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Riggs, K. J., Simpson, A., & Carroll, D. J. (2014). Prepotency in action: Does children's knowledge of an artifact affect their ability to inhibit acting on it?. Journal of experimental child psychology, 118(1), 127-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.07.015

Prepotent actions are actions that are strongly triggered by the environment, and so tend to be carried out, unless intentionally avoided. Understanding what makes an action prepotent is central to an understanding of inhibitory control. The current... Read More about Prepotency in action: Does children's knowledge of an artifact affect their ability to inhibit acting on it?.

Personality structure in brown capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella): Comparisons with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), orangutans (Pongo spp.), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). (2013)
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Blake Morton, F., Lee, P. C., Buchanan-Smith, H. M., Brosnan, S. F., Thierry, B., Paukner, A., …Weiss, A. (2013). Personality structure in brown capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella): Comparisons with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), orangutans (Pongo spp.), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 127(3), 282-298. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031723

Species comparisons of personality structure (i.e., how many personality dimensions and the characteristics of those dimensions) can facilitate questions about the adaptive function of personality in nonhuman primates. Here we investigate personality... Read More about Personality structure in brown capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella): Comparisons with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), orangutans (Pongo spp.), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)..

Cognitive performance in irritable bowel syndrome: Evidence of a stress-related impairment in visuospatial memory (2013)
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Kennedy, P. J., Clarke, G., O'Neill, A., Groeger, J. A., Quigley, E. M. . M., Shanahan, F., …Dinan, T. G. (2014). Cognitive performance in irritable bowel syndrome: Evidence of a stress-related impairment in visuospatial memory. Psychological Medicine, 44(7), 1553-1566. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291713002171

Background Central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction is a prominent feature of the functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, the neurobiological and cognitive consequences of key pathophysiological features of... Read More about Cognitive performance in irritable bowel syndrome: Evidence of a stress-related impairment in visuospatial memory.

Lexical integration of novel words without sleep (2013)
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Lindsay, S., & Gareth Gaskell, M. (2013). Lexical integration of novel words without sleep. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(2), 608-622. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029243

Learning a new word involves integration with existing lexical knowledge. Previous work has shown that sleep-associated memory consolidation processes are important for the engagement of novel items in lexical competition. In 3 experiments we used sp... Read More about Lexical integration of novel words without sleep.

Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: Paradoxical effects of the pavlovian relationship explained (2013)
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Cohen-Hatton, S. R., Haddon, J. E., George, D. N., & Honey, R. C. (2013). Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: Paradoxical effects of the pavlovian relationship explained. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(1), 14-23. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030594

Four experiments with rats examined the origin of outcome-selective Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT). Experiment 1 used a standard procedure, where outcomes were embedded within extended conditioned stimuli (CSs), to demonstrate the basic eff... Read More about Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: Paradoxical effects of the pavlovian relationship explained.

Functional and structural brain differences associated with mirror-touch synaesthesia (2013)
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Holle, H., Banissy, M. J., & Ward, J. (2013). Functional and structural brain differences associated with mirror-touch synaesthesia. NeuroImage, 83(December), 1041-1050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.073

Observing touch is known to activate regions of the somatosensory cortex but the interpretation of this finding is controversial (e.g. does it reflect the simulated action of touching or the simulated reception of touch?). For most people, observing... Read More about Functional and structural brain differences associated with mirror-touch synaesthesia.