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Local and remote cooperation with virtual and robotic agents:a P300 BCI study in healthy and people living with spinal cord injury (2016)
Journal Article
Tidoni, E., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Leonardis, D., Kapeller, C., Fusco, G., Guger, C., …Aglioti, S. M. (2017). Local and remote cooperation with virtual and robotic agents:a P300 BCI study in healthy and people living with spinal cord injury. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(9), 1622-1632. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2016.2626391

The development of technological applications that allow people to control and embody external devices within social interaction settings represents a major goal for current and future brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. Prior research has sugges... Read More about Local and remote cooperation with virtual and robotic agents:a P300 BCI study in healthy and people living with spinal cord injury.

Divergent personality structures of brown (Sapajus apella) and white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) (2016)
Journal Article
Robinson, L. M., Morton, F. B., Gartner, M. C., Widness, J., Paukner, A., Essler, J. L., …Weiss, A. (2016). Divergent personality structures of brown (Sapajus apella) and white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130(4), 305-312. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000037

One way to gain insights into personality evolution is by comparing the personality structures of related species. We compared the personality structure of 240 wild white-faced capuchin monkeys to the personality structure of 100 captive brown capuch... Read More about Divergent personality structures of brown (Sapajus apella) and white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus).

Assessing acute itch intensity : general labelled magnitude scale is more reliable than classic visual analogue scale (2016)
Journal Article
Jones, O., Holle, H., Jones, O., & Schindler, I. (2017). Assessing acute itch intensity : general labelled magnitude scale is more reliable than classic visual analogue scale. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 97(3), 375-376. https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-2584

The reliable measurement of itch intensity is crucial, both in research as well as clinical contexts. For example, when the reliability of a measurement scale is unknown, it is impossible to determine whether a patient has changed sufficiently to be... Read More about Assessing acute itch intensity : general labelled magnitude scale is more reliable than classic visual analogue scale.

Is the British diet improving? (2016)
Journal Article
Reid, M., & Hammersley, R. (2016). Is the British diet improving?. Nutrition Bulletin, 41(4), 360-364. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12243

© 2016 British Nutrition Foundation Nutrition Bulletin. The UK government’s National Diet and Nutrition Survey report of Years 5 and 6 (2012/2013-2013/2014) of the Rolling Programme has just been published. By and large, the results are not encouragi... Read More about Is the British diet improving?.

Reprint of “Young children's referent selection is guided by novelty for both words and actions” (2016)
Journal Article
Dysart, E. L., Mather, E., & Riggs, K. J. (2016). Reprint of “Young children's referent selection is guided by novelty for both words and actions”. Journal of experimental child psychology, 151, 33-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.08.003

This article is a reprint of a previously published article. For citation purposes, please use the original publication details; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Volume 146, June 2016, Pages 231–237.

An online educational tool to promote psychological well-being, optimism, and coping self-efficacy among people living with an ileostomy : a pilot study (2016)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A., Spiers, J., & Simpson, P. (2016). An online educational tool to promote psychological well-being, optimism, and coping self-efficacy among people living with an ileostomy : a pilot study. International journal of applied psychology, 6(5), 156-161. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.ijap.20160605.04

We assessed an online educational tool designed for people living with an ileostomy. Thirty-nine participants took part in a 10-week online educational tool, which included elements such as happiness profiling, understanding stress and coping, utilis... Read More about An online educational tool to promote psychological well-being, optimism, and coping self-efficacy among people living with an ileostomy : a pilot study.

Invited commentary on Brewin and Andrews (2016) (2016)
Journal Article
Scoboria, A., & Mazzoni, G. (2017). Invited commentary on Brewin and Andrews (2016). Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31(1), 28-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3264

Brewin and Andrews (2006) make many cogent observations on the state of knowledge about the development of false autobiographical beliefs and false recollections. Due to inconsistent use of terminology and imprecise definitions, the framework they pr... Read More about Invited commentary on Brewin and Andrews (2016).

Speaker-sex discrimination for voiced and whispered vowels at short durations (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, D. R. (2016). Speaker-sex discrimination for voiced and whispered vowels at short durations. i-Perception, 7(5), Article 2041669516671320. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516671320

Whispered vowels, produced with no vocal fold vibration, lack the periodic temporal fine structure which in voiced vowels underlies the perceptual attribute of pitch (a salient auditory cue to speaker sex). Voiced vowels possess no temporal fine stru... Read More about Speaker-sex discrimination for voiced and whispered vowels at short durations.

Attention and associative learning in humans: an integrative review (2016)
Journal Article
Le Pelley, M. E., Mitchell, C. J., Beesley, T., George, D. N., & Wills, A. J. (2016). Attention and associative learning in humans: an integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 142(10), 1111-1140. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000064

This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are described. First, attention is biased toward stimuli that predict their consequences reliabl... Read More about Attention and associative learning in humans: an integrative review.

Barriers to increasing the physical activity of people with intellectual disabilities (2016)
Journal Article
Cartwright, L., Reid, M., Hammersley, R., & Walley, R. M. (2017). Barriers to increasing the physical activity of people with intellectual disabilities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 45(1), 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12175

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Accessible summary: We talked to people with intellectual disabilities and their carers about being healthy. Sometimes it was difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to take part in activities that would hel... Read More about Barriers to increasing the physical activity of people with intellectual disabilities.

Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles (2016)
Journal Article
Paracampo, R., Tidoni, E., Borgomaneri, S., di Pellegrino, G., & Avenanti, A. (2017). Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles. Cerebral Cortex, 27(11), 5116-5129. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw294

Understanding whether another's smile reflects authentic amusement is a key challenge in social life, yet, the neural bases of this ability have been largely unexplored. Here, we combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with a novel empathic... Read More about Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles.

Illusion of arm movement evoked by tendon vibration in patients with spinal cord injury (2016)
Journal Article
Fusco, G., Tidoni, E., Barone, N., Pilati, C., & Aglioti, S. M. (2016). Illusion of arm movement evoked by tendon vibration in patients with spinal cord injury. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 34(5), 815-826. https://doi.org/10.3233/rnn-160660

Background: Studies in healthy people show that stimulation of muscle spindles through frequency-specific tendon vibration (TV) induces the illusory perception of movement. Following spinal cord injury (SCI), motor and sensory connections between the... Read More about Illusion of arm movement evoked by tendon vibration in patients with spinal cord injury.

Apparent biological motion in first and third person perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Tidoni, E., Scandola, M., Orvalho, V., & Candidi, M. (2016). Apparent biological motion in first and third person perspective. i-Perception, 7(5), 204166951666915. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516669156

Apparent biological motion is the perception of plausible movements when two alternating images depicting the initial and final phase of an action are presented at specific stimulus onset asynchronies. Here, we show lower subjective apparent biologic... Read More about Apparent biological motion in first and third person perspective.

Pilot investigation of a virtual gastric band hypnotherapy intervention (2016)
Journal Article
Greetham, S., Goodwin, S., Wells, L., Whitham, C., Jones, H., Rigby, A., …Atkin, S. (2016). Pilot investigation of a virtual gastric band hypnotherapy intervention. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 64(4), 419-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2016.1209037

This was a pilot investigation of 30 men and women with a BMI > 27kg/m² over a 24 week period. It aimed to determine whether virtual gastric band (VGB) hypnotherapy has an effect on weight loss in overweight adults, compared to relaxation hypnotherap... Read More about Pilot investigation of a virtual gastric band hypnotherapy intervention.

The role of audio-visual feedback in a thought-based control of a humanoid robot: a BCI study in healthy and spinal cord injured people (2016)
Journal Article
Tidoni, E., Gergondet, P., Fusco, G., Kheddar, A., & Aglioti, S. M. (2017). The role of audio-visual feedback in a thought-based control of a humanoid robot: a BCI study in healthy and spinal cord injured people. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(6), 772-781. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2016.2597863

© 2016 IEEE. The efficient control of our body and successful interaction with the environment are possible through the integration of multisensory information. Brain-computer interface (BCI) may allow people with sensorimotor disorders to actively i... Read More about The role of audio-visual feedback in a thought-based control of a humanoid robot: a BCI study in healthy and spinal cord injured people.

Action adaptation during natural unfolding social scenes influences action recognition and inferences made about actor beliefs (2016)
Journal Article
Keefe, B. D., Wincenciak, J., Jellema, T., Ward, J. W., & Barraclough, N. E. (2016). Action adaptation during natural unfolding social scenes influences action recognition and inferences made about actor beliefs. Journal of Vision, 16(9), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1167/16.9.9

When observing another individual's actions, we can both recognize their actions and infer their beliefs concerning the physical and social environment. The extent to which visual adaptation influences action recognition and conceptually later stages... Read More about Action adaptation during natural unfolding social scenes influences action recognition and inferences made about actor beliefs.

A look inside the toolbox: Measurement procedures in Implicit Social Cognition (2016)
Book Chapter
Weil, R. (2016). A look inside the toolbox: Measurement procedures in Implicit Social Cognition. In F. T. Leong, D. Bartram, F. Cheung, K. F. Geisinger, & D. Iliescu (Eds.), The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med%3Apsych/9780199356942.001.0001

Get your facts right : preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts (2016)
Journal Article
Holland, A. K., Mather, E., Simpson, A., & Riggs, K. J. (2016). Get your facts right : preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(JUL), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01064

There is an ongoing debate over the extent to which language development shares common processing mechanisms with other domains of learning. It is well-established that toddlers will systematically extend object labels to similarly-shaped category ex... Read More about Get your facts right : preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts.

Sub-types of nonbelieved memories reveal differential outcomes of challenges to memories (2016)
Journal Article
Scoboria, A., Nash, R. A., & Mazzoni, G. (2017). Sub-types of nonbelieved memories reveal differential outcomes of challenges to memories. Memory, 25(7), 876-889. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2016.1203437

Nonbelieved memories (NBMs) highlight the independence between distinct metamemorial judgements that contribute to the experience of remembering. Initial definitions of NBMs portrayed them as involving the withdrawal of belief in occurrence despite s... Read More about Sub-types of nonbelieved memories reveal differential outcomes of challenges to memories.

Inducing false memories by manipulating memory self-efficacy (2016)
Journal Article
Iacullo, V. M., Marucci, F. S., & Mazzoni, G. (2016). Inducing false memories by manipulating memory self-efficacy. Learning and Individual Differences, 49, 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2016.06.016

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy and false memories using the Deese/Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm, whereby people falsely remember words not presented in lists. In two studies participants were presen... Read More about Inducing false memories by manipulating memory self-efficacy.