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Genetic contributions of noncognitive skills to academic development.
(bioRxiv, 2023-10-26)Noncognitive skills such as motivation and self-regulation, are partly heritable and predict academic achievement beyond cognitive skills. However, how the relationship between noncognitive skills and academic achievement ... -
Serotonin depletion impairs both Pavlovian and instrumental reversal learning in healthy humans.
(Springer Nature, 2021-08-24)Serotonin is involved in updating responses to changing environmental circumstances. Optimising behaviour to maximise reward and minimise punishment may require shifting strategies upon encountering new situations. Likewise, ... -
Maternal Trauma and Psychopathology Symptoms Affect Refugee Children's Mental Health But Not Their Emotion Processing.
(Springer, 2024-03-02)Refugee children's development may be affected by their parents' war-related trauma exposure and psychopathology symptoms across a range of cognitive and affective domains, but the processes involved in this transmission ... -
Atypical action updating in a dynamic environment associated with adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(Wiley, 2022-05-10)BACKGROUND: Computational research had determined that adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) display heightened action updating in response to noise in the environment and neglect metacognitive information (such ... -
NetFACS: Using network science to understand facial communication systems.
(2022-08)Understanding facial signals in humans and other species is crucial for understanding the evolution, complexity, and function of the face as a communication tool. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) enables researchers ... -
Many morphs: Parsing gesture signals from the noise.
(2024-03-04)Parsing signals from noise is a general problem for signallers and recipients, and for researchers studying communicative systems. Substantial efforts have been invested in comparing how other species encode information ... -
Chimpanzee play sequences are structured hierarchically as games.
(2022)Social play is ubiquitous in the development of many animal species and involves players adapting actions flexibly to their own previous actions and partner responses. Play differs from other behavioural contexts for which ... -
Grooming interventions in female rhesus macaques as social niche construction
(Elsevier, 2021)Social animals invest time and resources into adapting their social environment, which emerges not only from their own but also from the decisions of other group members. Thus, individuals have to monitor interactions ... -
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
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Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence.
(2020-07-02)Performance in everyday spatial orientation tasks (e.g., map reading and navigation) has been considered functionally separate from performance on more abstract object-based spatial abilities (e.g., mental rotation and ...