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Longitudinal associations between autistic children's anxiety and social communication differences: The moderating role of executive function behaviours.
(SAGE Publications, 2024-11-27)Anxiety is a mental health concern affecting many autistic children, and has been linked to greater differences in social communication and interaction style. Executive functioning (i.e. the ability to direct and regulate ... -
Theory of morphodynamic information processing: Linking sensing to behaviour.
(2025-01-03)The traditional understanding of brain function has predominantly focused on chemical and electrical processes. However, new research in fruit fly (Drosophila) binocular vision reveals ultrafast photomechanical photoreceptor ... -
Reproductive isolation arises during laboratory adaptation to a novel hot environment.
(2024-05-28)BACKGROUND: Reproductive isolation can result from adaptive processes (e.g., ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation) or stochastic processes such as "system drift" model. Ecological speciation predicts barriers ... -
Spontaneous biases enhance generalization in the neonate brain.
(2024-07-19)Inductive generalization is adaptive in novel contexts for both biological and artificial intelligence. Spontaneous generalization in inexperienced animals raises questions on whether predispositions (evolutionarily acquired ... -
The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language
Communication comprises a wealth of multimodal signals (e.g., gestures, eyegaze, intonation) in addition to speech and there is a growing interest in the study of multimodal language by psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists ... -
Face and voice identity matching accuracy is not improved by multimodal identity information.
(Wiley, 2024-12-17)Identity verification from both faces and voices can be error-prone. Previous research has shown that faces and voices signal concordant information and cross-modal unfamiliar face-to-voice matching is possible, albeit ... -
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition.
(SAGE, 2022-11)Despite the tangible progress in psychological and cognitive sciences over the last several years, these disciplines still trail other more mature sciences in identifying the most important questions that need to be solved. ... -
The revised model for initial and continued involvement in fantasy football
(Elsevier, 2024-12-20)Fantasy football (FF) is an online game that plays an increasingly central role in fan engagement with the sport. Wilkins et al.’s [45] Model for Initial and Continued Involvement in Fantasy Football (MICIFF) proposed ... -
An Examination of the Relations Between Effortful Control in Early Childhood and Risk for Later Externalizing Psychopathology: A Bi-factor Structural Equation Modeling Approach.
(2024-06-15)Deficits in effortful control (EC) contribute to patterns of maladaptation across development; however, little is known about how specific subfactors of EC differentially predict children's externalizing psychopathology. ... -
Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search.
(2024-05)Attention to emotional signals conveyed by others is critical for gleaning information about potential social partners and the larger social context. Children appear to detect social threats (e.g., angry faces) faster than ... -
Inter-trial theta phase consistency during face processing in infants is associated with later emerging autism.
(2022-05)A growing body of research suggests that consistency in cortical activity may be a promising neurophysiological marker of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the current study we examined inter-trial coherence, a measure ... -
Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology
(Springer Nature, 2024-11-25)Comprehensible communication is critical for social functioning and well-being. In psychopathology, incoherent discourse is assumed to reflect disorganized thinking, which is classically linked to psychotic disorders. ... -
Early-Onset Trajectories of Emotional Dysregulation in Autistic Children.
(Elsevier, 2024-11-10)OBJECTIVE: Emotional dysregulation (ED) is a common and debilitating problem for children with autism and their families. However, little is known about early-onset patterns of dysregulation, associated risk factors, and ... -
Parent-mediated intervention in infants with an elevated likelihood for autism reduces dwell time during a gaze-following task.
(Wiley, 2024-08-28)Cognitive markers may in theory be more sensitive to the effects of intervention than overt behavioral measures. The current study tests the impact of the Intervention with the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings-Video ... -
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co-occurring anxiety.
(Wiley, 2023-12-29)BACKGROUND: The Social Motivation Theory proposes that social reward processing differences underlie autism. However, low social motivation has also been linked to higher anxiety. Given the co-occurrence between autism and ... -
Telomere length and cognitive changes in 7,877 older UK adults of European ancestry.
(Frontiers Media, 2024-11-01)BACKGROUND: Telomere length (TL) has been linked to cognitive function, decline and dementia. This study aimed to explore whether both measured TL and genetic disposition for TL predict dimensions of cognitive performance ... -
Mathematics interest, self-efficacy, and anxiety predict STEM career choice in emerging adulthood.
(Springer Nature, 2024-11-13)To examine the combined effects of maths anxiety (MA), maths self-efficacy (MSE), and maths interest (MI) on STEM career choice, we analysed self-report data from 7908 Twins Early Development Study participants, collected ... -
Toward a global understanding of neonatal behaviour: adaptation and validation of the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) in the UK and rural Gambia
(Elsevier BV, 2024-12-04)There is a need of expanding research on neonatal behaviour to encompass diverse global populations. However, few measures appropriate for use from birth in diverse cultural contexts exist. We present data from rural Gambia ... -
Probabilistic discrimination of relative stimulus features in mice.
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021-07-23)During perceptual decision-making, the brain encodes the upcoming decision and the stimulus information in a mixed representation. Paradigms suitable for studying decision computations in isolation rely on stimulus ...