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Behaviour of honeybees integrated into bumblebee nests and the responses of their hosts
(Springer Nature, 2024-07-09)Social interactions with heterospecifics can yield important insights into the flexibility of behaviour and the role of learning in communication. Recently, the honeybee dance, a unique symbolic communication system to ... -
Idiosyncratic and shared contributions shape impressions from voices and faces
(Elsevier, 2024-07-18)Voices elicit rich first impressions of what the person we are hearing might be like. Research stresses that these impressions from voices are shared across different listeners, such that people on average agree which ... -
Updating Prospective Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Cardiac Interoception in Anorexia Nervosa: An Experimental and Computational Study.
(2024)Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) typically hold altered beliefs about their body that they struggle to update, including global, prospective beliefs about their ability to know and regulate their body and particularly ... -
Reciprocal developmental pathways between future-related thinking and symptoms of adolescent depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
(2024-07-08)Adolescence is a time when important decisions about the future are made and vulnerability to mental health problems increases. We reviewed longitudinal studies examining the reciprocal pathways between future-related ... -
A simple optical flow model explains why certain object viewpoints are special
(The Royal Society, 2024-07-10)<jats:p>A core challenge in perception is recognizing objects across the highly variable retinal input that occurs when objects are viewed from different directions (e.g. front versus side views). It has long been known ... -
Mid‐childhood autism sibling recurrence in infants with a family history of autism
(Wiley, 2024-07-08)Autism sibling recurrence in prospective infant family history studies is ~20% at 3 years but systematic follow-up to mid-childhood is rare. In population and clinical cohorts autism is not recognized in some children until ... -
Exploring Fantasy Football Involvement and Mental Health through Player Experience, Engagement Levels, Social Comparisons, and Financial Incentives
(SAGE Publications, 2024-06-13)Background Fantasy sports are a rapidly growing complement to the sports industry and recent research has explored the mental health experiences of those who play the game. Aim This study aimed to test the findings from ... -
Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees
(Cell Press, 2024-07-02)It has been widely stated that insects do not show self-protective behavior towards noxiously-stimulated body parts, but this claim has never been empirically tested. Here, we tested whether an insect species displays a ... -
Hidden in plain sight: delayed ADHD diagnosis among girls and women - a commentary on Skoglund et al. (2023).
(Wiley, 2024-05-26)Skoglund et al. (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2023) finds women with ADHD experience a nearly 4-year delay in receiving an ADHD diagnosis compared to men, despite also having high rates of prior contact with ... -
Associations between polygenic risk scores for cardiometabolic phenotypes and adolescent depression and body dissatisfaction.
(2024-06-15)BACKGROUND: Adolescents with elevated body mass index (BMI) are at an increased risk for depression and body dissatisfaction. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is an established risk factor for depression. However, shared genetic risk ... -
Mapping the differential impact of spontaneous and conversational laughter on brain and mind: an fMRI study in autism.
(Oxford University Press, 2024-05-16)Spontaneous and conversational laughter are important socio-emotional communicative signals. Neuroimaging findings suggest that non-autistic people engage in mentalizing to understand the meaning behind conversational ... -
A Falls Risk Screening Tool Based on Millimetre-Wave Radar
(Scitepress, 2024-01-01)Falls among the older adults pose a global health concern, necessitating innovative approaches for timely and effective falls risk screening. Aiming to develop a real-time falls risk screening tool, this study explores the ... -
Neural markers of reduced arousal and consciousness in mild cognitive impairment.
(Wiley, 2024-06-04)OBJECTIVES: People with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) experience changes in their level and content of consciousness, but there is little research on biomarkers of consciousness in pre-clinical AD and Mild Cognitive Impairment ... -
Synergistic information supports modality integration and flexible learning in neural networks solving multiple tasks.
(Public Library of Science, 2024-06-03)Striking progress has been made in understanding cognition by analyzing how the brain is engaged in different modes of information processing. For instance, so-called synergistic information (information encoded by a set ... -
Process evaluation of a Structured E-parenting Support (STEPS) in the OPTIMA randomised controlled trial: a protocol.
(2024-05-17)INTRODUCTION: Structured E-parenting Support (STEPS) is a digital application (app) designed to help parents manage behaviour of their children who are referred to mental health services and are waiting for an assessment ... -
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Cognitive control is a predictor of later‐life outcomes and may underpin higher order executive processes. The present study examines the development of early cognitive control ...