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Effects of Genotype and Sleep on Temperament
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Efficiency and prioritization of inference-based credit assignment.
(Elsevier, 2021-07-12)Organisms adapt to their environments by learning to approach states that predict rewards and avoid states associated with punishments. Knowledge about the affective value of states often relies on credit assignment (CA), ... -
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.
(2021-09-14)BACKGROUND: Electronic cigarettes (ECs) are handheld electronic vaping devices which produce an aerosol formed by heating an e-liquid. Some people who smoke use ECs to stop or reduce smoking, but some organizations, advocacy ... -
Embryonic Exposure to Valproic Acid Affects Social Predispositions for Dynamic Cues of Animate Motion in Newly-Hatched Chicks
(Frontiers Media, 2019)Early predispositions to preferentially orient towards cues associated with social partners have been documented in several vertebrate species including human neonates and domestic chicks. Human newborns at high familiar ... -
Epigenetics of Royalty
(2010-11) -
Erratum to: Stage 1 registered report: metacognitive asymmetries in visual perception and Stage 2 registered report: metacognitive asymmetries in visual perception.
(Oxford University Press, 2021)[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/nc/niab005.][This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/nc/niab025.]. -
Estimating effects of parents’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills on offspring education using polygenic scores
(Nature Research, 2022-08-23)Understanding how parents’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills influence offspring education is vital for educational, family and economic policy. We use genetics (GWAS-by-subtraction) to assess a latent, broad non-cognitive ... -
Evidence based uncertainty: what is needed now?
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Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency.
(Nature Research, 2022-07)Evidence integration is a normative algorithm for choosing between alternatives with noisy evidence, which has been successful in accounting for vast amounts of behavioural and neural data. However, this mechanism has been ... -
Evolving understanding of nervous system evolution
(2016-10-24) -
Executive functioning skills and their environmental predictors among pre-school aged children in South Africa and The Gambia.
(2023-05-01)Executive functions (EFs) in early childhood are predictors of later developmental outcomes and school readiness. Much of the research on EFs and their psychosocial correlates has been conducted in high-income, minority ... -
Explaining Moral Behavior A Minimal Moral Model
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Exploration heuristics decrease during youth.
(Springer Nature, 2022-10)Deciding between exploring new avenues and exploiting known choices is central to learning, and this exploration-exploitation trade-off changes during development. Exploration is not a unitary concept, and humans deploy ... -
An exploration of the social brain hypothesis in insects.
(2012)The "social brain hypothesis" posits that the cognitive demands of sociality have driven the evolution of substantially enlarged brains in primates and some other mammals. Whether such reasoning can apply to all social ... -
Eye gaze is not coded by cardinal mechanisms alone
(2013-08-07)