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Habituation of the electrodermal response - A biological correlate of resilience?
(PLoS, 2019-01-25)urrent approaches to quantifying resilience make extensive use of self-reported data. Problematically, this type of scales is plagued by response distortions–both deliberate and unintentional, particularly in occupational ... -
Hair cortisol concentrations in war-affected adolescents: A prospective intervention trial
(Elsevier, 2017-12-26)Temporal examinations of the biological signature of stress or trauma in war-affected populations are seldom undertaken. Moreover, few studies have examined whether stress biomarkers track biological sensitivity to brief ... -
Harm and Addiction Perceptions of the JUUL E-Cigarette Among Adolescents.
(2020-04-21)INTRODUCTION: This study assessed adolescents' harm and addiction perceptions of the highest-selling brand-JUUL-of the most commonly used tobacco product-electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes)-among adolescents in the United ... -
A high-fidelity virtual environment for the study of paranoia.
(2013)Psychotic disorders carry social and economic costs for sufferers and society. Recent evidence highlights the risk posed by urban upbringing and social deprivation in the genesis of paranoia and psychosis. Evidence based ... -
Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques
(eLife, 2023)The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. We tested the social complexity hypothesis on three ... -
The hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent task structure during memory-guided decision making
(Cell Press, 2021-11-30)The hippocampus, well known for its role in episodic memory, might also be an important brain region for extracting structure from our experiences in order to guide future decisions. Recent evidence in rodents suggests ... -
Human complex exploration strategies are enriched by noradrenaline-modulated heuristics.
(eLife, 2021-01-04)An exploration-exploitation trade-off, the arbitration between sampling a lesser-known against a known rich option, is thought to be solved using computationally demanding exploration algorithms. Given known limitations ... -
Human subjects exploit a cognitive map for credit assignment.
(PNAS, 2021-01-26)An influential reinforcement learning framework proposes that behavior is jointly governed by model-free (MF) and model-based (MB) controllers. The former learns the values of actions directly from past encounters, and the ... -
Humans Have an Expectation That Gaze Is Directed Toward Them
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Humans represent the precision and utility of information acquired across fixations.
(2022-02-14)Our environment contains an abundance of objects which humans interact with daily, gathering visual information using sequences of eye-movements to choose which object is best-suited for a particular task. This process is ... -
Identifying with the beautiful: Facial attractiveness effects on unisensory and multisensory self-other distinction.
(2022-07)People tend to evaluate their own traits and abilities favourably and such favourable self-perceptions extend to attractiveness. However, the exact mechanism underlying this self-enhancement bias remains unclear. One ... -
Impact of oscillatory tDCS targeting left prefrontal cortex on source memory retrieval.
(2018)Research on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has grown rapidly, but there is controversy regarding whether and how tDCS could impact memory performance. We report a study that addressed this question by ... -
An in-depth cognitive examination of individuals with superior face recognition skills.
(2016-09)Previous work has reported the existence of "super-recognisers" (SRs), or individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills. However, the precise underpinnings of this ability have not yet been investigated. In this ...