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Ting-Yu Lin, Hao-Chien Cheng, Yi-Luen Tsai, Hung-Wen Liu, Tsung-Min Hung
Summary: This study investigates the effects of acute resistance exercise on cognitive performance, addressing previous methodological limitations and finding that it improves congruent reaction time but is not associated with changes in plasma epinephrine levels.
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Samantha L. Cox, Nicole Nicklisch, Michael Francken, Joachim Wahl, Harald Meller, Wolfgang Haak, Kurt W. Alt, Eva Rosenstock, Iain Mathieson
Summary: Culture has a significant impact on health outcomes, as demonstrated by the analysis of Early Neolithic Europeans. The study reveals that cultural factors played a greater role in driving height disparities than genetics or environment.
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Jose Prados
Summary: Bielecki et al. (2023) described new behavioral and physiological paradigms to study associative learning and its neural basis in the Cnidaria Tripedalia cystophora. The relevance of these findings in furthering our understanding of the intertwined evolution of cognition and the nervous systems is discussed.
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(2023)
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Charline Peylo, Carola Romberg-Taylor, Larissa Behnke, Paul Sauseng
Summary: This study investigated the characteristics of spatio-temporal attention using electroencephalography. The results showed that dynamic alpha power modulations and slow negative potentials were correlated with subsequent memory performance, indicating a preferential allocation of attention to task-relevant locations and time points. This study provides important insights into the key signatures of spatio-temporal top-down attention.
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Psychology, Biological
David Framorando, Johanna R. Falk, Peter M. Gollwitzer, Gabriele Oettingen, Guido H. E. Gendolla
Summary: Implicitly processed facial expressions of emotions have been found to influence cardiovascular reactivity. This study demonstrates that personal choice in action can immunize against the implicit affective influences on effort.
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Ali Behzadnia, Johannes C. Ziegler, Danielle Colenbrander, Audrey Buerki, Elisabeth Beyersmann
Summary: This study investigates the role of morphology in the acquisition of complex words, using a novel word learning paradigm. The results suggest that morphological family size plays a facilitatory role in novel word learning.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Ari P. Kirshenbaum, Virginia Kelsey, Mia Cooper, Anthony E. Richardson, John R. Hughes
Summary: A double-blind study was conducted to investigate the abuse potential of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in young adults and the influence of nicotine on reward sensitivity. The results showed that nicotine increased reward sensitivity on behavioral measures but did not affect subjective evaluations of the vaping experience. A follow-up survey revealed that the enhancement of reinforcement by nicotine predicted increased abuse liability of ENDS.
EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Hailing Yu, David Kellogg
Summary: This article discusses the similarities between crises in the history of science and crises in child psychological development. By comparing two superficially similar answers, the article explores models for the formation of general, abstract concepts in children. Using a real test case, the article analyzes the language of a ten-year-old Chinese boy trying to understand a phenomenon in solar physics and highlights the importance of lexicogrammatical metaphors in posing the problem to the child, as well as the process of limiting and deflating metaphors in his understanding.
INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Letter
Psychology, Biological
Laura Fejerman, Mariana C. Stern
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Vito A. G. Lionetti, Ken Cheng, Trevor Murray
Summary: This study used rewinding displacement method to test the path integration navigation of M. midas ants. The results showed that rewound ants did not seem to accumulate path integration vector, although there was some effect of vertical rewinding, suggesting potential higher sensitivity while descending the foraging tree. However, the decrease in navigational efficiency due to capture was larger than the vertical rewinding effect, which may suggest aversion rather than path integration caused the vertical rewinding response.
LEARNING & BEHAVIOR
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Kate Allen, David Harris, Tom Arthur, Greg Wood, Gavin Buckingham
Summary: This study investigated whether deficits in sensorimotor prediction might underpin the broad spectrum of difficulties individuals with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) face when interacting with objects. The results suggest that issues with sensorimotor prediction are unlikely to affect the performance of simple real-world movements in those with DCD.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Ann-Katrin Hosch, Philipp Wirtz, Bettina von Helversen
Summary: Category variability influences generalization, and prior experiences can alter category representations and affect the extent of generalization. The study found that a diverse category representation leads to broader generalization compared to a homogeneous representation. Furthermore, the nature of the category and the type of exemplars within the category also impact generalization effects.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Jennifer S. Labrecque, Kristen M. Lee, Wendy Wood
Summary: People achieve important life outcomes by repeating operant behavior, which creates mental associations that automatically activate habitual responses and promote performance.
JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Rachel Burns, Sacha Wyke, Max T. Eyre, Yamina Boukari, Tina B. Sorensen, Camille Tsang, Colin N. J. Campbell, Sarah Beale, Dominik Zenner, Sally Hargreaves, Ines Campos-Matos, Katie Harron, Robert W. Aldridge
Summary: This study found that some non-European Union migrants and refugees in England experienced delays in receiving the second and third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Refugees had the highest risk of delay, and black migrants were more likely to experience delays in the second dose compared to white migrants, although this trend reversed for the third dose. Older migrants (>65 years) were four times less likely to have received their second or third dose compared with the general population aged >65 or older in England.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Samantha Pegg, Anh Dao, Lisa Venanzi, Kaylin Hill, Autumn Kujawa
Summary: This study examines the effects of using cap compared to facial electrodes to measure eye movements for ocular correction in event-related potential (ERP) research. Findings revealed comparable data quality but some differences in overall ERP magnitude, suggesting cap electrodes may be used if needed. A consistent approach to ocular correction within a study is recommended.
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Psychology, Biological
Benjamin A. Parris, Nabil Hasshim, Ludovic Ferrand, Maria Augustinova
Summary: This study investigates the influence of onset complexity on a key marker of task conflict, negative facilitation. The results suggest that onset complexity affects Stroop task performance, but does not modify negative facilitation.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Christopher M. Olsen, Breanna L. Glaeser, Aniko Szabo, Hershel Raff, Carol A. Everson
Summary: Sleep restriction during abstinence did not significantly affect opioid seeking, while specific phenotypes and sex were associated with drug seeking behavior.
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Gregory N. Ruegsegger, Emily R. Ekholm, Chandler E. Monroe, Chapin I. Rappaport, Rocco D. Huppert, Caleb R. Anton, Mia J. Ferguson
Summary: The study found that acute high-intensity aerobic exercise improves cognitive function in lean and obese with normal glucose tolerance individuals, but not in obese with impaired glucose tolerance individuals. Changes in cognitive function were negatively correlated with glucose levels after OGTT and associated with peripheral inflammation.
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Hongyu Deng, Yuan Gao, Lei Mo, Ce Mo
Summary: This study investigated how attentional deployment to multiple targets is accomplished in the 3-D visual space. The findings suggest the existence of an attentional pendulum that rhythmically traverses different stereoscopic depth planes and are indicative of a ubiquitous attentional time multiplexor based on theta rhythm in the 3-D visual space.
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Psychology, Biological
Renally de Lima Moura, Larissa Maria Gomes Dutra, Maria da Vitoria Santos do Nascimento, Jose Carlos Nascimento de Oliveira, Vanessa Bordin Viera, Bruno Silva Dantas, Roberto Germano Costa, Marcelo Sobral da Silva, Ariosvaldo Nunes de Medeiros, Yuri Mangueira do Nascimento, Josean Fechine Tavares, Juliana Kessia Barbosa Soares
Summary: The aim of this research was to evaluate the effect of cactus flour on anxious-like behavior and cerebral lipid peroxidation in elderly rats. The results showed that cactus flour could alleviate anxiety symptoms and reduce brain lipid peroxidation. This suggests that cactus pear may play a positive role in preventing and treating anxiety in the aging phase.
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
(2023)
