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Leveraging on large-scale data collection through a smartphone app, Donegan et al show that the association between model-based planning and compulsivity can be estimated with as few as 25 trials
Durability of information in human working memory across time intervals can be better explained by attractor dynamics that incorporate activity-dependent plasticity. Discrete attractor dynamics are less suited to model working memory when modeling the working memory time course.
While committing to honesty via oath decreased dishonest behavior in 7 studies across the US, UK, and Mexico, Zickfeld et al found no evidence that the potential to benefit a partner increases dishonesty.
Directed forgetting can be used to disrupt emotional memories. In a fear conditioning paradigm, participants had poorer recognition and recall, and developed lower physiological responses to images paired with an electric shock when instructed to forget them.
Analysis of 39201 cries from 24 infants shows that cries provide reliable information about age and identity. Meanwhile, neither adults nor an algorithm trained on the parental action that stopped the cry can reliably classify the causes of cries.
People’s use of linguistic agency is indicative of their personal sense of agency. Lack of control over one’s actions, low social rank as well as depression are associated with higher use of passive voice.
People become more efficient at detecting a visual target over time due to optimized oculomotor scanning strategies. This contradicts the theory that visual search learning is supported by long-term memory about specific target-contexts bindings.
Untrustworthy conversation partners, people randomly assigned to lie in a conversation, and people who deceive more in their everyday lives report decreased social connection relative to honest actors.
A German version of the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale shows similar psychometric properties to the original English version; interoceptive accuracy is negatively related to anxiety, depressive, and somatoform symptoms as well as neurotic traits.
Daily use of social media in older children and young adolescents was associated with lower self-worth both between and within individuals. All between and some within-person effects were mediated by the general impression of others being better off.
When information is spatiotemporally integrated along motion trajectories, visual integration lasts longer with increased processing load. The number of visual elements does not appear to play a role for visual integration.
Generalization behaviours in fear conditioning can arise as a result of a range of mechanisms, including differences in learning, perception, and similarity-based generalization propensity.
Older adults’ memory for the spatial locations of everyday objects shows impairment compared to younger adults when objects are presented to their upper, versus lower, visual fields.