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Multiple guesses from one individual, like guesses from a crowd, yield a better estimate when averaged. How far can such solipsistic polling take us in real, high-stakes settings? Now 1.2 million incentivized, real-world guesses show just how much people can improve their judgements by reconsidering their own estimates.
The authors use a computational data-driven approach to study the determinants of conscious processing of human faces. They show that the speed at which a face reaches conscious awareness depends on its perceived power or dominance.
Steinbeis and colleagues show that chimpanzees and six-year-old children will pay a cost to see the punishment of an antisocial agent when it is deserved, suggesting that both are motivated to see just punishment enacted.
Intracranial recordings from epileptic patients during a number of different behavioural tasks reveal, in impressive spatiotemporal detail, that the human brain links perception and action through persistent neural activity in the prefrontal cortex and functionally linked brain regions.
The authors used graph signal processing to examine whether fMRI signals correspond to underlying anatomical networks. They found that alignment between functional signals and anatomical structure was associated with greater cognitive flexibility.
The authors use large, real-world guessing competition datasets to test whether accuracy can be improved by aggregating repeated estimates by the same individual. They find that estimates do improve, but substantially less than with between-person aggregation.
In a series of 11 experiments, the authors show that what has traditionally been considered 'pitch perception' is mediated by several different mechanisms.
Using magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography during a face-discrimination task, the authors show face-processing lateralization in infants in the first postnatal semester, despite a corpus callosum mature enough to transfer visual information across hemispheres.
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Predatory journals are a global and growing problem contaminating all domains of science. A coordinated response by all stakeholders (researchers, institutions, funders, regulators and patients) will be needed to stop the influence of these illegitimate journals.
Our bloated prisons have become dangerous places with record levels of crowding, mental illness, drug abuse and self-harm. Should we be looking for a more humane and imaginative approach to designing prisons that seeks to rehabilitate rather than punitively punish?
Two surveys of a large cohort of US parents find that concerns about purity and liberty are strongly associated with vaccine hesitancy. This suggests that vaccination campaigns may be more effective by targeting these moral values.
Over four functional MRI experiments, Axelrod et al. show that several cognitive processes function simultaneously during self-generated mental activity.
In two neuroimaging studies, Nam et al. find that amygdala volume is associated with individual preferences to maintain (versus change) the societal status quo.