The influence of the design of mental rotation trials on performance and possible differences between sexes: A theoretical review and experimental investigation

L Jost, P Jansen - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Sex differences in mental rotation performance are one of the largest in cognitive
psychology. Men outperform women by up to 1 SD in psychometric mental rotation tests, but …

Rapid adaptation of predictive models during language comprehension: Aperiodic EEG slope, individual alpha frequency and idea density modulate individual …

I Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I Sharrad… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Predictive coding provides a compelling, unified theory of neural information processing,
including for language. However, there is insufficient understanding of how predictive …

Prosody leaks into the memories of words

K Tang, JA Shaw - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context has been shown to
condition word duration (Seyfarth, 2014). All else being equal, words that tend to occur in …

Maturation of cortical input to dorsal raphe nucleus increases behavioral persistence in mice

N Gutierrez-Castellanos, D Sarra, BS Godinho… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The ability to persist toward a desired objective is a fundamental aspect of behavioral control
whose impairment is implicated in several behavioral disorders. One of the prominent …

[HTML][HTML] Components of behavioral activation therapy for depression engage specific reinforcement learning mechanisms in a pilot study

QJM Huys, EM Russek, G Abitante, T Kahnt… - Computational …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Behavioral activation is an evidence-based treatment for depression.
Theoretical considerations suggest that treatment response depends on reinforcement …

Dynamics of remote communication: Movement coordination in video-mediated and face-to-face conversations

J Zubek, E Nagórska, J Komorowska-Mach… - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The present pandemic forced our daily interactions to move into the virtual world. People
had to adapt to new communication media that afford different ways of interaction. Remote …

[HTML][HTML] How the Great Recession changed class inequality: Evidence from 23 European countries

J Moawad - Social Science Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The question of whether economic recessions increase or decrease the earnings gap
between the working and upper-middle class is debated. We study this issue and examine …

Covid pandemic effects on the physical fitness of primary school children: results of the German EMOTIKON project

P Teich, T Fühner, F Bähr, C Puta, U Granacher… - Sports Medicine …, 2023 - Springer
Background In spring of 2020, the Sars-CoV-2 incidence rate increased rapidly in Germany
and around the world. Throughout the next 2 years, schools were temporarily closed and …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of voice properties on vowel perception depends on speaker context

J Krumbiegel, C Ufer, H Blank - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Different speakers produce the same intended vowel with very different physical properties.
Fundamental frequency (F 0) and formant frequencies (FF), the two main parameters that …

An eye-tracking-with-EEG coregistration corpus of narrative sentences

SL Frank, A Aumeistere - Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024 - Springer
Abstract We present the Radboud Coregistration Corpus of Narrative Sentences
(RaCCooNS), the first freely available corpus of eye-tracking-with-EEG data collected while …