Frontiers Article Alert

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

 

Frontiers is pleased to announce a number of exciting new articles in the field of Psychology.

 

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

APOE and COMT polymorphisms are complementary biomarkers of status, stability, and transitions in normal aging and early mild cognitive impairment
Roger A Dixon, Correne A DeCarlo, Stuart W.S. MacDonald, David Vergote, Jack Jhamandas, and David Westaway

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Facilitated detection of social cues conveyed by familiar faces
Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, J Swaroop Guntupalli, Hua Yang, and Maria Ida Gobbini
Action and perception in social contexts: intentional binding for social action effects
Roland Pfister, Sukhvinder Obhi, Martina Rieger, and Dorit Wenke
A parametric study of fear generalization to faces and non-face objects: relationship to discrimination thresholds
Daphne J. Holt, Emily A. Boeke, Rick Wolthusen, Shahin Nasr, Mohammed R. Milad, and Roger B.H. Tootell
Transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates cognitive multi-task performance differentially depending on anode location and subtask
Melissa Scheldrup, Pamela M Greenwood, Ryan McKendrick, Jon Strohl, Marom Bikson, Mahtab Alam, R. Andy McKinley, and Raja Parasuraman
Reference frames in virtual spatial navigation are viewpoint dependent
Ágoston Török, Peter Nguyen, Orsolya Kolozsvári, Robert Joseph Buchanan, and Zoltan Nadasdy
The neural basis of monitoring goal progress
Yael Benn, Thomas L Webb, Betty P.I. Chang, Yu-Hsuan Sun, Iain D Wilkinson, and Tom F.D. Farrow
Explanation and inference: mechanistic and functional explanations guide property generalization
Tania Lombrozo and Nicholas Zachary Gwynne
Distributed cognitive maps reflecting real distances between places and views in the human brain
Valentina Sulpizio, Giorgia Committeri, and Gaspare Galati

Frontiers in Psychology

The joint Simon effect: a review and theoretical integration
Thomas Dolk, Bernhard Hommel, Lorenza S Colzato, Simone Schütz-Bosbach, Wolfgang Prinz, and Roman Liepelt

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience”

Auditory-motor synchronization with temporally fluctuating sequences is dependent on fractal structure but not musical expertise
Summer K. Rankin and Charles J. Limb

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cognition”

Possible involvement of oxytocin in modulating the stress response in lactating dairy cows
Mhairi Anne Sutherland and Mattie Tops
eCorsi: implementation and testing of the Corsi block-tapping task for digital tablets
Riccardo Brunetti, Claudia Del Gatto, and Franco Delogu
Can taking the perspective of an expert debias human decisions? The case of risky and delayed gains
Michal Bialek and Przemysław Sawicki
The componential processing of fractions in adults and children: effects of stimuli variability and contextual interference
Li Zhang, Qiaochu Fang, Florence Claude Gabriel, and Dénes Szucs
The heterogeneous world of congruency sequence effects: an update
Wout Duthoo, Elger Abrahamse, Senne Braem, C. Nico Boehler, and Wim Notebaert
Number-induced shifts in spatial attention: a replication study
Kiki Zanolie and Diane Pecher
Interference between face and non-face domains of perceptual expertise: a replication and extension
Kim M Curby and Isabel Gauthier
Is threat the only modulator of attentional selectivity? Redefining the Easterbrook hypothesis
Thomas Alrik Sørensen and Daniel Barratt

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cognitive Science”

Measuring ensemble interdependence in a string quartet through analysis of multidimensional performance data
Panos Papiotis, Marco Marchini, Alfonso Perez-Carrillo, and Esteban Maestre
Enactivism and neonatal imitation: conceptual and empirical considerations and clarifications
Paul Lodder, Mark Rotteveel, and Michiel Van Elk
Making myself understood: perceived factors affecting the intelligibility of sung text
Philip Fine and Jane Ginsborg
The effects of sequential attention shifts within visual working memory
Qi Li and Jun Saiki
The relationship between nature connectedness and happiness: a meta-analysis
Colin A. Capaldi, Raelyne L. Dopko, and John M. Zelenski
Sound Practice—improving occupational health and safety for professional orchestral musicians in Australia
Bronwen Jane Ackermann, Dianna T Kenny, Ian O'Brien, and Tim Robert Driscoll
Beyond type 1 vs. type 2 processing: the tri-dimensional way
Alexandra Lucia Varga and Kai Hamburger
Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview
Gianluca Baldassarre, Tom Stafford, Marco Mirolli, Peter Redgrave, Richard Michael Ryan, and Andrew Barto
Decision making under uncertain categorization
Stephanie Ying-Fen Chen, Gregory Murphy, and Brian Ross
Crossword expertise as recognitional decision making: an artificial intelligence approach
Kejkaew Thanasuan and Shane Mueller

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Consciousness Research”

Interoceptive sensitivity, body weight and eating behavior in children: a prospective study
Anne Koch and Olga Pollatos
Comparing unconscious processing during continuous flash suppression and meta-contrast masking just under the limen of consciousness
Ziv Peremen and Dominique Lamy

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cultural Psychology”

How can you capture cultural dynamics?
Yoshihisa Kashima

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Decision Neuroscience”

Insular activation during reward anticipation reflects duration of illness in abstinent pathological gamblers
Kosuke Tsurumi, Ryosaku Kawada, Naoto Yokoyama, Genichi Sugihara, Nobukatsu Sawamoto, Toshihiko Aso, Hidenao Fukuyama, Toshiya Murai, and Hidehiko Takahashi

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Developmental Psychology”

A construct divided: prosocial behavior as helping, sharing, and comforting subtypes
Kristen Ann Dunfield
Investigating executive functions in children with severe speech and movement disorders using structured tasks
Kristine Stadskleiv, Stephen von Tetzchner, Beata Batorowicz, Hans van Balkom, Annika Dahlgren-Sandberg, and Gregor Renner
Development of control of attention from different perspectives
Nicole Wetzel
“Trick or treat”: the influence of incentives on developmental changes in feedback-based learning
Kerstin Unger, Berit Greulich, and Jutta Kray

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Eating Behavior”

Orexin-A controls sympathetic activity and eating behavior
Giovanni Messina, Carmine Dalia, Domenico Tafuri, Vincenzo Monda, Filomena Palmieri, Amelia Dato, Angelo Russo, Saverio De Blasio, Antonietta Messina, Vincenzo De Luca, Sergio Chieffi, and Marcellino Monda

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Emotion Science”

Enhanced subliminal emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions
Wataru Sato, Yasutaka Kubota, and Motomi Toichi
Studying the various facets of emotional aging
Natalie C Ebner and Hakan Fischer
Emotion and aging: evidence from brain and behavior
Natalie Ebner and Hakan Fischer
Mystery in experimental psychology, how to measure aesthetic emotions?
Leonid Perlovsky

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience”

Feminist activist women are masculinized in terms of digit-ratio and social dominance: a possible explanation for the feminist paradox
Guy Madison, Ulrika Aasa, John Wallert, and Michael Woodley

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Language Sciences”

The relationship between language proficiency and attentional control in Cantonese-English bilingual children: evidence from Simon, Simon switching, and working memory tasks
Chi-Shing Tse and Jeanette Altarriba
Statistical learning of a tonal language: the influence of bilingualism and previous linguistic experience
Tianlin Wang and Jenny R. Saffran

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Perception Science”

A method for generating an illusion of backwards time travel using immersive virtual reality—an exploratory study
Doron Friedman, Rodrigo Pizarro, Keren Or-Berkers, Solène NEYRET, Xueni Pan, and Mel Slater
Developmental mechanisms underlying improved contrast thresholds for discriminations of orientation signals embedded in noise
Seong Taek Jeon, Daphne Maurer, and Terri L. Lewis
The changing picture of object substitution masking: reply to Di Lollo (2014)
Endel Põder
Neural dynamics of feedforward and feedback processing in figure-ground segregation
Oliver W. Layton, Ennio Mingolla, and Arash Yazdanbakhsh

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Psychology for Clinical Settings”

Nonverbal synchrony of head- and body-movement in psychotherapy: different signals have different associations with outcome
Fabian Ramseyer and Wolfgang Tschacher
Presence of a dog reduces subjective but not physiological stress responses to an analog trauma
Johanna Lass-Hennemann, Peter Peyk, Markus Streb, Elena Holz, and Tanja Michael
Parenting quality in drug-addicted mothers in a therapeutic mother–child community: the contribution of attachment and personality assessment
Francesca De Palo, Nicoletta Capra, Alessandra Simonelli, Silvia Salcuni, and Daniela Di Riso

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Psychopathology”

Tourette-like behaviors in the normal population are associated with hyperactive/impulsive ADHD-like behaviors but do not relate to deficits in conditioned inhibition or response inhibition
Nadja Heym, Ebrahim Kantini, Hannah L.R. Checkley, and Helen J. Cassaday

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Quantitative Psychology and Measurement”

A multidisciplinary approach of workload assessment in real-job situations: investigation in the field of aerospace activities
Claudine Mélan and Nadine Cascino
Measuring hedonia and eudaimonia as motives for activities: cross-national investigation through traditional and Bayesian structural equation modeling
Aleksandra Bujacz, Joar Vittersø, Veronika Huta, and Lukasz Dominik Kaczmarek
Comparing results of an exact vs. an approximate (Bayesian) measurement invariance test: a cross-country illustration with a scale to measure 19 human values
Jan Cieciuch, Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt, Rene Algesheimer, and Shalom H. Schwartz
The In-Out dispositional affective style questionnaire (IN-OUT DASQ): an exploratory factorial analysis
Viridiana Mazzola, Giuseppe Marano, Elia M. Biganzoli, Patrizia Boracchi, Tiziana Lanciano, Giampiero Arciero, and Guido Bondolfi

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology”

A statistical mechanical problem?
Tommaso Costa and Mario Ferraro
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