Frontiers Article Alert

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

 

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

 

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

What's on TV? Detecting age-related neurodegenerative eye disease using eye movement scanpaths
David Paul Crabb, Nicholas David Smith, and Haogang Zhu
The role of auditory and cognitive factors in understanding speech in noise by normal-hearing older listeners
Tim Schoof and Stuart Rosen

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Sleep spindle and slow wave frequency reflect motor skill performance in primary school-age children
Rebecca G Astill, Giovanni Piantoni, Roy J.E.M. Raymann, Jose C Vis, Joris E Coppens, Matthew P Walker, Robert Stickgold, Ysbrand Van Der Werf, and E J W Van Someren
Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) reveals abnormal fMRI activity in both the “core” and “extended” face network in congenital prosopagnosia
Davide Rivolta, Alexandra Woolgar, Romina Palermo, Marina Butko, Laura Schmalzl, and Mark A Williams
The processing of facial identity and expression is interactive, but dependent on task and experience
Alla Yankouskaya, Glyn Humphreys, and Pia Rotshtein

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience”

Neural correlates of intentional switching from ternary to binary meter in a musical hemiola pattern
Takako Fujioka, Brian Fidali, and Bernhard Ross
Separate and concurrent symbolic predictions of sound features are processed differently
Marika Pieszek, Erich Schröger, and Andreas Widmann
Working memory for time intervals in auditory rhythmic sequences
Sundeep Teki and Timothy D Griffiths

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cognition”

Acute exercise and aerobic fitness influence selective attention during visual search
Tom Bullock and Barry Giesbrecht
Selectivity in associative learning: a cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena
Yannick Boddez, Kim Haesen, Frank Baeyens, and Tom Beckers
Dissociable effects of game elements on motivation and cognition in a task-switching training in middle childhood
Sandra Dörrenbächer, Philipp Matthias Müller, Johannes Tröger, and Jutta Kray
Auditory driving of the autonomic nervous system: Listening to theta-frequency binaural beats post-exercise increases parasympathetic activation and sympathetic withdrawal
Patrick McConnell, Brett Froeliger, Eric L. Garland, Jeffrey C. Ives, and Gary A. Sforzo
Word encoding during sleep is suggested by correlations between word-evoked up-states and post-sleep semantic priming
Simon Ruch, Thomas Koenig, Johannes Mathis, Corinne Roth, and Katharina Henke
Sequential modulation of distractor-interference produced by semantic generalization of stimulus features
Mike Wendt, Aquiles Luna-Rodriguez, and Thomas Jacobsen
Positivity effect in source attributions of arousal-matched emotional and non-emotional words during item-based directed forgetting
Sara N. Gallant and Lixia Yang
Generative processing underlies the mutual enhancement of arithmetic fluency and math-grounding number sense
Ivilin Peev Stoianov

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cognitive Science”

Quantifying long-range correlations and 1/f patterns in a minimal experiment of social interaction
Manuel G. Bedia, Miguel Aguilera, Tomas Gomez, David Gracia Larrode, and Francisco Seron
Word reading and translation in bilinguals: the impact of formal and informal translation expertise
Adolfo M. García, Agustin Ibanez, David Huepe, Alexander Houck, Maëva Michon, Carlos Gelormini Lezama, Sumeer Chadha, and Álvaro Rivera-Rei
The effect of phonics-enhanced Big Book reading on the language and literacy skills of 6-year-old pupils of different reading ability attending lower SES schools
Laura Tse and Tom Nicholson
Probability expression for changeable and changeless uncertainties: an implicit test
Yun Wang, Xue-Lei Du, Li-Lin Rao, and Shu Li
Climate change: time to Do Something Different
Nadine Page and Mike Page
Enacting a social ecology: radically embodied intersubjectivity
Marek McGann
The good, the bad, and the timely: how temporal order and moral judgment influence causal selection
Kevin Reuter, Lara Kirfel, Raphael van Riel, and Luca Barlassina
Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
Tobias Schuwerk, Berthold Langguth, and Monika Sommer
Perceptual discrimination difficulty and familiarity in the Uncanny Valley: more like a “Happy Valley”
Marcus Cheetham, Pascal Suter, and Lutz Jancke

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Comparative Psychology”

Difference in quantity discrimination in dogs and wolves
Friederike Range, Julia Jenikejew, Isabelle Schröder, and Zsófia Virányi

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Consciousness Research”

Closing in on the constitution of consciousness
Steven M. Miller

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cultural Psychology”

Voluntary settlement and its consequences on predictors of happiness: the influence of initial cultural context
Keiko Ishii, Shinobu Kitayama, and Yukiko Uchida

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Decision Neuroscience”

Inferring reward prediction errors in patients with schizophrenia: a dynamic reward task for reinforcement learning
Chia-Tzu Li, Wen-Sung Lai, Chih-Min Liu, and Yung-Fong Hsu
Striatal direct and indirect pathways control decision-making behavior
Tom Macpherson, Makiko Morita, and Takatoshi Hikida

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Eating Behavior”

Body image and quality of life in patients with and without body contouring surgery following bariatric surgery: a comparison of pre- and post-surgery groups
Martina De Zwaan, Ekaterini Georgiadou, Christine Elisabeth Stroh, Martin Teufel, Hinrich Köhler, Maxi Tengler, and Astrid Müller

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Educational Psychology”

A brief measure of attitudes toward mixed methods research in psychology
Lynne D. Roberts and Kate Povee
Face-to-face or face-to-screen? Undergraduates' opinions and test performance in classroom vs. online learning
Nenagh Kemp and Rachel Grieve
Relation between contemplative exercises and an enriched psychology students' experience in a neuroscience course
Nava Levit Binnun and Ricardo Tarrasch

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Emotion Science”

Effects of positive mood on attentional breadth for emotional stimuli
Maud Grol and Rudi De Raedt
Intense or malicious? The decoding of eyebrow-lowering frowning in laughter animations depends on the presentation mode
Jennifer Hofmann

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience”

How beliefs get in the way of the acceptance of evolutionary psychology
Peter Karl Jonason and Laura K Dane

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Language Sciences”

On language acquisition in speech and sign: development of combinatorial structure in both modalities
Gary Morgan
It’s all in your head – how anticipating evaluation affects the processing of emotional trait adjectives
Sebastian Schindler, Martin Wegrzyn, Inga Steppacher, and Johanna Maria Kissler
The role of syllables in sign language production
Cristina Baus, Eva Gutiérrez, and Manuel Carreiras
Modeling individual differences in text reading fluency: a different pattern of predictors for typically developing and dyslexic readers
Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Maria De Luca, Chiara Valeria Marinelli, and Donatella Spinelli
The influence of clustering coefficient on word-learning: how groups of similar sounding words facilitate acquisition
Rudy Goldstein and Michael S Vitevitch
The effect of morphology on spelling and reading accuracy: a study on Italian children
Paola Angelelli, Chiara Valeria Marinelli, and Cristina Burani

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Movement Science and Sport Psychology”

Handedness genetics: considering the phenotype
Sebastian Ocklenburg, Christian Beste, and Larissa Arning
Self-controlled feedback is effective if it is based on the learner’s performance: a replication and extension of Chiviacowsky and Wulf (2005)
Michael J Carter, Anthony N Carlsen, and Diane Ste-Marie

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Perception Science”

Evidence against an ecological explanation of the jitter advantage for vection
Stephen Palmisano, Robert Allison, April Ash, Shinji Nakamura, and Deborah Apthorp

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Personality and Social Psychology”

It's in the mix: psychological distress differs between combinations of alexithymic facets
Elif Alkan Härtwig, Claudia Crayen, Michael Eid, and Isabella Heuser
Why do different people choose different university degrees? Motivation and the choice of degree
Anya Skatova and Eamonn Ferguson
Pursuit of communal values in an agentic manner: a way to happiness?
Andrea Elisabeth Abele
Antecedents of organizational engagement: exploring vision, mood and perceived organizational support with emotional intelligence as a moderator
Edward G. Mahon, Scott N Taylor, and Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Psychology for Clinical Settings”

Nurse work engagement impacts job outcome and nurse-assessed quality of care: model testing with nurse practice environment and nurse work characteristics as predictors
Peter Mathieu Van Bogaert, Danny Van heusden, Olaf Timmermans, and Erik Franck
Development and initial validation of the Cardiovascular Disease Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (CVD-AAQ) in an Italian sample of cardiac patients
Chiara Anna Maria Spatola, Emanuele A. M. Cappella, Christina L. Goodwin, Matteo Baruffi, Gabriella Malfatto, Mario Facchini, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Gian Mauro Manzoni, and Enrico Molinari
Communication in cancer care: psycho-social, interactional, and cultural issues. A general overview and the example of India
SANTOSH K CHATURVEDI, Fay J Strohschein, Gayatri Saraf, and Carmen G Loiselle

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Psychopathology”

Internet addiction: coping styles, expectancies, and treatment implications
Matthias Brand, Christian Laier, and Kimberly Young

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Quantitative Psychology and Measurement”

The experience of traumatic events disrupts the measurement invariance of a posttraumatic stress scale
Miriam J.J. Lommen, Rens Van De Schoot, and Iris M. Engelhard
Individual differences in Zhong-Yong tendency and processing capacity
Ting-Yun Chang and Cheng-Ta Yang

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology”

Magic and memory: using conjuring to explore the effects of suggestion, social influence, and paranormal belief on eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event
Krissy Wilson and Christopher Charles French
Magic in the machine: a computational magician's assistant
Howard Williams and Peter McOwan
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