Frontiers Article Alert

Monday, 26 January 2015

 

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

 

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Development and evaluation of a self-administered on-line test of memory and attention for middle-aged and older adults
Angela K. Troyer, Gillian Rowe, Kelly Murphy, Brian Levine, Larry Leach, and Lynn Hasher

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Automated detection of sleep spindles in the scalp EEG and estimation of their intracranial current sources: comments on techniques and on related experimental and clinical studies
Periklis Y. Ktonas and Errikos-Chaim Ventouras
BDNF mediates improvements in executive function following a 1-year exercise intervention
Regina Lynn Leckie, Lauren E Oberlin, Michelle W Voss, Ruchika S Prakash, Amanda Szabo-Reed, Laura Chaddock-Heyman, Siobhan M Phillips, Neha P Gothe, Emily Mailey, Victoria Jeanne Vieira-Potter, Stephen A Martin, Brandt D Pence, Mingkuan Lin, Raja Parasuraman, Pamela M Greenwood, Karl J Fryxell, Jeffrey Woods, Edward McAuley, Arthur F Kramer, and Kirk I Erickson
Non-rigid illusory contours and global shape transformations defined by spatiotemporal boundary formation
Gennady Erlikhman, Yang Z Xing, and Philip J Kellman
Novel insights into the rehabilitation of memory post acquired brain injury: a systematic review
Lauriane Spreij, Anne Visser-Meily, Caroline Van Heugten, and Tanja Nijboer
How do selective attentional processes contribute to maintenance and recall in children’s working memory capacity?
Hannah Elizabeth Roome, John Nicholas Towse, and Christopher Jarrold
A common framework for the analysis of complex motion? Standstill and capture illusions
Max Reinhard Dürsteler

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience”

Interplay between singing and cortical processing of music: a longitudinal study in children with cochlear implants
Ritva Torppa, Minna Huotilainen, Miika Leminen, Jari Lipsanen, and Mari Tervaniemi

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cognition”

Extending the reach of mousetracking in numerical cognition: a comment on Fischer and Hartmann (2014)
Thomas J. Faulkenberry and Amandine Rey
Visiting Richard Serra’s “Promenade” sculpture improves postural control and judgment of subjective visual vertical
Zoï Kapoula, Alexandre Lang, Thanh Thuan Le, Marie-Sarah Adenis, Qing Yang, Gabi Lipede, and Marine Vernet
Response selection difficulty modulates the behavioral impact of rapidly learnt action effects
Uta Wolfensteller and Hannes Ruge
Meditation reduces pain-related neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, insula, secondary somatosensory cortex, and thalamus
Hiroki Nakata, Kiwako Sakamoto, and Ryusuke Kakigi
Interacting hands: the role of attention for the joint Simon effect
Roman Liepelt
Tryptophan promotes charitable donating
Laura Steenbergen, Roberta Sellaro, and Lorenza S Colzato

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Cognitive Science”

Jointly structuring triadic spaces of meaning and action: book sharing from 3 months on
Nicole Rossmanith, Alan Costall, Andreas F Reichelt, Beatriz López, and Vasudevi Reddy
Facing danger: how do people behave in times of need? The case of adult attachment styles
Tsachi Ein-Dor
Social signal processing for studying parent–infant interaction
Marie Avril, Chloé Leclere, Sylvie Viaux-Savelon, Stéphane Michelet, Catherine Achard, Sylvain Missonnier, Miri Keren, David Cohen, and Mohamed Chetouani
Navigating beyond “here & now” affordances—on sensorimotor maturation and “false belief” performance
Maria Brincker
Synesthesia: an introduction
Michael Banissy, Clare Jonas, and Roi Cohen Kadosh
Engagement in community music classes sparks neuroplasticity and language development in children from disadvantaged backgrounds
Nina Kraus, Jane Hornickel, Dana L. Strait, Jessica Slater, and Elaine Thompson
Facial emotion processing and recognition among maltreated children: a systematic literature review
Gabriela C. S. Ferreira, José Alexandre S. Crippa, and Flávia L. Osório
Building a bridge—an archeologist's perspective on the evolution of causal cognition
Miriam Noël Haidle
The ideological divide and climate change opinion: “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches
Jennifer Jacquet, Monica Dietrich, and John Jost

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Consciousness Research”

Rethinking the senses and their interactions: the case for sensory pluralism
Matthew Fulkerson
Confidence measurement in the light of signal detection theory
Sébastien Massoni, Thibault Gajdos, and Jean-Christophe Vergnaud
Internally generated conscious contents: interactions between sustained mental imagery and involuntary subvocalizations
Hyein Cho, Christine Godwin, Mark Warren Geisler, and Ezequiel Morsella
Priming determinist beliefs diminishes implicit (but not explicit) components of self-agency
Margaret T Lynn, Paul Simon Muhle-Karbe, Henk Aarts, and Marcel Brass

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Decision Neuroscience”

Processing speed enhances model-based over model-free reinforcement learning in the presence of high working memory functioning
Daniel J. Schad, Elisabeth Jünger, Miriam Sebold, Maria Garbusow, Nadine Bernhardt, Amir Homayoun Javadi, Ulrich S Zimmermann, Michael Smolka, Andreas Heinz, Michael A Rapp, and Quentin J M Huys

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Developmental Psychology”

A study on reintegration of street children in Burundi: experienced violence and maltreatment are associated with mental health impairments and impeded educational progress
Anselm Crombach, Manassé Bambonyé, and Thomas Elbert
Number processing and arithmetic skills in children with cochlear implants
Silvia Pixner, Martin Leyrer, and Korbinian Moeller
Patterns of differences in wayfinding performance and correlations among abilities between persons with and without Down syndrome and typically developing children
Megan Davis, Edward Charles Merrill, Frances Conners, and Beverly Roskos
Cognitive and physiological effects of an acute physical activity intervention in elementary school children
Katja Jäger, Mirko Schmidt, Achim Conzelmann, and Claudia Maria Roebers
Adolescent and adult risk-taking in virtual social contexts
Anneke Donne Maree Haddad, Freya Harrison, Thomas Norman, and Jennifer Y.F. Lau

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Educational Psychology”

Teachers’ emotional experiences and exhaustion as predictors of emotional labor in the classroom: an experience sampling study
Melanie M. Keller, Mei-Lin Chang, Eva S. Becker, Thomas Goetz, and Anne C. Frenzel
READING and FEELING: the effects of a literature-based intervention designed to increase emotional competence in second and third graders
Irina Rosa Kumschick, Luna Beck, Michael Eid, Georg Witte, Gisela Klann-Delius, Winfried Menninghaus, Isabella Heuser, and Ruediger Steinlein
Long term impact of emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies and GMAT on career and life satisfaction and career success
Emily Amdurer, Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis, Argun Saatcioglu, Melvin Smith, and Scott N Taylor

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Emotion Science”

Remembering faces with emotional expressions
Chang Hong Liu, Wenfeng Chen, and James Ward

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Language Sciences”

Does bilingual experience affect early visual perceptual development?
Christina Schonberg, Catherine M Sandhofer, Tawny Tsang, and Scott P Johnson
Language specific listening of Japanese geminate consonants: a cross-linguistic study
Makiko Sadakata, Mizuki Shingai, Alex Brandmeyer, Simone Sulpizio, and Kaoru Sekiyama
Distinctiveness and encoding effects in online sentence comprehension
Philip Hofmeister and Shravan Vasishth
Attention mechanisms and the mosaic evolution of speech
Pedro Tiago Martins and Cedric Boeckx

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

Frequency of provision of knowledge of performance on skill acquisition in older persons
Marcelo Eduardo De Souza Nunes, Marina Gusman Thomazi Xavier Souza, Luciano Basso, Carlos Bandeira de Mello Monteiro, Umberto Cesar Corrêa, and Suely Santos
Manual (a)symmetries in grasp posture planning: a short review
Christian Seegelke, Charmayne Mary Lee Hughes, and Thomas Schack

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Perception Science”

Reduced visual surround suppression in schizophrenia shown by measuring contrast detection thresholds
Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza, Verónica Romero-Ferreiro, Jenny C.A. Read, Teresa Diéguez-Risco, Alexandra Bagney, Monserrat Caballero-González, Javier Rodríguez-Torresano, and Roberto Rodríguez-Jiménez
Significant variations in Weber fraction for changes in inter-onset interval of a click train over the range of intervals between 5 and 300 ms
Pekcan Ungan and Suha Yagcioglu
Perceived displacement explains wolfpack effect
Matúš Šimkovic and Birgit Träuble
Minimizing bugs in cognitive neuroscience programming
Vadim Axelrod

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Personality and Social Psychology”

Assessing children’s empathy through a Spanish adaptation of the Basic Empathy Scale: parent’s and child’s report forms
Noelia Sánchez-Pérez, Luis J Fuentes, Darrick Jolliffe, and Carmen González-Salinas

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis”

Another step closer to measuring the ghosts in the nursery: preliminary validation of the Trauma Reflective Functioning Scale
Karin Ensink, Nicolas Berthelot, Odette Bernazzani, Lina Normandin, and Peter Fonagy

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Quantitative Psychology and Measurement”

Individual differences in working memory capacity and workload capacity
Ju-Chi Yu, Ting-Yun Chang, and Cheng-Ta Yang

Frontiers in Psychology, section “Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology”

Toward an experimental account of argumentation: the case of the slippery slope and the ad hominem arguments
Marco Lillo-Unglaube, Andres Canales-Johnson, Gorka Navarrete, and Claudio Fuentes
The predictive mind and the experience of visual art work
Ladislav Kesner
Blinded by magic: eye-movements reveal the misdirection of attention
Anthony S. Barnhart and Stephen D. Goldinger
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