Article
Biology
E. Reindl, C. J. Volter, Z. Civelek, L. Duncan, Z. Lugosi, E. Felsche, E. Herrmann, J. Call, A. M. Seed
Summary: This study compared the performance of 3-5-year-old children and chimpanzees on an attentional set shifting task. The results showed that chimpanzees and 3-4-year-old children performed similarly on this task, while 5-year-old children performed better. This suggests that chimpanzees and children share similar attentional set shifting capacities, but there are unique changes in humans at the age of 5.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Md Abu Bokor Siddik, Markus Fendt
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the effects of D-cycloserine on cognitive flexibility in rats. The results showed that D-cycloserine improved cognitive flexibility measured by the ASST.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mariasole Ciampoli, Diego Scheggia, Francesco Papaleo
Summary: Adolescent mice show deficits in attentional set-shifting task compared to adult mice, but those completing the task demonstrate increased effort, particularly in the extradimensional shift stage. This suggests that this paradigm could be used as a tool to detect early cognitive dysfunctions in genetically modified adolescent mice.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Mohammad Ostadijafari, Juan Carlos Bedoya, Wei Wang, Anamika Dubey, Chen-Ching Liu, Nanpeng Yu
Summary: This paper compares and evaluates centralized and transactive distribution-level market coordination mechanisms. It finds that the centralized approach leads to socially optimum solutions, while the transactive approach is more profitable for flexible loads and conventional generators.
ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Zach E. McKinnell, Tessa Maze, Alejandro Ramos, Brandon Challans, Bethany Plakke
Summary: Research using the VPA model showed that female VPA rats exhibited more severe impairments in social behavior, anxiety, and cognitive flexibility, supporting the hypothesis that female individuals with ASD may present different symptoms compared to males with ASD. Female VPA rats were also less likely to form an attentional set, indicating executive function deficits similar to those observed in humans with ASD.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Thermodynamics
Bruno Mota, Pedro Faria, Zita Vale
Summary: This paper proposes a flexible demand management solution that addresses constraints in residential load scheduling and demand response. By utilizing a crossover method in genetic algorithms, along with distributed generation, dynamic pricing, and load shifting, significant reductions in energy costs can be achieved.
Review
Environmental Studies
Frans Libertson
Summary: This study aims to summarize the research on flexibility capital and reconceptualize the concept by integrating aspects of socio-temporal configuration. The result is a more nuanced concept of flexibility capital that considers the role of both (im)material resources and social and temporal factors. These insights contribute to the field of energy justice by showing how flexible energy use can be evaluated according to the energy justice principles.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anna Exner, Alla Machulska, Tobias Stalder, Tim Klucken
Summary: Individual differences in emotional coping styles can impact information processing at different stages. Repressors show a strong approach tendency towards positive stimuli, while sensitizers display a strong avoidance tendency. There were no significant group differences in attention bias and approach/avoidance bias. These findings highlight the association between emotional coping styles and information processing.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Substance Abuse
K. A. Grant, N. Newman, S. Gonzales, T. A. Shnitko
Summary: This study replicates and extends previous findings that performance in an attentional set-shifting task can predict future alcohol drinking status in rhesus monkeys. The results suggest that monkeys with lower rates of improvement in set-shifting performance are more likely to become heavy drinkers in the future.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Helen Stopps, Marianne F. Touchie
Summary: As the urban population grows, so does the number of highrise residential buildings. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) account for over half of the energy use in these buildings in Canada. Smart thermostats offer an opportunity to conserve energy and shift electricity load through HVAC control modifications. The study tested three thermostat control strategies and found that occupancy-based control reduced HVAC runtime, while load shifting control was not effective at reducing peak period loads.
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Malvika Godara, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez, Rudi De Raedt
Summary: Successful adaptation to the environment requires prioritizing emotional information relevant to the current situational demands. However, an attention bias for negative information sometimes becomes maladaptive, especially in affective disorders like depression. This paper proposes a novel and integrative view of aberrant affective attention patterns in depression, considering contextual features and attention prioritization towards goal-relevant emotional stimuli. The implications of this framework for empirical, clinical, and interventional research are discussed.
BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Hanna Hasselqvist, Sara Renstrom, Helena Stromberg, Maria Hakansson
Summary: This paper presents a complementary perspective on energy resilience by focusing on households as the starting point for investigation. It suggests a definition of household energy resilience and creates a framework based on current ideas of future domestic energy use. The paper challenges the perception of electricity demand as non-negotiable and reveals opportunities for supporting households in an uncertain future.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Eva Reindl, Christoph Johannes Volter, Jessica Campbell-May, Josep Call, Amanda Madeleine Seed
Summary: Attentional set shifting is crucial in cognitive development, but studying it in early childhood has been limited by the lack of nonverbal measures. This article introduces a new nonverbal version of the Intradimensional/Extradimensional (ID/ED) shift task to investigate attentional set shifting and its impact on children's cognitive development.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Heather M. Minchew, Hannah L. Radabaugh, Megan L. LaPorte, Kristin E. Free, Jeffrey P. Cheng, Corina O. Bondi
Summary: The study investigated effective therapies for TBI patients by examining a preclinical rat model, showing that the administration of an antidepressant drug and exposure to environmental enrichment significantly improved cognitive flexibility impairments, with the combined therapy showing the most benefit in recovery.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Michael J. Imburgio, Joseph M. Orr
Summary: The study used drift diffusion models to investigate the contributions of reconfiguration and task set inertia to performance in voluntary task switching. It was found that different interval lengths influenced preparation time and the task switching process in both single and dual task paradigms, with the effects of cue timing depending on the required response to the cue.
Article
Allergy
Carly A. Mallise, Vanessa E. Murphy, Frini Karayanidis, Helen Armstrong, Olivia M. Whalen, Alix J. Woolard, Peter G. Gibson, Joerg Mattes, Adam Collison, Alison E. Lane, Linda E. Campbell
Summary: The study found that mothers with asthma during pregnancy did not have significantly higher parenting stress in the first year postpartum compared to mothers without asthma. Additionally, asthma control level did not affect parenting stress levels in mothers with asthma. However, it is possible that levels of parenting stress in asthmatic mothers are underestimated due to response and sampling bias.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Ashleigh E. Smith, Alexandra T. Wade, Timothy Olds, Dorothea Dumuid, Michael J. Breakspear, Kate Laver, Mitchell R. Goldsworthy, Michael C. Ridding, Monica Fabiani, Jillian Dorrian, Montana Hunter, Bryan Paton, Mahmoud Abdolhoseini, Fayeem Aziz, Maddison L. Mellow, Clare Collins, Karen J. Murphy, Gabriele Gratton, Hannah Keage, Ross T. Smith, Frini Karayanidis
Summary: This study aims to explore the associations between time-use and diet compositions with cognition and brain function, and identify optimal time-use behaviors and diet compositions for optimizing cognition and brain function.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Carly A. Mallise, Vanessa E. Murphy, Linda E. Campbell, Alix J. Woolard, Olivia M. Whalen, Gabrielle Milton, Joerg Mattes, Adam Collison, Peter G. Gibson, Frini Karayanidis, Alison E. Lane
Summary: The study found that infants born to mothers with asthma are not at an overall increased risk for temperament or sensory difficulties compared to control infants, but a subset of infants in both groups may be at risk for attention or sensory hyper-reactivity difficulties. More research on the developmental outcomes of infants born to mothers with asthma is needed.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Janine Jargow, Uta Wolfensteller, Christina U. Pfeuffer, Hannes Ruge
Summary: Both active response execution and passive listening to verbal codes can lead to item-specific repetition priming effects, which are modulated by expectation. The priming effects of item-specific actions are influenced by switch expectation, while the priming effects of item-specific classifications are not affected.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
A. Woolard, A. Coleman, T. Johnson, K. Wakely, L. E. Campbell, A. Mallise, O. M. Whalen, V. E. Murphy, F. Karayanidis, A. E. Lane
Summary: Preterm birth can lead to sensory processing difficulties and poorer parent-infant interaction quality. This study found differences in sensory processing and interaction quality between preterm and full-term infants, with preterm status predicting overall interaction quality. Poorer infant sensory processing was associated with less teaching, affection, and responsivity during interactions.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Timothy S. Olds, Dorothea Dumuid, Maddison L. Mellow, Hannah A. D. Keage, Alexandra T. Wade, Montana Hunter, Frini Karayanidis, Ashleigh E. Smith
Summary: People's perceptions of the mental effort required for everyday activities may affect the relationship between lifestyles and cognitive ability. The perceived mental effort (PME) ratings varied by activity domain, with males rating higher than females. PMEs show promise as a reliable measure of mental effort.
EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Maddison L. Mellow, Dorothea Dumuid, Alexandra T. Wade, Ty Stanford, Timothy S. Olds, Frini Karayanidis, Montana Hunter, Hannah A. D. Keage, Jillian Dorrian, Mitchell R. Goldsworthy, Ashleigh E. Smith
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the association between 24-h time-use composition and cognitive function in healthy older adults. The results showed no significant associations between time-use composition and global cognition, long-term memory, short-term memory, executive function, or processing speed outcomes, highlighting the need for longitudinal studies to uncover temporal effects.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Xiaoyu Wang, Katharina Zwosta, Uta Wolfensteller, Hannes Ruge
Summary: This study utilized advanced regression and predictive modeling techniques to demonstrate that learning-related functional connectivity alterations across the whole brain can predict individual habit strength. The functional connectivity changes involving the sensorimotor network and the cingulo-opercular network play a pivotal role in predicting individual habit strength.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Janine Jargow, Katharina Zwosta, Svenja Treu, Franziska M. Korb, Hannes Ruge, Uta Wolfensteller
Summary: This study investigated the causal relationship between the angular gyrus (AG) and goal-directed behavior using offline and online TMS experiments. The results suggest that the AG does not play a causal role in outcome anticipation during response selection, but AG stimulation significantly modulates knowledge of S-R-O associations. Additionally, there may be reduced selectivity of outcome anticipation later in the experiment when response selection is guided by stimulus-response rules.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Frini Karayanidis, Guy E. Hawkins, Aaron S. W. Wong, Fayeem Aziz, Montana Hunter, Mark Steyvers
Summary: This study implemented joint modeling of behavioral and single-trial electroencephalography (EEG) data to examine the relationship between trial-by-trial adjustment of response criterion and changes in event-related potentials (ERPs) during the cue-target interval (CTI) in a cued-trials task-switching paradigm. The results showed that ERP components associated with task switching and task preparation were linked to a response criterion parameter. However, the inclusion of additional parameters did not improve the performance of the criterion-EEG link, indicating the need for more customized cognitive models to accurately capture the cognitive control processes underlying task-switching performance. This study is the first to implement joint modeling of behavioral measures and single-trial EEG data in a cued-trials task-switching paradigm.
Article
Neurosciences
Alexander W. Baumann, Theo A. J. Schaefer, Hannes Ruge
Summary: Learning new rules rapidly and effectively is common in daily life, but the cognitive and neural mechanisms behind it are complex. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers studied the effects of different instructional load conditions on the brain's couplings during rule implementation. The results showed differences in how the brain processes instructions and how it handles conflicting information when the load exceeds working memory capacity. Additionally, the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex exhibited hemispherical differences in whole-brain coupling and practice-related dynamics.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Alix Woolard, Titia Benders, Linda E. Campbell, Olivia M. Whalen, Carly Mallise, Frini Karayanidis, Daniel Barker, Vanessa E. Murphy, Jordan Tait, Peter Gibson, Larissa Korostenski, Alison E. Lane
Summary: This study aimed to explore the association between maternal pitch contours in infant-directed speech (IDS) and early autism signs in 12-month-old infants. The results showed that mothers used fewer sinusoidal contours when they rated their infant as displaying more autism signs, and used fewer flat contours if their infant displayed more researcher-rated autism signs.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Respiratory System
V Murphy, E. Williams, O. Whalen, L. Campbell, F. Karayanidis, C. Mallise, A. Woolard, P. Gibson, J. Mattes, A. Collison, A. Lane, K. Baines
Meeting Abstract
Respiratory System
O. Whalen, A. Lane, S. Harvey, L. Campbell, F. Karayanidis, V Murphy
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Alix Woolard, Alison E. Lane, Linda E. Campbell, Olivia M. Whalen, Linda Swaab, Frini Karayanidis, Daniel Barker, Vanessa Murphy, Titia Benders
Summary: Research shows that infants at high-risk or later diagnosed with autism are exposed to similar amounts of infant-directed speech (IDS) as neurotypical infants, but there are differences in linguistic features. IDS used with high-risk or diagnosed infants may include more action-directing content, fewer questions, more attention bids, and follow-in commenting. More attention bids and follow-in commenting used with high-risk or diagnosed infants are associated with better language abilities longitudinally.
REVIEW JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2022)
