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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Sebastian M. Frank, Susanne Bruendl, Ulrike Frank, Yuka Sasaki, Mark W. Greenlee, Takeo Watanabe
Summary: The study investigated the mechanisms of task-irrelevant visual perceptual learning in healthy elementary school age children and compared it to healthy young adults, finding differences in performance that may be related to selective attention ability. Results showed that the mechanisms of VPL undergo significant changes from childhood to adulthood.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Deborah A. Levine, Alden L. Gross, Emily M. Briceno, Nicholas Tilton, Bruno J. Giordani, Jeremy B. Sussman, Rodney A. Hayward, James F. Burke, Stephanie Hingtgen, Mitchell S. V. Elkind, Jennifer J. Manly, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Darrell J. Gaskin, Stephen Sidney, Ralph L. Sacco, Sarah E. Tom, Clinton B. Wright, Kristine Yaffe, Andrzej T. Galecki
Summary: This study suggests that women may have better cognitive reserve but faster cognitive decline than men in global cognition, executive function, and memory, which could contribute to sex differences in late-life dementia.
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Peripheral Vascular Disease
Shakia T. Hardy, Ligong Chen, Andrea L. Cherrington, Nathalie Moise, Byron C. Jaeger, Kathryn Foti, Swati Sakhuja, Gregory Wozniak, Marwah Abdalla, Paul Muntner
Summary: The study revealed a slight decrease in mean systolic blood pressure among non-Hispanic White adults and a slight increase among non-Hispanic Black adults over the years. Hispanic adults, on the other hand, showed relatively stable systolic blood pressure levels.
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Truc H. Le
Summary: This study examined how gender and cultural values affect young adults' risk perceptions in the cruise ship context, using a two-dimensional model to measure risk perception. The findings showed significant interaction effects between gender, nationality, and cultural values on cruising risk perceptions.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sharon Reif, Eric A. Lauer, Rachel Sayko Adams, Debra L. Brucker, Grant A. Ritter, Monika Mitra
Summary: The study found that adults with disabilities were more likely to use prescription opioids compared to those without disabilities, but the likelihood of opioid use disorder did not vary by disability status. Pain relief as the reason for last misuse was associated with an increased risk of prescription opioid use disorder.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Luke Rosedahl, Takeo Watanabe
Summary: A recent study reveals that learning with a partner can enhance perceptual learning performance, suggesting that higher cognitive processes have a significant impact on perceptual learning.
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Psychology, Biological
Alan O'Dowd, Rebecca J. Hirst, Annalisa Setti, Rose Anne Kenny, Fiona N. Newell
Summary: There is evidence suggesting that cardiovascular activity can affect sensory processing and cognition, which are known to change with age. However, it is uncertain whether cardiovascular activity influences the precision of unisensory and multisensory temporal perception in older adults. This study found that faster resting heart rate was associated with better differentiation of two visual flashes and increased susceptibility to the audio-visual Sound Induced Flash Illusion (SIFI) in older adults.
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
So Mi Jemma Cho, Sara Haidermota, Michael C. Honigberg, Pradeep Natarajan
Summary: The study found that favorable cardiovascular health (CVH) and sex differences in young adults remained largely unchanged from 2007 to 2018. However, disparities in blood pressure, physical activity, and smoking between sexes have worsened.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
(2022)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Zhihua Wang, Keshuo Xu, Yang Yang, Jianlei Dong, Shuhang Gu, Lihao Xu, Yuming Fang, Kede Ma
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of measuring perceptual color differences (CDs) in modern smartphone photography. By constructing the largest image dataset and using a lightweight neural network, an end-to-end learnable CD formula is created, which outperforms 33 existing CD measures and has practical significance for large-scale perceptual CD assessment.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sarah Gutkind, Dvora Shmulewitz, Deborah Hasin
Summary: Men have a higher prevalence of cannabis use disorder (CUD) than women, but it is unclear whether this is due to differences in frequency of use. This study found that women had a higher prevalence of interpersonal, financial, and health-related problems associated with CUD compared to men.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lisa McKeown, Y. A. Hong, Gary L. Kreps, Hong Xue
Summary: Patient-centered communication (PCC) is an important aspect of healthcare quality. This study examined the trends in PCC over the past decade and found that PCC has improved over time. However, differences in patients' perceptions of PCC still exist, with certain sociodemographic groups reporting more positive perceptions. Provider education and resources are needed to further enhance PCC.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2023)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Luotao Lin, Fengqing Zhu, Edward J. Delp, Heather A. Eicher-Miller
Summary: This study aimed to identify the most commonly consumed food items and those contributing most to total energy intake among different groups, finding that individuals reporting taking insulin tend to consume more protein foods and less soft drinks compared to the other two groups.
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yasmin Abo Foul, Renana Eitan, Marcello Mortillaro, Hillel Aviezer
Summary: Older adults are better at perceiving dynamic facial expressions, while younger adults excel in perceiving dynamic bodily expressions. Perception of emotion when faces and bodies are combined is comparable across age groups.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2022)
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Acoustics
Seonghyeon Kim, M. Ercan Altinsoy
Summary: This study investigated the perceptual differences in the acceleration sound of a passenger car during rapid acceleration between drivers and passengers. Experimental results demonstrated a significant perceptual difference between drivers and passengers.
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Ethan C. Cicero, Elle Lett, Jason D. Flatt, G. Perusi Benson, Fayron Epps
Summary: The study investigated subjective cognitive decline (SCD) among different groups, including minoritized ethnoracial transgender individuals, minoritized ethnoracial cisgender individuals, White transgender individuals, and White cisgender individuals aged 45+. The results showed that the prevalence of SCD was highest among minoritized ethnoracial transgender individuals, followed by White transgender individuals, minoritized ethnoracial cisgender individuals, and White cisgender individuals. The odds of SCD were higher in minoritized ethnoracial transgender individuals compared to White cisgender and minoritized ethnoracial cisgender individuals, and higher in White transgender individuals compared to White cisgender individuals.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
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Psychology, Experimental
Anjie Cao, Gal Raz, Rebecca Saxe, Michael C. Frank
Summary: This article introduces a rational action model called RANCH that captures human decision-making on what to look at and for how long. The model is evaluated by comparing it with different baseline models and alternative linking hypotheses, and proves its effectiveness.
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
(2023)
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Psychology, Experimental
George Kachergis, Nathan Francis, Michael C. Frank
Summary: Accurately measuring children's early language skills is important for predicting educational outcomes. Parent-reported instruments, like the Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs), have been shown to be reliable measures of children's language abilities. However, CDIs may contain biased vocabulary items based on sex, race, and maternal education. Removing these biased items can reduce but not eliminate differences. Additionally, the relative frequency of words spoken to girls and boys can predict gender-based word learning bias.
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Marc M. Himmelberg, Jonathan Winawer, Marisa Carrasco
Summary: Human visual performance varies with visual field location, with the best performance observed at the center of gaze and a decline in performance as eccentricity increases. There are also notable variations in performance depending on the polar angle. These polar angle asymmetries in perception are related to asymmetries in the organization of the visual system. By quantifying how performance changes with visual field location and understanding the neural foundations, we can gain insights into how the brain processes visual information and forms visual perception.
TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marc M. Himmelberg, Ekin Tuncok, Jesse Gomez, Kalanit Grill-Spector, Marisa Carrasco, Jonathan Winawer
Summary: Adults have better visual performance for stimuli along the horizontal than vertical and lower than upper vertical meridian, which is paralleled by cortical surface area asymmetries in V1. However, children have similar visual performance for the lower and upper vertical meridian, and similar V1 surface area representing them. This suggests a late-stage change in V1 organization that corresponds to the emergence of visual performance asymmetry in adults along the vertical meridian. The study also shows that many features of V1 are adult-like in children, indicating a developmental change in cortical organization.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Heidi A. A. Baumgartner, Nicolas Alessandroni, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Michael C. C. Frank, J. Kiley Hamlin, Melanie Soderstrom, Jan G. G. Voelkel, Robb Willer, Francis Yuen, Nicholas A. A. Coles
Summary: The past decade has seen a rise in big team science initiatives, where a large number of researchers collaborate to achieve a common goal. However, there is a lack of guidance on how to establish, manage, and participate in these collaborations. This paper integrates insights from various multidisciplinary big team science projects to provide a practical guide. It covers initial considerations for launching a project, running and completing it, and addressing challenges unique to big team science, such as authorship decisions and collaborative writing.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Biological
Nicholas A. A. Coles, Lisa M. M. DeBruine, Flavio Azevedo, Heidi A. A. Baumgartner, Michael C. C. Frank
Summary: 'Big team' science challenges researchers to reconsider authorship issues including defining authorship-worthy contributions, documenting contributions, and handling disagreements among coauthors. We propose steps to resolve these issues.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
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Psychology, Developmental
Manuel Bohn, Michael Henry Tessler, Clara Kordt, Tom Hausmann, Michael C. C. Frank
Summary: This study assessed pragmatic abilities in 3- to 5-year-old German-speaking children and developed a computational cognitive model to understand the relationships between these abilities and other cognitive skills.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Kyra Wilson, Michael C. C. Frank, Abdellah Fourtassi
Summary: To help children understand the world, they need to learn about hierarchical organization of conceptual categories. Language plays an important role in transmitting this knowledge, but previous studies have had limitations in comparing linguistic cues to conceptual knowledge. This study used a large corpus of English child-directed speech to investigate and compare explicit and implicit cues, finding that implicit cues were more reliable. The study also found no developmental differences in the availability of these cues, emphasizing the importance of caregiver talk for children's conceptual development.
JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Editorial Material
Behavioral Sciences
Michael C. Frank
Summary: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit intriguing emergent behaviors, but they require significantly more language data compared to human children. Possible explanations for this vast difference include children's pre-existing conceptual knowledge, their use of multimodal grounding, and the interactive, social nature of their input.
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Moin Syed, Michael C. C. Frank, Glenn I. I. Roisman
Summary: Registered Reports (RRs) are a new format for publishing empirical journal articles, where the decision to publish is based on the quality of conceptualization, methods, and planned analyses rather than the specific results. This article introduces the Special Section on Registered Reports in Child Development, explaining what RRs are and why they are important, outlining the thought process behind the Special Section, discussing key themes across the eight articles included in the collection, and announcing that RRs will be a standard publishing option at Child Development.
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Psychology, Developmental
Leher Singh, Mihaela D. Barokova, Heidi A. Baumgartner, Diana C. Lopera-Perez, Paul Okyere Omane, Mark Sheskin, Francis L. Yuen, Yang Wu, Katherine J. Alcock, Elena C. Altmann, Marina Bazhydai, Alexandra Carstensen, Kin Chung Jacky Chan, Hu Chuan-Peng, Rodrigo Dal Ben, Laura Franchin, Jessica E. Kosie, Casey Lew-Williams, Asana Okocha, Tilman Reinelt, Tobias Schuwerk, Melanie Soderstrom, Angeline S. M. Tsui, Michael C. Frank
Summary: Culture plays a crucial role in children's development, and studying its impact requires accurate demographic information. However, reporting and treatment of demographic data in child development research are inconsistent. To address this issue, we propose a framework to standardize demographic reporting for early child development, providing a consistent approach for collecting and reporting data.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Eva Portelance, Yuguang Duan, Michael C. Frank, Gary Lupyan
Summary: The study examines the relationship between predictability and the age of acquisition of different words in children. Predictability is measured using n-gram and LSTM language models by calculating the surprisal of words in child-directed speech. The findings show that more predictable predicates and function words are learned earlier than nouns.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Bria Long, Sarah Goodin, George Kachergis, Virginia Marchman, Samaher Radwan, Robert Sparks, Violet Xiang, Chengxu Zhuang, Oliver Hsu, Brett Newman, Daniel Yamins, Michael Frank
Summary: Head-mounted cameras have been used in developmental psychology research for over a decade to provide a comprehensive view of infants' everyday experiences. However, variations between devices have hindered comparisons across studies and labs. Additionally, the low-resolution video data captured by these cameras limits the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Veronica Boyce, Maya Mathur, Michael C. Frank
Summary: This study examined replication experiments conducted by students in psychology and found that the robustness of psychology literature is not sufficient to support cumulative progress by student investigators. Larger original effect sizes and within-participants designs were found to be related to replication success.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Sabine Doebel, Michael C. Frank
Summary: Diverse samples are crucial for the study of development and psychology as a whole. However, convenience samples, which are typically recruited from local populations near universities, are still widely used in developmental science. This leads to an over-representation of Western, White, and high socio-economic status participants in studies. While policies designed to encourage diverse sample recruitment may not always be effective, convenience samples are still advantageous due to their convenience and lower costs. The authors suggest three paths forward to address this tension.
JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
