School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Safety and/or hazard near miss reporting in an international energy company
(2011)This paper presents the preliminary progress of an industry driven programme to improve the data monitoring of safety/hazard near miss reporting from front line staff of a branch of a multinational energy supply company ... -
Exploring the recollective experience during autobiographical memory retrieval in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.
(2010)Autonoetic consciousness refers to the ability to mentally transport oneself back in subjective time to relive elements of, or all, of a past event, and is compromised in the early stages of Alzheimer?s disease (AD). Here, ... -
Anorexia, bulimia, and obesity: Shared decision making deficits on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT).
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)The pathological eating behaviors in Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN), and obesity are characterized by a preference for high immediate reward, despite higher future losses in terms of both physical and psychological ... -
The EquiFrame Manual: A tool for Evaluating and Promoting the Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups and Core Concepts of Human Rights in Health Policy Documents
(The Global Health Press, 2011)The purpose of this manual is to outline an analytical framework for assessing the degree to which social inclusion and human rights feature in policy and policy-related documents. The framework was developed with ... -
Investigating Human Factors in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing industries
(2011)The aim of this paper is to present the work carried out in a European Commission-funded project to adapt an existing Aircraft Maintenance Human Factors (HF) training program (STAMINA) to the Biotechnology and ... -
Hippocampal inputs mediate theta-related plasticity in anterior thalamus
(Elsevier, 2011)Hippocampally-driven oscillatory activity at theta frequency is found in the diencephalon, but an understanding of the fundamental role of theta in the hippocampo-diencephalic circuit remains elusive. An important strategy ... -
Quantitative MRI analysis of brain volume changes due to controlled cortical impact.
(2010)More than 85% of reported brain traumas are classified clinically as "mild" using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS); qualitative MRI findings are scarce and provide little correspondence to clinical symptoms. Our goal, therefore, ... -
Hippocampal-anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions.
(2010)This review charts recent advances from a variety of disciplines that create a new perspective on why the multiple hippocampal?anterior thalamic interconnections are together vital for human episodic memory and rodent event ... -
Differences in "bottom-up" and "top-down" neural activity in current and former cigarette smokers: Evidence for neural substrates which may promote nicotine abstinence through increased cognitive control
(2011)Drug-related stimuli, through conditioning, are thought to acquire incentive motivational properties that code possible reward availability and elicit an attentional bias, possibly through increased "bottom-up" neural ... -
Boys do it the right way: Sex-dependent amygdala lateralization during face processing in adolescents
(2011)Previous studies have observed a sex-dependent lateralization of amygdala activation related to emotional memory. Specifically, it was shown that the activity of the right amygdala correlates significantly stronger with ... -
Rehabilitation of executive functioning in patients with frontal lobe brain damage with goal management training.
(2011)Executive functioning deficits due to brain disease affecting frontal lobe functions cause significant real-life disability, yet solid evidence in support of executive functioning interventions is lacking. Goal Management ... -
Reduced striatal volume in cocaine-dependent patients
(2011)Long-term cocaine consumption is associated with brain structural and functional changes. While the animal literature on cocaine use and dependence has traditionally focused on the striatum, previous human studies using ... -
Electrophysiological markers of cognitive deficits in Traumatic Brain Injury: A review
(2011)Event-related potentials (ERPs) and oscillatory activity from the human electroencephalogram (EEG) provides a rich source of data that help elucidate specific processing impairments in TBI patients. This review will focus ... -
fMRI activation during response inhibition and error processing: the role of the DAT1 gene in typically developing adolescents and those diagnosed with ADHD
(2011)The DAT1 gene codes for the dopamine transporter, which clears dopamine from the synaptic cleft, and a variant of this gene has previously been associated with compromised response inhibition in both healthy and clinical ... -
Automated spike sorting algorithm based on Laplacian eigenmaps and k-means clustering
(2011)This study presents a new automatic spike sorting method based on feature extraction by Laplacian eigenmaps combined with k-means clustering. The performance of the proposed method was compared against previously reported ... -
Risk factors for the development of depression in patients with Hepatitis C taking Interferon-alpha.
(2010)Interferon-?, currently used for the treatment of hepatitis C, is associated with a substantially elevated risk of depression. However, not everyone who takes this drug becomes depressed, so it is important to understand ... -
A functional MRI study of the influence of practice on component processes of working memory.
(Elsevier, 2004)Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that neural activity changes with task practice. The types of changes reported have been inconsistent, however, and the neural mechanisms involved remain unclear. In this study, we ... -
Early Visual Processing Deficits in Dysbindin-Associated Schizophrenia,
(Elsevier, 2008)Background: Variation at the dysbindin gene (DTNBP1) has been associated with increased risk for schizophrenia in numerous independent samples and recently with deficits in general and domain-specific cognitive processing. ... -
Evidence of increased activation underlying cognitive control in ecstasy and cannabis users
(2010)Evidence suggests that users of ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) have behavioural and cognitive deficits and show increased impulsivity. Impulse control impairments have been shown to be common to a number of ... -
Counterfactual thinking about controllable events
(2000)When people think about what might have been, they mentally undo controllable rather than uncontrollable events. We report the results of two experiments in which we examined this controllability effect in counterfactual ...
