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UKRN Open Research Training Resources and Priorities Working Paper (2023)
Working Paper

UKRN Open Research Programme has released its first working paper about training priorities and resources aimed at accelerating the uptake of high quality open research practices.

Rumination and inhibition in task switching: No evidence for an association (2023)
Journal Article

Rumination is typically defined as the perseverative focus of attention on negative internal thoughts and feelings, which can increase the risk of developing— and severity once developed—of depression. It is thought the perseveration is caused by a d... Read More about Rumination and inhibition in task switching: No evidence for an association.

Improving psychological science: further thoughts, reflections and ways forward (2022)
Journal Article

The evolution of primate short-term memory (2022)
Journal Article

Short-term memory is implicated in a range of cognitive abilities and is critical for understanding primate cognitive evolution. To investigate the effects of phylogeny, ecology and sociality on short-term memory, we tested the largest and most diver... Read More about The evolution of primate short-term memory.

A spurious correlation between difference scores in evidence-accumulation model parameters (2022)
Journal Article

Evidence-accumulation models are a useful tool for investigating the cognitive processes that give rise to behavioural data patterns in reaction times (RTs) and error rates. In their simplest form, evidence-accumulation models include three parameter... Read More about A spurious correlation between difference scores in evidence-accumulation model parameters.

A spurious correlation between difference scores in evidence-accumulation model parameters (2022)
Journal Article

Evidence-accumulation models are a useful tool for investigating the cognitive processes that give rise to behavioural data patterns in reaction times (RTs) and error rates. In their simplest form, evidence-accumulation models include three parameter... Read More about A spurious correlation between difference scores in evidence-accumulation model parameters.

mixtur: An R package for designing, analysing, and modelling continuous report visual short-term memory studies (2022)
Journal Article

Visual short-term memory (vSTM) is often measured via continuous-report tasks whereby participants are presented with stimuli that vary along a continuous dimension (e.g., colour) with the goal of memorising the stimulus features. At test, participan... Read More about mixtur: An R package for designing, analysing, and modelling continuous report visual short-term memory studies.

Computational modelling of the speed–accuracy tradeoff: No evidence for an association with depression symptomatology (2022)
Journal Article

Successful decision making often requires finding the right balance between the speed and accuracy of responding: Emphasising speed can lead to error-prone performance, yet emphasising accuracy leads to a slowing of performance. Such speed–accuracy t... Read More about Computational modelling of the speed–accuracy tradeoff: No evidence for an association with depression symptomatology.

Improving research quality: The view from the UK Reproducibility Network institutional leads for research improvement (2021)
Journal Article

The adoption and incentivisation of open and transparent research practices is critical in addressing issues around research reproducibility and research integrity. These practices will require training and funding. Individuals need to be incentivise... Read More about Improving research quality: The view from the UK Reproducibility Network institutional leads for research improvement.

Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility (2020)
Journal Article

Wilson et al. (2015) presented data from three well-powered experiments suggesting that a brief mindfulness induction can increase false memory susceptibility. However, we had concerns about some of the methodology, including whether mind-wandering i... Read More about Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility.

Computational modelling of attentional selectivity in depression reveals perceptual deficits (2020)
Journal Article

Background Depression is associated with broad deficits in cognitive control, including in visual selective attention tasks such as the flanker task. Previous computational modelling of depression and flanker task performance showed reduced pre-pote... Read More about Computational modelling of attentional selectivity in depression reveals perceptual deficits.

Beliefs about voices in voice-hearers: the role of schema functioning. (2020)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Evidence is emerging that beliefs about voices are influenced by broader schematic beliefs about the self and others. Similarly, studies indicate that the relationship an individual has with their voice may mirror wider patterns of relati... Read More about Beliefs about voices in voice-hearers: the role of schema functioning..

The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching: a diffusion model analysis. (2019)
Journal Article

Inhibition in task switching is inferred from [Formula: see text] task repetition costs: slower response times and poorer accuracy for ABA task switching sequences compared to CBA sequences, thought to reflect the persisting inhibition of task A acro... Read More about The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching: a diffusion model analysis..

The effect of aging on response congruency in task switching: a meta-analysis (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives: Response congruency effects in task switching are the observed slowing of response times for incongruent targets which afford more than one response (depending on task) in comparison to congruent stimuli that afford just one response re... Read More about The effect of aging on response congruency in task switching: a meta-analysis.

Does Task Activation in Task Switching Influence Inhibition or Episodic Interference? (2019)
Journal Article

N-2 repetition costs in task switching refer to slower responses to ABA sequences compared to CBA sequences, reflecting the persisting inhibition of task A across the ABA sequence. The magnitude of inhibition is thought to be sensitive to activation... Read More about Does Task Activation in Task Switching Influence Inhibition or Episodic Interference?.

The effect of practice on inhibition in task switching: Controlling for episodic retrieval (2019)
Journal Article

Previous work has shown that extended practice leads to a reduction in a key measure of cognitive inhibition during task switching: The n-2 task repetition cost. However, it has been demonstrated that this n-2 task repetition cost is increased by a n... Read More about The effect of practice on inhibition in task switching: Controlling for episodic retrieval.

Impulse control disorder in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of cognitive, affective and motivational correlates (2018)
Journal Article

Background In Parkinson’s disease (PD), impulse control disorders (ICDs) develop as side-effect of dopaminergic replacement therapy (DRT). One hypothesis is that DRT overdoses less-severely affected dopamine-modulated circuits on which cognition, aff... Read More about Impulse control disorder in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of cognitive, affective and motivational correlates.

Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching (2018)
Journal Article

Task inhibition is considered to facilitate switching to a new task and is assumed to decay slowly over time. Hence, more persisting inhibition needs to be overcome when returning to a task after one intermediary trial (ABA task sequence) than when r... Read More about Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching.

Justify your alpha (2018)
Journal Article

In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to P = 0.005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.

Risky Decision-Making And Affective Features Of Impulse Control Disorders In Parkinson’s Disease (2018)
Journal Article

Background. Impulse Control Disorders (ICDs) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are considered dopaminergic treatment side effects. Cognitive and affective factors may increase the risk of ICD in PD. Aims. To investigate risky decision-making and associate... Read More about Risky Decision-Making And Affective Features Of Impulse Control Disorders In Parkinson’s Disease.