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Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults. (2024)
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Poole, D., Grange, J. A., & Milne, E. (2024). Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults. Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.369

Autistic people may have a less focused spotlight of spatial selective attention than non-autistic people, meaning that distracting stimuli are less effectively suppressed. Previous studies using the flanker task have supported this suggestion with o... Read More about Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults..

Rumination and inhibition in task switching: No evidence for an association (2023)
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Grange. (2023). Rumination and inhibition in task switching: No evidence for an association. Cognition and Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2176289

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.

The evolution of primate short-term memory (2022)
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Grange. (2022). The evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 428-516. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022

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)
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Grange, J. A., & Schuch, S. (in press). A spurious correlation between difference scores in evidence-accumulation model parameters. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01956-8

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)
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Grange. (2022). mixtur: An R package for designing, analysing, and modelling continuous report visual short-term memory studies. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01688-1

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)
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Grange. (2022). Computational modelling of the speed–accuracy tradeoff: No evidence for an association with depression symptomatology. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 111-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.12.057

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)
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Grange. (2021). Improving research quality: The view from the UK Reproducibility Network institutional leads for research improvement. BMC Research Notes, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05883-3

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)
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Grange, J., & Sherman, S. (2020). Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility. Psychological Science, 31(8), https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620929302

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)
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Grange. (2020). Computational modelling of attentional selectivity in depression reveals perceptual deficits. Psychological Medicine, 904-913. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720002652

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)
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Grange. (2020). Beliefs about voices in voice-hearers: the role of schema functioning. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 584-597. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465820000399

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)
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Grange. (2019). The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching: a diffusion model analysis. Psychological Research, 1965-1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01206-1

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)
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Grange. (2019). The effect of aging on response congruency in task switching: a meta-analysis. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 389-396. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx122

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)
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Grange, J. (2019). Does Task Activation in Task Switching Influence Inhibition or Episodic Interference?. Experimental Psychology, 393 -404. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000423

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)
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Grange, J. (2019). The effect of practice on inhibition in task switching: Controlling for episodic retrieval. Acta psychologica, 59 - 72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.10.006

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)
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Martini, A., Dal Lago, D., Edelstyn, N. M., Grange, J. A., & Tamburin, S. (2018). Impulse control disorder in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of cognitive, affective and motivational correlates. Frontiers in Neurology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00654

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)
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Grange, J. (2018). Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching. Psychological Research, 1703-1721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1025-4

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)
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Grange, J. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x

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)
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Martini, A., Ellis, S. J., Grange, J. A., Tamburin, S., Dal Lago, D., Vianello, G., & Edelstyn, N. M. (2018). Risky Decision-Making And Affective Features Of Impulse Control Disorders In Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Neural Transmission, 131-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-017-1807-7

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.

Inhibition in task switching: The reliability of the n-2 repetition cost (2017)
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Kowalczyk, A. W., & Grange, J. A. (2017). Inhibition in task switching: The reliability of the n-2 repetition cost. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(12), 2419-2433. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1239750

The n-2 repetition cost seen in task switching is the effect of slower response times performing a recently completed task (e.g. an ABA sequence) compared to performing a task that was not recently completed (e.g. a CBA sequence). This cost is though... Read More about Inhibition in task switching: The reliability of the n-2 repetition cost.

The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching (2017)
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Grange. (2017). The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1568-1583. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000411

Inhibition in task switching is inferred from n–2 repetition costs: the observation that ABA task switching sequences are responded to slower than CBA sequences. This is thought to reflect the persisting inhibition of Task A, which slows reactivation... Read More about The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching.

Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover? (2017)
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Stephens, R., Holloway, K., Grange, J., Kruisselbrink, D., Owen, L., & Jones, K. (2017). Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover?. Psychopharmacology, 1795-1802. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-017-4585-x

Aims
Positive family history of alcohol use disorder (FHP), a variable associated with propensity for alcohol use disorder (AUD), has been linked with elevated hangover frequency and severity, after controlling for alcohol use. This implies that han... Read More about Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover?.

The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time (2016)
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Grange, J., Jones, K., Stephens, R., & Owen, L. (2016). The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 654-661. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116645299

The effect of alcohol hangover on cognitive processing has received little attention. We explored the effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time (RT), a dominant dependent variable (DV) in cognitive research. Prior research of the effect of h... Read More about The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time.

Temporal Distinctiveness in Task Switching: Assessing the Mixture-Distribution Assumption (2016)
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Grange, J. (2016). Temporal Distinctiveness in Task Switching: Assessing the Mixture-Distribution Assumption. Frontiers in Psychology, 251 -?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00251

In task switching, increasing the response-cue interval has been shown to reduce the switch cost. This has been attributed to a time-based decay process influencing the activation of memory representations of tasks (task-sets). Recently, an alternati... Read More about Temporal Distinctiveness in Task Switching: Assessing the Mixture-Distribution Assumption.

A deficit in familiarity-driven recognition in a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion patient (2016)
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Edelstyn, N., Grange, J. A., Ellis, S. J., & Mayes, A. R. (2016). A deficit in familiarity-driven recognition in a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion patient. Neuropsychology, 213 - 224. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000226

OBJECTIVE: According to a still-controversial view of recognition, projections between the perirhinal cortex and the medial subdivision of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (mMDT) support the mnemonic processes underlying familiarity, whereas a separa... Read More about A deficit in familiarity-driven recognition in a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion patient.

The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching. (2015)
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Grange. (2015). The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching. Acta psychologica, 14 -25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.11.003

Inhibition in set switching is inferred from so-called n-2 repetition costs: slower response times to ABA sequences compared to CBA sequences (where A, B, and C are arbitrary labels for different tasks). These costs are thought to reflect the persist... Read More about The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching..

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science (2015)
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Grange, J., & Lewis, A. M. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716

Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it characterizes current research is unknown. We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered... Read More about Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science.

flankr: An R package implementing computational models of attentional selectivity. (2015)
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Grange. (2015). flankr: An R package implementing computational models of attentional selectivity. Behavior Research Methods, 528-541. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0615-y

The Eriksen flanker task (Eriksen and Eriksen, Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143-149, 1974) is a classic test in cognitive psychology of visual selective attention. Two recent computational models have formalised the dynamics of the apparent increa... Read More about flankr: An R package implementing computational models of attentional selectivity..

The effect of N-3 on N-2 repetition costs in task switching (2014)
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Grange, J. (2014). The effect of N-3 on N-2 repetition costs in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 760 -767. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000059

N-2 task repetition cost is a response time and error cost returning to a task recently performed after one intervening trial (i.e., an ABA task sequence) compared with returning to a task not recently performed (i.e., a CBA task sequence). This cost... Read More about The effect of N-3 on N-2 repetition costs in task switching.

Can time-based decay explain temporal distinctiveness effects in task switching? (2014)
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Grange, J. (2014). Can time-based decay explain temporal distinctiveness effects in task switching?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 19 -45. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.934696

In task switching, extending the response-cue interval (RCI) reduces the switch cost--the detriment to performance when switching compared to repeating tasks. This reduction has been used as evidence for the existence of task-set decay processes. Rec... Read More about Can time-based decay explain temporal distinctiveness effects in task switching?.

A critical analysis of alcohol hangover research methodology for surveys or studies of effects on cognition (2014)
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Stephens, R., Grange, J. A., Jones, K., & Owen, L. (2014). A critical analysis of alcohol hangover research methodology for surveys or studies of effects on cognition. Psychopharmacology, 231(11), 2223-2236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-014-3531-4

Alcohol hangover may be defined as an adverse effect of heavy alcohol consumption present after sufficient time has elapsed for the alcohol to have been eliminated from the blood. Understanding how hangover may impair performance is important for pub... Read More about A critical analysis of alcohol hangover research methodology for surveys or studies of effects on cognition.

On costs and benefits of n−2 repetitions in task switching: towards a behavioural marker of cognitive inhibition (2012)
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Grange, J. A., Juvina, I., & Houghton, G. (2013). On costs and benefits of n−2 repetitions in task switching: towards a behavioural marker of cognitive inhibition. Psychological Research, 77(2), 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-012-0421-4

Inhibition in task switching is inferred from slower reaction times returning to a recently performed task after one intervening trial (i.e. an ABA sequence) compared to returning to a task not recently performed (CBA sequence). These n−2 repetition... Read More about On costs and benefits of n−2 repetitions in task switching: towards a behavioural marker of cognitive inhibition.