Hot of the Press: March 2017

View a range of publications from the academic team of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences during the month of February 2017.

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Amiot, C. E., & Bastian, B (2017). Solidarity with animals: Assessing a relevant dimension of social identification with animals. PLOS ONE, 12.

Bryant, R. A., Felmingham, K. L., Liddell, B., Das, P., & Malhi, G. S. (2016). Association of FKBP5 polymorphisms and resting-state activity in a frontotemporal-parietal network. Translational Psychiatry, 6.

Fung, B. J., Crone, D. L., Bode, S., & Murawski, C. (2017). Cardiac signals are independently associated with temporal discounting and time perception. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11.

Gleeson, J., Lederman, R., Herrman, H., Koval, P., Eleftheriadis, D., Bendall, S., Cotton, S. M., & Alvarez-Jimenez, M. (2017). Moderated online social therapy for carers of young people recovering from first-episode psychosis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 18.

Guo, X. Y., Edmed, S. L., Anderson, V., & Kenardy, J. (2017). Neurocognitive predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in children 6 months after traumatic brain injury: A prospective study. Neuropsychology, 31, 84-92.

Linden, M., Hawley, C., Blackwood, B., Evans, J., Anderson, V., & O'Rourke, C (2016). Technological aids for the rehabilitation of memory and executive functioning in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

McKinlay, A., Linden, M., DePompei, R., Jonsson, C. A., Anderson, V., Braga, L., Castelli, E., de Koning, P., Hawley, C. A., Hermans, E., Kristiansen, I., Madden, A., Rumney, P., Savage, R., & Wicks, B. (2016). Service provision for children and young people with acquired brain injury: Practice recommendations. Brain Injury, 30, 1656-1664.

McNair, N. A., Goodbourn, P. T., Shone, L. T., & Harris, I. M. (2017). Summary statistics in the attentional blink. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 100-116.

Nickerson, A., Creamer, M., Forbes, D., McFarlane, AC., O'Donnell, M. L., Silove, D., Steel, Z., Felmingham, K., Hadzi-Pavlovic, D., & Bryant, R. A. (2017). The longitudinal relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and perceived social support in survivors of traumatic injury. Psychological Medicine, 47, 115-126.

Rayner, G., Jackson, G. D., & Wilson, S. J. (2016). Mechanisms of memory impairment in epilepsy depend on age at disease onset. Neurology, 87, 1642-1649.

Ruehland, W. R., Rochford, P. D., Pierce, R. J., Webster, K. E., Trinder, J. A., Jordan, A. S., & O'Donoghue, F. J. (2017). Sensory detection of threshold intensity resistive loads in severe obstructive sleep apnoea. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 236, 29-41.

Sewell, D. K., Lilburn, S. D., & Smith, P. L. (2016). Object selection costs in visual working memory: a diffusion model analysis of the focus of attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition, 42, 1673-1693.

Sherlock, J. M., Verweij, K. J, H., Murphy, S. C., Heath, A. C., Martin, N. G., & Zietsch, B. P. (2017). The role of genes and environment in degree of partner self-similarity. Behavior Genetics, 47, 25-35.

Unsworth, K. L., & McNeill, I. M. (2017). Increasing pro-environmental behaviors by increasing self-concordance: Testing an intervention. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 88-103.

Vaughan, D. N., Rayner, G., Tailby, C., & Jackson, G. D. (2016). MRI-negative temporal lobe epilepsy: A network disorder of neocortical connectivity. Neurology, 87, 1934-1942.