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Piot L, Nazzi T, Boll-Avetisyan N et al. · 2025 · Infant behavior & development
Consonants have been proposed to be more important than vowels in lexical processes (i.e., C-bias). This study investigated the existence and strength of the C-bias using a familiar word recognition conflict task, in which recognition…
View details →Han X, Chen M, Jiang Y et al. · 2026 · BMC research notes
OBJECTIVE: We used three sound pressure levels (30 dB, 40 dB, and 50 dB) to perform the acoustic-cued water maze test to determine a suitable sound pressure level for the test. RESULTS: The sound pressure levels at 40 dB and 50 dB were…
View details →Rosenheim JA, Cluff E, Morrow K · 2025 · Journal of economic entomology
The European earwig F. auricularia L. is an omnivore that has only recently been identified as a direct, fruit-feeding pest of citrus. Here, we start to build the basic tools needed for integrated pest management for this species. We…
View details →Dugan L, Rei KM, Ueno A et al. · 2025 · The Permanente journal
Introduction Simulation labs provide trainees the opportunity to practice procedures in a safe, controlled, nonjudgmental environment. It is unclear which teaching method leads to the highest levels of trainee skill competency when…
View details →Verrender A, Manley J, Wallace NK et al. · 2025 · Bioelectromagnetics
In order to understand Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (IEI-EMF), it has been argued that it is crucial to test for effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on biomarkers, given…
View details →Morgan MM, Hickey CM · 2026 · European journal of pain (London, England)
Background Many people use cannabis to self-medicate for pain. Little is known about the impact of pain on tolerance and spontaneous withdrawal to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinal (THC), the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis. Our…
View details →Parham M, Aghaali M, Adeli SH et al. · 2025 · International journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Background Diabetes is a major global health issue, affecting over 8.5% of adults worldwide and significantly increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, the association between diabetes-related macrovascular…
View details →Erb WM, Porter LM, Voyt R et al. · 2025 · American journal of primatology
Among primates, maternal infant care may vary in response to several factors including litter size, reproductive history, and health status. In cooperative breeders, maternal investment may also depend on the amount of help their group…
View details →Casado-Ruiz J, Castaño-Leon AM, García-Escudero L et al. · 2025 · Journal of neurosurgery
Objective Blunt cerebrovascular injuries (BCVIs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. To identify patients with BCVI who were undetected using the classic criteria, researchers designed the expanded Denver screening…
View details →Gladstone JJ, Lehman M, Decker M · 2025 · Journal of experimental psychology. Applied
We investigated the influence of childhood poverty on financial decision making under threat by replicating the findings of Griskevicius et al. (2011b), which found that individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to make riskier…
View details →Zehavi-Dorin T, Kutzscher AE, Badr M et al. · 2026 · Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
Purpose To compare global peripapillary and perifoveal vessel densities between primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) patients with the same glaucoma severity using optical coherence tomography angiography…
View details →Guo J, Pratt J, Walther DB · 2025 · Attention, perception & psychophysics
The nature of visual processes underlying scene perception remains a hotly debated topic. According to one view, scene and object perception rely on similar neural mechanisms, and their processing pathways are tightly interlinked.…
View details →Sarsangi P, Mohammadi M, Nadjarzadeh A et al. · 2025 · The British journal of nutrition
There is a lack of information from Middle Eastern countries regarding diet-disease associations. We examined dietary glycaemic and insulinemic potential in relation to risk of incident diabetes among a large group of Iranian adults. The…
View details →James KK, Storm BC · 2025 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Pretesting and posttesting have long been implemented in classrooms as methods of testing and improving learning. Prior research has been mixed on the relative benefits of pretesting versus posttesting, with some studies finding pretesting…
View details →Mitchell WJ, Stasiak J, Martinez S et al. · 2025 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
Successful emotion regulation (ER) requires effective strategy selection. Research suggests that disengagement strategies (e.g., distraction) are more often selected than engagement strategies (e.g., reappraisal) as emotional experiences…
View details →Gibbons MBC, Kodkany N, Liow Y et al. · 2026 · Clinical psychology & psychotherapy
Objective To investigate the effectiveness of cognitive therapy (CT) and short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP) among patients with greater severity, defined in several ways, in a community mental health setting. Method Using data from a…
View details →Ghanem J, Totzek JF, Henri-Bellemare C et al. · 2025 · Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
Psychotic disorders are heterogeneous disorders for which there is evidence of structural and functional brain abnormalities. The role of white matter integrity, often measured via Fractional Anisotropy (FA), has played a controversial…
View details →Sutton OP, Kious BM · 2025 · AJOB empirical bioethics
Background Some have hypothesized that changing attitudes toward medical aid in dying (MAID) contribute to increased suicide rates, perhaps by increasing interest in dying or the perceived acceptability of suicide. This would represent a…
View details →Dewi NA, Arfan M, Rahmasari H et al. · 2025 · Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
Purpose To evaluate macular vessel density using clinical parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) without retinopathy. Patients and methods This cross-sectional study enrolled 32 participants (63 eyes) aged 40-60 years…
View details →Fu Y, Mei G · 2024 · Journal of vision
The visual system often undergoes a relatively stable perception even in a noisy visual environment. This crucial function was reflected in a visual perception phenomenon-serial dependence, in which recent stimulus history systematically…
View details →Nicolella V, Novarella F, Falco F et al. · 2025 · Neurology international
Objective We aimed to explore associations between plasma neurofilament light chain (pNfL) and cognition through patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods In this cross-sectional study, we included 211 people…
View details →Verheyen S, Van den Berckt J, Heyman T · 2026 · International review of social psychology
This Registered Report pertains to the face-name matching effect (Zwebner et al. 2017), according to which people can match the first name to an unknown target face above chance level. The purpose of the Registered Report was twofold: (i)…
View details →Prowten S, Walker E, London B et al. · 2024 · Psychological science
People share information for many reasons. For example, Berger (2011, N = 40) found that undergraduate participants manipulated to have higher physiological arousal were more likely to share a news article with others via email than people…
View details →Ilfeld BM, Finneran JJ, Abdullah B et al. · 2026 · Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
Background A previous clinical trial applied percutaneous cryoneurolysis to lower limb amputees with phantom pain. The primary outcome measure was negative, but a secondary analysis suggested that patients with a below-knee amputation…
View details →Mace JH, Keller SR, Ingle KE · 2024 · Memory (Hove, England)
It is now well established that general information processing causes the activation of memories in the autobiographical memory system, and these memories on occasion emerge as involuntary autobiographical memories. This priming phenomenon…
View details →Hunt EE, Arnold HP, Cortez KB et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in psychiatry
Inhibitory control (IC), the capacity to resist or suppress a dominant or automatic response, is a central component of self-regulation and executive functioning. Greater IC capacity in early development is also associated with a number of…
View details →Woodley SK, Agostini G, Jones DK et al. · 2024 · Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Wetland communities are increasingly threatened by multiple stressors simultaneously, such as pesticides and salinization. We examined the effects of ecologically-relevant exposures to broad-spectrum insecticides and salinization on…
View details →Awh KC, Hsu S · 2023 · Cureus
Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a rare autoimmune bullous disease that occurs during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PG has been associated with an increased risk of Graves' disease possibly due to shared genetic factors and immune…
View details →Sandlund J, Duriseti R, Ladhani SN et al. · 2025 · Paediatric respiratory reviews
Mask mandates for children were implemented at schools and childcare centers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the US continues to recommend masking down to the age of two in certain settings. Medical interventions should be informed by…
View details →Liu ZL, Zhou YY, Xu QX et al. · 2025 · Insect science
The clustered regularly interspaced small palindromic repeats (CRISPR) / CRISPR-associated nuclease 9 (Cas9)-mediated gene editing technology has revolutionized the study of fundamental biological questions in various insects. Diverse…
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