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How do we orient ourselves in space? Using electroencephalography and intracranial electroencephalography, Griffiths et al. identify a complex network of brain regions that track head direction in free-moving human participants.
This study examines individuals with autoimmune limbic encephalitis, a condition that impairs the hippocampus, to understand how they evaluate rewards and efforts in uncertain scenarios compared to healthy controls. The findings reveal that while patients with autoimmune limbic encephalitis retain their sensitivity to uncertainty, their capability to assess rewards and efforts is notably diminished when uncertainty is a factor.
The authors introduce Ouvrai, an open-source solution that facilitates the design and execution of remote virtual reality studies, capitalizing on the surge in virtual reality headset ownership.
How is contagion affected by changes to network structure? Recent work has claimed a ‘weakness of long ties’ for complex contagions that rely on social reinforcement, unlike biological contagions. Eckles et al. substantially revise this conclusion.
In this Article, Ma et al. show, across a series of experiments, that time and memorability (the probability of recalling a visual stimulus) mutually influence one another, suggesting that time is a feature of visual processing that is intrinsic to perceptual experience.
In support of an evolutionary model that links distaste, disgust and socio-moral processes, Gan et al. use functional magnetic resonance imaging to develop a neuromarker for subjective core disgust that generalizes to oral distaste and unfairness.
In 653,790 individuals, this multi-ancestral meta-analysis of tobacco use disorder finds 461 potential risk genes and hundreds of associations with health outcomes, showcasing the utility of electronic health records for genetic research.
This pre-registered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis examined the effects of receiving touch for promoting mental and physical well-being, quantifying the efficacy of touch interventions for different ways of administration.
In this large-scale exome-wide association study, Deng, Wu, Yang, He et al. report genetic associations of protein-coding variants with neurodegenerative diseases and mental disorders, including for 50 new genes.
This study uses a unique dataset with intracranial electroencephalography recordings from 18 neurosurgical patients performing a visual search task to uncover neuronal network dynamics and brain regions associated with attentional capture.
Among 406,438 adults in the UK, Wang et al. find that people with SARS-CoV-2 infection were at increased risk (at 1 year) of incident and prevalent psychiatric disorders and psychotropic prescriptions, especially those hospitalized for COVID-19 or those not fully vaccinated.
This study demonstrates the decomposition of an odour compound in olfactory perception and central neural representation and establishes a direct correspondence between the coding of submolecular chemical features and odour quality.
Which interventions limit the spread of COVID-19 misinformation online? In an experiment on Facebook Messenger in Kenya and Nigeria, nudges to consider an information’s accuracy worked best.
Challenging long-held assumptions, this research reveals that people can learn to control bionic hands just as effectively, and in some ways better, using arbitrary control strategies compared with control strategies that mimic the human body.
Developmental language disorder is a common neurodevelopmental disorder whose adverse impacts continue into adulthood, but its neural bases have been unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis identified and synthesized neuroanatomical studies of developmental language disorder using co-localization likelihood estimation.
The authors field test the transferability of behavioural science knowledge on promoting COVID-19 booster uptake. Interventions effective in past field work improve uptake, but those deemed effective in surveys measuring intentions or predictions do not.
Using survey data from over 3 million individuals, Geldsetzer et al. present evidence for cardiovascular disease risk factors among individuals living in extreme poverty in low- and middle-income countries.