Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher’s daughter in communist Hungary. Raised in a one-room home of clay and straw with no running water, she saw potential everywhere: in the promise of a seed, in th...

Survey of 2600 early-career researchers compiles traits of “ideal supervisor”

Taking a radical new approach to the publication process resulted in eLife losing its impact factor, but authors, reviewers, editors and funders support the journal and its efforts to reform scientifi...

A significant challenge for neurofeedback training research and related clinical applications, is participants’ difficulty in learning to induce specific brain patterns during training. Here, we addre...

Molecular Psychiatry - The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry - a biological perspective

Baracchini et al. reveal that temporal variability in fMRI brain signals encodes biologically meaningful information across spatial and temporal scales, highlighting its role in healthy brain function...

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This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…

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Abstract. We highlight that analyses using interaction terms to study treatment effect heterogeneity are susceptible to a form of omitted variable bias that is often overlooked in economics. Unlike mo...

Understanding, Choosing, and Unifying Multilevel and Fixed Effect Approaches - Volume 30 Issue 1

Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...

Here, the authors show the brain uses multiple activation patterns to perform the same task. Even the default mode network, which is often inactive during focus, plays a role.

Deery et al. report that there is a reconfiguration of metabolic brain networks in ageing that is different to haemodynamic alterations and is more strongl

Each of us perceives the world differently. What may underlie such individual differences in perception? Here, we characterize the lateral prefrontal cortex's role in vision using computational models...

Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have launched a new free platform to allow people to discover hundreds of longitudinal mental hea...

Learn more about the progress of the project led by Nicholas Judd, a postdoctoral researcher at the Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics lab.