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Performance determinants, running energetics and spatiotemporal gait parameters during a treadmill ultramarathon
No full textThe dataset includes the individual participant source data for the following publication: Howe, C.C.F., Swann, N., Spendiff, O. et al. Performance determinants, running energetics and spatiotemporal gait parameters during a treadmill ultramarathon. Eur J Appl Physiol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-021-04643-
COVID-19 and testing study (2020)
Get PDFThe World Health Organization declared the rapid spread of COVID-19 around the world to be a global public health emergency. In April/May 2020 we conducted the first assessment of how the UK public (N=778) perceive the usefulness of testing for coronavirus and the factors that influence a person’s willingness to test for coronavirus. Data was also collected from an international audiianc
Covert eye-tracking: an innovative method to investigate compliance with instructions
No full textThe present study introduces a covert eye-tracking procedure as an innovative approach to investigate the adequacy of research paradigms used in psychology. In light of the ongoing debate regarding ego depletion, the frequently used “attention-control video task” was chosen to illustrate the method. Most participants did not guess that their eyes had been monitored, but some participants had to be excluded due to poor tracking ratio. The eye-tracking data revealed that the attention-control instructions had a significant impact on the number of fixations, revisits, fixation durations, and proportion of long fixation durations on the AOIs (all BF10 > 18.2). However, number of fixations and proportions of long fixation durations did not mediate cognitive performance. The results illustrate the promise of covert eye-tracking methodology to assess task compliance, as well as adding to the current discussion regarding whether the difficulties of replicating “ego depletion” may be in part due to poor task compliance in the video task
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on episodic memory
No full textMeta-analysis of studies that examine the effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on long-term memory performanc
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Learning facts during aging: the benefits of curiosity
No full textBackground/Study Context: Recent studies have shown that young adults better remember factual information they are curious about. It is not entirely clear, however, whether this effect is retained during aging. Here, we investigated curiosity-driven memory benefits in young and elderly individuals.
Methods: In two experiments, young (age range 18-26) and older (age range 65-89) adults read trivia questions, and rated their curiosity to find out the answer. They also attended to task-irrelevant faces presented between the trivia question and the answer. We then administered a surprise memory test to assess recall accuracy for trivia answers, and recognition memory performance for the incidentally-learned faces.
Results: In both young and elderly adults, recall performance was higher for answers to questions that elicited high levels of curiosity. In Experiment 1 we also found that faces presented in temporal proximity to curiosity-eliciting trivia questions were better recognized, indicating that the beneficial effects of curiosity extended to the encoding of task-irrelevant material.
Conclusions: These findings show that elderly individuals benefit from the memory-enhancing effects of curiosity. This may lead to the implementation of learning strategies that target and stimulate curiosity in aging
Whole genome sequences of environmental bacteria
No full textThis entry contains links to metadata for whole genome sequences of bacterial strains isolated from different environmental sources. These isolates are capable of surviving in extreme environmental conditions and represent interest for biotechnology.
Strains included:
From various sources:
Lysobacter sp. (Xanthomonadaceae) Alg18-2.2
Cohnella kolymensis B-2846
Paenibacillus kamchatkensis strain B-2647
Leucobacter komagatae ST2845
From Antarctica:
Dermacoccus abyssi strain MT1.
Whole genome sequences of probiotic bacteria/normal flora
No full textThis entry contains links to metadata for whole genome sequences of the following strains of medical importance:
Lactobacillus gasseri strain 2016
Bifidobacterium longum T1
Lactobacillus salivarius 2102-15
Lactobacillus acidophilus 5460
Lactobacillus plantarum strain 2025
Lactobacillus crispatus 2029
Lactobacillus rhamnosus AVK
Lactobacillus acidophilus AVK1
Lactococcus lactis AVK
Lactobacillus fermentum strain MD IIE-4657
Lactobacillus reuteri strain MD IIE-43
Lactobacillus fermentum UCO-979C
Lactobacillus fermentum 3872
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens B1895
Bacillus subtilis KATMIRA1933
Enterococcus faecalis strain MB 5259
Lactobacillus jensenii MD IIE-70(2)
Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum 090104
Lactobacillus plantarum 2165
Lactobacillus rhamnosus 216