Repetitive Administration of Low-Dose Lipopolysaccharide Improves Repeated Social Defeat Stress-Induced Behavioral Abnormalities and Aberrant Immune Response

Repeated Low-Dose Lipopolysaccharide Pretreatment Improves Behavioral Abnormalities and Aberrant Immune Responses Induced by Repeated Social Defeat Stress Background Stress significantly impacts human health, with chronic stress particularly inducing various physiological and psychological disorders. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is...

A Measure of Reliability Convergence to Select and Optimize Cognitive Tasks for Individual Differences Research

Academic Report Research Background In recent years, there has been growing interest in individual differences within the fields of psychology and cognitive neuroscience. However, many studies face a replication crisis, particularly evident in research exploring brain-behavior correlations. A key element for replicable individual differences resear...

Humans Need Auditory Experience to Produce Typical Volitional Nonverbal Vocalizations

Humans Need Auditory Experience to Produce Typical Volitional Nonverbal Vocalizations Introduction This research paper explores whether humans require auditory input to produce nonverbal emotional expressions (such as screams and cries). While these nonverbal vocalizations seem to have a strong reflexive basis, many emotional vocalizations are unde...

Longitudinal Associations Between Time Perspective and Life Satisfaction Across Adulthood

Research Report on the Long-term Relationship between Time Perspective and Life Satisfaction in Adulthood Research Background Time perspective is an important predictor of human well-being. However, time perspective itself changes with development. A future-dominated time perspective gradually gives way to a present and past-focused perspective as ...

Anchor Objects Drive Realism While Diagnostic Objects Drive Categorization in GAN Generated Scenes

Anchor Objects Drive Realism While Diagnostic Objects Drive Categorization in GAN Generated Scenes

Background Introduction In the human visual system, the understanding and navigation of natural scenes are exceptionally outstanding in terms of both complexity and efficiency. This process requires the transformation of incoming sensory information into visual features ranging from low-level to high-level, such as edges, object parts, and objects ...