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Mashup Score: 8People’s beliefs about pronouns reflect both the language they speak and their ideologies. - 11 hour(s) ago
Pronouns often convey information about a person’s social identity (e.g., gender). Consequently, pronouns have become a focal point in academic and public debates about whether pronouns should be changed to be more inclusive, such as for people whose identities do not fit current pronoun conventions (e.g., gender nonbinary individuals). Here, we make an empirical contribution to these debates by investigating which social identities lay speakers think that pronouns should encode (if any) and why. Across four studies, participants were asked to evaluate different types of real and hypothetical pronouns, including binary gender pronouns, race pronouns, and identity-neutral pronouns. We sampled speakers of two languages with different pronoun systems: English (N = 1,120) and Turkish (N = 260). English pronouns commonly denote binary gender (e.g., “he” for men), whereas Turkish pronouns are identity-neutral (e.g., “o” for anyone). Participants’ reasoning about pronouns reflected both a fam
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Mashup Score: 6Expanded clinical phenotype spectrum correlates with variant function in SCN2A-related disorders - 12 hour(s) ago
Variants in the SCN2A gene cause epilepsy, autism and other severe neurological impairments. Berg et al. show that the impact of an SCN2A variant on Nav1.2
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Mashup Score: 10The chemokine XCL1 functions as a pregnancy hormone to program offspring innate anxiety - 12 hour(s) ago
Elevated levels of cytokines in maternal circulation increase the offspring’s risk for neuropsychiatric disease. Because of their low homeostatic leve…
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Approximately 200 million people consume cannabis annually, with a significant proportion of them using it chronically. Using experience sampling, we describe t…
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By tracking changes in the hippocampus, the research aims to prove how critical naps are for memory retention and brain growth in young children.
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Mashup Score: 9Food perception promotes phosphorylation of MFFS131 and mitochondrial fragmentation in liver - 1 day(s) ago
Liver mitochondria play a central role in metabolic adaptations to changing nutritional states, yet their dynamic regulation upon anticipated changes in nutrient availability has remained unaddressed. Here, we found that sensory food perception rapidly …
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Merely seeing and smelling food can activate adaptations in liver mitochondria in mice within minutes.
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Mashup Score: 6How social evaluations shape trust in 45 types of scientists - 1 day(s) ago
Science can offer solutions to a wide range of societal problems. Key to capitalizing on such solutions is the public’s trust and willingness to grant influence to scientists in shaping policy. However, previous research on determinants of trust is limited and does not factor in the diversity of scientific occupations. The present study (N = 2,780; U.S. participants) investigated how four well-established dimensions of social evaluations (competence, assertiveness, morality, warmth) shape trust in 45 types of scientists (from agronomists to zoologists). Trust in most scientists was relatively high but varied considerably across occupations. Perceptions of morality and competence emerged as the most important antecedents of trust, in turn predicting the willingness to grant scientists influence in managing societal problems. Importantly, the contribution of morality (but not competence) varied across occupations: Morality was most strongly associated with trust in scientists who work on
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Mashup Score: 7Brain-age estimation with a low-cost EEG-headset: effectiveness and implications for large-scale screening and brain optimization - 2 day(s) ago
Over time, pathological, genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors can age the brain and diminish its functional capabilities. While these factors can lead to disorders that can be diagnosed and treated once they become symptomatic, often treatment is difficult or ineffective by the time significant overt symptoms appear. One approach to this problem is to develop a method for assessing general age-related brain health and function that can be implemented widely and inexpensively. To this end, we trained a machine-learning algorithm on resting-state EEG (RS-EEG) recordings obtained from healthy individuals as the core of a brain-age estimation technique that takes an individual’s RS-EEG recorded with the low-cost, user-friendly EMOTIV EPOC X headset and returns that person’s estimated brain age. We tested the current version of our machine-learning model against an independent test-set of healthy participants and obtained a correlation coefficient of 0.582 between the chronological
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Mashup Score: 6AI Predicts Brain Age from EEG Data - Neuroscience News - 2 day(s) ago
Researchers developed an AI-based method using EEG scans to estimate brain age, which could lead to early detection of neurological diseases.
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