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Spontaneous eye blink rate as predictor of dopamine-related cognitive function—A review by Jongkees, Bryant J., Colzato, Lorenza S.

“…•Eye blink rate (EBR) predicts resting-state dopamine (DA) activity.•Receptor subtypes D1 and D2 can both modulate EBR.•EBR predicts abnormal DA activity in…”
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A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of multispecies probiotics on cognitive reactivity to sad mood by Steenbergen, Laura, Sellaro, Roberta, van Hemert, Saskia, Bosch, Jos A, Colzato, Lorenza S

“…Highlights • Multispecies probiotic supplementation reduced cognitive reactivity to sad mood. • Strongest effects for reduced rumination and reduced aggressive…”
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Neuromodulation of Aerobic Exercise-A Review by Heijnen, Saskia, Hommel, Bernhard, Kibele, Armin, Colzato, Lorenza S

“…Running, and aerobic exercise in general, is a physical activity that increasingly many people engage in but that also has become popular as a topic for…”
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Exploring the effect of microdosing psychedelics on creativity in an open-label natural setting by Prochazkova, Luisa, Lippelt, Dominique P., Colzato, Lorenza S., Kuchar, Martin, Sjoerds, Zsuzsika, Hommel, Bernhard

“…Introduction Taking microdoses (a mere fraction of normal doses) of psychedelic substances, such as truffles, recently gained popularity, as it allegedly has…”
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Neurotransmitters as food supplements: the effects of GABA on brain and behavior by Boonstra, Evert, de Kleijn, Roy, Colzato, Lorenza S, Alkemade, Anneke, Forstmann, Birte U, Nieuwenhuis, Sander

“…Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the human cortex. The food supplement version of GABA is widely available online…”
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Meditate to create: the impact of focused-attention and open-monitoring training on convergent and divergent thinking by Colzato, Lorenza S, Ozturk, Ayca, Hommel, Bernhard

“…The practice of meditation has seen a tremendous increase in the western world since the 60s. Scientific interest in meditation has also significantly grown in…”
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The impact of physical exercise on convergent and divergent thinking by S Colzato, Lorenza, Szapora, Ayca, Pannekoek, Justine N, Hommel, Bernhard

“…Anecdotal literature suggests that creative people sometimes use bodily movement to help overcome mental blocks and lack of inspiration. Several studies have…”
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The stimulated social brain: effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on social cognition by Sellaro, Roberta, Nitsche, Michael A., Colzato, Lorenza S.

“…Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an increasingly popular noninvasive neuromodulatory tool in the fields of cognitive and clinical neuroscience…”
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Effect of tyrosine supplementation on clinical and healthy populations under stress or cognitive demands—A review by Jongkees, Bryant J, Hommel, Bernhard, Kühn, Simone, Colzato, Lorenza S

“…Abstract Consuming the amino-acid tyrosine (TYR), the precursor of dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE), may counteract decrements in neurotransmitter…”
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The joint Simon effect: a review and theoretical integration by Dolk, Thomas, Hommel, Bernhard, Colzato, Lorenza S, Schütz-Bosbach, Simone, Prinz, Wolfgang, Liepelt, Roman

“…The social or joint Simon effect has been developed to investigate how and to what extent people mentally represent their own and other persons' action/task…”
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Music Makes the World Go Round: The Impact of Musical Training on Non-musical Cognitive Functions-A Review by Benz, Sarah, Sellaro, Roberta, Hommel, Bernhard, Colzato, Lorenza S

“…Musical training is becoming increasingly popular as a topic for scientific research. Here we review the available studies investigating whether and to which…”
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Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) Enhances Response Selection During Sequential Action by Jongkees, Bryant J, Immink, Maarten A, Finisguerra, Alessandra, Colzato, Lorenza S

“…Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) is a non-invasive and safe technique that transiently enhances brain GABA and noradrenaline levels. Although tVNS…”
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Stimulating Creativity: Modulation of Convergent and Divergent Thinking by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) by Zmigrod, Sharon, Colzato, Lorenza S., Hommel, Bernhard

“…Creativity has been conceptualized as involving 2 distinct components; divergent thinking, the search for multiple solutions to a single problem, and…”
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Action Video Gaming and Cognitive Control: Playing First Person Shooter Games Is Associated with Improved Action Cascading but Not Inhibition by Steenbergen, Laura, Sellaro, Roberta, Stock, Ann-Kathrin, Beste, Christian, Colzato, Lorenza S

“…There is a constantly growing interest in developing efficient methods to enhance cognitive functioning and/or to ameliorate cognitive deficits. One particular…”
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“Unfocus” on foc.us: commercial tDCS headset impairs working memory by Steenbergen, Laura, Sellaro, Roberta, Hommel, Bernhard, Lindenberger, Ulman, Kühn, Simone, Colzato, Lorenza S.

“…In this study, we tested whether the commercial transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) headset foc.us improves cognitive performance, as advertised in…”
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A Metacontrol Perspective on Neurocognitive Atypicality: From Unipolar to Bipolar Accounts by Colzato, Lorenza S., Beste, Christian, Zhang, Wenxin, Hommel, Bernhard

“…Standard clinical and psychiatric thinking follows a unipolar logic that is centered at “normal” conditions characterized by optimal performance in everyday…”
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Transcutaneous Vagal Nerve Stimulation (tVNS): a new neuromodulation tool in healthy humans? by Van Leusden, Jelle W R, Sellaro, Roberta, Colzato, Lorenza S

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Retraction Note: γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) administration improves action selection processes: a randomised controlled trial by Steenbergen, Laura, Sellaro, Roberta, Stock, Ann-Kathrin, Beste, Christian, Colzato, Lorenza S.

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A neural noise account of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome by Münchau, Alexander, Colzato, Lorenza S., AghajaniAfjedi, Azam, Beste, Christian

“…•A neural noise account on Tourette syndrome is conceptualized.•We outline how neurophysiological methods can be used to test this account.•The neural noise…”
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Increasing the role of belief information in moral judgments by stimulating the right temporoparietal junction by Sellaro, Roberta, Güroǧlu, Berna, Nitsche, Michael A., van den Wildenberg, Wery P.M., Massaro, Valentina, Durieux, Jeffrey, Hommel, Bernhard, Colzato, Lorenza S.

“…Morality plays a vital role in our social life. A vast body of research has suggested that moral judgments rely on cognitive processes mediated by the right…”
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