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Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.
Using in silico neuroscience, Gifford et al. developed a neural control algorithm to modulate the representational relationships between visual cortical areas, revealing how these areas jointly represent the world as an interconnected network.
This systematic review and meta-analysis finds that less than a quarter of crimes are committed in groups, yet half of all offenders co-offend at least once in their careers. Co-offending is more common in property crimes and among young offenders, with most co-offences involving two people.
When used in Chinese (versus English), generative artificial intelligence exhibits a more interdependent (versus independent) social orientation and a more holistic (versus analytic) cognitive style embedded in large-scale textual training.
Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.
This study reports on excavations of hearths and stone artefacts from 20,000-year-old deposits at Dargan Shelter, which at an elevation of 1,073 m is believed to be the oldest occupied high-altitude site in Australia.
Cruz and Lombrozo examine how laypeople make sense of scientific explanations and find that although jargon reduces understanding, for short explanations, jargon makes the explanation more satisfying.
Yamashita et al. explore how conversational content is represented in the brain, revealing shared and distinct brain activity patterns for speech production and comprehension, with contrasting timescale properties between the two processes.
This study uncovered genetic associations with environmental sensitivity in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental traits in an international collaboration using data from more than 21,000 monozygotic twins—the largest genetic study of monozygotic twin differences to date.
Recent estimates indicate that half of Ethiopian girls aged 15–19 years have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC). This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influence and social selection on preference for cutting female relatives using data from 5,163 Ethiopian Arsi Oromo adults. They find no clear evidence of social selection within marriage-advice networks, suggesting that these networks are not implicated in FGMC maintenance.
Cao et al. show that human amygdala and hippocampus neurons encode visual facial features, bridging perception-driven representations with mnemonic semantic representations.
Linka et al. recorded eye movements of thousands of children and adults viewing scene images in a museum. Adult gaze was marked by well-established spatial and semantic biases. Surprisingly, children deviated from this well into their teenage years.
Fabre et al. demonstrate widespread support for global redistributive and climate policies through surveys across 20 countries. This support is shown to be sincere, as confirmed by follow-up survey experiments in Western countries.
Lee et al. fine-tune large language models on debate data to create belief embeddings that capture the nuanced relationships between a wide range of beliefs, thus offering insight into how people form new beliefs.
Xu et al. find that large language models not only align with human representations in non-sensorimotor domains but also diverge in sensorimotor ones, with additional visual training associated with enhanced alignment.
