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Exploring the capacity and executive function of vibrotactile working memory through the frequency sequencing task.

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15327

Shuting Li, Yiyue Zhang, Hanfei Deng, Hu Deng, Chundi Wang

{"title":"Exploring the capacity and executive function of vibrotactile working memory through the frequency sequencing task.","authors":"Shuting Li, Yiyue Zhang, Hanfei Deng, Hu Deng, Chundi Wang","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15327","url":null,"abstract":"Working memory (WM) research has primarily focused on visual and verbal information, while relatively little is known about tactile information. This study aims to explore the capacity of vibrotactile WM (vtWM) using the frequency sequencing task, and focuses on its functions in the simultaneous maintenance and transformation of information, supervision, and coordination. We conducted four experiments: Experiments 1 and 2 used the simple frequency sequencing task, while Experiments 3 and 4 added additional processing tasks (a visual processing task and a tactile processing task) to the simple frequency sequencing task. We demonstrated a 3-unit capacity during vtWM that matches Cowan's suggested 3-5 unit chunks of pure WM capacity when memory items cannot be chunked. This measured capacity remains stable across WM tasks with different frequency values. Additionally, the mean accuracies of both the frequency sequencing task and the processing task were significantly different between Experiments 3 and 4. These results provide preliminary evidence for the relative dissociation of tactile and visual executive functions in WM. Taken together, by providing a new method for investigating the capacity of vtWM, the present study expands the field of WM capacity studies to nonverbal and nonvisual modalities.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A neuroscience perspective on the plasticity of the social and relational brain.

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15319

Tania Singer

{"title":"A neuroscience perspective on the plasticity of the social and relational brain.","authors":"Tania Singer","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15319","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades, the fields of social and contemplative neurosciences have made significant strides. Initial research utilizing fMRI identified neuronal networks involved in empathy, mentalizing, and compassion, as well as complex interactions among these networks. Subsequent studies shifted to testing the plasticity of these social skills via different types of mindfulness- or compassion-based mental training programs, demonstrating brain plasticity, enhanced social capacities and motivation, as well as improved mental health and overall well-being. Next, researchers developed scalable evidence-based online mental training programs to address the growing levels of mental health problems and loneliness, both exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Innovative approaches, such as novel relational partner-based practices and online app-based dyadic training programs, offer scalable solutions to counteract ongoing societal and mental health deterioration. Current studies are now applying the above findings to support resilience building within diverse domains of society and professional populations-such as healthcare workers and teachers-at high risk of burn-out. Future research should explore the broader impact of such training-related individual changes on larger systems, potentially leading to the development of a translational social neuroscience approach that leverages insights from social brain plasticity research to support societal needs, thereby enhancing resilience, mental health, and social cohesion.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143771192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Loneliness and social conformity: A predictive processing perspective

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15324

Naem Haihambo, Dayo-Marie Layiwola, Helen Blank, René Hurlemann, Dirk Scheele

{"title":"Loneliness and social conformity: A predictive processing perspective","authors":"Naem Haihambo, Dayo-Marie Layiwola, Helen Blank, René Hurlemann, Dirk Scheele","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15324","url":null,"abstract":"For social creatures like humans, loneliness—which is characterized by a perceived lack of meaningful social relationships—can result in detrimental health outcomes, especially when experienced over an extended period of time. One potential way to pursue rewarding social connections could be social conformity, the tendency to align one's behavior and opinions to those of others. In this perspective article, we give a broad overview of common and distinct neural mechanisms underlying loneliness and social conformity, and the involvement of the oxytocinergic system therein. Additionally, we consider how loneliness can be understood within a predictive processing framework. Specifically, negative expectations could be related to altered representations of the self and others in the medial prefrontal cortex, whereas diminished bottom-up signals from the insula may contribute to reduced precision in the perception of the social environment. This negatively skewed internal model may perpetuate loneliness and lead to chronicity over time. While acute isolation and loneliness could drive people toward reconnection and increased social conformity, chronic loneliness may lead to distrust and avoidance, eventually resulting in nonconformity. We suggest different mediating mechanisms and moderating factors that warrant further investigation in future research.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diet therapy for the management of obesity in children and adolescents: Overview of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15307

Liubai Li, Jian Du, Feng Sun, Zhixia Li, Tianjiao Chen, Xuanyu Shi

{"title":"Diet therapy for the management of obesity in children and adolescents: Overview of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials","authors":"Liubai Li, Jian Du, Feng Sun, Zhixia Li, Tianjiao Chen, Xuanyu Shi","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15307","url":null,"abstract":"This overview of reviews analyzes the impact of diet therapy in the treatment of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents 0−19 years of age. A literature search was conducted in the Cochrane Library, Medline, EMBASE, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials in obesity treatment from June 2016 to November 2022 were retrieved. Obesity outcomes included body weight, body mass index (BMI), BMI z-score, among others. Twenty-three reviews on diet therapy and lifestyle interventions including diet were selected from 364 review records. Diet therapy showed limited effect on short-term obesity reduction. Moderate energy intake reduction (−500 kcal/day) with balanced diet was feasible and effective in obesity reduction in 6- to 18-year-olds, irrespective of macronutrient distribution. Very low-energy diet (≤800 kcal/day) should only be prescribed under strict monitoring. Diet as part of multicomponent lifestyle interventions may be beneficial in achieving small, short- to long-term reductions in body weight in children and adolescents across all age groups and settings. Obesity treatment in adolescents may improve self-esteem and health-related quality of life. Dietary strategies should focus on the reduction of total energy intake through the promotion of food-based initiatives/approaches guidance that target modification of usual eating patterns and behaviors.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social media are many things: Addressing the components and patterns of adolescent social media use

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15326

Anne J. Maheux, Chelly Maes, Kaitlyn Burnell, Daniel J. Bauer, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Eva H. Telzer

{"title":"Social media are many things: Addressing the components and patterns of adolescent social media use","authors":"Anne J. Maheux, Chelly Maes, Kaitlyn Burnell, Daniel J. Bauer, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Eva H. Telzer","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15326","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescent development is increasingly shaped by social media contexts, with implications for well-being. In this commentary, we discuss and present conceptual and methodological alternatives for two persistent limitations in prior research. First, most prior work measures screen time, implicitly treating social media as a monolith. Emerging research highlights that social media are multifaceted environments where youth encounter diverse experiences. We advocate for more work taking this nuanced approach and for the development of a comprehensive taxonomic framework that categorizes specific online experiences afforded by social media features and content. To support this approach, we call for the development of psychometrically rigorous self-report scales to measure affective and cognitive social media experiences and for innovative behavioral observation techniques. Second, research that considers specific online experiences typically focuses on one in isolation. We argue that a holistic, interactionist approach to understanding human development requires integrating the numerous positive and negative online experiences that co-occur in distinct patterns for diverse adolescents. We discuss the merits of mixture models as one potential analytic solution to address configurations of online experiences and systematically model heterogeneity among youth. These conceptual and methodological shifts can lead to targeted interventions and policies that recognize the interactive effects of digital experiences.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Call production and wingbeat coupling is flexible and species-specific in echolocating bats

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15325

Hangjing Xia, Nina Ma, Aoqiang Li, Jinhong Luo

{"title":"Call production and wingbeat coupling is flexible and species-specific in echolocating bats","authors":"Hangjing Xia, Nina Ma, Aoqiang Li, Jinhong Luo","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15325","url":null,"abstract":"Echolocation and flight are two key behavioral innovations that contribute to the evolutionary success and diversification of bats, which are classified phylogenetically into two suborders: Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera. Considerable research has identified a coupling between call production and wingbeat in flying bats, although only a few have quantified the relationship and all were restricted to bats from the suborder Yangochiroptera. Here, we quantitatively compared the coupling between call production and wingbeat in two representative species of bats, Hipposideros pratti of the suborder Yinpterochiroptera and Myotis pilosus of the suborder Yangochiroptera, under identical experimental settings. We found that (1) both species exhibited the temporal coupling of call production and wingbeat; (2) the degree of coupling is species-specific, with M. pilosus showing a tighter coupling between call timing and wingbeat cycle than H. pratti; (3) the coupling is a plastic trait, as evidenced by the effect of environmental clutter in H. pratti; and (4) there is no evidence that the coupling of call production and wingbeat limits the source level control in either species. We suggest that the coupling between call production and wingbeat is flexible and species-specific, which may not compromise precise echolocation control in bats.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143737035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shared autonomy between human electroencephalography and TD3 deep reinforcement learning: A multi-agent copilot approach

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15322

Chun-Ren Phang, Akimasa Hirata

{"title":"Shared autonomy between human electroencephalography and TD3 deep reinforcement learning: A multi-agent copilot approach","authors":"Chun-Ren Phang, Akimasa Hirata","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15322","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.15322","url":null,"abstract":"Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms enable the development of fully autonomous agents that can interact with the environment. Brain–computer interface (BCI) systems decipher human implicit brain signals regardless of the explicit environment. We proposed a novel integration technique between deep RL and BCI to improve beneficial human interventions in autonomous systems and the performance in decoding brain activities by considering environmental factors. Shared autonomy was allowed between the action command decoded from the electroencephalography (EEG) of the human agent and the action generated from the twin delayed DDPG (TD3) agent for a given complex environment. Our proposed copilot control scheme with a full blocker (Co-FB) significantly outperformed the individual EEG (EEG-NB) or TD3 control. The Co-FB model achieved a higher target-approaching score, lower failure rate, and lower human workload than the EEG-NB model. We also proposed a disparity <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 <annotation>$d$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-index to evaluate the effect of contradicting agent decisions on the control accuracy and authority of the copilot model. We observed that shifting control authority to the TD3 agent improved performance when BCI decoding was not optimal. These findings indicate that the copilot system can effectively handle complex environments and that BCI performance can be improved by considering environmental factors.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1546 1","pages":"157-172"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143737197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The pleasure of effort: Cognitive challenges trigger hedonic physiological responses 努力的乐趣认知挑战引发享乐生理反应

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15323

Jakub Kraus, Christopher Mlynski, Franziska Hartmann, Georgia Clay, Thomas Goschke, Giorgia Silani, Veronika Job

{"title":"The pleasure of effort: Cognitive challenges trigger hedonic physiological responses","authors":"Jakub Kraus, Christopher Mlynski, Franziska Hartmann, Georgia Clay, Thomas Goschke, Giorgia Silani, Veronika Job","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15323","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.15323","url":null,"abstract":"Challenging prominent neuroscientific conceptions of effort as generally aversive, recent research suggests that people can learn to seek effort. Importantly, it is unknown whether people once they learn to value effort for its instrumentality, experience pleasure when engaging in effortful tasks. In this preregistered study (N = 194), we tested the hypothesis that effort-contingent rewards in a cognitive task will induce reward-related hedonic facial responses before, during, or after effortful engagement in a subsequent non-incentivized task. The results showed that effort-contingent reward enhanced participants’ facial responses in the zygomaticus major (ZM) muscle after effort exertion (consumption phase) in the subsequent non-incentivized task, especially in high-difficulty trials. Electrical activity in the ZM was positively associated with subjective pleasure ratings in the experimental group when solving difficult trials, suggesting that it is implicitly tracking the hedonic value of effort. Our findings show that effort-contingent reward promotes effort-related reward experience, indicating that effort itself becomes intrinsically rewarding as experienced pleasure after effort exertion.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1546 1","pages":"100-111"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.15323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143678264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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In-situ responses of temperate-zone bats to climate change

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15317

Gerald Kerth, Janis M. Wolf

{"title":"In-situ responses of temperate-zone bats to climate change","authors":"Gerald Kerth, Janis M. Wolf","doi":"10.1111/nyas.15317","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.15317","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing evidence that human-induced climate change poses a major threat to bats. As climate change progresses, we can only hope to mitigate its negative effects on bat populations by gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the complex interactions of all the factors involved. Drawing on recent evidence, largely from long-term field studies of individually marked bats, we discuss the multiple impacts—positive and negative—of climate change on temperate heterothermic bats and their responses to climate change in situ. For example, there is increasing evidence that warmer summers and milder winters are leading to changes in the seasonal phenology of bats, which in turn may lead to species-specific changes in demography, morphology, physiology, food availability, and roost use. We also highlight open research questions on the responses of bats to climate change. This includes better data on population trends and the underlying direct and indirect climate-related causes for changes in mortality and reproductive success. In order to assess the long-term impacts of climate change on bats, more information is needed about the relative importance of phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptation in the responses of bats to climate change.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1546 1","pages":"23-34"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.15317","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143666691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Attention sanctuaries: Social practice guidelines and emergent strategies in attention activism

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15313

D. Graham Burnett, Eve Mitchell

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