Investigating neurocognitive mechanisms and modulatory factors of news-related decision making using MyNewsScan platform
Jia Wei Tan, Kaixuan Li, Yiyang Zhang, Maizi Fang, Ahsun Tariq, Yuqi Xiao, Wenyuan Zhu, Hanyu Li, Yilin Lu, Yanyi Sun, Lei Zhong, Puzhi Yu, Xinyue Huang, Kungang Li, Linda Nguyen, Jiachen Zheng, Zhewen Du, Mariana Martinez Juarez, Robin Hill, Gediminas Luksys · FENS Forum 2024
In today's society, people often find it difficult to read news outside their social circle or comfort zone. The questions of whether limited availability or active avoidance of such information determines its limited reach and which neurocognitive factors contribute to this outcome are of huge importance but not adequately studied. MyNewsScan is a news aggregator platform that we developed to tackle such questions. We performed experiments asking participants to select, read and evaluate news articles on MyNewsScan: either in our Edinburgh lab with collection of biometric information such as
ePoster · Neuroscience