Publications by authors named "Xinxu Shen"
Algae-laden brackish water (ABW) has remarkably threatened drinking water safety in warm coastal areas. Although gravity-driven ceramic membrane filtration (GDCM) exhibits high potential in ABW treatment during decentralized water supply, membrane fouling is still a critical problem. Herein, GDCM was skillfully electro-functionalized (EGDCM) by in-situ electro-oxidation (ISEO) based on self-fabricated Ti/SnO-Sb dimensionally stable anode (DSA) (EO-EGDCM) and ex-situ electro-coagulation (ESEC) based on iron anode (EC-EGDCM) in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMost prior research characterizes information-seeking behaviors as serving utilitarian purposes, such as whether the obtained information can help solve practical problems. However, information-seeking behaviors are sensitive to different contexts (i.e.
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- Past experiences with rewards can change how we make choices in new situations.
- The study found that remembering high rewards from the past made it harder for people of all ages to learn from new experiences.
- Individual differences, like how much someone remembers the high rewards, also played a big role in how well they learned new things, especially in teenagers.
The use of naturalistic stimuli, such as narrative movies, is gaining popularity in many fields, characterizing memory, affect, and decision-making. Narrative recall paradigms are often used to capture the complexity and richness of memory for naturalistic events. However, scoring narrative recalls is time-consuming and prone to human biases.
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- Reward motivation helps us remember things better by using different parts of the brain.
- As people grow older, the way they remember rewarding things changes in both good and unique ways.
- Research showed that younger people have certain brain connections that help them remember rewards better than older people do, while older people might have different brain connections that help with memory.
Humans actively seek information to reduce uncertainty, providing insight on how our decisions causally affect the world. While we know that episodic memories can help support future goal-oriented behaviors, little is known about how hypothesis testing during exploration influences episodic memory. To investigate this question, we designed a hypothesis testing paradigm, in which participants figured out rules to unlock treasure chests.
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- Adults often forget memories from when they were really young, a weird thing called "childhood amnesia."
- Researchers studied 137 kids from ages 3 to 5 to see how well they remembered things after different time periods, like 5 minutes, a day, and a week.
- They found that older kids remembered better than younger ones, especially after a week, which shows that kids' memories get stronger as they grow up!
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- Adolescence can be a time of strong positive and negative feelings that affect how we remember things and react to what we see around us.
- A study looked at how these strong negative feelings (like bad smells) help teens and adults remember the things connected to those feelings better than things that didn't have those connections.
- Both teens and adults showed they remembered the bad-smell items better and that their emotional reactions during learning helped improve their memory for those items.