Andreas Roepstorff

BackgroundDepression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and its prevalence is on the rise. One of the most debilitating aspects of depression is the dominance and persistence of depressive rumination, a state of mind that is linked to onset and recurrence of depression. Mindfulness meditation trains adaptive attention regulation and present-moment embodied awareness, skills that may be particularly useful during depressive mind states characterized by negative ruminative thoughts.MethodsIn a randomized controlled functional magnetic resonance imaging study (N = 80), we looked at the neurocognitive mechanisms behind mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (n = 50) for recurrent depression compared with treatment as usual (n = 30) across experimentally induced states of rest, mindfulness practice and rumination, and the relationship with dispositional psychological processes.ResultsMindfulness …

Testing dilemmas during COVID-19 in Denmark — Aarhus University Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content Aarhus University Home Aarhus University Logo Help & FAQ English Dansk Home Profiles Research units Projects Research output Prizes Activities Courses Press/Media Search by expertise, name or affiliation Testing dilemmas during COVID-19 in Denmark Charlotte Tornøe Ekkelund Nørholm, Andreas Roepstorff, Jens Seeberg, Lars Jørgen Østergaard, Mette Terp Hoybye Department of Clinical Medicine - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) School of Culture and Society - Culture, Cognition and Computation, Department for Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies School of Culture and Society - Department of Anthropology Department of Clinical Medicine - Elective Surgery Centre, Silkeborg School of Culture and Society - Interacting Minds Centre Department of Clinical Medicine - …

National differences in uncertainty, inequality, and trust have been accentuated by COVID-19. There are indications that the pandemic has impacted societies characterized by high uncertainty, inequality, and low trust harder than societies characterized by low uncertainty, equality, and high trust. This study investigates differential response strategies to COVID-19 as reflected in news media of two otherwise similar low uncertainty societies: Denmark and Sweden. The comparison is made using a recent approach to information dynamics in unstructured data. The main findings are that the news dynamics generally mirror public-health policies, capture fundamental socio-cultural variables related to uncertainty and trust, and may provide a measure of societal uncertainty. The findings can provide insights into evolutionary trajectories of decision-making under high uncertainty and, from a methodological level, be used to develop a media-based index of uncertainty and trust.

TESTING DENMARK: Public perceptions of test strategies during COVID-19 — Aarhus University Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content Aarhus University Home Aarhus University Logo Help & FAQ English Dansk Home Profiles Research units Projects Research output Prizes Activities Courses Press/Media Search by expertise, name or affiliation TESTING DENMARK: Public perceptions of test strategies during COVID-19 Charlotte Tornøe Ekkelund Nørholm, Andreas Roepstorff, Jens Seeberg, Lars Jørgen Østergaard, Mette Terp Hoybye Department of Clinical Medicine - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) School of Culture and Society - Culture, Cognition and Computation, Department for Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies School of Culture and Society - Department of Anthropology Department of Clinical Medicine - Department of Infectious Diseases Department of Clinical Medicine - Elective …

When speaking to infants, adults often produce speech that differs systematically from that directed to other adults. To quantify the acoustic properties of this speech style across a wide variety of languages and cultures, we extracted results from empirical studies on the acoustic features of infant-directed speech. We analysed data from 88 unique studies (734 effect sizes) on the following five acoustic parameters that have been systematically examined in the literature: fundamental frequency (f0), f0 variability, vowel space area, articulation rate and vowel duration. Moderator analyses were conducted in hierarchical Bayesian robust regression models to examine how these features change with infant age and differ across languages, experimental tasks and recording environments. The moderator analyses indicated that f0, articulation rate and vowel duration became more similar to adult-directed speech over time …

Correction to: ‘Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences’ (2022) by Borghi et al. Page 1 royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb Correction Cite this article: Borghi AM, Osińska A, Roepstorff A, Raczaszek-Leonardi J. 2023 Correction to: ‘Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences’ (2022) by Borghi et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 378: 20230001. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0001 Received: 6 January 2023 Accepted: 6 January 2023 Correction to: ‘Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences’ (2022) by Borghi et al. Anna M. Borghi, Albertyna Osińska, Andreas Roepstorff and Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi AMB, 0000-0001-9455-8408 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 378, 20210351. (Published online 26 December 2022.) (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0351) In the original version of this article, the title contained an error with the inclusion of the word ‘Editorial’…

In this article, we argue that a predictive processing framework (PP) may provide elements for a proximate model of play in children and adults. We propose that play is a behavior in which the agent, in contexts of freedom from the demands of certain competing cognitive systems, deliberately seeks out or creates surprising situations that gravitate toward sweet-spots of relative complexity with the goal of resolving surprise. We further propose that play is experientially associated with a feel-good quality because the agent is reducing significant levels of prediction error (ie, surprise) faster than expected. We argue that this framework can unify a range of well-established findings in play and developmental research that highlights the role of play in learning, and that casts children as Bayesian learners. The theory integrates the role of positive valence in play (ie, explaining why play is fun); and what it is to be in a playful …

This theme issue aims to view the literature on concepts through a novel lens, that of social interaction and its influence on inner experiences. It discusses unsolved problems in literature on concepts, emphasizing the distinction between concrete versus abstract concepts and external versus internal grounding. This introductory article reflects the two research streams that the theme aims to bridge—in this area, the dimension of embodied interaction with others and how this influences the interaction with ourselves is still underexplored. In the first part, we discuss recent trends in social cognition, showing how interacting with others influences our concepts. In the second part, we address how social interactions become part of our inner world in a Vygotskian fashion. First, we illustrate how interoception, emotion and metacognition are connected with concepts and knowledge. Second, we deal with how language, in …