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Individual differences in childrens performance during an emotional Stroop task: a behavioral and electrophysiological study.

Two studies using the emotional Stroop with 11-year-old children were completed. In Study 1, children were assigned to either the "interference group" or the "facilitation group" based on their performance on the task. The interference group was slower ...
Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Nathan A Fox (Brain Cogn, 200306)
individual-differences-children-s-performance-emotional-stroop-task.asp

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Single-trial classification of parallel pre-attentive and serial attentive processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Theories of perception have proposed a basic distinction between parallel pre-attentive and serial attentive modes of processing. However, chronometric measures are often ambiguous in separating parallel and serial processes. We have used the activity of ...
Manuela Piazza, Eric Giacomini, Denis Le Bihan, Stanislas Dehaene (Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200306)
single-trial-classification-parallel-pre-attentive-serial-attentive.asp

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Spatial vs. object specific attention in high-order visual areas.

Recently we reported that the topographic organization of visual field eccentricity in human visual cortex extends into high-order, ventral occipitotemporal (VOT) cortex. Within this cortex, regions that respond preferentially to faces and buildings have ...
Galia Avidan, Ifat Levy, Talma Hendler, Ehud Zohary, Rafael Malach (Neuroimage, 200306)
spatial-vs-object-specific-attention-high-order-visual-areas.asp

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Childrens detection of pure-tone signals: informational masking with contralateral maskers.

When normal-hearing adults and children are required to detect a 1000-Hz tone in a random-frequency multitone masker, masking is often observed in excess of that predicted by traditional auditory filter models. The excess masking is called informational ...
Frederic L Wightman, Michael R Callahan, Robert A Lutfi, Doris J Kistler, Eunmi Oh (J Acoust Soc Am, 200306)
children-s-detection-pure-tone-signals-informational-masking.asp

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Perceptual weights in auditory level discrimination.

Perceptual weights in level discrimination (also called intensity discrimination) were determined for 3-, 7-, 15-, and 24-component tone complexes with flat spectral envelopes using a correlational paradigm. Each frequency component was randomly and ...
Reinier Kortekaas, Søren Buus, Mary Florentine (J Acoust Soc Am, 200306)
perceptual-weights-auditory-level-discrimination.asp

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Pitch discrimination of diotic and dichotic tone complexes: harmonic resolvability or harmonic number?

Three experiments investigated the relationship between harmonic number, harmonic resolvability, and the perception of harmonic complexes. Complexes with successive equal-amplitude sine- or random-phase harmonic components of a 100- or 200-Hz fundamental ...
Joshua G Bernstein, Andrew J Oxenham (J Acoust Soc Am, 200306)
pitch-discrimination-diotic-dichotic-tone-complexes-harmonic.asp

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Another look at the effect of a surprising intervening event on negative priming.

Tipper et al. (1991) reported that negative priming is eliminated when a low-probability event separates presentation of the prime display from the probe display. This finding is perfectly consistent with at least three of the major accounts of negative ...
Jason P Leboe, Launa C Leboe, Bruce Milliken (Can J Exp Psychol, 200306)
look-effect-surprising-intervening-event-negative-priming.asp

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The costs of doing two things at once for young and older adults: talking while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise.

Young and older adults provided language samples in response to questions while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise. The language samples were scored on 3 dimensions: fluency, complexity, and content. The hypothesis that working memory ...
Susan Kemper, Ruth E Herman, Cindy H T Lian (Psychol Aging, 200306)
costs-doing-two-things-once-young-older-adults-talking-walking-finger.asp

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Interference effects from divided attention during retrieval in younger and older adults.

The authors examined how retrieval, under divided attention (DA) conditions, is affected by the type of material in a concurrent task, and whether aging produces larger interference effects on memory. Young and old adults studied a list of unrelated ...
Myra A Fernandes, Morris Moscovitch (Psychol Aging, 200306)
interference-effects-divided-attention-retrieval-younger-older-adults.asp

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Effects of directions to remember or to forget on the short-term recognition memory of simultaneously presented words.

An initial study suggested that directions to forget actually resulted in better remembering in a short-term word-recognition memory task. Four follow-up studies showed no statistically significant evidence that directions to forget caused either ...
Richard S Cimbalo, Kathleen M Measer, Kimberly A Ferriter (Psychol Rep, 200306)
effects-directions-remember-or-forget-short-term-recognition-memory.asp