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The effect of superior auditory skills on vocal accuracy.

The relationship between auditory perception and vocal production has been typically investigated by evaluating the effect of either altered or degraded auditory feedback on speech production in either normal hearing or hearing-impaired individuals. Our ...
Ofer Amir, Noam Amir, Liat Kishon-Rabin (J Acoust Soc Am, 200302)
effect-superior-auditory-skills-vocal-accuracy.asp

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Increasing the distance of an external focus of attention enhances learning.

Previous studies (e.g., Wulf, Höss, & Prinz, 1998) have shown that motor learning can be enhanced by directing performers attention to the effects of their movements ("external focus"), rather than to the body movements producing the effect ("internal ...
Nancy H McNevin, Charles H Shea, Gabriele Wulf (Psychol Res, 200302)
increasing-distance-external-focus-attention-enhances-learning.asp

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Lorazepam and scopolamine: A single-dose comparison of effects on human memory and attentional processes.

This placebo-controlled, double-blind, double-dummy, independent groups study directly compared effects of the benzodiazepine, lorazepam (2.0 mg/70 kg orally administered), and the anticholinergic scopolamine (0.6 mg/70 kg subcutaneously administered) on ...
Miriam Z Mintzer, Roland R Griffiths (Exp Clin Psychopharmacol, 200302)
lorazepam-scopolamine-single-dose-comparison-effects-human-memory.asp

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The effect of methylphenidate on three forms of response inhibition in boys with AD/HD.

The current study was aimed at (a) investigating the effect of three doses methylphenidate (MPH) and placebo on inhibition of a prepotent response, inhibition of an ongoing response, and interference control in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ...
Anouk Scheres, Jaap Oosterlaan, James Swanson, Sharon Morein-Zamir, Nachson Meiran, Harry Schut, Laurens Vlasveld, Joseph A Sergeant (J Abnorm Child Psychol, 200302)
effect-methylphenidate-three-forms-response-inhibition-boys-ad-hd.asp

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The effects of single-dose fexofenadine, diphenhydramine, and placebo on cognitive performance in flight personnel.

BACKGROUND: Sedation and functional impairments are side effects associated with the use of first-generation antihistamines that preclude their use in aviation. Selected second-generation antihistamines do not have such side effects and have been ...
E A Bower, J L Moore, M Moss, K A Selby, M Austin, S Meeves (Aviat Space Environ Med, 200302)
effects-single-dose-fexofenadine-diphenhydramine-placebo-cognitive.asp

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Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: planning drawing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

A tendency to focus on details at the expense of configural information, weak coherence, has been proposed as a cognitive style in autism. In the present study we tested whether weak coherence might be the result of executive dysfunction, by testing ...
Rhonda Booth, Rebecca Charlton, Claire Hughes, Francesca Happé (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200302)
disentangling-weak-coherence-executive-dysfunction-planning-drawing.asp

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The effects of road traffic noise and meaningful irrelevant speech on different memory systems.

To explore why noise has reliable effects on delayed recall in a certain text-reading task, this episodic memory task was employed with other memory tests in a study of road traffic noise and meaningful but irrelevant speech. Context-dependent memory was ...
Staffan Hygge, Eva Boman, Ingela Enmarker (Scand J Psychol, 200302)
effects-road-traffic-noise-meaningful-irrelevant-speech-different.asp

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Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting in autism?

Does movement of the eyes in one or another direction function as an automatic attentional cue to a location of interest? Two experiments explored the directional movement of the eyes in a full face for speed of detection of an aftercoming location ...
John Swettenham, Samantha Condie, Ruth Campbell, Elizabeth Milne, Mike Coleman (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200302)
perception-moving-eyes-trigger-reflexive-visual-orienting-autism.asp

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Serial deployment of attention during visual search.

This study examined whether objects are attended in serial or in parallel during a demanding visual search task. A component of the event-related potential waveform, the N2pc wave, was used as a continuous measure of the allocation of attention to ...
Geoffrey F Woodman, Steven J Luck (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
serial-deployment-attention-visual-search.asp

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Frontostriatal system in planning complexity: a parametric functional magnetic resonance version of Tower of London task.

In the present study, we sought to investigate which brain structures are recruited in planning tasks of increasing complexity. For this purpose, a parametric self-paced pseudo-randomized event-related functional MRI version of the Tower of London task ...
Odile A van den Heuvel, Henk J Groenewegen, Frederik Barkhof, Richard H C Lazeron, Richard van Dyck, Dick J Veltman (Neuroimage, 200302)
frontostriatal-system-planning-complexity-parametric-functional.asp