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Comparison of Pueraria lobata with hormone replacement therapy in treating the adverse health consequences of menopause.

OBJECTIVE: Pueraria lobata (PL) is used as a traditional Chinese herbal remedy for menopausal symptoms, as well as an ingredient in preparations for conditions affecting menopausal women, such as osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, and some ...
Jean Woo, Edith Lau, Suzanne C Ho, Francis Cheng, Cynthia Chan, Agnes S Y Chan, Christopher J Haines, Thomas Y K Chan, Martin Li, Aprille Sham (Menopause, 200307-08)
comparison-pueraria-lobata-hormone-replacement-therapy-treating.asp

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Interaction between attention demanding motor and cognitive tasks and static postural stability.

BACKGROUND: Due to the often-reported decrease in postural stability in the elderly, it is important to understand factors that may contribute to reduced postural stability. It is possible that attention-demanding focal tasks performed concurrent with ...
D L Weeks, R Forget, L Mouchnino, D Gravel, D Bourbonnais (Gerontology, 200307-08)
interaction-attention-demanding-motor-cognitive-tasks-static-postural.asp

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The effects of carbon dioxide in champagne on psychometric performance and blood-alcohol concentration.

AIMS: To assess the effects of carbon dioxide (CO(2)) in champagne on psychomotor performance and blood-alcohol concentration (BAC). METHODS: Twelve subjects consumed ethanol (0.6 g/kg body weight) served as champagne or champagne with the CO(2) removed, ...
Fran Ridout, Stuart Gould, Carlo Nunes, Ian Hindmarch (Alcohol Alcohol, 200307-08)
effects-carbon-dioxide-champagne-psychometric-performance-blood.asp

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Tasks of a feather flock together: similarity effects in task switching.

Recent research on task switching has paid little attention to how tasks are represented and how the relations between task representations might affect the executive processes engaged to achieve a task switch. Two experiments investigated the effect of ...
Catherine M Arrington, Erik M Altmann, Thomas H Carr (Mem Cognit, 200307)
tasks-feather-flock-together-similarity-effects-task-switching.asp

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Stimulus-related priming during task switching.

Task switch cost (the deficit of performing a new task vs. a repeated task) has been partly attributed to priming of the repeated task, as well as to inappropriate preparation for the switched task. In the present study, we examined the nature of the ...
Myeong-Ho Sohn, John R Anderson (Mem Cognit, 200307)
stimulus-related-priming-task-switching.asp

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Mismatch negativity in detection of interval duration deviation in schizophrenia.

Temporal processing deficits have been noted in behavioral studies assessing patients with schizophrenia. The current study sought to explore the physiology of temporal perception while controlling the effects of motivation, attention and other cognitive ...
Deana B Davalos, Michael A Kisley, Sherrie D Polk, Randal G Ross (Neuroreport, 200307)
mismatch-negativity-detection-interval-duration-deviation.asp

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Choosing a safe place to cross the road: the relationship between attention and identification of safe and dangerous road-crossing sites.

BACKGROUND: Safe pedestrian behaviour relies on cognitive skills, including the ability to focus attention on the traffic environment and ignore irrelevant stimuli. An important pedestrian skill that young children find difficult is the ability to find a ...
Z Tabibi, K Pfeffer (Child Care Health Dev, 200307)
choosing-safe-place-cross-road-relationship-attention-identification.asp

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Using nonconscious behavioral mimicry to create affiliation and rapport.

Nonconscious behavioral mimicry occurs when a person unwittingly imitates the behaviors of another person. This mimicry has been attributed to a direct link between perceiving a behavior and performing that same behavior. The current experiments explored ...
Jessica L Lakin, Tanya L Chartrand (Psychol Sci, 200307)
nonconscious-behavioral-mimicry-create-affiliation-rapport.asp

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Reliability and magnitude of perceptual asymmetries in a dichotic word recognition task.

The hypothesis that control of idiosyncratic attention deployment and retrieval strategies would improve the reliability and magnitude of laterality effects obtained in an auditory word recognition task was investigated. Sixty participants completed a ...
Daniel Voyer (Neuropsychology, 200307)
reliability-magnitude-perceptual-asymmetries-dichotic-word.asp

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Influence of prime-target relationship on semantic priming effects from words in a lexical-decision task.

The present research examines the influence of prime-target relationship (associative and categorical versus categorical only) on priming effects from attended and ignored parafoveal words. Participants performed a lexical-decision task on a single ...
María J F Abad, Carmen Noguera, Juan J Ortells (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200307)
influence-prime-target-relationship-semantic-priming-effects-words.asp