Cognition

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A method for measuring quality of life through subjective weighting of functional status.

OBJECTIVE: To apply a new tool to understand the quality of life (QOL) implications of patients functional status. DESIGN: Results from the Features-Resource Trade-Off Game were used to form utility weights by ranking functional activities by the ...
Margaret G Stineman, Barbara Wechsler, Richard Ross, Greg Maislin (Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 200304)
method-measuring-quality-life-subjective-weighting-functional-status.asp

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How many camels are there in Italy? Cognitive estimates standardised on the Italian population.

OBJECTIVE: We provided the standardisation of a new Cognitive Estimation Task (CET). PARTICIPANTS: the test was administered to 175 healthy subjects. RESULTS: performance on the Cognitive Estimation Task (CET) is associated with gender (where women show ...
S Della Sala, S E MacPherson, L H Phillips, L Sacco, H Spinnler (Neurol Sci, 200304)
many-camels-italy-cognitive-estimates-standardised-italian-population.asp

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The effects of preparatory sensory information on ICU patients.

Preparatory sensory information (PSI) has been found to have significant effects in reducing distress, tension, restlessness, negative moods, and anxiety, and also in reducing length of postoperative hospitalization during various threatening medical ...
Shu-Feng Shi, Barbara A Munjas, Thomas T H Wan, W Richard Cowling, Mary Jo Grap, Bill B L Wang (J Med Syst, 200304)
effects-preparatory-sensory-information-icu-patients.asp

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Unpacking the cognitive map: the parallel map theory of hippocampal function.

In the parallel map theory, the hippocampus encodes space with 2 mapping systems. The bearing map is constructed primarily in the dentate gyrus from directional cues such as stimulus gradients. The sketch map is constructed within the hippocampus proper ...
Lucia F Jacobs, Françoise Schenk (Psychol Rev, 200304)
unpacking-cognitive-map-parallel-map-theory-hippocampal-function.asp

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Induced oscillations and the distributed cortical sources during the Wisconsin card sorting test performance in schizophrenic patients: new clues to neural connectivity.

Prefrontal dysfunction has been associated with schizophrenia. Activation during Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST) is a common approach used in functional neuroimaging to address this failure. Equally, current knowledge states that oscillations are ...
J A González-Hernández, I Cedeño, C Pita-Alcorta, L Galán, E Aubert, P Figueredo-Rodríguez (Int J Psychophysiol, 200304)
induced-oscillations-distributed-cortical-sources-wisconsin-card.asp

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Working memory in mild Alzheimers disease and early Parkinsons disease.

Alzheimers disease (AD) and Parkinsons disease (PD) impair working memory (WM). It is unclear, however, whether the deficits seen early in the course of these diseases are similar. To address this issue, the authors compared the performance of 22 ...
Elizabeth A Kensinger, Deirdre K Shearer, Joseph J Locascio, John H Growdon, Suzanne Corkin (Neuropsychology, 200304)
working-memory-mild-alzheimer-s-disease-early-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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Individual stopping times and cognitive control: converging evidence for the stop signal task from a continuous tracking paradigm.

The present study introduces a continuous tracking procedure to investigate cognitive stopping in individual trials. Our measure of stopping performance had a mean similar to mean stopping times estimated in the stop signal paradigm, suggesting a common ...
Sharon Morein-Zamir, Nachshon Meiran (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200304)
individual-stopping-times-cognitive-control-converging-evidence-stop.asp

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Cognitive processing of anorexic patients in recognition tasks: an event-related potentials study.

OBJECTIVE: We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to test whether anorexic subjects have difficulties in filtering out irrelevant stimuli in controlled information processing tasks. METHODS: ERPs from 12 anorexic patients were recorded during ...
Vincent Dodin, Jean-Louis Nandrino (Int J Eat Disord, 200304)
cognitive-processing-anorexic-patients-recognition-tasks-event.asp

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How does orthographic knowledge influence performance on phonological awareness tasks?

Three experiments explored the nature of orthographic influences on performance on phonological awareness tasks. Experiment 1 demonstrated that adults find it easier to perform phoneme deletions on items where there is a direct correspondence between ...
Anne Castles, V M Holmes, Joanna Neath, Sachiko Kinoshita (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200304)
orthographic-knowledge-influence-performance-phonological-awareness.asp

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Facilitating acquisition and transfer of a continuous motor task in healthy older adults and patients with Alzheimers disease.

This study examined the acquisition and transfer of a fine motor skill, namely the rotary pursuit, in 99 patients with Alzheimers disease (AD) and 100 normal controls (NCs). To identify optimal learning strategies, the authors had participants practice ...
Malcolm B Dick, Susie Hsieh, Josh Bricker, Cordula Dick-Muehlke (Neuropsychology, 200304)
facilitating-acquisition-transfer-continuous-motor-task-healthy-older.asp