Cognition

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Flexibility versus generalizability in model selection.

Which quantitative method should be used to choose among competing mathematical models of cognition? Massaro, Cohen, Campbell, and Rodriguez (2001) favor root mean squared deviation (RMSD), choosing the model that provides the best fit to the data. Their ...
Mark A Pitt, Woojae Kim, In Jae Myung (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
flexibility-versus-generalizability-model-selection.asp

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Capacity, strategies, and metamemory: tests of a three-factor model of memory development.

Multiple measures of three of the factors (capacity, strategies, and metamemory) hypothesized to cause improvements in memory with age were obtained from 179 children in kindergarten to second grade (younger: ages 5-8) or third and fourth grade (older: ...
Darlene DeMarie, John Ferron (J Exp Child Psychol, 200303)
capacity-strategies-metamemory-tests-three-factor-model-memory.asp

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Racial bias in the assessment of cognitive functioning of older adults.

This study was undertaken to determine if the difference in assessed cognition between Black/African-American and White older adults was due differential item functioning (DIF) and/or differences in the effect of background variables. Participants were ...
R N Jones (Aging Ment Health, 200303)
racial-bias-assessment-cognitive-functioning-older-adults.asp

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Evidence for the coincidence effect in environmental judgments: why isnt it easy to correctly identify environmentally friendly food products?

The coincidence effect--a phenomenon known in similarity research--suggests that people assign extra weight to features that 2 items have in common. The role of this effect in 2 kinds of environmental judgments about food products is investigated. Task 1 ...
Carmen Tanner, Niels Jungbluth (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200303)
evidence-coincidence-effect-environmental-judgments-why-isn-t-easy.asp

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Neuropsychological assessment and telemedicine: a preliminary study examining the reliability of neuropsychology services performed via telecommunication.

Within the last decade, various applications of two-way audio-visual telecommunication have been implemented in the Norwegian health care system to facilitate the delivery of medical services to patients located in rural areas away from the hospitals. ...
Svenn E Jacobsen, Terje Sprenger, Stein Andersson, Jan-Magne Krogstad (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
neuropsychological-assessment-telemedicine-preliminary-study.asp

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Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus enhances emotional processing in Parkinson disease.

BACKGROUND: High-frequency electrical stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus is a new and highly effective therapy for complications of long-term levodopa therapy and motor symptoms in advanced Parkinson disease (PD). Clinical observations indicate ...
Frank Schneider, Ute Habel, Jens Volkmann, Sabine Regel, Jürgen Kornischka, Volker Sturm, Hans-Joachim Freund (Arch Gen Psychiatry, 200303)
deep-brain-stimulation-subthalamic-nucleus-enhances-emotional.asp

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Dressing the mind properly for the game.

Game theory as a theoretical and empirical approach to interaction has spread from economics to psychology, political science, sociology and biology. Numerous social interactions-foraging, talking, trusting, coordinating, competing-can be formally ...
David Sally (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200303)
dressing-mind-properly-game.asp

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Detecting agents.

This paper reviews a recent set of behavioural studies that examine the scope and nature of the representational system underlying theory-of-mind development. Studies with typically developing infants, adults and children with autism all converge on the ...
Susan C Johnson (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200303)
detecting-agents.asp

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Cognitive coping and anxiety symptoms among people who seek help for fear of flying.

INTRODUCTION: Fear of flying among potential passengers is rather common. In order to treat fear of flying most efficiently, it is important to find out which aspects are related to flight anxiety. The objective of the present study was to examine the ...
Vivian Kraaij, Nadia Garnefski, Lucas Van Gerwen (Aviat Space Environ Med, 200303)
cognitive-coping-anxiety-symptoms-people-who-seek-help-fear-flying.asp

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Enhancing cognitive performance with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation at human individual alpha frequency.

We applied rapid-rate repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) at individual alpha frequency (IAF) to improve cognitive performance by influencing the dynamics of alpha desynchronization. Previous research indicates that a large upper alpha ...
Wolfgang Klimesch, Paul Sauseng, Christian Gerloff (Eur J Neurosci, 200303)
enhancing-cognitive-performance-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic.asp