Cognition

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The effect of melperone, an atypical antipsychotic drug, on cognitive function in schizophrenia.

Melperone, a butyrophenone, has been shown to possess atypical antipsychotic properties, i.e. ability to produce an antipsychotic effect in man at doses that cause minimal extrapyramidal side effects. In addition, melperone shares the following with ...
Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Karu Jayathilake, Herbert Y Meltzer (Schizophr Res, 200301)
effect-melperone-atypical-antipsychotic-drug-cognitive-function.asp

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Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids at birth and cognitive function at 7 y of age.

OBJECTIVE: During the central nervous system (CNS) growth spurt, rapid accretion of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) takes place. This particularly concerns docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3) and arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n-6), which are ...
E C Bakker, A J A Ghys, A D M Kester, J S H Vles, J S Dubas, C E Blanco, G Hornstra (Eur J Clin Nutr, 200301)
long-chain-polyunsaturated-fatty-acids-birth-cognitive-function-y-age.asp

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Dissociation of perceptual and motor inhibition processes through the use of novel computerized conflict tasks.

Efficient behavioral functioning requires early perceptual inhibition of irrelevant stimuli and later motor inhibition of inappropriate responses. The Perceptual and Motor Conflict Tasks were developed to differentially assess perceptual and motor ...
Katharine W Nassauer, Jeffrey M Halperin (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200301)
dissociation-perceptual-motor-inhibition-processes-novel-computerized.asp

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Encoding fluency is a cue used for judgments about learning.

The authors used paired-associate learning to investigate the hypothesis that the speed of generating an interactive image (encoding fluency) influenced 2 metacognitive judgments: judgments of learning (JOLs) and quality of encoding ratings (QUEs). ...
Christopher Hertzog, John Dunlosky, A Emanuel Robinson, Daniel P Kidder (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200301)
encoding-fluency-cue-judgments-learning.asp

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Cognitive effects of long-term benzodiazepine use in older adults.

This study examined the potential for cognitive morbidity associated with the long-term use of benzodiazepine (BZ) sedative-hypnotics in a sample of healthy older adults. Tests of memory, attention and processing speed were conducted prior to and 1 month ...
Mary Pat McAndrews, Rachel T Weiss, Paul Sandor, Ann Taylor, Peter L Carlen, Colin M Shapiro (Hum Psychopharmacol, 200301)
cognitive-effects-long-term-benzodiazepine-older-adults.asp

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The construction of large number representations in adults.

What is the nature of our mental representation of quantity? We find that human adults show no performance cost of comparing numerosities across vs. within visual and auditory stimulus sets, or across vs. within simultaneous and sequential sets. In ...
Hilary Barth, Nancy Kanwisher, Elizabeth Spelke (Cognition, 200301)
construction-large-number-representations-adults.asp

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A consideration of neuropsychologically normal schizophrenia.

Neuropsychological deficits are considered by many to be core features of schizophrenia. However, about 20% of patients with schizophrenia appear to have normal neuropsychological function. This study investigates this subgroup by comparing a ...
Daniel N Allen, Gerald Goldstein, Erin Warnick (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200301)
consideration-neuropsychologically-normal-schizophrenia.asp

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The intelligence of the moral intuitions: comment on Haidt (2001).

The social intuitionist model (J. Haidt, 2001) posits that fast and automatic intuitions are the primary source of moral judgments. Conscious deliberations play little causal role; they are used mostly to construct post hoc justifications for judgments ...
David A Pizarro, Paul Bloom (Psychol Rev, 200301)
intelligence-moral-intuitions-comment-haidt.asp

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The effect of training distinct neurofeedback protocols on aspects of cognitive performance.

The use of neurofeedback as an operant conditioning paradigm has disclosed that participants are able to gain some control over particular aspects of their electroencephalogram (EEG). Based on the association between theta activity (4-7 Hz) and working ...
David Vernon, Tobias Egner, Nick Cooper, Theresa Compton, Claire Neilands, Amna Sheri, John Gruzelier (Int J Psychophysiol, 200301)
effect-training-distinct-neurofeedback-protocols-aspects-cognitive.asp

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Eye tracking, point of gaze, and performance degradation during disorientation.

BACKGROUND: The cognitive cockpit concept has been proposed as a potential disorientation countermeasure. It involves monitoring the pilots physiological, behavioral and subjective responses during disorientation. This data is combined to provide a real ...
Bob Cheung, Kevin Hofer (Aviat Space Environ Med, 200301)
eye-tracking-point-gaze-performance-degradation-disorientation.asp