Cognition

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Information for dementia patients and their caregivers: what information does a memory clinic pass on, and to whom?

This study assessed the information provided in a memory clinic and the patient and caregiver factors that influenced the provision of information. The study was part of a larger cross-sectional study of the diagnosis of dementia and satisfaction with ...
M J F J Vernooij-Dassen, H P J Van Hout, K L M Hund, W H L Hoefnagels, R P T M Grol (Aging Ment Health, 200301)
information-dementia-patients-caregivers-information-memory-clinic.asp

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Cathepsin D exon 2 polymorphism associated with general intelligence in a healthy older population.

General intelligence is a heritable trait that is a risk factor for both the onset of dementia and the rate of cognitive decline in community-dwelling older persons. Previous studies screening for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that influence general ...
A Payton, F Holland, P Diggle, P Rabbitt, M Horan, Y Davidson, L Gibbons, J Worthington, W E R Ollier, N Pendleton (Mol Psychiatry, 200301)
cathepsin-d-exon-polymorphism-associated-general-intelligence.asp

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The Multi-Source Interference Task: validation study with fMRI in individual subjects.

Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) plays critical roles in cognitive processing, but group-averaging techniques have generally been required to obtain significant dACC activation in functional neuroimaging studies. Development of a task that ...
G Bush, L M Shin, J Holmes, B R Rosen, B A Vogt (Mol Psychiatry, 200301)
multi-source-interference-task-validation-study-fmri-individual.asp

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Individual differences in self-assessed health: an information-processing investigation of health and illness cognition.

In 2 studies, the relation between measures of self-assessed health (SAH) and automatic processing of health-relevant information was investigated. In Study 1, 84 male and 86 female undergraduate students completed a modified Stroop task. Results ...
Paula G Williams, Michelle S Wasserman, Andrew J Lotto (Health Psychol, 200301)
individual-differences-self-assessed-health-information-processing.asp

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Cognitive screening predicts magnitude of functional recovery from admission to 3 months after discharge in hospitalized elders.

BACKGROUND: Many older adults lose functional ability during the course of acute illness and fail to recover function. We sought to determine whether performance on a cognitive screen at the time of hospital admission predicted the magnitude of ...
Laura P Sands, Kristine Yaffe, Kenneth Covinsky, Mary-Margaret Chren, Steven Counsell, Robert Palmer, Richard Fortinsky, C Seth Landefeld (J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 200301)
cognitive-screening-predicts-magnitude-functional-recovery-admission-.asp

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Absolut memory distortions: alcohol placebos influence the misinformation effect.

Can the simple suggestion that you have consumed alcohol affect your memory for an event? Alcohol placebos affect social behaviors but not nonsocial ones, and have not previously been shown to affect memory. We investigated the effect of alcohol placebos ...
Seema L Assefi, Maryanne Garry (Psychol Sci, 200301)
absolut-memory-distortions-alcohol-placebos-influence-misinformation.asp

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Reasoning with quantifiers.

In the semantics of natural language, quantification may have received more attention than any other subject, and one of the main topics in psychological studies on deductive reasoning is syllogistic inference, which is just a restricted form of ...
Bart Geurts (Cognition, 200301)
reasoning-quantifiers.asp

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Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface.

In this article we present two sets of experiments designed to investigate the acquisition of scalar implicatures. Scalar implicatures arise in examples like Some professors are famous where the speakers use of some typically indicates that s/he had ...
Anna Papafragou, Julien Musolino (Cognition, 200301)
scalar-implicatures-experiments-semantics-pragmatics-interface.asp

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Constraining the comprehension of pronominal expressions in Chinese.

This paper reports a series of self-paced reading time experiments designed to probe how the reference of pronominal expressions is resolved on-line in (Mandarin) Chinese. It is assumed that pronoun resolution is achieved by narrowing the candidate set ...
Chin Lung Yang, Peter C Gordon, Randall Hendrick, Chih Wei Hue (Cognition, 200301)
constraining-comprehension-pronominal-expressions-chinese.asp

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A distinct neurocognitive phenotype in female fragile-X premutation carriers assessed with visual attention tasks.

Premature ovarian failure (POF) and underlying hormonal changes are recognized as a distinct phenotype in female fragile-X premutation carriers. Neurocognitive deficits, in particular mental retardation, are associated with the full mutation in males and ...
Jean Steyaert, Eric Legius, Martine Borghgraef, Jean-Pierre Fryns (Am J Med Genet, 200301)
distinct-neurocognitive-phenotype-female-fragile-x-premutation.asp