Cognition

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Frontal and parietal participation in problem solving in the Tower of London: fMRI and computational modeling of planning and high-level perception.

This study triangulates executive planning and visuo-spatial reasoning in the context of the Tower of London (TOL) task by using a variety of methodological approaches. These approaches include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional ...
Sharlene D Newman, Patricia A Carpenter, Sashank Varma, Marcel Adam Just (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
frontal-parietal-participation-problem-solving-tower-london-fmri.asp

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Introducing BF++: AC++ framework for cognitive bio-feedback systems design.

OBJECTIVE: This paper addressed the issue of building-up a framework for the realization of several cognitive bio-feedback (CBF) systems. It minimizes the programming effort and maximizes the efficiency and the cross-platform portability so that it can ...
L Bianchi, F Babiloni, F Cincotti, S Salinari, M G Marciani (Methods Inf Med, 2003)
introducing-bf++-ac++-framework-cognitive-bio-feedback-systems-design.asp

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Resource utilisation and cost analysis of memantine in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimers disease.

BACKGROUND: Alzheimers disease (AD) is a devastating illness that causes enormous emotional stress to affected families and is associated with substantial medical and nonmedical costs. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of 28 weeks of memantine ...
Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad, Albrecht Stöffler, Yvonne Wirth, Hans-Jörg Möbius (Pharmacoeconomics, 2003)
resource-utilisation-cost-analysis-memantine-patients-moderate-severe.asp

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Rapid extraction of emotional expression: evidence from evoked potential fields during brief presentation of face stimuli.

Although the emotional expression of faces is believed to be accessed rapidly, previous ERP studies hardly found correlates of these processes. Here, we report findings from a study that investigated dichoptic binocular interaction using emotional face ...
E Eger, A Jedynak, T Iwaki, W Skrandies (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
rapid-extraction-emotional-expression-evidence-evoked-potential.asp

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Cognitive effects of the dopamine receptor agonist pergolide.

Although dopamine has been closely associated with prefrontal function, and with working memory in monkeys, the effects of dopamine agonists on human cognitive performance are poorly understood. We report the effects of a single dose of pergolide on ...
Daniel Y Kimberg, Mark DEsposito (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
cognitive-effects-dopamine-receptor-agonist-pergolide.asp

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Attentional modulation of self-motion perception.

Attentional effects on self-motion perception (vection) were examined by using a large display in which vertical stripes containing upward or downward moving dots were interleaved to balance the total motion energy for the two directions. The dots moving ...
Michiteru Kitazaki, Takao Sato (Perception, 2003)
attentional-modulation-self-motion-perception.asp

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Homocysteine: a marker for cognitive performance? A longitudinal follow-up study.

The present prospective study investigated whether elevated total serum homocysteine concentration is a risk factor for cognitive decline. The outcomes were compared to the possible relation between cognition and vitamin B12 or folic acid. Cognitive ...
C E Teunissen, A Henk J Blom, M P J Van Boxtel, H Bosma, C de Bruijn, J Jolles, B A Wauters, H W M Steinbusch, J de Vente (J Nutr Health Aging, 2003)
homocysteine-marker-cognitive-performance-longitudinal-follow-up-study.asp

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Gender differences in the psychosocial and cognitive correlates of physical activity among Taiwanese adolescents: a structural equation modeling approach.

This study examined gender differences in the factors related to physical activity in 832 Taiwanese adolescents. Differences in psychosocial and cognitive correlates were noted by gender group. Taiwanese adolescent girls reported lower physical activity ...
Su-Yin Wu, Nola Pender, Samar Noureddine (Int J Behav Med, 2003)
gender-differences-psychosocial-cognitive-correlates-physical.asp

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Case studies of occupational falls from heights: cognition and behavior in context.

PROBLEM: The aim of this study was to examine individual workers cognitive, behavioral, and motivational processes leading up to occupational falls from heights. METHOD: The study is based on 26 semistructured personal interviews and on-site ...
Pete Kines (J Safety Res, 2003)
case-studies-occupational-falls-heights-cognition-behavior-context.asp

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Non-identical neural mechanisms for two types of mental transformation: event-related potentials during mental rotation and mental paper folding.

Reaction times, accuracy and 128-channel event-related potentials (ERPs) were measured from 14 normal, right-handed subjects while they performed two different parity-judgment tasks that require transformations of mental images: a relatively simple task ...
B Milivojevic, B W Johnson, J P Hamm, M C Corballis (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
non-identical-neural-mechanisms-two-types-mental-transformation-event.asp