Cognition

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Effect of prenatal PAH exposure on birth outcomes and neurocognitive development in a cohort of newborns in Poland. Study design and preliminary ambient data.

Preliminary data suggest an association between infant mortality rates and several measures of ambient air pollution, including dustfall and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). The effects of airborne PAH components on fetal growth and early ...
Wieslaw Jedrychowski, Robin M Whyatt, David E Camann, Ulka V Bawle, Kostia Peki, John D Spengler, Thomas S Dumyahn, Agnieszka Penar, Federika F Perera (Int J Occup Med Environ Health, 2003)
effect-prenatal-pah-exposure-birth-outcomes-neurocognitive.asp

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Does the cerebellum contribute to specific aspects of attention?

We present data on attentional and neuropsychological functions of 16 patients with focal cerebellar lesions (13 tumours, 3 haematomas) compared to normative test data, and to 11 control subjects matched for age, gender, and years of education. Patients ...
Birgit Gottwald, Zoran Mihajlovic, Barbara Wilde, Hubertus Maximilian Mehdorn (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
cerebellum-contribute-specific-aspects-attention.asp

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Intolerance of ambiguity and statothymia in manic-depressives.

Shimoda described praesenile melancholics (monopolar (endogenous) depressives) and manic-depressives on the level of personality traits in a very similar way as certain clinical observations and empirical studies showed. We summarized these results under ...
Alfed Kraus (Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi, 2003)
intolerance-ambiguity-statothymia-manic-depressives.asp

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Comprehending idioms cross-linguistically.

Speakers of three different languages (English, Latvian, and Mandarin) rated sets of idioms from their language for the analyzability of the relationship between each phrases literal and figurative meaning. For each language, subsets of idioms were ...
Heather Bortfeld (Exp Psychol, 2003)
comprehending-idioms-cross-linguistically.asp

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Code-switching across brainstorming sessions: implications for the revised hierarchical model of bilingual language processing.

The revised hierarchical model (RHM) of bilingual language processing posits independent word form representations for the dominant language (L1) and the nondominant language (L2), facilitated translation from L2 words to L1 words, access to common ...
Kevin J Blot, Michael A Zárate, Paul B Paulus (Exp Psychol, 2003)
code-switching-across-brainstorming-sessions-implications-revised.asp

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Gender in medical ethics: re-examining the conceptual basis of empirical research.

Conducting empirical research on gender in medical ethics is a challenge from a theoretical as well as a practical point of view. It still has to be clarified how gender aspects can be integrated without sustaining gender stereotypes. The developmental ...
Elisabeth Conradi, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Margarete Boos, Christina Sommer, Claudia Wiesemann (Med Health Care Philos, 2003)
gender-medical-ethics-re-examining-conceptual-basis-empirical-research.asp

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Perceived shifts of flashed stimuli by visible and invisible object motion.

Perceived positions of flashed stimuli can be altered by motion signals in the visual field-position capture (Whitney and Cavanagh, 2000 Nature Neuroscience 3 954-959). We examined whether position capture of flashed stimuli depends on the spatial ...
Katsumi Watanabe, Takashi R Sato, Shinsuke Shimojo (Perception, 2003)
perceived-shifts-flashed-stimuli-visible-invisible-object-motion.asp

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Information used in detecting upcoming collision.

In four experiments we examined the nature of the information used in judging whether events would or would not give rise to a collision in the near future. Observers were tested in situations depicting approaches between two objects (lateral approaches) ...
Reinoud J Bootsma, Cathy M Craig (Perception, 2003)
information-detecting-upcoming-collision.asp

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Neural correlates of cognitive control and conflict detection in the Stroop and digit-location tasks.

In two experiments, event-related brain potentials were used to examine the neural correlates of cognitive control and conflict processing in the Stroop and digit-location tasks. The relevant dimension was cued on a trial-by-trial basis before stimulus ...
Robert West (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
neural-correlates-cognitive-control-conflict-detection-stroop-digit.asp

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Physiological and neurocognitive correlates of adaptive behavior in preschool among children in Head Start.

This study examined physiological and neurocognitive correlates of teacherreported adaptive behavior in preschool among children in Head Start. Child physiology was assessed by cardiac vagal tone and was measured during a baseline period and during the ...
Clancy Blair, Rachel Peters (Dev Neuropsychol, 2003)
physiological-neurocognitive-correlates-adaptive-behavior-preschool.asp