Cognition

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Aging, physical activity, and cognitive processing: an examination of P300.

Physical activity appears to attenuate the decline of cognitive function typically observed in older men and women. The P300 component of the event-related potential (ERP) is particularly affected by aging and allows for basic neurobiological assessment ...
K McDowell, S E Kerick, D L Santa Maria, B D Hatfield (Neurobiol Aging, 200307-08)
aging-physical-activity-cognitive-processing-examination-p.asp

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Predictors of a childs ability to use a visual analogue scale.

BACKGROUND: Visual analogue scales (VAS) are used to assess the strength of perceptions of both children and adults in many clinical and research settings. Although the VAS has been shown by some authors to be reliable for use by children aged 5 years ...
B J Shields, T M Palermo, J D Powers, S D Grewe, G A Smith (Child Care Health Dev, 200307)
predictors-child-s-ability-visual-analogue-scale.asp

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Neurodynamic models of brain in psychiatry.

The history of brain theory is described in terms of three kinds of theory of perception. The most widely used kind sees perception as dependent on passive inflow from the environment of information that is used to make and process representations of ...
Walter J Freeman (Neuropsychopharmacology, 200307)
neurodynamic-models-brain-psychiatry.asp

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Late sequelae of low birthweight: mediators of poor school performance at 11 years.

This study examined the effect of low birthweight on school achievement and the mediating roles of cognitive and behavioural factors. The sample (115 females, 100 males) was selected from a longitudinal study of first-born singleton children, born ...
Diana Weindrich, Christine Jennen-Steinmetz, Manfred Laucht, Martin H Schmidt (Dev Med Child Neurol, 200307)
late-sequelae-low-birthweight-mediators-poor-school-performance-years.asp

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Absolute pitch: a model for understanding the influence of genes and development on neural and cognitive function.

Absolute pitch (AP), the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without any reference point, is discussed here as a possible model system for understanding the neurobiology of complex cognitive functions. AP is of interest because it may ...
Robert J Zatorre (Nat Neurosci, 200307)
absolute-pitch-model-understanding-influence-genes-development-neural.asp

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Stochastic cascade processes as a model of multi-stage concurrent information processing.

McClellands (Psychol. Rev. 86 (1979) 287) influential cascade model of reaction time (RT) is often seen as an important explicitly formulated alternative to strictly serial models because some of its basic notions fit in with known characteristics of ...
Wolf Schwarz (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200307)
stochastic-cascade-processes-model-multi-stage-concurrent-information.asp

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Influence of prime-target relationship on semantic priming effects from words in a lexical-decision task.

The present research examines the influence of prime-target relationship (associative and categorical versus categorical only) on priming effects from attended and ignored parafoveal words. Participants performed a lexical-decision task on a single ...
María J F Abad, Carmen Noguera, Juan J Ortells (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200307)
influence-prime-target-relationship-semantic-priming-effects-words.asp

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Cognitive processes underlying human mate choice: The relationship between self-perception and mate preference in Western society.

This study tested two hypotheses concerning the cognitive processes underlying human mate choice in Western society: (i) mate preference is conditional in that the selectivity of individuals mate preference is based on their perception of themselves as ...
Peter M Buston, Stephen T Emlen (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 200307)
cognitive-processes-underlying-human-mate-choice-relationship-self.asp

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Functional cerebral asymmetry in hostility: a dual task approach with fluency and cardiovascular regulation.

The influence of hostility levels on verbal and nonverbal fluency, and the concurrent cerebral regulation of autonomic nervous system functioning was examined in 48 right-handed males, half classified as low-hostile, and half as high-hostile. Recent ...
John B Williamson, David W Harrison (Brain Cogn, 200307)
functional-cerebral-asymmetry-hostility-dual-task-approach-fluency.asp

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Rethinking temporal contiguity and the judgement of causality: effects of prior knowledge, experience, and reinforcement procedure.

Time plays a pivotal role in causal inference. Nonetheless most contemporary theories of causal induction do not address the implications of temporal contiguity and delay, with the exception of associative learning theory. Shanks, Pearson, and Dickinson ...
Marc J Buehner, Jon May (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200307)
rethinking-temporal-contiguity-judgement-causality-effects-prior.asp