Intelligence

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Intelligence and information processing during an auditory discrimination task with backward masking: an event-related potential analysis.

The relation between mental ability and auditory discrimination ability was examined by recording event-related potentials from 60 women during an auditory oddball task with backward masking. Across conditions that varied in intensity and in the interval ...
P Gordon Bazana, Robert M Stelmack (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200210)
intelligence-information-processing-auditory-discrimination-task.asp

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Cortisol and behavior in fragile X syndrome.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine if children with fragile X syndrome, who typically demonstrate a neurobehavioral phenotype that includes social anxiety, withdrawal, and hyper-arousal, have increased levels of cortisol, a hormone ...
D Hessl, B Glaser, J Dyer-Friedman, C Blasey, T Hastie, M Gunnar, A L Reiss (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 200210)
cortisol-behavior-fragile-x-syndrome.asp

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Correlation between spectral EEG parameters and intelligence test variables in school-age children.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between the degree of intelligence and spectral electroencephalographic (EEG) parameters and to find out which EEG variables are relevant for this correlation. METHODS: Bipolar 1 ...
R G Schmid, W S Tirsch, H Scherb (Clin Neurophysiol, 200210)
correlation-spectral-eeg-parameters-intelligence-test-variables.asp

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Associations between premorbid intellectual performance, early-life exposures and early-onset schizophrenia. Cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Impaired intellectual performance is associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia. AIMS: To investigate whether this association is due to the influence of prenatal and early childhood exposures on both intellectual development and the ...
David Gunnell, Glynn Harrison, Finn Rasmussen, Dimitris Fouskakis, Per Tynelius (Br J Psychiatry, 200210)
associations-premorbid-intellectual-performance-early-life-exposures.asp

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Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought.

Three studies examined the effects of randomly assigned messages of social exclusion. In all 3 studies, significant and large decrements in intelligent thought (including IQ and Graduate Record Examination test performance) were found among people told ...
Roy F Baumeister, Jean M Twenge, Christopher K Nuss (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200210)
effects-social-exclusion-cognitive-processes-anticipated-aloneness.asp

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Relation of an ability measure of emotional intelligence to personality.

Is emotional intelligence simply a naive theory of personality, or is it a form of intelligence? If emotional intelligence is to be of value, it must measure something unique and distinct from standard personality traits. To explore this question, this ...
David R Caruso, John D Mayer, Peter Salovey (J Pers Assess, 200210)
relation-ability-measure-emotional-intelligence-personality.asp

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Preschool understanding of emotions: contributions to classroom anger and aggression.

BACKGROUND: We sought to identify patterns of social cognitive differences among preschoolers that were related to risk of stable aggressive behavior with peers. Following Lemerise and Arsenio (2000), we considered the emotional components of early ...
Susanne A Denham, Sarah Caverly, Michelle Schmidt, Kimberly Blair, Elizabeth DeMulder, Selma Caal, Hideko Hamada, Teresa Mason (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200210)
preschool-understanding-emotions-contributions-classroom-anger.asp

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Maternal predictors of childrens social cognition: an attachment perspective.

BACKGROUND: This paper assumes that the capacities to (1) openly acknowledge, and (2) elaborate a resourceful plan for coping with distress in the self and others are central features of social cognition. METHOD: These capacities were assessed in a ...
Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Martin Johansson (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200210)
maternal-predictors-children-s-social-cognition-attachment-perspective.asp

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Transfer of a speed of processing intervention to near and far cognitive functions.

BACKGROUND: Evidence establishing the potential for modification of cognitive functioning in later adulthood has begun to accumulate. OBJECTIVE: The primary goal of the current study was to evaluate, among older adults, the extent to which standardized ...
Jerri D Edwards, Virginia G Wadley, R enee S Myers, Daniel L Roenker, Gayla M Cissell, Karlene K Ball (Gerontology, 200209-10)
transfer-speed-processing-intervention-near-far-cognitive-functions.asp

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Schizophrenic patients without neuropsychological deficits: subgroup, disease severity or cognitive compensation?

Some schizophrenic patients do not show clinically relevant cognitive deficits. The question remains whether this represents the existence of an etiologically different subgroup, a general effect of disease severity or whether their cognitive deficits do ...
Esther A E Holthausen, Durk Wiersma, Margriet M Sitskoorn, Ron Hijman, Peter M Dingemans, Aart H Schene, Robert J van den Bosch (Psychiatry Res, 200209)
schizophrenic-patients-neuropsychological-deficits-subgroup-disease.asp