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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Evaluating the negative or valuing the positive? Neural mechanisms supporting feedback-based learning across development.

13 Sep 2008 How children learn from positive and negative performance feedback lies at the foundation of successful learning and is therefore of great importance for educational practice. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to ... Read more...

Restoration of risk-propensity during sleep deprivation: caffeine, dextroamphetamine, and modafinil.

30 Aug 2008 INTRODUCTION: Sleep deprivation alters risk-related judgments, decision-making, and behavioral control. Stimulant medications are used to restore cognitive performance, but their effects on risk-taking and judgment in sleep-deprived subjects have ... Read more...

To call or not to call: a judgement of risk by pre-registration house officers.

28 Aug 2008 OBJECTIVES: This study set out to answer the following questions. What influences a junior doctor's response to a judgement call within a clinical setting? What, if any, are the relationships between these influences? METHODS: This paper describes ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Judgment'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Beyond appearances. 27 Sep 2008
• Evaluating the negative or valuing the positive? Neural mechanisms supporting feedback-based learning across development. 13 Sep 2008
• Restoration of risk-propensity during sleep deprivation: caffeine, dextroamphetamine, and modafinil. 30 Aug 2008
• To call or not to call: a judgement of risk by pre-registration house officers. 28 Aug 2008
• Adult age differences in the realism of confidence judgments: overconfidence, format dependence, and cognitive predictors. 28 Aug 2008
• Reward facilitates tactile judgments and modulates hemodynamic responses in human primary somatosensory cortex. 9 Aug 2008
• Compensation versus halo: the unique relations between the fundamental dimensions of social judgment. 28 Jul 2008
• Development of reflective judgement in the pre-doctoral dental clinical curriculum. 28 Jul 2008
• Clinical judgment and evidence-based practice: toward pedagogies of integration. 28 Jul 2008
• Audiotactile temporal order judgments in sighted and blind individuals. 5 Jul 2008
• Neuroanatomical substrates of foresight in schizophrenia. 3 Jul 2008
• Meta-analytically quantifying the reliability and biasability of forensic experts. 29 Jun 2008
• The role of positive and negative emotions in life satisfaction judgment across nations. 29 Jun 2008
• Depressive symptoms and bias in perceived social competence among young adults. 27 Jun 2008
• Individual differences in judging deception: accuracy and bias. 27 Jun 2008
• Home runs and humbugs: Comment on Bond and DePaulo (2008). 27 Jun 2008
• Methodological issues in meta-analyzing standard deviations: Comment on Bond and DePaulo (2008). 27 Jun 2008
• Sample size and correlational inference. 27 Jun 2008
• Accuracy of photographs to capture respondent-defined drink size. 27 Jun 2008
• Better than average: alternatives to statistical summary representations for rapid judgments of average size. 27 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Judgment'

Definition: The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person to make judgments; the process of bringing to light and asserting the implicit meaning of a concept; a critical evaluation of a person or situation.

Descriptor UI: D007600

Alternative terms: Judgment; Judgments;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.626;

History Note: 66