Memory

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Variability in memory performance in aged healthy individuals: an fMRI study.

Episodic memory performance varies in older subjects but underlying biological correlates remain as yet ambiguous. We investigated episodic memory in healthy older individuals (n=24; mean age: 64.4+/-6.7 years) without subjective memory complaints or ...
Georg Grön, Daniel Bittner, Bernd Schmitz, Arthur P Wunderlich, Reinhard Tomczak, Matthias W Riepe (Neurobiol Aging, 200305-06)
variability-memory-performance-aged-healthy-individuals-fmri-study.asp

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Childrens perseverative appearance-reality errors are related to emerging language skills.

Two experiments explored the communicative bases of preschoolers object appearance-reality (AR) errors. In Experiment 1, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds (N = 36) completed the AR test (with high- and low-deceptive objects), a control test with the same discourse ...
Gedeon O Deák, Shanna D Ray, Kimberly Brenneman (Child Dev, 200305-06)
children-s-perseverative-appearance-reality-errors-related-emerging.asp

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Student-led exercise sessions yield significant fitness gains for Alzheimers patients.

At a time when they are losing skills in virtually all arenas of life, persons with Alzheimers disease can experience significant, esteem-building achievements in physical fitness and mood through supervised participation in an exercise program. The ...
Sharon M Arkin (Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen, 200305-06)
student-led-exercise-sessions-yield-significant-fitness-gains.asp

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Language representation and working memory with bilinguals.

Working memory (WM) plays a crucial role in learning a second language (L2). The ability to repeat words in an unknown language has been observed to predict success in learning that language. Conversely, decreased digit span and inability to repeat ...
Alfredo Ardila (J Commun Disord, 200305-06)
language-representation-working-memory-bilinguals.asp

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Working memory and language: an overview.

Working memory involves the temporary storage and manipulation of information that is assumed to be necessary for a wide range of complex cognitive activities. In 1974, Baddeley and Hitch proposed that it could be divided into three subsystems, one ...
Alan Baddeley (J Commun Disord, 200305-06)
working-memory-language-overview.asp

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Isoflavones and cognitive function in older women: the SOy and Postmenopausal Health In Aging (SOPHIA) Study.

OBJECTIVE: This study examines the effects of a dietary supplement of isoflavones on cognitive function in postmenopausal women. DESIGN: Participants for this 6-month, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial were women who were in ...
Donna Kritz-Silverstein, Denise Von Mühlen, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Mathias A B Bressel (Menopause, 200305-06)
isoflavones-cognitive-function-older-women-soy-postmenopausal-health.asp

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Does phonological encoding in speech production always follow the retrieval of semantic knowledge? Electrophysiological evidence for parallel processing.

In this article a new approach to the distinction between serial/contingent and parallel/independent processing in the human cognitive system is applied to semantic knowledge retrieval and phonological encoding of the word form in picture naming. In ...
Rasha Abdel Rahman, Werner Sommer (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200305)
phonological-encoding-speech-production-follow-retrieval-semantic.asp

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Continuity of the processing of declarative knowledge during human sleep: evidence from interrelated contents of mental sleep experiences.

The positive influence of sleep on memory may partly depend on the processing which transforms items of declarative knowledge into contents of mental sleep experience (MSE). This view implies that the consolidation level should be more enhanced for those ...
Carlo Cipolli, Pier Carla Cicogna, Katia Mattarozzi, Michela Mazzetti, Vincenzo Natale, Miranda Occhionero (Neurosci Lett, 200305)
continuity-processing-declarative-knowledge-human-sleep-evidence.asp

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Differential effects in humans after repeated administrations of zolpidem and triazolam.

Zolpidem, a commonly prescribed hypnotic, is an imidazopyridine that purportedly has a unique benzodiazepine-receptor binding profile. Despite its unique binding profile, human laboratory experiments have generally failed to demonstrate meaningful ...
William W Stoops, Craig R Rush (Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse, 200305)
differential-effects-humans-after-repeated-administrations-zolpidem.asp

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Centripetal force draws the eyes, not memory of the target, toward the center.

Many observers believe that a target will continue on a curved trajectory after exiting a spiral tube. Similarly, when observers were asked to localize the final position of a target moving on a circular orbit, displacement of the judged position in the ...
Dirk Kerzel (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200305)
centripetal-force-draws-eyes-not-memory-target-toward-center.asp