Memory

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Misremembering the appearance of common objects: further cross-cultural confirmation.

The finding that people have surprisingly poor memory for the details of commonly used coins was replicated using a heretofore unstudied currency (the Irish Punt). The accuracy of 241 undergraduates in psychology in identifying a true coin from among a ...
Brian M Hughes (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
misremembering-appearance-common-objects-cross-cultural-confirmation.asp

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How effective are the cross-examination and expert testimony safeguards? Jurors perceptions of the suggestiveness and fairness of biased lineup procedures.

Mock jurors (N = 800) viewed a videotaped trial that included information about a lineup identification procedure. Suggestiveness of the eyewitness identification procedure varied in terms of foil, instruction, and presentation biases. Expert testimony ...
Jennifer L Devenport, Veronica Stinson, Brian L Cutler, David A Kravitz (J Appl Psychol, 200212)
effective-cross-examination-expert-testimony-safeguards-jurors.asp

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Effect of ethanol on psychomotor performance and on risk taking behaviour.

Ethanol may increase the willingness to take risks, but this issue remains controversial. We used a risk-taking paradigm in which volunteers answered a series of general knowledge questions with numerical answers and were asked to judge the length of a ...
K Farquhar, K Lambert, G B Drummond, B Tiplady, P Wright (J Psychopharmacol, 200212)
effect-ethanol-psychomotor-performance-risk-taking-behaviour.asp

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Alcohol and triazolam: differential effects on memory, psychomotor performance and subjective ratings of effects.

The effects of alcohol (0.80 g/kg) and the benzodiazepine hypnotic triazolam (0.25 mg/70 kg) were compared directly in a double-dummy, double-blind, placebo-controlled, repeated-measures design in 18 healthy volunteers. While alcohol (0.80 g/kg) and ...
M Z Mintzer, R R Griffiths (Behav Pharmacol, 200212)
alcohol-triazolam-differential-effects-memory-psychomotor-performance.asp

485.

Feeling-of-knowing for proper names.

The main objective of the presented study was to study feeling-of-knowing (FOK) in proper name retrieval. Many studies show that FOK can predict performance on a subsequent criterion test. Although feeling-of-knowing studies involve questions about ...
Marie Izaute, Patrick Chambres, Serge Larochelle (Can J Exp Psychol, 200212)
feeling-knowing-proper-names.asp

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Differential effect of a distractor on primary saccades and perceptual localization.

A distractor presented nearby the target of a goal-directed short latency saccade leads to spatial averaging, that is, the saccade lands between the target and the distractor. This so-called global effect is a characteristic feature of the spatial ...
T Eggert, U Sailer, J Ditterich, A Straube (Vision Res, 200212)
differential-effect-distractor-primary-saccades-perceptual.asp

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Total plasma homocysteine, age, systolic blood pressure, and cognitive performance in older people.

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) levels, blood pressure (BP) variables, renal function, and measures of cognitive performance in older people. DESIGN: Initial cross-sectional analysis of a prospective ...
Marc M Budge, Celeste de Jager, Eva Hogervorst, A David Smith, (J Am Geriatr Soc, 200212)
total-plasma-homocysteine-age-systolic-blood-pressure-cognitive.asp

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The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music.

Western tonal music relies on a formal geometric structure that determines distance relationships within a harmonic or tonal space. In functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, we identified an area in the rostromedial prefrontal cortex that ...
Petr Janata, Jeffrey L Birk, John D Van Horn, Marc Leman, Barbara Tillmann, Jamshed J Bharucha (Science, 200212)
cortical-topography-tonal-structures-underlying-western-music.asp

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Gender differences in memory for film of pigmies hunting-gathering activities among Japanese children and adults.

Although adaptation to hunting-gathering life is a main hypothesis for understanding of the nature of humans, studies directly examining the hypothesis have not been done. In the present study, we used the method of showing a film depicting hunting and ...
Tomomichi Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Yano (J Hum Ergol (Tokyo), 200212)
gender-differences-memory-film-pigmies-hunting-gathering-activities.asp

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The role of interpositus nucleus in eyelid conditioned responses.

One of the most widely used experimental models for the study of learning processes in mammals has been the classical conditioning of nictitating membrane/eyelid responses, using both trace and delay paradigms. Mainly on the basis of permanent or ...
J M Delgado-García, A Gruart (Cerebellum, 200212)
role-interpositus-nucleus-eyelid-conditioned-responses.asp