Mental Processes

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Effects of effort and distress coping processes on psychophysiological and psychological stress responses.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of coping processes on psychophysiological and psychological responses in stressful settings. In particular, we focused on the effects of a combination of active and avoidant coping processes. ...
Shin-ichi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kumano, Yuji Sakano (Int J Psychophysiol, 200302)
effects-effort-distress-coping-processes-psychophysiological.asp

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Is the emotional Stroop paradigm sensitive to malingering? A between-groups study with professional actors and actual trauma survivors.

Six professional actors, trained by psychologists and acting coaches to feign PTSD, were covertly enrolled into a treatment outcome study for PTSD with the aim of investigating malingering. During pretreatment assessment, individuals completed an ...
Todd C Buckley, Tara Galovski, Edward B Blanchard, Edward J Hickling (J Trauma Stress, 200302)
emotional-stroop-paradigm-sensitive-malingering-groups-study.asp

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Study of life satisfaction and quality of life of patients receiving home oxygen therapy.

An investigation was conducted by mail using a questionnaire regarding the life satisfaction and quality of life (QOL) of patients receiving home oxygen therapy (HOT) to evaluate their support. QOL was evaluated according to 4 scales: (1) activities, (2) ...
Toshiko Tada, Fumiko Hashimoto, Yasuko Matsushita, Yoshiyasu Terashima, Tetsuya Tanioka, Isao Nagamine (J Med Invest, 200302)
study-life-satisfaction-quality-life-patients-receiving-home-oxygen.asp

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Enhanced pitch sensitivity in individuals with autism: a signal detection analysis.

Past research has shown a superiority of participants with high-functioning autism over comparison groups in memorizing picture-pitch associations and in detecting pitch changes in melodies. A subset of individuals with autism, known as "musical ...
Anna Bonnel, Laurent Mottron, Isabelle Peretz, Manon Trudel, Erick Gallun, Anne-Marie Bonnel (J Cogn Neurosci, 200302)
enhanced-pitch-sensitivity-individuals-autism-signal-detection.asp

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Spectral dynamics of electroencephalographic activity during auditory information processing.

Dynamics of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity during auditory information processing were evaluated in response to changes in stimulus complexity, stimulus discriminability and attention using the oddball paradigm. In comparison to pre-stimulus ...
Anthony T Cacace, Dennis J McFarland (Hear Res, 200302)
spectral-dynamics-electroencephalographic-activity-auditory.asp

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Category-specific representations of social and nonsocial knowledge in the human prefrontal cortex.

Complex social behavior and the relatively large size of the prefrontal cortex are arguably two of the characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Grafman presented a framework concerning how the prefrontal cortex (PFC) controls complex ...
J N Wood, S G Romero, M Makale, J Grafman (J Cogn Neurosci, 200302)
category-specific-representations-social-nonsocial-knowledge-human.asp

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Premotor cortex in observing erroneous action: an fMRI study.

The lateral premotor cortex (PMC) is involved during action observation in monkeys and humans, reflecting a matching process between observed actions and their corresponding motor schemata. In the present study, functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Sophie Manthey, Ricarda I Schubotz, D Yves von Cramon (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200302)
premotor-cortex-observing-erroneous-action-fmri-study.asp

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Information flow in the mental lexicon during speech planning: evidence from event-related brain potentials.

A major issue in speech production research is the question of how speakers retrieve words from the so-called mental lexicon. Current models of lexical retrieval converge on the assumption that category associates of a target word are semantically ...
Jörg D Jescheniak, Anja Hahne, Herbert Schriefers (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200302)
information-flow-mental-lexicon-speech-planning-evidence-event.asp

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Influence of breast-feeding on mental and psychomotor development.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of breast-feeding on cognitive and motor development. A prospective cohort study was carried out enrolling 249 babies from 2 rural and urban areas. Cognitive development was assessed at the age of 18 ...
Manuela Gómez-Sanchiz, Ramón Cañete, Inmaculada Rodero, J Enrique Baeza, Octavio Avila (Clin Pediatr (Phila), 200301-02)
influence-breast-feeding-mental-psychomotor-development.asp

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Parietal representation of symbolic and nonsymbolic magnitude.

The close behavioral parallels between the processing of quantitative information conveyed by symbolic and nonsymbolic stimuli led to the hypothesis that there exists a common cerebral representation of quantity (Dehaene, Dehaene-Lambertz, & Cohen, ...
Wim Fias, Jan Lammertyn, Bert Reynvoet, Patrick Dupont, Guy A Orban (J Cogn Neurosci, 200301)
parietal-representation-symbolic-nonsymbolic-magnitude.asp