Mental Processes

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Physical development and psychical function states in junior schoolchildren.

The authors studied the physical development level and condition of physical and neurodynamic functions in junior schoolchildren. The 55 girls and 53 boys of the fourth form of a secondary school of nine-year age were examined. To evaluate the childrens ...
G Korobeynikov, L Korobeynikova (Bratisl Lek Listy, 2003)
physical-development-psychical-function-states-junior-schoolchildren.asp

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Theory of mind and psychopathy: can psychopathic individuals read the language of the eyes?

There have been suggestions that Theory of Mind (ToM) impairment might lead to aggressive behaviour and psychopathy. Psychopathic and matched non-psychopathic individuals, as defined by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist [The Hare Psychopath ...
R A Richell, D G V Mitchell, C Newman, A Leonard, S Baron-Cohen, R J R Blair (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
theory-mind-psychopathy-psychopathic-individuals-read-language-eyes.asp

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Assessing effects of stimulus orientation on perception of lateralized words and nonwords.

Numerous studies of the processes of visual word recognition in the left and right cerebral hemispheres have attempted to control for confounding differences in the retinal placement (and hence visual acuity) of the beginnings of words by re-orientating ...
Timothy R Jordan, Geoffrey R Patching (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
assessing-effects-stimulus-orientation-perception-lateralized-words.asp

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Psyching-up and muscular force production.

Psyching-up refers to self-directed cognitive strategies used immediately prior to or during skill execution that are designed to enhance performance. This review focuses on research that has investigated the effect of psyching-up on force production; ...
David Tod, Fiona Iredale, Nicholas Gill (Sports Med, 2003)
psyching-up-muscular-force-production.asp

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Differences in word associations to pictures and words.

Normal subjects were asked to produce the "first word that comes to mind" in response to pictures or words that differed with respect to manipulability and animacy. In separate analyses across subjects and items, normal subjects produced a significantly ...
Eleanor M Saffran, H Branch Coslett, Matthew T Keener (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
differences-word-associations-pictures-words.asp

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Turning gap acceptance decision-making: the impact of driver distraction.

PROBLEM: A number of studies have found that use of in-car phones by drivers can interfere with the cognitive processing necessary for making appropriate and timely vehicle control decisions. However, the specific linkage between communication-based ...
Peter J Cooper, Yvonne Zheng (J Safety Res, 2002FALL)
turning-gap-acceptance-decision-making-impact-driver-distraction.asp

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Animal models for information processing during sleep.

Information provided by external stimuli does reach the brain during sleep, although the amount of information is reduced during sleep compared to wakefulness. The process controlling this reduction is called sensory gating and evidence exists that the ...
A M L Coenen, W H I M Drinkenburg (Int J Psychophysiol, 200212)
animal-models-information-processing-sleep.asp

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Can longitudinal changes in processing speed explain longitudinal age changes in fluid intelligence?

The processing-speed theory of cognitive aging contends tha age-related declines in intellectual function reflect the consequences of age-related slowing of processing speed. Cross-sectional data support this assumption. The association between 4-year ...
Daniel Zimprich, Mike Martin (Psychol Aging, 200212)
longitudinal-changes-processing-speed-explain-longitudinal-age.asp

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Neural basis of mental scanning of a topographic representation built from a text.

Humans have the ability to build and to inspect an internal visual image of an environment built from a verbal description. We used positron emission tomography (PET) to investigate the brain areas engaged in the mental scanning of a map that subjects ...
E Mellet, S Bricogne, F Crivello, B Mazoyer, M Denis, N Tzourio-Mazoyer (Cereb Cortex, 200212)
neural-basis-mental-scanning-topographic-representation-built-text.asp

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Relation between sport activity and mental rotation: comparison of three groups of subjects.

The aim was to observe the relation between sport activity and performance on a mental image-transformation task. A classical mental rotation task using abstract stimuli was administered to three groups: (a) gymnasts who used mental and physical ...
Sylvie Ozel, Jacques Larue, Corinne Molinaro (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
relation-sport-activity-mental-rotation-comparison-three-groups.asp