Mental Processes

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Separable effects of priming and imageability on word processing: an ERP study.

Concrete, highly imageable words (e.g. banana) are easier to understand than abstract words for which it is difficult to generate an image (e.g. justice). This effect of concreteness or imageability has been taken by some as evidence for the existence of ...
Tamara Y Swaab, Kathleen Baynes, Robert T Knight (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200212)
separable-effects-priming-imageability-word-processing-erp-study.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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The impact of mental processing and pacing on spine loading: 2002 Volvo Award in biomechanics.

STUDY DESIGN: The impact of various levels of mental processing and pacing (during lifting) on spine loading was monitored under laboratory conditions. OBJECTIVES: To explore how mental demands and pacing influence the biomechanical response and ...
Kermit G Davis, William S Marras, Catherine A Heaney, Thomas R Waters, Purnendu Gupta (Spine, 200212)
impact-mental-processing-pacing-spine-loading--volvo-award.asp

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Event-related potential measures of the inhibition of information processing: I. Selective attention in the waking state.

This article reviews the effects of selective attention on event-related potentials (ERPs). Attention has little, if any, effect on short-latency exogenous ERPs. The longer-latency ERPs can be markedly affected by manipulation of the subjects level of ...
Alexandra Muller-Gass, Kenneth Campbell (Int J Psychophysiol, 200212)
event-related-potential-measures-inhibition-information-processing.asp

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Event-related potential measures of the inhibition of information processing: II. The sleep onset period.

The loss of consciousness during the sleep onset period is associated with dramatic changes in information processing. Human event-related potentials (ERPs) reflect these changes. Short- and mid-latency ERPs are only minimally affected by sleep onset. On ...
Kenneth B Campbell, Ian M Colrain (Int J Psychophysiol, 200212)
event-related-potential-measures-inhibition-information-processing-ii.asp

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Six views of embodied cognition.

The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the bodys interactions with the world. This position actually houses a number of distinct claims, some of which are more controversial than others. This ...
Margaret Wilson (Psychon Bull Rev, 200212)
six-views-embodied-cognition.asp

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Subjective and objective assessment methods of mental imagery control: construct validation of self-report measures.

A study was conducted to examine the relationship between subjective and objective measures of mental imagery control. Eighty college undergraduates completed a battery of imagery tests and self-report measures to examine whether questionnaires that ...
Anthony Lequerica, Lisa Rapport, Bradley N Axelrod, Kaja Telmet, R Douglas Whitman (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200212)
subjective-objective-assessment-methods-mental-imagery-control.asp

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REM and NREM sleep as natural accompaniments of the evolution of warm-bloodedness.

Divergence of primitive sleep into REM and NREM states is thought to have occurred in the nocturnal Triassic ancestors of mammals as a natural accompaniment of the evolution of warm-bloodedness. As ambient temperatures during twilight portions of ...
J Lee Kavanau (Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 200212)
rem-nrem-sleep-natural-accompaniments-evolution-warm-bloodedness.asp

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Frontal and parietal lobe activation during transitive inference in humans.

Cortical areas engaged in knowledge manipulation during reasoning were identified with functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) while participants performed transitive inference (TI) on an ordered list of 11 items (e.g. if A < B and B < C, then A < ...
Bettina D Acuna, James C Eliassen, John P Donoghue, Jerome N Sanes (Cereb Cortex, 200212)
frontal-parietal-lobe-activation-transitive-inference-humans.asp

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Young childrens change in strategies of size comparison: effects of strategy evaluation.

This study examined how young children change their strategies for comparing sizes. 33 5- and 6-yr.-old children were asked to compare the sizes of geometric figures, and their strategies were observed. Children in experimental conditions were also asked ...
Miki Yuzawa, Masamichi Yuzawa, William M Bart (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
young-children-s-change-strategies-size-comparison-effects-strategy.asp