Mental Processes

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Sustained mental workload does not affect subsequent sleep intensity.

Mental activity is a neglected factor in sleep research. The few investigations on sleep that manipulate prior mental activity are inconclusive with respect to the possible effects of mental activity on recovery. In the present study, the effects of two ...
Eveline A De Bruin, Domien G M Beersma, Serge Daan (J Sleep Res, 200206)
sustained-mental-workload-not-affect-subsequent-sleep-intensity.asp

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Does priming specific syllables during tip-of-the-tongue states facilitate word retrieval in older adults?

This experiment investigated whether phonological priming of syllables helps resolve tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states in young and older adults. Young, young-old, and old-old adults read general knowledge questions and responded "know," "TOT," or "dont ...
Katherine K White, Lise Abrams (Psychol Aging, 200206)
priming-specific-syllables-tip-tongue-states-facilitate-word.asp

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Functional MRI of global and local processing in children.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to examine developmental change in hemispheric biases for globally and locally directed analysis of hierarchical forms. In a previous reaction time (RT) study, which presented hierarchical stimuli to the ...
Pamela Moses, Katherine Roe, Richard B Buxton, Eric C Wong, Lawrence R Frank, Joan Stiles (Neuroimage, 200206)
functional-mri-global-local-processing-children.asp

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Lateralized changes in autonomic arousal during emotional processing in patients with unilateral temporal lobe seizure onset.

The valence model of emotion, which posits cerebral lateralization for positive and negative emotional processing, was investigated in patients with unilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and controls by measuring skin conductance levels (SCLs) ...
Gregory P Lee, Kimford J Meador, David W Loring, Kathy P Bradley (Int J Neurosci, 200206)
lateralized-changes-autonomic-arousal-emotional-processing-patients.asp

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Mindsets in social anxiety: a new look at selective information processing.

According to the Rubicon Model of Action Phases (in: J. Gollwitzer, 1996), Motivation, volition, and action, Enzyclopedia of psychology, series "motivation and emotion", Vol. 4, Hogrefe, Göttingen, 1996, pp. 531-582), different stages in goal pursuit are ...
Anette Hiemisch, Anke Ehlers, Rainer Westermann (J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry, 200206)
mindsets-social-anxiety-new-look-selective-information-processing.asp

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Value of a cognitive simulation in medicine: towards optimizing decision making performance of healthcare personnel.

Medical errors can be reduced or avoided by training in both factual knowledge and in optimal information processing. The latter is of special importance when task settings are complex, when information about a patients condition is ambiguous and ...
U Satish, S Streufert (Qual Saf Health Care, 200206)
value-cognitive-simulation-medicine-towards-optimizing-decision.asp

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Theoretical approaches to holistic biological features: Pattern formation, neural networks and the brain-mind relation.

The topic of this article is the relation between bottom-up and top-down, reductionist and holistic approaches to the solution of basic biological problems. While there is no doubt that the laws of physics apply to all events in space and time, ...
Alfred Gierer (J Biosci, 200206)
theoretical-approaches-holistic-biological-features-pattern-formation.asp

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Mental rotation of tactile stimuli.

When subjects decide whether two visual stimuli presented in various orientations are identical or mirror-images, reaction time increases with the angular disparity between the stimuli. The interpretation of this well-known observation is that subjects ...
S C Prather, K Sathian (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200206)
mental-rotation-tactile-stimuli.asp

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A comparison of neural circuits underlying auditory and visual object categorization.

Knowledge about environmental objects derives from representations of multiple object features both within and across sensory modalities. While our understanding of the neural basis for visual object representation in the human and nonhuman primate brain ...
Reginald B Adams, Petr Janata (Neuroimage, 200206)
comparison-neural-circuits-underlying-auditory-visual-object.asp

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Aging and visual marking: selective deficits for moving stimuli.

The selective processing of new visual information can be facilitated by the top-down inhibition of old stimuli already in the visual field, a capacity-limited process termed visual marking (D. G. Watson & G. W. Humphreys, 1997). Three experiments ...
Derrick G Watson, Elizabeth A Maylor (Psychol Aging, 200206)
aging-visual-marking-selective-deficits-moving-stimuli.asp