Mental Processes

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Self-representation in nervous systems.

The brains earliest self-representational capacities arose as evolution found neural network solutions for coordinating and regulating inner-body signals, thereby improving behavioral strategies. Additional flexibility in organizing coherent behavioral ...
Patricia S Churchland (Science, 200204)
self-representation-nervous-systems.asp

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Developing partnership promotes peace: group psychotherapy experiences.

Partnerships are often optimal processes for interpersonal growth. The ability to have and keep a partner in mind should, therefore, be thought about and learnt. Although reciprocity, some symmetry, and mutual give and take are important aspects of ...
Robi Friedman (Croat Med J, 200204)
developing-partnership-promotes-peace-group-psychotherapy-experiences.asp

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Memory encoding and retrieval in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimers disease.

Memory encoding and retrieval strategies were assessed in patients with behavior-executive variant frontotemporal dementia (FTD), language variant FTD, and Alzheimers disease (AD) using verbal and visuospatial supraspan learning tests. FTD patients ...
Guila Glosser, Jennifer L Gallo, Christopher M Clark, Murray Grossman (Neuropsychology, 200204)
memory-encoding-retrieval-frontotemporal-dementia-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Information processing speed and sentence comprehension in Parkinsons disease.

This study tests the hypothesis that sentence comprehension difficulty in Parkinsons disease (PD) is related in part to altered information processing speed that plays a crucial role in grammatical processing. The authors measured information processing ...
Murray Grossman, Edgar Zurif, Christine Lee, Penny Prather, Julia Kalmanson, Matthew B Stern, Howard I Hurtig (Neuropsychology, 200204)
information-processing-speed-sentence-comprehension-parkinson-s.asp

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Professional development in undergraduate medical curricula--the key to the door of a new culture?

CONTEXT: One of the most pressing requirements for contemporary medical education is to develop a framework for theory and practice of professional development which results in the attainment of professional competencies suitably robust for a lifetimes ...
Amanda Howe (Med Educ, 200204)
professional-development-undergraduate-medical-curricula-key-door-new.asp

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Bridging the gap between theory and model: a reflection on the balance scale task.

At first glance, the two lead articles in this issue share little except the balance scale task, yet we view them as complementary rather than unrelated or contradictory. Our Reflection focuses on the individual strengths of the two lead articles and, to ...
Geoffrey F W Turner, Hoben Thomas (J Exp Child Psychol, 200204)
bridging-gap-theory-model-reflection-balance-scale-task.asp

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The balance beam in the balance: reflections on rules, relational complexity, and developmental processes.

The lead articles by Jansen and van der Maas (2002, this issue) and Halford, Andrews, Dalton, Boag, and Zielinski (2002, this issue) raise numerous questions concerning the development of rule use and how best to assess it. In this Reflection, we focus ...
Philip David Zelazo, Ulrich Müller (J Exp Child Psychol, 200204)
balance-beam-balance-reflections-rules-relational-complexity.asp

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Development of rules and strategies: balancing the old and the new.

The experiments described in the lead articles replicate findings from previous studies of development of knowledge about balance scales, add several new findings, and raise four key questions: (a) How can rule use best be assessed? (b) How can we ...
Robert S Siegler, Zhe Chen (J Exp Child Psychol, 200204)
development-rules-strategies-balancing-old-new.asp

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Young childrens performance on the balance scale: the influence of relational complexity.

Three experiments investigated the effect of complexity on childrens understanding of a beam balance. In nonconflict problems, weights or distances varied, while the other was held constant. In conflict items, both weight and distance varied, and items ...
Graeme S Halford, Glenda Andrews, Cherie Dalton, Christine Boag, Tracey Zielinski (J Exp Child Psychol, 200204)
young-children-s-performance-balance-scale-influence-relational.asp

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Galtons legacy to research on intelligence.

In the 1999 Galton Lecture for the annual conference of The Galton Institute, the author summarizes the main elements of Galtons ideas about human mental ability and the research paradigm they generated, including the concept of general mental ability, ...
Arthur R Jensen (J Biosoc Sci, 200204)
galton-s-legacy-research-intelligence.asp