Mental Processes

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Fear, disgust, and information processing in specific phobia: the application of signal detection theory.

A growing body of research suggests that individuals with small animal and blood-injection-injury (BII) phobias respond to phobia-relevant stimuli with a combination of fear and disgust. Despite the recognition that disgust may serve a functional role in ...
Craig N Sawchuk, Suzanne A Meunier, Jeffrey M Lohr, David H Westendorf (J Anxiety Disord, 2002)
fear-disgust-information-processing-specific-phobia-application.asp

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Microcurrent therapies: emerging theories of physiological information processing.

Throughout history, medical theories that have undergirded medical thinking and practice at any given time have been tied to the then current knowledge of human physiology. This knowledge has, in turn, always been predicated on the latest technology ...
Ray B Smith (NeuroRehabilitation, 2002)
microcurrent-therapies-emerging-theories-physiological-information.asp

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Interhemispheric cooperation for familiar but not unfamiliar face processing.

Evidence for interhemispheric cooperation during language processing has been demonstrated for words, but not for meaningless pseudowords. Specifically, responses were found to be faster and more accurate when identical copies of a word were presented ...
Bettina Mohr, Anna Landgrebe, Stefan R Schweinberger (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
interhemispheric-cooperation-familiar-not-unfamiliar-face-processing.asp

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The language system in schizophrenia: effects of capacity and linguistic structure.

Dysfunction in receptive language processes has been reliably observed in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and their first degree family members. The present study addressed the unresolved issue of whether receptive syntax is intact in ...
Ruth Condray, Stuart R Steinhauer, Daniel P van Kammen, Annette Kasparek (Schizophr Bull, 2002)
language-system-schizophrenia-effects-capacity-linguistic-structure.asp

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Impaired temporal lobe processing of preattentive auditory discrimination in schizophrenia.

Feature-specific stimulus discrimination related to short-term auditory sensory memory can be studied electrophysiologically using a specific event-related potential (ERP) component termed mismatch negativity (MMN), which is generated in the auditory ...
Eero Pekkonen, Heikki Katila, Jyrki Ahveninen, Jari Karhu, Minna Huotilainen, Jari Tiihonen (Schizophr Bull, 2002)
impaired-temporal-lobe-processing-preattentive-auditory.asp

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Spatial attention in agenesis of the corpus callosum: shifting attention between visual fields.

The role of the corpus callosum in spatially selective visual attention is uncertain. Research using commissurotomy and callosotomy patients has attempted to determine if the corpus callosum plays a role in reorienting attention between visual fields, as ...
Robert J Hines, Lynn K Paul, Warren S Brown (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
spatial-attention-agenesis-corpus-callosum-shifting-attention-visual.asp

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A dissociation of perception and action in normal human observers: the effect of temporal-delay.

Neuropsychological results support the proposal that the human visual system is organised into distinct processing pathways, one for conscious perception and one for the control of action. Here, we compare perceptual and action responses following a ...
Mark F Bradshaw, Simon J Watt (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
dissociation-perception-action-normal-human-observers-effect-temporal.asp

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Acquisition and use of mental operators: effects of type of practice.

Planning interactions with the physical world requires knowledge about operations; in short, mental operators. Abstractness of content and directionality of access are two important properties to characterize the representational units of this kind of ...
Burkhard Müller, Jürgen Gehrke (Exp Psychol, 2002)
acquisition-mental-operators-effects-type-practice.asp

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Information processing in autistic children: more sequential or more simultaneous?

The objective of this study was to refine the understanding of cognitive troubles in autism and to clarify the modes of information processing mobilized by the subjects. Eight children were examined, aged 4;9-9;1, with a diagnosis of moderate autism. The ...
Pascale Planche (Int J Circumpolar Health, 2002)
information-processing-autistic-children-more-sequential-or-more.asp

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Affective percept and voluntary action: a hypothesis.

I present a hypothesis concerning the neuronal, mental and behavioral effects of all kinds of affective (emotional) stimuli, i.e., of unpleasant and pleasant stimuli. I use the term stimulus in its broad sense. Affective stimuli evoke two associated ...
Boguslaw Zernicki (Acta Neurobiol Exp (Wars), 2002)
affective-percept-voluntary-action-hypothesis.asp