Mental Processes

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About the power for detecting severe impairment in older adults with the Faces test from Wechsler Memory Scale-III: simply guess and save face.

The Faces test from Wechsler Memory Scale-III is a widely used instrument for detecting impairment in visual memory. However, the degree to which this test actually achieves its purpose may be seriously hampered by error due to guessing. This problem ...
Levy Boaz (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200305)
power-detecting-severe-impairment-older-adults-faces-test-wechsler.asp

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Computerizing reading training: evaluation of a latent semantic analysis space for science text.

The effectiveness of a domain-specific latent semantic analysis (LSA) in assessing reading strategies was examined. Students were given self-explanation reading training (SERT) and asked to think aloud after each sentence in a science text. Novice and ...
Christopher A Kurby, Katja Wiemer-Hastings, Nagasai Ganduri, Joseph P Magliano, Keith K Millis, Danielle S McNamara (Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput, 200305)
computerizing-reading-training-evaluation-latent-semantic-analysis.asp

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Stereotyped movements in a group of autistic children.

The authors studied the stereotyped movements presented by a group of 20 autistic children, evaluating the patient observation protocols according to a psychodynamic model of autism. The stereotyped movements were analysed considering ten different ...
Antonella Gritti, Domenico Bove, Angela Maria Di Sarno, Anna Antonia DAddio, Simona Chiapparo, Rocco Mario Bove (Funct Neurol, 200304-06)
stereotyped-movements-group-autistic-children.asp

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What the cerebellum computes.

The brain is an organ that processes information. Brain systems such as the cerebellum receive inputs from other systems and generate outputs according to their internal rules of information processing. Thus, our understanding of the cerebellum is ...
Tatsuya Ohyama, William L Nores, Matthew Murphy, Michael D Mauk (Trends Neurosci, 200304)
cerebellum-computes.asp

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Dissociating semantic and perceptual components of synaesthesia: behavioural and functional neuroanatomical investigations.

Colour digit synaesthetes experience atypical dual perceptions wherein achromatic digits are perceived along with coloured photisms. Recent studies have employed Stroop or priming tasks and exhibited interference or facilitation in synaesthesia [Nature ...
Lorin J Elias, Deborah M Saucier, Colleen Hardie, Gordon E Sarty (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200304)
dissociating-semantic-perceptual-components-synaesthesia-behavioural.asp

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Spatiotemporal brain activity related to intelligence: a low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography study.

Differences in current density between high intelligent (IQ=124), and average intelligent individuals (IQ=110), while solving two complex cognitive tasks (analytical-figural, and identification of emotions) were analyzed with low resolution brain ...
Norbert Jausovec, Ksenija Jausovec (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200304)
spatiotemporal-brain-activity-related-intelligence-low-resolution.asp

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Differential effects of syntactic and semantic processing on the subregions of Brocas area.

This study attempts to specify the contribution of two subregions of Brocas area during syntactic and semantic processing of sentences by examining brain activation in a grammaticality judgment task. The processing of two types of ungrammatical sentences ...
Sharlene D Newman, Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A Keller, Jennifer Roth, Patricia A Carpenter (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200304)
differential-effects-syntactic-semantic-processing-subregions-broca-s.asp

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Coloring only a single letter does not eliminate color-word interference in a vocal-response Stroop task: automaticity revealed.

The presence of an interference effect in naming the print color of color words (J. R. Stroop, 1935) suggests that responses associated with the irrelevant-word dimension of the display are activated involuntarily. In the present study, the author ...
Harvey H C Marmurek (J Gen Psychol, 200304)
coloring-only-single-letter-not-eliminate-color-word-interference.asp

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A parametric manipulation of factors affecting task-induced deactivation in functional neuroimaging.

Task-induced deactivation (TID) refers to a regional decrease in blood flow during an active task relative to a "resting" or "passive" baseline. We tested the hypothesis that TID results from a reallocation of processing resources by parametrically ...
Kristen A McKiernan, Jacqueline N Kaufman, Jane Kucera-Thompson, Jeffrey R Binder (J Cogn Neurosci, 200304)
parametric-manipulation-factors-affecting-task-induced-deactivation.asp

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The X-trials: neural correlates of an inhibitory control task in children and adults.

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to examine developmental differences between adults and 6-year-old children in the neural processes involved in an inhibitory control task. Twenty adults and 21 children completed a task that required them to ...
Elysia Poggi Davis, Jacqueline Bruce, Kelly Snyder, Charles A Nelson (J Cogn Neurosci, 200304)
x-trials-neural-correlates-inhibitory-control-task-children-adults.asp