Mental Recall

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Walking the tightrope between feeling good and being accurate: mood as a resource in processing persuasive messages.

Three studies investigated the influence of mood states on the processing of positive and negative information regarding caffeine consumption and on the impact of this information on ones mood, attitudes, and intentions. The results were consistent with ...
Rajagopal Raghunathan, Yaacov Trope (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200209)
walking-tightrope-feeling-good-accurate-mood-resource-processing.asp

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Hippocampal and brain stem activation during word retrieval after repeated and semantic encoding.

Repeated word presentation during learning and the use of a semantic encoding task both increase the accuracy of subsequent word retrieval. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that successful word retrieval depends on the recruitment of the ...
Stephan Heckers, Anthony P Weiss, Nathaniel M Alpert, Daniel L Schacter (Cereb Cortex, 200209)
hippocampal-brain-stem-activation-word-retrieval-after-repeated.asp

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The phonological-similarity effect differentiates between two working memory tasks.

Working memory is a set of interactive cognitive processes that maintain information on-line and available for analysis. Part of the system is specialized for maintaining verbal information, a core component of which is thought to be a phonological ...
Danean K MacAndrew, Roberta L Klatzky, Julie A Fiez, James L McClelland, James T Becke (Psychol Sci, 200209)
phonological-similarity-effect-differentiates-two-working-memory-tasks.asp

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Are you looking at me? Eye gaze and person perception.

Previous research has highlighted the pivotal role played by gaze detection and interpretation in the development of social cognition. Extending work of this kind, the present research investigated the effects of eye gaze on basic aspects of the ...
C Neil Macrae, Bruce M Hood, Alan B Milne, Angela C Rowe, Malia F Mason (Psychol Sci, 200209)
looking-me-eye-gaze-person-perception.asp

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A direct measure of facial similarity and its relation to human similarity perceptions.

Research is reported on a measure of facial similarity in which the similarity of 2 faces is defined as the Euclidean distance between them in a principal-component space. Five studies were conducted in which participants rated sets of facial images, and ...
Colin Tredoux (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200209)
direct-measure-facial-similarity-relation-human-similarity-perceptions.asp

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Salient stimuli in advertising: the effect of contrast interval length and type on recall.

Salient auditory stimuli (e.g., music or sound effects) are commonly used in advertising to elicit attention. However, issues related to the effectiveness of such stimuli are not well understood. This research examines the ability of a salient auditory ...
G Douglas Olsen (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200209)
salient-stimuli-advertising-effect-contrast-interval-length-type.asp

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Eyewitness identification: information gain from incriminating and exonerating behaviors.

An information-gain approach to the analysis and interpretation of eyewitness identification data is described. The information-gain analysis is grounded in Bayesian statistics, permitting the important role of prior probabilities to be explored. This ...
Gary L Wells, Elizabeth A Olson (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200209)
eyewitness-identification-information-gain-incriminating-exonerating.asp

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The effect of glucose administration and the emotional content of words on heart rate and memory.

The effects of glucose administration and emotionality of target material on heart rate and memory were examined in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, balanced crossover study. Memory for neutral and emotional words was tested in 20 young adults ...
Claire E Ford, Andrew B Scholey, Gareth Ayre, Keith Wesnes (J Psychopharmacol, 200209)
effect-glucose-administration-emotional-content-words-heart-rate.asp

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Health promotion and lifestyle advice in a general practice: what do patients think?

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE: Since 1990 health promotion and lifestyle advice has been integrated in general practice and has been mainly undertaken by practice nurses. However little is known about patients views of the service provided. AIMS OF THE STUDY: To ...
Maria Jose Duaso, Philip Cheung (J Adv Nurs, 200209)
health-promotion-lifestyle-advice-general-practice-patients-think.asp

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Show me the features! Understanding recognition from the use of visual information.

We propose an approach that allows a rigorous understanding of the visual categorization and recognition process without asking direct questions about unobservable memory representations. Our approach builds on the selective use of visual information in ...
Philippe G Schyns, Lizann Bonnar, Frédéric Gosselin (Psychol Sci, 200209)
me-features-understanding-recognition-visual-information.asp