Mental Recall

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Geophysical variables and behavior: XCVIII. Ambient geomagnetic activity and experiences of "memories": interactions with sex and implications for receptive psi experiences.

During 96 nonsequential days over a 3-yr. period, a total of 53 men and 86 women were exposed only once for 30 min. to transcerebral, weak complex magnetic fields while they sat alone within a quiet chamber. They were asked to record the frequency of ...
M A Persinger (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
geophysical-variables-behavior-xcviii-ambient-geomagnetic-activity.asp

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Hemispheric asymmetry in accessing word meanings: concrete and abstract nouns.

The present experiments investigated hemispheric differences in the brain in accessing concrete and abstract word meanings. For this purpose, an automatic semantic priming paradigm was used with a short stimulus onset asynchrony between prime and target ...
Naoki Shibahara, Brennis Lucero-Wagoner (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
hemispheric-asymmetry-accessing-word-meanings-concrete-abstract-nouns.asp

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Understanding abstract expository texts.

BACKGROUND: This study dealt with the question whether abstract concepts and rules can be directly taught or can only be explained by using examples. The issue, known as Menos Paradox, was addressed in the context of understanding expository texts. AIMS: ...
Jos Beishuizen, Evelien Stoutjesdijk, Sandra Spuijbroek, Samantha Bouwmeester, Hanneke van der Geest (Br J Educ Psychol, 200206)
understanding-abstract-expository-texts.asp

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Measuring the lifetime experience of domestic violence: application of the life history calendar method.

In the absence of a "gold standard," research on domestic violence relies primarily on self-report, the quality of which is known to decline as the length of the recall period increases. Eliciting valid and reliable self-report data is crucial to the ...
Mieko Yoshihama, Kimberly Clum, Alexandra Crampton, Brenda Gillespie (Violence Vict, 200206)
measuring-lifetime-experience-domestic-violence-application-life.asp

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Attentional processes in time perception: effects of mental workload and event structure.

The role of attention in timing was evaluated in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, participants reproduced the durations of melodies with either a coherent or an incoherent structure. Participants were tested under control (timing only) and detection ...
Scott W Brown, Marilyn G Boltz (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200206)
attentional-processes-time-perception-effects-mental-workload-event.asp

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Evaluation of context effects in sentence recognition.

It was investigated whether the model for context effects, developed earlier by Bronkhorst et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 499-509 (1993)], can be applied to results of sentence tests, used for the evaluation of speech recognition. Data for two German ...
Adelbert W Bronkhorst, Thomas Brand, Kirsten Wagener (J Acoust Soc Am, 200206)
evaluation-context-effects-sentence-recognition.asp

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Recall of preoperative anaesthesia information in Hong Kong Chinese patients.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ability of patients to recall information provided during a preoperative visit. DESIGN: Qualitative study. SETTING: Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS: Sixty patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anaesthesia ...
B C P Cheng, P P Chen, D C K Cheng, C P W Chu, H Y So (Hong Kong Med J, 200206)
recall-preoperative-anaesthesia-information-hong-kong-chinese-patients.asp

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Word imageability and N400 in an incidental memory paradigm.

High imagery words are memorized better than low imagery words. To examine how these words are processed at encoding, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in an incidental memory paradigm. Frequency-matched high and low imagery words (45 words ...
Hiroshi Nittono, Maki Suehiro, Tadao Hori (Int J Psychophysiol, 200206)
word-imageability-n-incidental-memory-paradigm.asp

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Minds ear in a musician: where and when in the brain.

The temporospatial pattern of brain activity during auditory imagery was studied using magnetoencephalography. Trained musicians were presented with visual notes and instructed to imagine the corresponding sounds. Brain activity specific to the auditory ...
Martin Schürmann, Tommi Raij, Nobuya Fujiki, Riitta Hari (Neuroimage, 200206)
mind-s-ear-musician-where-brain.asp

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Visual word recognition in bilinguals: phonological priming from the second to the first language.

In this study, the authors show that cross-lingual phonological priming is possible not only from the 1st language (L1) to the 2nd language (L2), but also from L2 to L1. In addition, both priming effects were found to have the same magnitude and to not ...
Ilse Van Wijnendaele, Marc Brysbaert (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200206)
visual-word-recognition-bilinguals-phonological-priming-second-first.asp