Problem Solving

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The Spanish ser/estar distinction in bilingual childrens reasoning about human psychological characteristics.

Childrens reasoning about the stability of human psychological characteristics was investigated in relation to the obligatory distinction between the Spanish verb forms ser and estar (which convey different information about the stability of ...
Gail D Heyman, Gil Diesendruck (Dev Psychol, 200205)
spanish-ser-estar-distinction-bilingual-children-s-reasoning-human.asp

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Managing indigent care: a case study of a safety-net emergency department.

OBJECTIVE: To examine how one safety-net emergency department (ED) managed problems associated with the provision of indigent care in everyday life. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Interview and observational data collected in County Hospital ED, a public ...
Daniel Dohan (Health Serv Res, 200204)
managing-indigent-care-case-study-safety-net-emergency-department.asp

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Memory of elapsed time and feeling of time discrepancy.

In dating past events, one sometimes recalls inaccurate dates and tends to estimate recent events too remotely and remote events too recently (telescoping). On the other hand, even when one knows the exact dates of events, subjective time could be ...
Yumi Shimojima (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
memory-elapsed-time-feeling-time-discrepancy.asp

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Determinants of coping responses among Mexican American adolescents.

This study examined relationships among perceived stress, self-esteem, acculturation, and gender with the coping response of 472 Mexican American adolescents aged 14 to 16 years. Subjects were drawn from a predominantly Mexican American population ...
Bobby Guinn, Vern Vincent (J Sch Health, 200204)
determinants-coping-responses-mexican-american-adolescents.asp

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The neural basis for category-specific knowledge: an fMRI study.

Functional neuroimaging studies of healthy adults have associated different categories of knowledge with distinct activation patterns. The basis for these recruitment patterns has been controversial, due in part to the limited range of categories that ...
Murray Grossman, Phyllis Koenig, Chris DeVita, Guila Glosser, David Alsop, John Detre, James Gee (Neuroimage, 200204)
neural-basis-category-specific-knowledge-fmri-study.asp

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A PET study of stimulus- and task-induced semantic processing.

To investigate the neural correlates of semantic processing, previous functional imaging studies have used semantic decision and generation tasks. However, in addition to activating semantic associations these tasks also involve executive functions that ...
U Noppeney, C J Price (Neuroimage, 200204)
pet-study-stimulus-task-induced-semantic-processing.asp

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Retrieval of visual, auditory, and abstract semantics.

Conceptual knowledge is thought to be represented in a large distributed network, indexing a range of different semantic features (e.g., visual, auditory, functional). We investigated the anatomical organization of these features, using PET, by ...
U Noppeney, C J Price (Neuroimage, 200204)
retrieval-visual-auditory-abstract-semantics.asp

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The synchronization of the human cortical working memory network.

A verbal reasoning problem at the intersection of verbal working memory, problem-solving, and language comprehension was examined using event-related fMRI to distinguish differences in the differential timing of the response of the various cortical ...
Sharlene D Newman, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A Carpenter (Neuroimage, 200204)
synchronization-human-cortical-working-memory-network.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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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