Awareness - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research.

30 Oct 2008 Just as vision scientists study visual art and illusions to elucidate the workings of the visual system, so too can cognitive scientists study cognitive illusions to elucidate the underpinnings of cognition. Magic shows are a manifestation of ... Read more...

Trends in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates in United States adults between 1988-1994 and 1999-2004.

11 Oct 2008 This study assesses trends in hypertension prevalence, blood pressure distributions and mean levels, and hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among US adults, age >or=18 years, between the third National Health and Nutrition Examination ... Read more...

Opposite neural signatures of motion-induced blindness in human dorsal and ventral visual cortex.

6 Oct 2008 Motion-induced blindness (MIB) is a visual phenomenon in which a salient static target spontaneously fluctuates in and out of visual awareness when surrounded by a moving mask pattern. It has been hypothesized that MIB reflects an antagonistic ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Awareness'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Memory and awareness during anaesthesia. 30 Oct 2008
• Awareness and anaesthesia. 30 Oct 2008
• Memory and awareness during anaesthesia. 30 Oct 2008
• Memory and awareness during anaesthesia. 30 Oct 2008
• Operating room desensitization as a novel treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after intraoperative awareness. 30 Oct 2008
• Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research. 30 Oct 2008
• Matters of the heart: the brain in pediatric sleep apnea. 13 Oct 2008
• Trends in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates in United States adults between 1988-1994 and 1999-2004. 11 Oct 2008
• Opposite neural signatures of motion-induced blindness in human dorsal and ventral visual cortex. 6 Oct 2008
• Anaesthetists be'ware ... and alarmed. 29 Sep 2008
• Awareness of cardiovascular risk factors in ischaemic heart disease: implications during the projection of secondary prevention interventions. 29 Sep 2008
• From diversity to delivery: the case of the Indian Genome Variation initiative. 29 Sep 2008
• Detecting awareness in children by using an auditory intervention. 29 Sep 2008
• Load induced blindness. 29 Sep 2008
• Effortful control, explicit processing, and the regulation of human evolved predispositions. 29 Sep 2008
• The implications of death for health: a terror management health model for behavioral health promotion. 29 Sep 2008
• Survival from breast cancer in England and Wales up to 2001. 21 Sep 2008
• Breast cancer awareness among older women. 21 Sep 2008
• [Bispectral index for improving anesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery. A survey of a Cochrane review] 20 Sep 2008
• Gestational diabetes mellitus: postpartum opportunities for the diagnosis and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus. 7 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Awareness'

Definition: The act of "taking account" of an object or state of affairs. It does not imply assessment of nor attention to the qualities or nature of the object.

Descriptor UI: D001364

Alternative terms: Awareness; Awarenesses;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.150;

Online Note: search COGNITION 1969-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under COGNITION 1975-90