Cognition - Research News and Information

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Techniques and devices to restore cognition.

10 Oct 2008 Executive planning, the ability to direct and sustain attention, language and several types of memory may be compromised by conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, cancer, autism, cerebral palsy and... Read more...

Mental imagery skills and topographical orientation in humans: a correlation study.

10 Oct 2008 Several studies provide evidence that mental imagery is critical for human navigation. However, the contribution of different mental imagery abilities to the individuals' skill of using specific orientation strategies... Read more...

Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation.

26 Sep 2008 Having repeatedly retrieved an object from a location, human infants tend to search the same place even when they observe the object being hidden at another location. This perseverative error is usually explained by... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Cognition'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Techniques and devices to restore cognition. 10 Oct 2008
• Mental imagery skills and topographical orientation in humans: a correlation study. 10 Oct 2008
• Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation. 26 Sep 2008
• Neural predictors of moment-to-moment fluctuations in cognitive flexibility. 9 Sep 2008
• Intranasal insulin improves cognition and modulates beta-amyloid in early AD. 9 Sep 2008
• Erythropoietin improves spatial delayed alternation in a T-maze in rats subjected to ablation of the prefrontal cortex. 5 Sep 2008
• Physical activity for older adults at risk for Alzheimer disease. 3 Sep 2008
• Effect of physical activity on cognitive function in older adults at risk for Alzheimer disease: a randomized trial. 3 Sep 2008
• Cognitive-motivational determinants of fat food consumption in overweight and obese youngsters: the implicit association between fat food and arousal. Sep 2008
• Effects of depth of isoflurane anaesthesia on a cognition task in mice. Sep 2008
• Infant growth and child cognition at 3 years of age. Sep 2008
• Cognitive effects of hormone therapy in men with prostate cancer: a review. Sep 2008
• The contribution of cognition and spasticity to driving performance in multiple sclerosis. Sep 2008
• Epigenetic codes in cognition and behaviour. Sep 2008
• Know yourself and you shall know the other... to a certain extent: multiple paths of influence of self-reflection on mindreading. Sep 2008
• Evidence that logical reasoning depends on conscious processing. Sep 2008
• Direct assessment of qualia in a blindsight participant. Sep 2008
• Metacognition and change detection: do lab and life really converge? Sep 2008
• Emotional consciousness: a neural model of how cognitive appraisal and somatic perception interact to produce qualitative experience. Sep 2008
• On how a child's awareness of thinking informs explanations of thought insertion. Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Cognition'

Definition: Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism becomes aware of or obtains knowledge.

Descriptor UI: D003071

Alternative terms: Cognition;

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

Tree Number: F02.463.188;