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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Causal learning with local computations.

29 Apr 2009 The authors proposed and tested a psychological theory of causal structure learning based on local computations. Local computations simplify complex learning problems via cues available on individual trials to update a single causal structure ... Read more...

The Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R).

29 Apr 2009 The study presented here provides researchers with a revised list of affective German words, the Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R). This work is an extension of the previously published BAWL (Võ, Jacobs, & Conrad, 2006), which has ... Read more...

Subjective frequency and imageability ratings for 3,600 French nouns.

29 Apr 2009 Subjective frequency and imageability estimates for a sample of 3,600 French nouns were collected from two independent groups of 72 young adults each. Both groups received standard instructions and provided their ratings on a 7-point scale. The ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Imagination'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Motor imagery: Its future studies. 15 May 2009
• Causal learning with local computations. 29 Apr 2009
• The Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R). 29 Apr 2009
• Subjective frequency and imageability ratings for 3,600 French nouns. 29 Apr 2009
• Mental imagery vividness as a trait marker across the schizophrenia spectrum. Apr 2009
• Reconstructing Bartlett's affect theory. 30 Mar 2009
• The thinking person's emotion theorist: a comment on Bartlett's feeling, imaging, and thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• Reprinted from The British Journal of Psychology (1925), 16, 16-27: Feeling, imaging and thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• Imaginative literature and Bion's intersubjective theory of thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• Neural correlates of motor conversion disorder. 30 Mar 2009
• Facilitated pointing to remembered objects in front: evidence for egocentric retrieval or for spatial priming? 30 Mar 2009
• Operation compatibility: a neglected contribution to dual-task costs. 30 Mar 2009
• The case of pretense: observing actions and inferring goals. 30 Mar 2009
• When do objects become more attractive? The individual and interactive effects of choice and ownership on object evaluation. 25 Mar 2009
• Differential influence of hands posture on mental rotation of hands and feet in left and right handers. 25 Mar 2009
• Interpreting single trial data using groupwise regularisation. 9 Mar 2009
• Globus pallidus internus firing rate modification after motor-imagination in three Parkinson's disease patients. 8 Mar 2009
• Does differential strategy use account for age-related deficits in working-memory performance? 27 Feb 2009
• Not all faces are processed equally: evidence for featural rather than holistic processing of one's own face in a face-imaging task. 27 Feb 2009
• Domain generality and specificity in children's causal inference about ambiguous data. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Imagination'

Definition: A new pattern of perceptual or ideational material derived from past experience.

Descriptor UI: D007092

Alternative terms: Imagination; Imaginations;

Related Mesh Headings: Imagery (Psychotherapy);

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

Tree Number: F02.463.188.634;

Technical Notes: note see related IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY): use of images & imagery as a psychother technique so do not confuse with images produced by the imagination ( = IMAGINATION)