Problem Solving
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude.

29 Nov 2009 The moral practice of nursing requires the difficult work of discerning the best response to an ethical quandary. Determining the right course of action can rarely be discovered by assuming that one value, one theory, one point of view will always ... Read more...

Resolving response, decision, and strategic control: evidence for a functional topography in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.

19 Oct 2009 The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) plays a central role in aspects of cognitive control and decision making. Here, we provide evidence for an anterior-to-posterior topography within the DMPFC using tasks that evoke three distinct forms of ... Read more...

Verbal representation in task order control: an examination with transition and task cues in random task switching.

29 Sep 2009 Recent task-switching studies in which a predictable task sequence has been used have indicated that verbal representation contributes to the control of task order information. The present study focused on the role of verbal representation in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Problem Solving'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude. 29 Nov 2009
• Building a health-peace movement: academic medicine's role in generating solutions to global problems. 30 Oct 2009
• Resolving response, decision, and strategic control: evidence for a functional topography in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. 19 Oct 2009
• Verbal representation in task order control: an examination with transition and task cues in random task switching. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features. 29 Sep 2009
• Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex enhances complex verbal associative thought. 29 Sep 2009
• The medial temporal lobe and the left inferior prefrontal cortex jointly support interference resolution in verbal working memory. 29 Sep 2009
• Intelligent tutoring system for clinical reasoning skill acquisition in dental students. 29 Sep 2009
• Cognitive change effects in a semantic, a numeric, and a figure inference task. 21 Sep 2009
• Clinical gist and medical education: connecting the dots. 21 Sep 2009
• Declining financial capacity in mild cognitive impairment: A 1-year longitudinal study. 20 Sep 2009
• Associations between psychological distress, learning, and memory in spouse caregivers of older adults. 15 Sep 2009
• Comparative study of neurocognitive function in euthymic bipolar patients and stabilized schizophrenic patients. 13 Sep 2009
• A longitudinal study of children's performance on simple multiplication and division problems. 30 Aug 2009
• Stress-induced laboratory eating behavior in obese women with binge eating disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• The relationship between everyday problem solving and inconsistency in reaction time in older adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Neural correlates of arithmetic calculation strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of an explicit problem-solving skills training program using a metacomponential approach for outpatients with acquired brain injury. 30 Aug 2009
• Variation in working memory capacity, fluid intelligence, and episodic recall: a latent variable examination of differences in the dynamics of free recall. 30 Aug 2009
• Spatial directions and situation model organization. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Problem Solving'

Definition: A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to attain a specific goal.

Descriptor UI: D011340

Alternative terms: Problem Solving;

Related Mesh Headings: Decision Making;

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

Tree Number: F02.463.425.725; F02.463.785.810;

Technical Notes: human & animal