Find-Health-Articles.com - making medical research available to everyone

Mental Processes (Latest Articles)

 

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Processes'

Articles 121 to 130 of 200:

Long-term physical outcome in patients with septic shock.

13 Apr 2009 BACKGROUND: Limited information is available on physical function after septic shock. The aim of the present study was to assess the physical outcome in survivors 1 year after septic shock. METHODS: The outcome status of all 174 adult patients ...
rec_pub_19388891-long-term-physical-outcome-patients-septic-shock.htm


Cerebellar involvement in cognitive flexibility.

7 Apr 2009 The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the cerebellar structures are involved in functions requiring cognitive flexibility abilities. The flexibility of the hemicerebellectomized and control animals in learning a four-choice ...
rec_pub_19362159-cerebellar-involvement-cognitive-flexibility.htm


Neural correlates of executive control functions in the monkey.

7 Apr 2009 Executive control functions (ECFs) have become an important topic in the cognitive sciences in the past 40 years. The number of publications has steadily increased, and in the last decade, studies have been conducted in one of the best models of ...
rec_pub_19362512-neural-correlates-executive-control-functions-monkey.htm


Reason, emotion and decision-making: risk and reward computation with feeling.

6 Apr 2009 Many models of judgment and decision-making posit distinct cognitive and emotional contributions to decision-making under uncertainty. Cognitive processes typically involve exact computations according to a cost-benefit calculus, whereas emotional ...
rec_pub_19362037-reason-emotion-decision-making-risk-reward-computation-feeling.htm


Exercise and the brain: something to chew on.

4 Apr 2009 Evidence is accumulating that exercise has profound benefits for brain function. Physical activity improves learning and memory in humans and animals. Moreover, an active lifestyle might prevent or delay loss of cognitive function with aging or ...
rec_pub_19349082-exercise-brain-chew-on.htm


Adaptive learning via selectionism and Bayesianism, Part II: the sequential case.

3 Apr 2009 Animals increase or decrease their future tendency of emitting an action based on whether performing such action has, in the past, resulted in positive or negative reinforcement. An analysis in the companion paper [Zhang, J. (2009). Adaptive ...
rec_pub_19395235-adaptive-learning-selectionism-bayesianism-ii-sequential-case.htm


Language, thought, and real nouns.

3 Apr 2009 We test the claim that acquiring a mass-count language, like English, causes speakers to think differently about entities in the world, relative to speakers of classifier languages like Japanese. We use three tasks to assess this claim: ...
rec_pub_19345937-language-thought-real-nouns.htm


Early intention understandings that are common to primates predict children's later theory of mind.

Apr 2009 Intention understanding emerges early in human development, manifest in deep and robust fashions even in infants. Overlapping intention understandings, encompassing agents as intentional actors and experiencers, are evident in nonhuman primates in ...
rec_pub_19345573-early-intention-understandings-common-primates-predict-children-s.htm


The time course of semantic and orthographic encoding in Chinese word production: an event-related potential study.

30 Mar 2009 Previous studies have shown that access to conceptual/semantic information precedes phonological access in alphabetic language production such as English or Dutch. The present study investigated the time course of semantic and orthographic encoding ...
rec_pub_19344700-the-time-course-semantic-orthographic-encoding-chinese-word.htm


[Individual consciousness]

30 Mar 2009 The main modern concepts on the consciousness nature are considered. Together with the dualistic concepts, there exist concepts the adherents of which find it possible to get to know the origin of consciousness on the basis of natural science. A ...
rec_pub_19505026-individual-consciousness.htm

Results: [1-10] [11-20] [21-30] [31-40] [41-50] [51-60] [61-70] [71-80] [81-90] [91-100] [101-110] [111-120] [121-130] [131-140] [141-150] [151-160] [161-170] [171-180] [181-190] [191-200]

© Advanogy LLC 2003-2009 - All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Contact Us | Index