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Cognition (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Cognition'
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Social psychophysics: using psychophysics to answer "social" questions with PsychoPro.
30 Jul 2009 
Complex social stimuli (like faces) can be studied using a methodology typically reserved for studying lights, tones, and colors: psychophysics. Given that psychophysics examines how humans detect and respond to stimuli in their environment, we can ...
rec_pub_19587171-social-psychophysics-using-psychophysics-answer-social-questions.htm
Typical development of numerical cognition: behavioral and neurofunctional issues.
30 Jul 2009 
rec_pub_19481672-typical-development-numerical-cognition-behavioral-neurofunctional.htm
30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: Recent studies have tried to determine which aspects of chronic illness heighten the risk for depression, with functional impairment receiving the most attention. There is growing evidence that functional impairment accounts for most of ...
rec_pub_19634203-a-longitudinal-community-based-study-chronic-illness-cognitive.htm
Finding comfort in a joke: consolatory effects of humor through cognitive distraction.
30 Jul 2009 This study aimed to demonstrate that the cognitive demands involved in humor processing can attenuate negative emotions. A primary aspect of humor is that it poses cognitive demands needed for incongruency resolution. On the basis of findings that ...
rec_pub_19653782-finding-comfort-joke-consolatory-effects-humor-cognitive-distraction.htm
Effects of emotionally contagious films on changes in hemisphere-specific cognitive performance.
30 Jul 2009 In the framework of models on the lateralized involvement of the cortical hemispheres in affect and psychopathology, the authors examined whether cognitive processes associated with the left and the right prefrontal cortex varied as a function of ...
rec_pub_19653774-effects-emotionally-contagious-films-changes-hemisphere-specific.htm
Off-line sentence processing: what is involved in answering a comprehension probe?
30 Jul 2009 The aim of this study was to better characterize the influence of the comprehension probe on syntax-related activation patterns observed in fMRI studies of sentence comprehension. In this study, sentence comprehension was assessed by presenting a ...
rec_pub_19184993-off-line-sentence-processing-involved-answering-comprehension-probe.htm
30 Jul 2009 Humans extract behaviorally significant meaning from a situation by integrating meanings from multiple components of a complex daily environment. To determine the neural underpinnings of this ability, the authors performed functional magnetic ...
rec_pub_19107751-extraction-situational-meaning-integrating-multiple-meanings-complex.htm
30 Jul 2009 Exceptional performance is frequently attributed to genetic differences in talent. Since Sir Francis Galton's book, Hereditary Genius, many scientists have cited heritable factors that set limits of performance and only allow some individuals to ...
rec_pub_19743555-toward-science-exceptional-achievement-attaining-superior-performance.htm
30 Jul 2009 This overview surveys the new optimism about the aging mind/brain, focusing on the potential for self-regulation practices to advance research in stress-protection and optimal health. It reviews recent findings and offers a research framework. The ...
rec_pub_19743554-optimizing-learning-quality-life-lifespan-global-framework-research.htm
Does meditation enhance cognition and brain plasticity?
30 Jul 2009 Meditation practices have various health benefits including the possibility of preserving cognition and preventing dementia. While the mechanisms remain investigational, studies show that meditation may affect multiple pathways that could play a ...
rec_pub_19743551-does-meditation-enhance-cognition-brain-plasticity.htm
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