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Problem Solving (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Problem Solving'
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Gender, culture, and mathematics performance.
30 May 2009 
Using contemporary data from the U.S. and other nations, we address 3 questions: Do gender differences in mathematics performance exist in the general population? Do gender differences exist among the mathematically talented? Do females exist who ...
rec_pub_19487665-gender-culture-mathematics-performance.htm
Semantic memory in object use.
27 May 2009 We studied five patients with semantic memory disorders, four with semantic dementia and one with herpes simplex virus encephalitis, to investigate the involvement of semantic conceptual knowledge in object use. Comparisons between patients who had ...
rec_pub_19482039-semantic-memory-object-use.htm
Insightful problem solving and creative tool modification by captive nontool-using rooks.
26 May 2009 The ability to use tools has been suggested to indicate advanced physical cognition in animals. Here we show that rooks, a member of the corvid family that do not appear to use tools in the wild are capable of insightful problem solving related to ...
rec_pub_19478068-insightful-problem-solving-creative-tool-modification-captive-nontool.htm
25 May 2009 Calendrical savants can name the weekdays for dates from different years with remarkable speed and accuracy. Whether calculation rather than just memory is involved is disputed. Grounds for doubting whether they can calculate are reviewed and ...
rec_pub_19528025-do-calendrical-savants-use-calculation-answer-date-questions.htm
Explaining and inducing savant skills: privileged access to lower level, less-processed information.
25 May 2009 
I argue that savant skills are latent in us all. My hypothesis is that savants have privileged access to lower level, less-processed information, before it is packaged into holistic concepts and meaningful labels. Owing to a failure in top-down ...
rec_pub_19528023-explaining-inducing-savant-skills-privileged-access-lower-level.htm
Longitudinal study of spatial working memory development in young children.
25 May 2009 This study longitudinally compared activity in the frontal cortex during a spatial working memory task between 5-year-old and 7-year-old children using near-infrared spectroscopy. Eight children participated in this study twice, once at 5 years and ...
rec_pub_19352206-longitudinal-study-spatial-working-memory-development-young-children.htm
20 May 2009 Current theories of brain function propose that the coordinated integration of transient activity patterns in distinct brain regions is the essence of brain information processing. The behavioural manifestations of individuals with autism spectrum ...
rec_pub_19465065-decreased-brain-coordinated-activity-autism-spectrum-disorders.htm
Shared decision-making reduces drug use and psychiatric severity in substance-dependent patients.
19 May 2009 BACKGROUND: In the last decades, shared decision-making (SDM) models have been developed to increase patient involvement in treatment decisions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a SDM intervention (SDMI) for patients dependent on ...
rec_pub_19468259-shared-decision-making-reduces-drug-use-psychiatric-severity.htm
Executive functioning: overview, assessment, and research issues for non-neuropsychologists.
18 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Executive functioning (EF) is a multifaceted neuropsychological construct that can be defined as (1) forming, (2) maintaining, and (3) shifting mental sets, corresponding to the abilities to (1) reason and generate goals and plans, (2) ...
rec_pub_19455377-executive-functioning-overview-assessment-research-issues-non.htm
16 May 2009 The purposes of this study were to examine the effect of acute incremental exercise on the performance of a central executive task; the responses of the sympathoadrenal system (SAS) and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPAA) during exercise, ...
rec_pub_19454298-acute-incremental-exercise-performance-central-executive-task.htm
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