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Imagination (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Imagination'
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29 Apr 2009 
The contact hypothesis states that, under the right conditions, contact between members of different groups leads to more positive intergroup relations. The authors track recent trends in contact theory to the emergence of extended, or indirect, ...
rec_pub_19449982-can-imagined-interactions-produce-positive-perceptions-reducing.htm
The enhancement of visuospatial processing efficiency through Buddhist Deity meditation.
29 Apr 2009 This study examined the effects of meditation on mental imagery, evaluating Buddhist monks' reports concerning their extraordinary imagery skills. Practitioners of Buddhist meditation were divided into two groups according to their preferred ...
rec_pub_19476594-the-enhancement-visuospatial-processing-efficiency-buddhist-deity.htm
29 Apr 2009 Two experiments are presented that investigate the effects of dynamic visual noise (DVN) on memory for concrete and abstract words. Memory for concrete words is typically superior to that of abstract words and is referred to as the concreteness ...
rec_pub_19358014-concreteness-effects-revisited-influence-dynamic-visual-noise-memory.htm
A new object captures attention--but only when you know it's new.
29 Apr 2009 Two hypotheses have been advanced to explain why an object appearing suddenly in an empty location captures attention. According to the first hypothesis, the visual transients that accompany an abrupt onset automatically trigger attentional ...
rec_pub_19429953-a-new-object-captures-attention-know-s-new.htm
Pseudoneglect for the bisection of mental number lines.
29 Apr 2009 Patients with unilateral neglect of the left side bisect physical lines to the right whereas individuals with an intact brain bisect lines slightly to the left (pseudoneglect). Similarly, for mental number lines, which are arranged in a ...
rec_pub_18780193-pseudoneglect-bisection-mental-number-lines.htm
The contribution of executive skills to reading comprehension.
29 Apr 2009 Although word recognition deficits (WRD) are a known cause of reading comprehension deficits (RCD), other contributions to RCD, including executive function (EF), have not been fully explored. We examined the contribution of EF (working memory and ...
rec_pub_18629674-the-contribution-executive-skills-reading-comprehension.htm
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 ...
rec_pub_19379043-causal-learning-local-computations.htm
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 (Vő, Jacobs, & Conrad, 2006), which has enabled ...
rec_pub_19363195-the-berlin-affective-word-list-reloaded-bawl-r.htm
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 ...
rec_pub_19363197-subjective-frequency-imageability-ratings-3-600-french-nouns.htm
23 Apr 2009 Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often demonstrate impaired generativity that is thought to mediate repetitive behaviors in autism (Turner in J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 40(6):839-849, 1999a). The present study evaluated generativity ...
rec_pub_19396536-generativity-abilities-predict-communication-deficits-repetitive.htm
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