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Showing 1 to 20 of 2836 for “"Cognition"”.
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Social cognition in epilepsy
… objective was to see whether studying social cognition in focal epilepsy might provide some insight into the organic basis of social cognitive abilities in the normal population. The thesis consists of four separate studies which aimed to investigate social cognition and social functioning in …
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LONG-COVID AND COGNITION
<p>COVID-19 is an evolving virus that can harm the body’s respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Directly related to COVID-19 are individuals who do not recover from their initial infection, making them long haulers. Long-COVID is transitioning from a range of isolated phenomena to higher …
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Mathematics, cognition, and you!
In what follows I argue for an epistemic bridge principle that allows us to move from real mathematics to ideal mathematics (and back again) without losing anything that is characteristic of either methodological class. Mathematics is a collection of actions performed in the pursuit of mathematical …
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Serotonergic modulation of cognition
Action control arises from the interaction of two anatomically distinct decision-making systems, namely goal-directed and habitual behaviour. Goal-directed behaviour is characterized by the consideration of future choices and respective outcomes whereas habitual responding is driven by …
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Sampling in human cognition
… the predictive success of Bayesian models of cognition has highlighted long-standing challenges in bridging the computational and process levels of cognition. First, the computations required for exact Bayesian inference are incommensurate with the limited resources available to cognition …
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Eye tracking for cognition
Early detection of neurodegenerative diseases can lead to slower disease progression, as well as possible symptom reduction. Existing research has studied how cognitively impaired subjects solve tests such as the clock-drawing test and the Digital Symbol-Digit Test differently compared to healthy …
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Neural dynamics supporting flexible cognition
<p>Flexible cognition enables humans to adapt their behavior to changing circumstances by prioritizing relevant information and filtering out distractions. This process is thought to be supported by the integration of ongoing behavioral goals with incoming sensory information, but how this …
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Political implications of bilingual cognition
… researchers studying implicit social cognition have found that whether an ethnic group was viewed favorably by bilingual respondents depended on the language in which they were prompted to express an opinion (Danzinger and Ward 2010, Ogunnaike, Dunham, and Banaji 2010). More recently, …
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Knowledge and Cognition in Kant
… that can reasonably be translated as knowledge: cognition (Erkenntnis) and knowledge (Wissen). This work has established a new branch in Kant scholarship that seeks to clarify the meaning of Kant’s epistemic concepts. Despite minor disagreements, a new consensus about Kant’s “knowledge terms” has …
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Architectural conventions and contextual cognition
… seeks to demonstrate socially-developmental cognitions of context, as an important creative source. Experiential understanding of our architectural ideas, formal or programmatic, may be very weak if our contextual positions appear too smug: astonishingly strong if our change is measured and …
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The cognition of atonal pitch structures
The Cognition of Atonal Pitch Structures investigated the ability of a listener to internally organize atonal pitch sequences into hierarchical structures. Based on an information processing model proposed by Deutsch and Feroe (1981), the internal organization of well processed pitch sequences will …
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Firefighter thermoregulation: clothingfit, cognition, and menthol
… Because of the potential for impaired cognition of the firefighters under stressful conditions, heat stress, and limited time to save victims, it is imperative to understand when cognition is compromised. Recent menthol studies have found a reduced sweat rate when menthol was applied. …
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Anticholinergic Impact On Cognition In Schizophrenia
… been demonstrated to have a negative impact on cognition. Some antipsychotic medications have anticholinergic properties, and anticholinergic medications are often prescribed to patients with schizophrenia to treat or prevent extrapyramidal side effects of antipsychotics. We did not find any …
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Ataxin-1 in cognition and mood
… spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), may affect cognition and mood, but much remains unknown, including which brain areas are responsible, whether ATXN1 affects mood in mice, and the mechanisms of these effects. To answer these questions, we characterized cognition and mood in several ATXN1 …
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Neurosensitivity: Implications for Cognition and Creativity.
… implications for personality, creativity and cognition. This thesis focuses on sensitivity and its cognitive implications using recent state-of-the-art sensitivity and creativity assessments with an aim to identify objective cognitive tests of sensitivity that can supplement self-report …
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Mindfulness and Cognition in Older Adults
… memory, processing speed, memory, and general cognition. Participants in theMBSR condition did not show improvement on dependent measures as compared to the waiting list control. Participants in the Mind Aerobics condition showed improvements in areas trained, both compared to the MBSR course …
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Affect and Cognition in Social Conflict
… may be evaluated in the context of their other cognitions about the setting. In particular, disputants' use of the conflict or cooperation schemata was predicted to influence the degree to which various affective states produced their prescribed behavior. In this study, disputants were induced …
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Studies of embodied cognition and metaphor
… concepts. Drawing upon research on embodied cognition, in this dissertation I examine whether the way a choice is physically experienced can systemically influence how people respond to choice options. I manipulate bodily experiences at the point of choice by asking people to either draw …
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Teachers' Interactive Thoughts About Pupil Cognition
… how the extent of teachers' thinking about pupil cognition during instruction varies with instructional group size. Pupil cognition was defined as pupil comprehension, knowledge, learning, thinking, or instructional task performance. It was predicted on the basis of previous studies of teachers' …
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The genetics of cognition in Schizophrenia
Background: Cognitive impairment is a well-documented feature of schizophrenia and a major determinant of functional outcomes. Cognitive function may be assessed by measuring mean performance measures on cognitive tasks or by measuring variability in performance across tasks or trials of a task …
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