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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Cognitive differences"”.
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Cognitive Differences Between Congenitally and Adventitiously Blind Individuals.
… historical perspective regarding the theories of cognitive development and the cognitive functioning of individuals with visual impairments, that sight plays a major role in the development of certain cognitive processes. However, the affects of visual impairment on cognitive development remain to …
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Understanding cognitive differences in processing competing visualizations of complex systems
… visualizations like node-link diagrams provides cognitive aid to individuals in understanding the system and effectively managing these systems. Using appropriate visual tools aids in task completion by reducing the cognitive load of individuals in understanding the problems and solving them. …
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Developing an Economic Pedagogy for an Enacted Environment in which Cognitive Differences Matter
The aim of the research presented here is to increase the utility of introductory Economics (particularly Microeconomics), to Business undergraduates. The motivation for this was my desire to improve on the poor outcomes previously recorded for students at the University of Glamorgan (and …
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The Effects of Business Process Management Cognitive Resources and User Cognitive Differences on Outcomes of User Comprehension
… outcomes are jointly affected by the (1) BPM cognitive resources available to each manager (including the type of GPM, BPI, and user educational training and experience), and (2) cognitive differences between individual BPM managers (such as their mental workload, cognitive styles and …
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A Comparative Analysis of Cognitive Differences Among Female Elite and Nonelite High School Field Hockey Players and High School Physical Education Class Nonathletes
… multivariate analysis of variance for each cognitive category, one way univariate analysis of variance for each subtest within a cognitive category, and a stepwise multiple regression technique to determine which tests made the greatest contribution to predicting group membership. Multiple …
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Are Large Dogs Smarter Than Small Dogs? Investigating Within Species Differences in Large and Small Dogs: Spatial Memory
… pressures that affect the development of cognitive abilities. Dogs have undergone intensive artificial selection yielding distinctive breeds which differ both phenotypically and behaviorally. Breed based cognitive differences have not been found but some studies suggest there may be …
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Attachment style, affect and construal of interpersonal conflict
… profiles. Experimental analysis of emotional and cognitive differences in response to audiotapes of three conflicts indicated that anger and anxiety were important in reactions of Avoidant participants. Anxiety was notably absent as part of the Secure participants' reactions. The Anxious group …
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Re/presenting the self: autobiographical performance by people with disability
… people to the specificities of their physical or cognitive differences, erasing or rendering invisible the disabled self. Written autobiography by people with disability offers a productive counter-dialogue to this pervasive misrepresentation. Yet, written autobiography is constrained by its very …
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Neurocognition in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… with particular reference to findings in those cognitive domains of general intellectual functioning, memory, attention and executive function.<br/><br/>Given that the findings associated within these domains are mixed, the second paper reports the outcome from a neuropsychological study of …
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Examining the Effect of Driving Experience on Teenage Driving Ability with Secondary Tasks
… plan framework was developed to address these differences. Future research should focus on further refining GDL legislation to address the cognitive differences between teenage and experienced drivers.
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Individual differences in syntactic processing during reading: a psycholinguist’s “two disciplines” problem
… line of research has sought to link individual differences in reading to individual differences in cognitive abilities. Put another way: how do cognitive differences between readers interact with syntactic processing effects observed across readers? This dissertation describes a single study in …
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Social identity in the workplace : a multiple case study that explores how social group membership impacts people who identify as neurodivergent in workplaces designed for neurotypical employees.
… balancing strengths and challenges in framing cognitive differences, (3) comparative self-evaluation with neurotypical colleagues, (4) simultaneous in-group connection and out-group contrast, (5) strategic identity management balancing authenticity with adaptation, and (6) childhood experiences …
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Sensitivity to (sub)lexical cues as a function of cognitive profile and language abilities
… thesis is to explore systematic inter-individual differences in the integration of form-based cues (i.e. phonological and orthographic) with morphological, semantic, and lexico-semantic cues during written and spoken word processing, as evidenced by behavioural and MEG data. The first part of the …
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A study of specific learning difficulties in tertiary education
… intellectual ability accompanied by measurable cognitive differences. Significant differences were found on tests of short term memory, while spelling difficulties were the most enduring form of written language difficulty. Differences found on measures of personality, are thought to reflect an …
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Imageability and Intelligibility in 3D Game Environments Examining Experiential and Cultural Influence on the Design Process
… evidence from the games industry of cultural differences in gameplay preferences. This thesis discusses the effect of cultural knowledge on the spatial design and interpretation of three-dimensional game environments that are based on real world affordances. A new methodology for the …
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Exploring Camouflaging in Autism Beyond the Diagnostic/Disability Threshold
… camouflaging by examining a) impacts of gender differences, b) camouflaging-like behaviour beyond the diagnostic/disability threshold, and c) how camouflaging impacted diagnosis, therapy, and accommodations. Study 1 examined whether social desirability is an underlying mechanism for gender …
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Confronting the Intra-Racial Gender Gap: A Quantitative Study of the Impact of Gender on African American Students' Perceptions of Campus Climate at a Predominantly White Institution
… much of the work has focused on the search for cognitive differences between African American males and females, there has been little, if any, research on the different ways that Black males and females may perceive their campus climate. In an attempt to broaden the literature in this area, …
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Comprehension of protagonists' goals and intentions: The dynamic relation between reading skill, text characteristics, and reading strategies
… it is critical to identify the underlying cognitive processes that pose the greatest challenges to struggling readers. Recent research has explored basic skills (e.g., working memory capacity, suppression mechanisms, domain knowledge, and reading strategies) that have been shown to be …
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EVALUATION OF TRANSIENT COGNITIVE CHANGES FROM MAXIMAL EXERTION AND RESPIRATOR WEAR
… and psychological adaptation mechanisms, causing cognitive deterioration or disruption when clarity and speed of thought and action are crucial. This study examined transient cognitive differences due to activity, respirator, and gender wear through examination of archival data collected during …
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EVALUATION OF TRANSIENT COGNITIVE CHANGES FROM MAXIMAL EXERTION AND RESPIRATOR WEAR
… and psychological adaptation mechanisms, causing cognitive deterioration or disruption when clarity and speed of thought and action are crucial. This study examined transient cognitive differences due to activity, respirator, and gender wear through examination of archival data collected during …
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