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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Memory -- Research"”.
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Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze
… viable readings of today's psychological research. My project (within the philosophy of psychology) is to provide these readings. Specifically, in this dissertation I analyze the data and the interpretations of a large number of contemporary memory research articles. I use these articles …
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Exploring Usage of Web Resources Through a Model of API Learning
… theory, cognitive load theory, and external memory research. We ran an exploratory empirical user study in which participants performed a programming task using the React API with the goal of validating and refining this model. Our results support the predictions made by the COIL model, …
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Ghost, Moving
… gone, while all of them are constructed with the memory, research, and imagination of the author.</p> <p>Though this collection is rooted in history, it also relies on the metaphysical to create a vision of the past. Intangible themes—life, death, a farewell to things and people as they once …
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Morphological alterations in frontotemporal dementia:
The present thesis explores alterations in brain morphology in the neurodegenerative disorder of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). With the aim to improve the clinical diagnostics of FTD, we explored the diagnostic potential of measuring morphological alterations in the white matter by diffusion …
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Cognitive impairment in medical inpatients
Background: People aged over 80 years is the most rapidly growing segment of the population in Sweden. This group is susceptible to multimorbidity, disability and cognitive impairment. Managing these issues will be essential in order to obtain a sustainable healthcare system in the near future. …
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Markers of Prognosis in Neurodegenerative Dementia
… our findings must be confirmed in future research with larger study samples.
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Validation of brief cognitive tests in mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.
Background It is estimated that 34 million people suffer from dementia, costing society US$422 billion each year. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common dementia and the global prevalence is predicted to increase to over 100 million people by the year 2050, with the greatest increase in …
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Dementia with Lewy bodies —an Investigation of Cause and Consequence
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is today considered to be the second most common primary neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. However, the disease has only been a clearly defined entity for 13 years. Due to its recent recognition, DLB is still not as extensively studied as are …
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Neurodegenerative Biomarkers in Healthy Elderly - with special reference to the preclinical pattern of biological and cognitive markers for Alzheimer’s disease
… who were used as clinical control subjects in research studies. Setting: The study sample consisted of 62 cognitively healthy elderly individuals from a clinical control group. They were followed for 4.5 years at three occasions and underwent assessments of EEG activity and regional cerebral …
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Implicit Memory and Online Advertisement Priming
<p>Implicit Memory research has been investigating the attentional requirements needed for something to be encoded and accessible through implicit memory. So far, previous research has produced mixed results on attentional requirements for perceptual implicit memory, some studies citing evidence …
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Illuminating the mental memoriam
… with historical studies that lead to the modem memory engram theory. Then, I present our recent advances in memory research that combine transgenic and optogenetic approaches to reveal underlying neuronal substrates sufficient for activating mnemonic processes. Our studies' conclusions are …
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Embedded Wireless Data Acquisition System
… (WFU Phys./Pharm.) electrophysiology research labs currently carry out memory research by recording neural signals from laboratory animals tethered to nearby signal conditioning and recording equipment. A wireless neural signal recording system is desirable because it removes the …
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A Prototype Device for Isolating and Wirelessly Transmitting Neural Action Potentials
An electrophysiology research laboratory at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the Physiology/Pharmacology Department currently carries out memory research by recording neural signals from laboratory animals with a wire tethering the animal to nearby signal conditioning and recording …
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Memory Under Fire: The Role of the Self-Administered Interview (SAI) in Law Enforcement and Eyewitness Memory
The relationship between stress and memory remains complex and inconsistent across research domains. While basic memory research suggests that overall, stress enhances memory (Shields et al., 2017), eyewitness memory studies often report detrimental (Deffenbacher et al., 2004) or null effects (Krix …
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Exploring the Role of Prospective Memory in Location-Based Reminders
… location. People use their prospective memory to remember future to-do tasks. However, the current design of LBRs fails to take advantage of human prospective memory theory. In this dissertation, I propose a framework connecting human prospective memory theory with LBRs. My work applies …
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The association between oestrogen, memory, cognition and mood in a male-to-female transsexual population
Research has demonstrated that gonadal hormones, including oestrogen, can influence memory and cognitive tasks that show sex differences in animals and humans. Beneficial effects of oestrogen on mood have also been reported in postmenopausal women in association with Oestrogen Replacement Therapy …
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Individual differences in sentence processing
… between retrieval in sentence processing and memory retrieval processes in nonlinguistic domains using an individual differences approach. Prior research in individual differences in sentence processing has provided conflicting evidence as to whether the same memory mechanisms operate in …
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Regret as Autobiographical Memory
Abstract An autobiographical memory framework for the study of regret is contrasted with traditional decision-making approaches to regret. Based on the autobiographical memory framework a memory-based distinction is introduced between regrets for specific and general events. Across 6 studies the …
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