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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Spatial cognition"”.
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Gender and Menstrual Cycle Effects in Human Spatial Cognition
This hypothesis was supported by evidence from these experiments that, while each gender performs equally well in a fully furnished virtual reality environment, only the performance of women is adversely affected when furnishings are removed. Hormone replacement therapy in elderly women and …
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The impact of acute psychological stress on spatial cognition
… and intimately involved in episodic memory and spatial cognition, the general aim of this study was to investigate the effects of psychosocial stress (and consequent cortisol increase) on spatial cognition and verbal memory in men and women. One group of 33 participants (16 males and 17 females) …
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Strategies of human spatial cognition: cognitive and behavioural trade-offs
Human spatial strategies are heuristics that allocate cognitive and behavioural resources for navigation tasks. These spatial strategies help the individual optimize its interactions with the surrounding space through functional trade-offs between the memory costs of planning routes and the cost …
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Learning topology : engaging the development of spatial cognition though adpositional play
… minimal role that playgrounds play in education, spatial cognition, and the development of a child's understanding of space. McDonalds' playgrounds were introduced in the 1970s and proliferated across the nation (there are over 8,000 units). They created a model that has permeated American …
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Navigating the night: spatial cognition, locomotor and ranging behaviour in Nycticebus species
… and locomotor behaviour, physical ontogeny, spatial cognition, and sociality. I worked at two field sites between 2014 and 2015 in Java and Vietnam, focused on two species of slow lorises (Nycticebus javanicus ,13 ind. and N. pygmaeus, 6 ind.); augmenting this work with data from long-term …
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Development and validation of a neurocognitive screening battery : language and spatial cognition
… for South Africans, focusing on the Language and Spatial Cognition sections of the battery. Two tests - the Naming Test and the 3-D Analysis Test - were both adapted and re-piloted before their insertion into the Neurocognitive Battery ahead of its validation.
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Spatial Cognition Differences between Men and Women in Spatial Cue Environments during Flight Simulation
… ground. This process requires a high degree of spatial cognition, which refers to the cognitive processes used to orient oneself in space. Two factors that can influence spatial cognition in the context of aviation ground reference maneuvers are the availability of spatial cues and the …
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A computational approach to spatial cognition: Representing spatial relationships in Tongan language and culture
… absolute) has any specific status within Tongan spatial cognition. The analysis of the linguistic data shows how the three types of frame of reference are used according to specific needs and contexts. The analysis of the psychological data instead highlights a specific preference for the …
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Kids 'n space : explorations into spatial cognition of children learning 3-D computer graphics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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How spatial is spatial language? Investigating the relationship between spatial cognition and abstract language processing
… study aimed to explore the relationship between spatially grounded language and spatial cognition. According to embodied cognition, sensitivity to spatial grounding should be related to experience with spatial cognition. Participants completed three language tasks assessing their sensitivity to …
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The effect of early adversity on adult spatial cognition : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
… control. Little focus has been placed on visualspatial cognition in traumatised individuals, however. The aim of this project, which comprised two studies, was to investigate visual memory and spatial cognition in adult survivors of childhood trauma. Study 1 compared the performance of 23 …
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Effects of sex, free testosterone, and androgen receptor cag repeat number on spatial cognition and virtual navigation performance
… advantage typically found on some measures of spatial cognition (e.g., mental rotations) has been approached for three decades from the perspective that androgens contribute to this sex difference. To date, evidence to support the notion that androgens affect spatial cognition in healthy young …
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Cognitive Structures of Kinesthetic Space Reevaluating Rudolf Laban's Choreutics In the Context of Spatial Cognition and Motor Control
The choreutic conception of the spatial aspect of body movements (originated by Rudolf Laban) was reevaluated according to cognitive and motor control research. "Kinesthetic spatial cognition" (analogous to visual spatial cognition) was identified as the psychological realm of choreutic knowledge. …
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Acquired brain injury and the unraveling of theory of mind: exploring the role of personality change and spatial cognition
… investigates the intricate relationship between spatial cognition, personality changes (notably egocentrism), and Theory of Mind (ToM) following right hemisphere dysfunction (RHD) due to Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). Given the critical role of the right hemisphere in social and emotional behavior, …
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Using space to think
… to help people fully take advantage of spatial cognition in thinking process. As our most important form of information processing spatial cognition provides thinking what logical and verbal means are inferior at. But without external aid, its application is tremendously constrained. …
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Allocentric spatial memory following anterior temporal lobectomy: A comparison between active and sedentary epileptic adults
… the aim of the present study was to investigate spatial cognition in patients with intractable epilepsy and also to establish whether physical activity levels of these patients, i.e. active versus sedentary, had an effect on neuropsychological functioning. Spatial and verbal cognition were …
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Wayfinding in autism spectrum disorders
… battery [of tests], designed to assess general spatial ability as well as varieties of spatial cognition (including spatial navigation).
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The effects of parental experience on cognition, anxiety-like behaviour, and hippocampal plasticity in a biparental species.
… behaviours outside of caregiving, such as in spatial cognition and anxiety. Furthermore, studies on the effects of maternal experience have focused on monoparental species, while few studies have investigated the changes associated with fatherhood. To date, a direct comparison on the effects …
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Executive dysfunction and weak central coherence : neither theory suitably explains a core cognitive deficit in autism spectrum disorders
… an inability to employ goal-directed cognition to plan, organize, and alternate between tasks, or to inhibit incorrect responses) largely dominate current understandings of the neurocognitive profile in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Recent empirical evidence suggests, however, that …
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