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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"cognitive influences"”.
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Emotional and Cognitive Influences on Visual Search
… emotional state affects one's ability to perform cognitive tasks has long captivated scientists. In the work described in this thesis, a visual search task was employed as a proxy for cognition while images of emotional facial expression served to influence emotional experience. Previous models of …
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Ecological and Cognitive Influences on Orangutan Space Use
… However, little is currently known about the cognitive mechanisms that help primates achieve this efficiency in the wild. The presence habitual route networks in some primate species suggests they may navigate using route-based cognitive maps for encoding spatial information. However, little …
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Cognitive influences on sensory processing of visual motion
Die vorliegende Arbeit besteht aus einer Zusammenstellung von drei wissenschaftlichen Originalarbeiten und zwei Manuskripten, die zur Veröffentlichung vorbereitet wurden. Allen diesen Arbeiten liegt die folgende, zentrale Fragestellung zugrunde: Wie beeinflussen kognitive Faktoren die sensorische …
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Social and cognitive influences on prescribing decisions among non-medical prescribers.
… across the UK yet little is known about influences on their prescribing decision-making. The aim of this programme of research was to explore and describe prescribing decision-making by non-medical prescribers. A two stage programme of research was carried out. Stage 1 was a systematic …
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Psychological Needs and Social -Cognitive Influences on Participation in Music Activities
The study exposed a broad range of beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors among the respondents over a ten-year period. The main findings highlight the importance of early experiences in shaping beliefs and values that influence participation in music activities. The evidence suggests that …
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NEURAL MECHANISMS SUPPORTING COGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON SUPRASPINAL NOCICEPTIVE PROCESSING: INSIGHTS FROM BRAIN LESIONS
… Even within the same context, different internal cognitive information related to previous experience, affective state, and attention unique to each individual may importantly influence how a nociceptive stimulus will be experienced. Although attempts have been made to elucidate the mechanisms by …
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Sensory and Cognitive Influences on Oculomotor and Whole-body Coordination during Standing Turns
… effects of divided attention using a secondary cognitive task during the turn. We found that turn onset was delayed during dual-tasking, but eye and body coordination were unaffected. We conclude that oculomotor nystagmus during turning represents a crucial component of an automatic, …
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Perceptual and cognitive influences on decision making and the activity of single neurons in the superior colliculus and frontal eye field
Responding to changes in our environment is a fundamental component of our humanity. On a daily basis we are faced with innumerable decisions based on highly salient information: Which bottle is the shampoo? Which fruit should I select for consumption? Should I move left or right to avoid hitting …
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Condom Use Among U.S. Young Adult Black Women: An Integrated Cognitive Approach
This study examines how cognitive influences such as sexual self-schema, HIV-related stigma, perception of HIV risk and condom sexual self-efficacy influence condom use at last sex among young adult Black women. An integrated theoretical framework consisting of The Health Belief Model, Social …
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Congruence with College Major in Light of Cognitive Influence and Work Roles
… success and satisfaction while accounting for cognitive influence. Data from 233 undergraduate students was analyzed using a series of hierarchical multiple regressions. The study sought to determine if student employment and the level of interest profile elevation were significant moderators …
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Bottom-up and Top-down Mechanisms of Visually-Guided Movements
… bottom-up circuits that mediate it and top-down cognitive influences that modulate it. A critical sensorimotor behavior in everyday life is the generation of rapid eye movements, called saccades. By making saccades 2-3 times/second, we scan visual scenes and integrate the incoming visual signals …
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Curiosity Killed the Cat, but What Did It Do to Dissonance?: Seeking Counterfactual Information
… The currently dominant model of emotional and cognitive influences on decision making, regret-aversion (Zeelenberg, 1999), predicts that individuals are motivated to avoid counterfactual information in order to insulate themselves from potential regret. In contrast, I suggest that understanding …
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Identifying and influencing the essential elements of stakeholder engagement leading to the success of socially controversial projects
… tone-deaf to the complex, social, political, cognitive and technological factors that play a significant role in the formation of a stakeholder's acceptance of a project. To mitigate societal and cognitive influences on the outcome of socially controversial projects, there is a need to rethink …
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Worksite Physical Activity and Nutrition
… present study prospectively examined the social cognitive influences of physical activity and nutrition behaviors in a sample of university employees (N=179). The longitudinal associations of social cognitive constructs with physical activity and nutrition behaviors were examined using a panel …
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Predicting homeless people's use of outreach service programmes: additional avenues and methodological issues explored
… to examine the predictive contribution of social cognitive influences and socio-demographic variables to intentions to use service programmes. The multi-domain measure did not show utility, yet attitude, ‘coping’ thinking style and ethnicity predicted intentions to use services. Lastly, the main …
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Environmental and Cognitive Factors Influencing Children's Theory-of-mind Development
… is influenced by different environmental and cognitive factors. However, despite our understanding of the different individual processes that facilitate theory-of-mind acquisition, what remains relatively unclear is how these processes operate together during development. The goal of the …
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Top-Down Control of Lateral Interactions in Visual Cortex
… beyond their receptive fields. These contextual influences in V1 are subject to cognitive influences of attention, perceptual task and expectation. Previously it's been shown that the response properties of V1 neurons change to carry more information about behaviorally relevant stimulus features …
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Mindless reading and eye movements : theory, experiments and computational modeling
… is graded and occurs at different levels of cognitive processing. Moreover, we introduce two new behavioral paradigms to study mindless reading at different levels in the eye-tracking laboratory. First (Chapter 2), we introduce shuffled text reading as a paradigm to approximate states of weak …
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Early Androgen Exposure, Gender, and Disorder-Relevant Traits
… between play and aggression supports potential influences of early androgen exposure, as well as socio-cognitive influences involved in gender development. Chapter 6 (Kung et al., 2018b) is the first study to compare emotional and behavioural adjustment in children with CAH, their unaffected …