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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"memory aid"”.
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Group External Memory Aid Treatment for Mild Cognitive Impairment
<p>Short-term memory deficits associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) make complex daily activities challenging. External memory aids (EMA) could help compensate for impairments. The study purpose was to examine the effects of group EMA treatment for individuals with MCI on functional EMA …
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A Mobile Augmented Memory Aid for people with Traumatic Brain Injury
… has increased to 790 per 100,000 population. Memory impairment is the most common symptom and affects most TBI survivors. Memory impairments resulting from TBI take many forms depending on the nature of the injury. Existing work to use technology to help with memory problems focuses …
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Age Group Differences In Recall of Relevant and Irrelevant Words
… that older adults tend to perform more poorly on memory tasks, when compared to younger people. Conversely, studies have also indicated that there may be ways to combat this decline in age related memory performance by using memory aid techniques. In addition to memory aid techniques, word …
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The Use of Melodic and Rhythmic Mnemonics to Improve Memory and Recall in Elementary Students in the Content Areas
… that use imagery and visual cues to facilitate memory recall are commonly used in the classroom. A familiar tune, song or jingle, used as a mnemonic device is another popular memory aid. Studies of the brain and memory reveal that exposure to music not only alters but increases brain function in …
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Assessing the Effects of Momentary Priming On Memory Retention During An Interference Task
A memory aid, that used brief (33ms) presentations of previously learned information (target words), was assessed on its ability to reinforce memory for target words while the subject was performing an interference task. The interference task required subjects to learn new words and thus interfered …
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Using Song Lyrics In Teaching An Undergraduate Statistics Course
… the data: Music/song lyrics serves as a valuable memory aid, music/song lyrics enhances student engagement, music/song lyrics serves as an effective teaching strategy, song selection and duration impact student disengagement, and the use of music/song lyrics enhances student focus. Participants …
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Quantifying the Benefits of Immersion for Procedural Training
… an accurate mental map that could be used as a memory aid.
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Semantic interpretation of events in lifelogging
… search for everyday media management, as a memory aid, or as part of medical analysis on the activities of daily living (ADL), and so on. In the thesis, we address the problem of how to select the concepts to be used for indexing events and we propose a semantic, density- based algorithm to …
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A decision support system for tuition and fee policy analysis
… model into a valuable decision-making aid by making it directly and readily accessible to the administration. The arduous tasks of model formulation and solution, the calculation of the model's parameter values, and the generation of a series of reports to document the results are …
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Mitigating the Effects of Interruption on Audit Efficiency and Effectiveness
… vs. negotiated) and the presence or absence of a memory-aid (notes). I investigated these phenomena using an internet-based experimental instrument. Subjects included both students and practicing auditors. My findings indicate that interruption hindered performance on certain complex audit tasks, …
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A comparison of human performance on computer text editing tasks using windowed and non-windowed strategies
… to determine under what conditions, in terms of memory load and task complexity, performance using windows and non-window strategies differed. Forty-eight subjects were placed in one of four environments and each performed six editing tasks which varied on complexity and memory load level. Human …