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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"mental state"”.
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The cognitive bases of mental state reasoning in adults
An individual differences study with 154 adult participants was used to investigate the relationship between inhibitory control and theory of mind (ToM), using structural equation modelling. The battery of executive function tasks was found to tap two separate inhibitory components, response …
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Neurofunctional Characterization of the At-Risk Mental State for Psychosis
… this researchers have begun to study the at-risk mental state, a state that is associated with a high but not inevitable risk of conversion to psychosis. The studies described in this dissertation are aimed at a neurofunctional characterization of the at-risk mental state in three primary domains: …
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Predicting intellectual level from the Mini-Mental State Examination : a multivariate approach
… estimated a dementia patient's IQ from the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). This measure is an eleven item screen instrument of global cognitive functioning. Fairly accurate estimates of IQ have been predicted using the MMSE total score.The purpose of the present study was to determine if it …
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Biosignal-based Adaptivity in eXtended Reality towards Mental State Assessment and Regulation
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Empathy, mental state recognition, and violent behaviour: the influence of situated context
… a situational context may influence empathy and mental state recognition. It explores if and how interventions drawing on empathy can be of practical use in preventing or reducing violent offending behaviour, and addresses the limitations of trait approaches which have hindered previous research …
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Relaxed mental state detection using the Emotiv Epoc and Adaptive Threshold Algorithms
… variety of applications, including: diagnosis of mental disorders, psychological research, neurofeedback, and brain-computer interfacing. Most such applications of the EEG benefit from an ability to automatically detect when the subject is in a relaxed state. Recently, inexpensive and relatively …
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A Snapshot Semester: Students’ Reflections of Performance and Mental State throughout a Graduate Course
… students’ perceptions of their performance and mental state throughout a semester-long course. </p> <p>The purpose of this study was to explore graduate students’ perceptions of their own academic and coping experiences throughout a Research Methods course. The purpose was fulfilled by the …
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Multimodal Investigation of Neurobiological Alterations in the At Risk Mental State and First Episode of Psychosis
… to the study of 21 individuals with an At Risk Mental State (ARMS), 26 patients with a First Episode of Psychosis (FEP) and 24 matched healthy controls. I initially focused on the characterisation of neuroanatomical alterations by performing a comparison between voxel-based morphometry and …
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Production and Comprehension of Mental State Verbs in Narratives by School-Aged Children with Autism: A Pilot Study
The purpose of this pilot study was to compare mental state verb (MSV) use and understanding across narrative generation, retell, and comprehension in a single sample of school-age autistic children. Our research question was: how do school-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) …
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Investigating the At-Risk Mental State and First Episode Psychosis using Genetic, Cogntive and Multi-modal Neuroimaging Data: A Multivariate Support Vector Machine Study
… clinical high-risk, referred to as the at-risk mental state (ARMS). The clinical impact of such findings has been limited, however, driven in part by the univariate analyses employed by the majority of studies, which allow inference at the group level only. Support vector machine (SVM) is one …
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Ψυχομετρικές ιδιότητες και κανονιστικά δεδομένα της τροποποιημένης βραχείας κλίμακας νοητικής κατάστασης “Modified Mini-Mental State’’ (3MS) σε δείγμα ελληνικού πληθυσμού άνω των 60 ετών
… Κλίμακα νοητικής Κατάστασης (Modified MiniMental State Examination, 3MS) αποτελεί ένα ευρέως χρησιμοποιούμενο εργαλείο αξιολόγησης των γνωστικών λειτουργιών, με τεκμηριωμένη αυξημένη ακρίβεια έναντι του MMSE στην ανίχνευση ήπιας γνωστικής έκπτωσης (Mild Cognitive Decline, MCI). Εντούτοις, …
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Varieties of clausal complementation
This thesis argues that clausal arguments of mental-state predicates divide into two main types: those that express the content, or "subject matter" of the mental state, and those that express the cause of the mental state. My central theoretical claim is that this dichotomy corresponds to a …
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The Development of Theory of Mind and Social Competence in Young Pakistani Children
… cognitive ability that enables one to attribute mental states (such as desires, emotions, beliefs) to self and others. In recent years researchers have identified cultural variations in the onset of ToM understanding in collectivist and individualist cultures. However, the findings of …
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Defending the Multiple Realization Argument against the Identity Theory
… is that the identity theory is false because mental state types are multiply realized in brain state types. In this dissertation I provide a detailed elaboration of the argument and a defense of it against a few of its prominent contemporary critics. Finally I offer empirical evidence from …
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L'application judiciaire de la Loi sur la protection des personnes dont l'état mental présente un danger pour elles-mêmes ou pour autrui : pour un plus grand respect des droits fondamentaux
… Act respecting the protection of persons whose mental state presents a danger to themselves or to others. First, it looks at how the notion of danger to oneself or to others, as well as the underlying mental state, are defined, used and interpreted. Both of these notions come from the field of …
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Models for Satisficing Mentalizing
… Mind (ToM) enables people to infer other agents’ mental states such as their likely desire, intentions, beliefs and even emotions from observable behavior. Inferring such mental states is very important for social interactions, both in collaborative and competitive settings as it allows one to …
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Implementing Lexical And Creative Intentionality In Synthetic Personality
… must be able to perceive a link between the mental state of the character and its behaviors. That is to say, synthetic characters must possess intentionality. In addition to intentionality, the mental state of the character must be human-like in order to provide an adequate frame of reference …
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The road to equally well: Promoting physical health for adolescents with mental health illness
People with mental illness have higher mortality and morbidity rates than the general population. There is a raft of reasons why this occurs but includes stigma and discrimination, poorly connected health services with unclear professional role clarification and the illness itself. Adolescence is a …
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An exploration of alcohol use, attachment, and recovery in psychosis
… in early psychosis, specifically the At-Risk Mental State and First-episode Psychosis. Methods: A PRISMA-guided systematic search was conducted in PsycInfo, SCOPUS, and Web of Science between 1st January 1995 and 12th July 2019. The search was limited to original research that assessed …
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Associations between Maternal Executive Function, Parenting, and Preschool Children’s Executive Function in the Korean Context
… were reported not to have experienced developmental issues. The mothers were biological parents of child participants. Both the mothers and children performed on age-appropriate EF tasks. Three types of parenting dimensions were focused on in two contexts of mother-child interactions: maternal …
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