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The Child's Emotionality: A Naturalistic Investigation
… childhood was undertaken through a three year naturalistic investigation of emotional interactions in preschool-age children. Following interpretative interactionism, children were observed in natural settings, interacting with relatives, friends, and strangers, using the ordinary language of …
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The Chicago Naturalistic Novel: 1930-1966
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Intentionality, Information and Consciousness: A Naturalistic Perspective
… offer a new interpretation of the principles of Naturalistic philosophy that are relevant to the philosophy of mind. In doing so, I attempt to accomplish the broader task of showing how we can make significant progress in our thinking about consciousness by first offering new conceptual …
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Predicting Task Functional Localizers Using Naturalistic fMRI
… resonance imaging (fMRI) data collected during naturalistic stimuli has shown promise for predicting individual traits, biomarkers of disease and functional brain localizations, potentially offering advantages over traditional resting-state approaches. This study investigated the use of …
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Potency & Process: A Naturalistic Defense of Mental Causation
It has been argued extensively in contemporary philosophy of mind and neuroscience that physicalism precludes the possibility of robust mental causation. "Exclusion arguments" of the sort offered by Jaegwon Kim present the physicalist with an apparent dilemma: either all putatively "mental" …
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Mindfulness meditation training and naturalistic prospective memory performance
Although mindfulness research has become a trending topic in cognitive science, there is a gap in the literature that fails to explore the relationship between mindfulness and prospective memory (i.e., the ability to remember to execute a future intention). To explore this relationship, students in …
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Visual attention in naturalistic scenes across the lifespan.
Visual attentional skills continue to develop through childhood and do not reach maturity until adolescence. On the other end of the spectrum, older adults’ visual attentional skills are declining with age. The development and decline of these skills can lead to difficulties in day to day …
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Zola and the naturalistic school in French fiction
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A Naturalistic and Inductive Methodology for Clinical Research
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Modeling Driving Risk Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data
… modeling techniques on driving risk research on Naturalistic Driving Study data. The dissertation includes 5 chapters. In Chapter 1, I introduced the backgrounds of traffic safety research and naturalistic driving study. In Chapter 2, the state-of-practice statistical methods were implemented on …
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Evaluating reactions to stress following a naturalistic stressor
… prospectively, before the occurrance of a naturalistic stressor, namely a midterm examination. Subjects were administered a modified version of the Means-Ends Problem Solving Scale (Platt & Spivack, 1975) to evaluate their problem-solving ability on a hypothetical task, the Problem Solving …
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Deidentification of Face Videos in Naturalistic Driving Scenarios
The sharing of data has become integral to advancing scientific research, but it introduces challenges related to safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII). This thesis addresses the specific problem of sharing drivers' face videos for transportation research while ensuring privacy …
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Naturalistic Visuomotor Behaviours Reveal Reduced Handedness Lateralization In Autism
… right-handed adults (n=27 per group) using a naturalistic LEGO® model-building task. Participants recreated five models from blocks placed on a standardized tabletop, enabling detailed analysis of real-world visuomotor behaviour. Autistic participants showed a lower proportion of right-hand …
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The Adolescent Stress Response to a Naturalistic Driving Stressor
The proposed study examined the role of anxiety and risk-taking in driving performance in adolescents. In addition to examining the sample as a whole, gender differences were assessed given earlier reports from our laboratory and others indicating that males and females differ with respect to risky …
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New practice–based methodologies for naturalistic contemporary drama translation
… new knowledge in the area of contemporary and naturalistic drama translation. It straddles the fields of Drama, Acting and Translation Studies but inevitably encompasses the fields of social semiotics and linguistics. The methodology used is of a hybrid nature as it consists of a portfolio of …
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Cortical Control of Naturalistic Facial Expression Production in Primates
… region simultaneously, while subjects produced naturalistic facial expressions. These expressions included socially-meaningful expressions elicited through a number of visuosocial stimuli, in addition to non-socially meaningful, volitional facial movements, as well as periods of rest. We found …
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Conversational Repair Strategies of Preschool Children During Naturalistic Interactions
… preschool program request clarification in naturalistic situations and how they use conversational repair strategies following a stacked sequence of requests for clarification by adults.</p> <p>Naturalistic inquiry was used to establish an inventory of strategies used by handicapped and …
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Naturalistic observations: Embodied learning of fractions in elementary classrooms
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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