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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"vividness"”.
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Changes in dream frequency, vividness and intensity in subjects taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
… suggest that dream frequency, intensity and vividness are increased with the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRJ's) commonly prescribed for depression and anxiety. In this study the effects ofSSRI use on dream frequency, intensity and vividness in psychiatric patients was …
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The interaction between auditory imagery vividness and auditory perception, and its application to hallucination proneness
… some of the mediators of auditory imagery vividness and investigated how vividness affects the interaction between imagery and perception (Chapter 2). In addition, an fMRI study investigated the neural correlates of auditory imagery and perception (Chapter 3). The final empirical chapters …
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An Investigation of Color Memory as a Function of Hue, Saturation, Lightness and Observer Imagery Vividness for Blue, Green and Orange Test Hues
… which may reflect task difficulty. Scores on the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (Marks, 1973) were, in general, not correlated with performance on these color memory tasks, inconsistent with previous research. The role of complexity of neuronal circuitry, the significance for …
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The effects of narrative elements and individual attributes on transportation in health communications
… Findings from the study revealed that together vividness and perspective are significant variables that influence transportation. Individuals who were exposed to the figural vividness and third person health narratives experienced a higher degree of transportation than those participants who …
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Media exposure to trauma, psychotherapy, and false memories : a recipe for disaster? : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand
… trauma intervention on trauma memory vividness, emotional intensity, and susceptibility to misinformation. Experiment One describes novel procedures and materials for investigating misinformation effects in an online context. Participants (N = 99) completed the study online. They first …
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Investigations of the cognitive and neural processes supporting memory for neutral and emotional words
… memory formation may differ depending on the vividness, or detail, of information encoded. In Chapter 1, a divided attention paradigm was used to examine memory formation when resources are (a) devoted primarily to encoding and (b) directed away from encoding, and toward a secondary task. In …
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Behavorial Assessment of Synesthetic Perception: Color Perception and Visual Imagery in Synesthesia
This study examined vividness of visual mental imagery and color discrimination ability in synesthesia. It was hypothesized that participants with synesthesia would have higher overall scores on the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) and participants with colored synesthetic …
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Eye Movements and Hemodynamic Response during Emotional Scene Processing: Exploring the Role of Visual Perception in Intrusive Mental Imagery
… Self-report behavioral assessments of baseline vividness of visual imagery and various cognitive factors were combined with these physiological measures to investigate the potential relationship between visual perception and mental recreation of negative scenes. Results revealed significant …
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A Study to Determine Whether Oral Delivery Style, in Presenting Poetry to Students, Significantly Effects the Level of Responsiveness to the Poetry
… of composition and style and the subdomains of vividness of language, voice and tone using the Virginia Literacy Passport Test (LPT) scoring procedures.</p> <p>Background information obtained included student sixth grade scores on the Composition and Style Domains of the LPT Writing test, scores …
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Imagery content and perspective and its effect on development of muscular strength
… The dependent measure to assess imagery vividness was the Betts questionnaire Upon Mental Imagery. Imagery perspective was measured by the Imagination Exercise. Results of a two-way analysis of variance with repeated measures using Cybex II found significant strength differences for: (1) …
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Studying the impact of social media integration into online augmented reality-enabled services on consumer purchase intentions
… the marketing field, such as heightened colour vividness, realistic graphics, and comprehensive product information. Methodologically, the study employs a quantitative data analysis approach, after a successful pilot study, the main survey was conducted with 924 participants. The findings …
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An evaluation of visual and verbal based standards for landscape assessment
… selected landscape variables (complexity and vividness) for a set of 15 landscape scenes. Another group used more traditional verbal standards to evaluate the same variables for the same landscape scenes. The effects of visual standards was compared with the effect of verbal standards on (1) …
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Examining the Impact of Guided Memory Retrieval on Intrusive Memories: An Online Trauma Film Paradigm Study
… (d = 0.17, p = .03; d = 0.17, p = .005) and vividness (d = 0.16, p = .046; d = 0.17, p = .005) over a three day follow-up relative to the control condition. This study highlights the potential adaptive role of post-event retrieval processing following trauma and is the first to investigate …
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Behavioural and Neural Investigation of the Subjective Experience of Remembering
… third person, could be assessed via subjective vividness ratings and objective feature reproduction tasks. The visual perspective of spatial memory recall was additionally varied between the same and alternative studied perspectives to test whether aphantasics are impaired at manipulating …
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Suicide-Related Imagining and Acquired Capability: Investigating the Role of Imagery in Self-Harm Behaviors
… that engagement (frequency, emotional impact, vividness, realism) with suicidal imagery would be related to suicidality, with greater engagement with imagery associated with more suicidal behaviors. Acquired capability for suicide was expected to be a mediator of this relationship. These …
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A study of the prose style of selected sermons of John Keble
… tropes and schemes are indicative of "vivacity, vividness, and ornateness" are explored (85). Keble's use of sentences, words, paragraphs, and punctuation is examined. Richard Lanham's text, "Analyzing Prose" was also used. Other influences are evident in Keble's writings. These influences are …
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Mental Imagery and Exercise Endurance
… completed a demographics questionnaire, the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ), one set of body weight squats until failure, and a manipulation check regarding ease of thought maintenance during the exercise. Throughout the body weight squats, participants were randomly …
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A Visual Approach to Information Systems: An Investigation of the Momentum of Accounting Wealth Changes
… visual acuity, as measured by the Visual Vividness Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ). The subjects using the two-dimensional representations were found to take the least amount of time for their predictions.
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Visuelle Vorstellungskraft und ihre Beziehung zum visuellen Kurzzeitgedächtnis in Gesunden, Alzheimer- und Parkinson-Erkrankten
… der visuellen Vorstellungskraft wird der „Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire“ herangezogen. In einer strukturellen Bildgebungsuntersuchung werden die Volumina der Hippocampi und visuellen und fusiformen Cortices berechnet. Es wird analysiert, ob Kurzzeitgedächtnis und visuelle …
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A psychophysiological investigation of the effects of a psychotropic agent (clozapine) upon sleep parameters of normal young adults
… by difficulty in falling asleep, an increased vividness in REM mentation as well as the occurrence of nightmares (Kales et al 1968(a)(b), 1969(a)(b)). Recent research has suggested that clozapine, a psychotropic agent, may have pronounced sleep inducing properties (Hemphill et al 1975; Ruch et …
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