Psychology topic list of research papers
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Biological and bionic hands: natural neural coding and artificial perception2015 / Sliman J. Bensmaia
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Working memory capacity and disfluency effect: an aptitude-treatment-interaction study2015 / Janina Lehmann, Christina Goussios, Tina Seufert
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Scale invariance of temporal order discrimination using complex, naturalistic events
Abstract Recent demonstrations of scale invariance in cognitive domains prompted us to investigate whether a scale-free pattern might exist in retrieving the temporal order of events from episodic memory. We present four experiments using an...
2015 / Sze Chai Kwok, Emiliano Macaluso -
Perceptual grouping does not affect multi-attribute decision making if no processing costs are involved
Abstract Adaptive strategy selection implies that a decision strategy is chosen based on its fit to the task and situation. However, other aspects, such as the way information is presented, can determine information search behavior; especially when...
2015 / Florence Ettlin, Arndt Bröder -
Strategies to support engagement and continuity of activity during mealtimes for families living with dementia; a qualitative study2015 / Heather H. Keller, Lori Schindel Martin, Sherry Dupuis, Holly Reimer, Rebecca Genoe
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Reprint of: Semantic impairment disrupts perception, memory, and naming of secondary but not primary colours
Abstract To investigate how basic aspects of perception are shaped by acquired knowledge about the world, we assessed colour perception and cognition in patients with semantic dementia (SD), a disorder that progressively erodes conceptual knowledge. ...
2015 / Timothy T. Rogers, Kim S. Graham, Karalyn Patterson -
The effect of US signalling and the US–CS interval on backward conditioning in mice
Abstract The effect of US signalling and the US–CS interval in backward conditioning was assessed in mice. For one group of mice the presentation of food was signalled by a tone and for another group, food was unsignalled. For half of the mice,...
2014 / David J. Sanderson, Steven F. Cuell, David M. Bannerman -
Perceived Stress and Life Satisfaction in College Students: Belonging and Extracurricular Participation as Moderators
Abstract This study has two aims. The first was to examine the changes in perceived stress and life satisfaction in terms of college belonging, major belonging, and the participation in extracurricular activities. The second aim was to test the...
2015 / Asım Civitci -
Adapting BRSQ to Assess Coach's Perception of Athletes’ Motivation: Internal Structure Analysis
Abstract This study was aimed to adapt the Behavioral Regulation in Sport Questionnaire to assess coach's perception of athletes’ motivation in a sample of 153 Spanish coaches of both genders. This questionnaire is made up of 24 items that measure...
2015 / Abbas Shokri, Carme Viladrich, Jaume Cruz, Saul Alcaraz -
Types of approximation for probabilistic cognition: Sampling and variational
Abstract A basic challenge for probabilistic models of cognition is explaining how probabilistically correct solutions are approximated by the limited brain, and how to explain mismatches with human behavior. An emerging approach to solving this...
2015 / Adam N. Sanborn -
Children’s use of interventions to learn causal structure
Abstract Children between 5 and 8years of age freely intervened on a three-variable causal system, with their task being to discover whether it was a common cause structure or one of two causal chains. From 6 or 7years of age, children were able to...
2015 / Teresa McCormack, Neil Bramley, Caren Frosch, Fiona Patrick, David Lagnado -
The Role of Human Body Movements in Mate Selection2015 / N. Hugill, B. Fink, N. Neave
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Selecting the most appropriate treatment for each patient
Abstract Reviews the emergence of research on fitting treatment procedures to the unique needs and proclivities of patients. Traditional research on efficacy of psychotherapy focuses on the role of interventions and theoretical brands, minimizing...
2015 / Larry E. Beutler, Kathleen Someah, Satoko Kimpara, Kimberley Miller -
Validity and reliability of the 20-m run, horizontal leap, and four-bound tests measuring high-level mobility in neurologically impaired patients
Abstract Background High-level mobility (HLM) training including running forms an integral part of physical rehabilitation for neurologically impaired patients. Objective ...
2015 / Marek Gorski, Grant Scroggie, Terrence Haines -
Rhetorical features facilitate prosodic processing while handicapping ease of semantic comprehension
Abstract Studies on rhetorical features of language have reported both enhancing and adverse effects on ease of processing. We hypothesized that two explanations may account for these inconclusive findings. First, the respective gains and losses in...
2015 / Winfried Menninghaus, Isabel C. Bohrn, Christine A. Knoop, Sonja A. Kotz, Wolff Schlotz, et al. -
A school-based program implemented by community providers previously trained for the prevention of eating and weight-related problems in secondary-school adolescents: the MABIC study protocol2013 / David Sánchez-Carracedo, Gemma López-Guimerà, Jordi Fauquet, Juan Barrada, Montserrat Pàmias, et al.
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Living with hope: developing a psychosocial supportive program for rural women caregivers of persons with advanced cancer2010 / Wendy D Duggleby, Allison M Williams
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Identifying risk of deliberate self-harm through longitudinal monitoring of psychological distress in an inpatient psychiatric population2015 / Shraddha Kashyap, Geoffrey R Hooke, Andrew C Page
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Australian rural football club leaders as mental health advocates: an investigation of the impact of the Coach the Coach project2010 / David Pierce, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Jennifer Dobell, Rosemary Anderson
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Local Volunteerism and Resilience Following Large-Scale Disaster: Outcomes for Health Support Team Volunteers in Haiti2014 / Jessica A. Carlile, Kira Mauseth, Noël E. Clark, Jennifer L. Cruz, John W. Thoburn