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Automaticity in reading isiZulu [PDF]
Reading & Writing, 2016 Automaticity, or instant recognition of combinations of letters as units of language, is essential for proficient reading in any language. The article explores automaticity amongst competent adult first-language readers of isiZulu, and the factors ...
Sandra Land
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Exploring gait automaticity and prefrontal brain activity during single and dual-task walking in aging and Parkinson’s disease [PDF]
Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationBackground Walking while performing a concurrent cognitive task leads to cognitive-motor interference, resulting in slower and more variable gait. This is particularly the case in Parkinson’s disease (PD), where dual-task situations exacerbate walking ...
Alexander Kvist +7 more
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Personalized versus fixed tactile cueing in Parkinson's disease: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial on gait automaticity. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundGait automaticity, the ability of the brain to control locomotion with minimal use of executive-attentional resources, is altered in people with Parkinson's disease (PD).
Pablo I Burgos +9 more
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Mental Action and the Threat of Automaticity [PDF]
, 2013 This paper considers the connection between automaticity, control and agency. Indeed, recent philosophical and psychological works play up the incompatibility of automaticity and agency.
Wu, Wayne
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Overcoming automaticity through meditation [PDF]
, 2021 Objectives Meditation practice has recently moved into applied research to improve cognitive functions. However, it is a multifaceted practice, with focused attention meditation relying on a sharp focus, and open monitoring meditation relying on a ...
Hugger, Gregor +6 more
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Two facets of automaticity: motor automaticity opposes habit formation [PDF]
Repeated practice produces both motor automaticity (action fluency) and inflexible habitual responding (non-deliberate actions). Although traditionally assumed to reflect a unified automaticity process, their relationship remains largely untested.
John O'Doherty, Colin Camerer, Rani Gera
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Automatic Orchestration for Automatic Composition
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2012 The automatic orchestration problem is that of assigning instruments or sounds to the notes of an unorchestrated score. This is related to, but distinct from, problems of automatic expressive interpretation. A simple algorithm is described that successfully orchestrates scores based on analysis of one musical structure -- the "Z-chain."
Eliot Handelman +2 more
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The Perils of Automaticity [PDF]
Review of General Psychology, 2015 Classical theories of skill acquisition propose that automatization (i.e., performance requires progressively less attention as experience is acquired) is a defining characteristic of expertise in a variety of domains (e.g., Fitts & Posner, 1967 ).
Toner, John +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 BackgroundHabits have been proposed to develop as a function of the extent to which a behavior is rewarded, performed frequently, and executed in a stable context.
Kiran McCloskey, Blair T. Johnson
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Automaticity of relation synonyms
, 2022 Assessment of the automaticity of relational synonyms, and therefore their suitability for tasks such as the Relational Responding ...
Ian Hussey, Jan De Houwer
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