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Does expressive writing or an instructional intervention reduce the impacts of test anxiety in a college classroom?

open access: yesCognitive Research, 2021
Test anxiety is a major concern in education because it causes uncomfortable feelings in test-anxious students and may reduce the validity of exam scores as a measure of learning.
Sarah J. Myers   +2 more
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Editorial for the special issue on “Prediction, Creativity, and Cultural Evolution in Music Cognition”

open access: yesJournal of Cognition
Music making across cultures arguably involves a blend of innovation and adherence to established norms. This integration allows listeners to recognise a range of innovative, surprising, and functional elements in music, while also associating them to a ...
Tudor Popescu   +2 more
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Collective intelligence in fingerprint analysis

open access: yesCognitive Research, 2020
When a fingerprint is located at a crime scene, a human examiner is counted upon to manually compare this print to those stored in a database. Several experiments have now shown that these professional analysts are highly accurate, but not infallible ...
Jason M. Tangen   +2 more
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Participants’ knowledge regarding flu vaccine (N = 499).

open access: yes, 2022
Participants’ knowledge regarding flu vaccine (N = 499).
Norah Alhatim (12342405)   +2 more
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Sequential Effects on Reaction Time Distributions: Commonalities and Differences Across Paradigms

open access: yesJournal of Cognition
A common finding across numerous response time (RT) paradigms is that the mean RT in one trial depends strongly on the characteristics of the immediately preceding trial.
Anne Voormann, Jeff Miller
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The relationship between political affiliation and beliefs about sources of “fake news”

open access: yesCognitive Research, 2021
The 2016 US Presidential campaign saw an explosion in popularity for the term “fake news.” This phenomenon raises interesting questions: Which news sources do people believe are fake, and what do people think “fake news” means?
Robert B. Michael, Brooke O. Breaux
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Elevated miR-499 levels blunt the cardiac stress response. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BackgroundThe heart responds to myriad stresses by well-described transcriptional responses that involve long-term changes in gene expression as well as more immediate, transient adaptations.
Joseph T. C. Shieh   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Interindividual Differences in Cognitive Variability Are Ubiquitous and Distinct From Mean Performance in a Battery of Eleven Tasks

open access: yesJournal of Cognition
Our performance on cognitive tasks fluctuates: the same individual completing the same task will differ in their response’s moment-to-moment. For decades cognitive fluctuations have been implicitly ignored – treated as measurement error – with a focus ...
Nicholas Judd   +3 more
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Beyond small-scale spatial skills: Navigation skills and geoscience education

open access: yesCognitive Research, 2019
Background Research examining the relation between spatial skills and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields has focused on small-scale spatial skills, even though some STEM disciplines—particularly the geography and ...
Alina Nazareth   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Load is Low, Working Memory is Shielded From Long-Term Memory’s Influence

open access: yesJournal of Cognition
Previous studies found that episodic long-term memory (eLTM) enhances working memory (WM) performance when both novel and previously learnt word pairs must be retained on a short-term basis.
Lea M. Bartsch   +2 more
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