Replicability of sight word training and phonics training in poor readers: a randomised controlled trial [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Given the importance of effective treatments for children with reading impairment, paired with growing concern about the lack of scientific replication in psychological science, the aim of this study was to replicate a quasi-randomised trial of sight ...
G McArthur +6 more
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Validation of the Emotiv EPOC® EEG gaming system for measuring research quality auditory ERPs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 Background. Auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) have proved useful in investigating the role of auditory processing in cognitive disorders such as developmental dyslexia, specific language impairment (SLI), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ...
Nicholas A. Badcock +5 more
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No association between autistic traits and contextual influences on eye-movements during reading [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Individuals with autism spectrum disorders are claimed to show a local cognitive bias, termed “weak central coherence”, which manifests in a reduced influence of contextual information on linguistic processing.
Nathan Caruana, Jon Brock
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Value and efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation in the rehabilitation of neurocognitive disorders: A critical review since 2000. [PDF]
, 2016 open3siNon-invasive brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial direct current stimulation (t-DCS) have been used in the rehabilitation of cognitive function in a spectrum of neurological disorders.
Davide Cappon +2 more
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Tracking orthographic learning in children with different types of dyslexia
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Previous studies have found that children with reading difficulties need more exposures to acquire the representations needed to support fluent reading than typically developing readers (e.g., Ehri & Saltmarsh, 1995).
Hua-Chen eWang +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018 Chronic smoking impairs brain functions in the prefrontal cortex and the projecting meso-cortical limbic system. The purpose of this pilot study is to examine whether modulating the frontal brain activity using high-frequency repetitive transcranial ...
Da Chang +10 more
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Validation of the Emotiv EPOC EEG system for research quality auditory event-related potentials in children [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Background. Previous work has demonstrated that a commercial gaming electroencephalography (EEG) system, Emotiv EPOC, can be adjusted to provide valid auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) in adults that are comparable to ERPs recorded by a research ...
Nicholas A. Badcock +6 more
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Effect of neurostimulation on cognition and mood in refractory epilepsy. [PDF]
, 2018 Epilepsy is a common, debilitating neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures. Mood disorders and cognitive deficits are common comorbidities in epilepsy that, like seizures, profoundly influence quality of life and can be difficult to ...
Chan, Alvin Y +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Mirrored-self misidentification delusion is the belief that one’s reflection in the mirror is not oneself. This experiment used hypnotic suggestion to impair normal face processing in healthy participants and recreate key aspects of the delusion in the ...
Michael H Connors +15 more
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Models of atypical development must also be models of normal development [PDF]
, 2002 Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of developmental disorders and normal cognition that include children are becoming increasingly common and represent part of a newly expanding field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. These studies have
Mareschal, D, Westermann, G
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