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Mediating Role of Midlife Metabolic Disorders on the Association of Early Adulthood Hyperlipidemia and Late Life Cognition in Black Americans [PDF]
Alzheimers DementGeorge K +8 more
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Postoperative cognitive disorders [PDF]
Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2011 The elderly are the fastest growing segment of the population and undergo 25-30% of all surgical procedures. Postoperative cognitive problems are common in older patients following major surgery. The socioeconomic implications of these cognitive disorders are profound; cognitive decline is associated with a loss of independence, a reduction in the ...
Terri G, Monk, Catherine C, Price
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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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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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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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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 The ability to identify faces is mediated by a network of cortical and subcortical brain regions in humans. It is still a matter of debate which regions represent the functional substrate of congenital prosopagnosia (CP), a condition characterized by a ...
Davide eRivolta +10 more
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