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Race, everyday discrimination, and cognitive function in later life.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Discrimination is pernicious in many ways, but there are inconsistent findings regarding whether it is harmful to cognitive function in later life. To address the inconsistency, we use two closely related concepts of everyday discrimination to predict ...
Kenneth F Ferraro, Callie J Zaborenko
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Bias and Beliefs: Age Discrimination, Perceived Control over Cognitive Aging, and Executive Functioning in Caregiving Grandparents [PDF]

Geriatrics
Background: Caregiving grandparents face unique stressors that may affect cognitive health. Discrimination is associated with poorer cognitive performance, whereas stronger perceived control over cognitive aging is associated with better performance ...
Maia A. McLin, Laura A. Shillingsburg, Amara L. Mason, Kourtney Mia Barfield, Danielle Kristen Nadorff   +4 more
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Racial discrimination and anger expression: a preliminary test of a social cognitive model [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionExposure to discrimination is associated with greater use of anger suppression (anger-in) and outward expression (anger-out), both of which are reflexive anger expression styles that are linked with relationship difficulties and poorer health.
Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Dakota D. Witzel, Emily Fair, Matthew J. Zawadzki, Melissa K. Peckins, Amish Patel, Ana Chkhaidze, Patrick Louie Robles, Michael A. Russell, Maryam Hussain, Elizabeth Brondolo, Elizabeth Brondolo   +11 more
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Tactile discrimination as a diagnostic indicator of cognitive decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A narrative review

Heliyon
Background: Tactile discrimination, a cognitive task reliant on fingertip touch for stimulus discrimination, encompasses the somatosensory system and working memory, with its acuity diminishing with advancing age.
Jinan Xu, Yuqi Sun, Xianghe Zhu, Sipei Pan, Zhiqian Tong, Ke Jiang   +5 more
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Everyday discrimination and cancer metaphor preferences: The mediating effects of needs for personal significance and cognitive closure

SSM: Population Health, 2022
Metaphors are often used to describe cancer experiences (e.g., battle, journey). Few studies explore how social threats (e.g., discrimination) shape metaphor preferences.
Jessica R. Fernandez, Jennifer Richmond, Anna M. Nápoles, Arie W. Kruglanski, Allana T. Forde   +4 more
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Moderating the link between discrimination and adverse mental health outcomes: Examining the protective effects of cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Discrimination is associated with mental health problems. While prior research has demonstrated the significance of emotion regulation in explaining the onset and development of discrimination-related anxiety, few studies investigated this dynamic with ...
Yutong Zhu, Wisteria Deng
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Dissociative Effects of Neuropeptide S Receptor Deficiency and Nasal Neuropeptide S Administration on T-Maze Discrimination and Reversal Learning

Pharmaceuticals, 2021
Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to modify learned behavior in response to changes in the environment. In laboratory rodents, cognitive flexibility can be assessed in reversal learning, i.e., the change of contingencies, for example in T-maze ...
Ahmet Oguzhan Bicakci, Pei-Ling Tsai, Evelyn Kahl, Dana Mayer, Markus Fendt   +4 more
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Relationship between Auditory and Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The objective was to evaluate the association of peripheral and central hearing abilities with cognitive function in older adults.Recruited from epidemiological studies of aging and cognition at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, participants were a ...
Stanley Sheft, Valeriy Shafiro, Emily Wang, Lisa L Barnes, Raj C Shah   +4 more
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Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Abilities and Adaptive Components of Psychopathic Traits

SAGE Open, 2023
Although multiple studies have suggested a negative relationship between psychopathic traits and cognitive abilities, a few identified positive associations between psychopathic traits and specific executive functions.
Guillaume Durand, Bart P. F. Rutten, Jill Lobbestael   +2 more
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A Response to Cross & Rohrmeier's 'Comments on Facilitation and Coherence Between the Dynamic and Retrospective Perception of Segmentation in Computer-Generated Music'

Empirical Musicology Review, 2007
The commentary by Cross and Rohrmeier (2007) attempts to locate our paper (Bailes and Dean, 2007a) as a study of timbre, and points out the ongoing development of research in this area, including attempts to define psychoacoustic thresholds of perception.
Freya Bailes, Roger Dean
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