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Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Spatial Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
Working memory (WM) is one of the core components of higher cognitive functions. There exists debate regarding the extent to which current techniques can enhance human WM capacity.
Jin-Bo Sun   +15 more
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The impact of textual enhancement on EFL learners’ grammatical awareness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This experimental study explores the impact of textual enhancement on English language learners’ noticing of and grammatical awareness of expressing future plans and intentions. The study was conducted over five weeks with a pre-test, immediate post-test
Judit Kormos   +3 more
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Dopaminergic Enhancement of Cognitive Function [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Pharmaceutical Design, 2006
The ascending dopamine system of the mammalian brain has been associated with motor, mnemonic and goal-directed or reward-related behaviour. The most progress in understanding the cortical mechanisms of dopaminergic modulation of function has been made with regards to short-term mnemonic (or working memory) function.
Mehta, M A, Riedel, W J
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Perfectionism and attitudes toward cognitive enhancers (“smart drugs”) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Perfectionism is a personality disposition characterized by exceedingly high standards of performance and pressure to be perfect which may incline students to take cognitive enhancers (“smart drugs”) to boost their academic performance.
Stoeber, Joachim, Hotham, Sarah
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Quantum Effectiveness Revealed by Quantitative Electroencephalogram (QEEG) as Applied in Academics, Corporate Consulting and Everyday Life [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2012
This paper presents research data that demonstrates changes in neuronal patterns to achieve optimally balanced brain performance. The optimally balanced brain state is applied in academics, consulting and business coaching to change subconscious belief ...
Jeffrey L. Fannin
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Cognitive Enhancement in Humans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Contains fulltext : 237623.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Dresler, M., Repantis, D.
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Autonomy and the limits of cognitive enhancement [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics, 2020
AbstractIn the debates regarding the ethics of human enhancement, proponents have found it difficult to refute the concern, voiced by certain bioconservatives, that cognitive enhancement violates the autonomy of the enhanced. However, G. Owen Schaefer, Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu have attempted not only to avoid autonomy‐based bioconservative ...
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The Future of Education in the Context of Cognitive Enhancement Practices

open access: yesMultidisciplinary Journal of School Education, 2020
The exponential growth of technological advancements creates an environment in which the traditionally conceived cognitive enhancement – education – must constantly redefine itself in the face of the invasive presence of A.I., the social media and ...
Anna Bugajska
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Why is Cognitive Enhancement Deemed Unacceptable? The Role of Fairness, Deservingness, and Hollow Achievements

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
We ask why pharmacological cognitive enhancement (PCE) is generally deemed morally unacceptable by lay people. Our approach to this question has two core elements.
Nadira S. Faber   +2 more
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Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement: the Undergraduates’ Point of View

open access: yes, 2018
To date, legitimacy of the application of cognitive enhancement programs to healthy individuals is still fueling neuroethics discussions. The aim of the present investigation is analyzing naïve conceptions of the ethical implications of different prac ...
Cancer, Alice, Antonietti, Alessandro
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