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Understanding racial bias through electroencephalography

BMC Psychology, 2023
Research on racial bias in social and cognitive psychology has focused on automatic cognitive processes such as categorisation or stereotyping. Neuroimaging has revealed differences in the neural circuit when processing social information about one’s own
Mirella Manfredi, William E. Comfort, Lucas M. Marques, Gabriel G. Rego, Julia H. Egito, Ruth L. Romero, Paulo S. Boggio   +6 more
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Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development [PDF]

, 2007
Exploratory activities seem to be intrinsically rewarding for children and crucial for their cognitive development. Can a machine be endowed with such an intrinsic motivation system?
Hafner, Véréna, Kaplan, Frédéric, Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves   +2 more
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Electroencephalographic spectral power as a marker of cortical function and disease severity in girls with Rett syndrome

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2019
Background Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a mutation in the X-linked MECP2 gene. Individuals with Rett syndrome typically develop normally until around 18 months of age before undergoing a developmental regression, and the ...
Katherine J. Roche, Jocelyn J. LeBlanc, April R. Levin, Heather M. O’Leary, Lauren M. Baczewski, Charles A. Nelson   +5 more
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A systematic mini-review of epigenetic mechanisms associated with electroconvulsive therapy in humans

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023
IntroductionElectroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most effective strategies for treating resistant major depression. Although the mechanism of action is not fully understood and studies are limited, epigenetics is a promising area for the ...
Sayra Catalina Coral Castro, Carla Bicca, Bruno Bicca, Stéfany Araujo, Thiago Wendt Viola   +4 more
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Growth faltering is associated with altered brain functional connectivity and cognitive outcomes in urban Bangladeshi children exposed to early adversity

BMC Medicine, 2019
Background Stunting affects more than 161 million children worldwide and can compromise cognitive development beginning early in childhood. There is a paucity of research using neuroimaging tools in conjunction with sensitive behavioral assays in low ...
Wanze Xie, Sarah K. G. Jensen, Mark Wade, Swapna Kumar, Alissa Westerlund, Shahria H. Kakon, Rashidul Haque, William A. Petri, Charles A. Nelson   +8 more
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The Second-Person Perspective in the Preface of Nicholas of Cusa’s De Visione Dei [PDF]

, 2013
In De visione Dei’s preface, a multidimensional, embodied experience of the second-person perspective becomes the medium by which Nicholas of Cusa’s audience, the benedictine brothers of Tegernsee, receive answers to questions regarding whether and in ...
Hollingsworth, Andrea
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Predictors of problematic smartphone use among university students

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2020
Predictors of problematic smartphone use have been found mainly in studies on elementary and high school students. Few studies have focused on predictors related to social network and messaging apps or smartphone model.
Paulo Guirro Laurence, Yuri Busin, Helena Scoz da Cunha Lima, Elizeu Coutinho Macedo   +3 more
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Kinaesthetic Intersubjectivity: : A dance informed contribution to self-other relatedness and shared experience in nonverbal psychotherapy with an example from Autism [PDF]

, 2012
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Rosemarie Samaritter and Helen Payne, ‘Kinaesthetic intersubjectivity: A dance informed contribution to self-other relatedness and shared experience in non-verbal psychotherapy ...
Payne, Helen, Samaritter, Rosemarie
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Frontostriatal Maturation Predicts Cognitive Control Failure to Appetitive Cues in Adolescents [PDF]

, 2011
Adolescent risk-taking is a public health issue that increases the odds of poor lifetime outcomes. One factor thought to influence adolescents' propensity for risk-taking is an enhanced sensitivity to appetitive cues, relative to an immature capacity to ...
B. J. Casey, Casey B. J., Eaton L. K., Epstein R., Haber S. N., Leah H. Somerville, Talairach J., Todd Hare   +7 more
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Disappearance and Re-Emergence of Influenza during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Association with Infection Control Measures

Viruses, 2023
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the influenza virus had a very low prevalence, and in many areas, outbreaks were almost non-existent.
Hikaru Takeuchi, Ryuta Kawashima
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