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Que signifient les corps et gestes des personnages qui peuplent les lais bretons moyen-anglais ?

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2015
The Middle English Breton Lays edited by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (1995) were written between the late 13th and the 15th century. They form a miscellaneous body of poems grafted onto a pre-existing literary form, the lai, best illustrated by Marie ...
Agnès Blandeau
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Examination of three attentional strategies on pain coping and recovery from the cold pressor : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
The literature supports the role of attention diversion strategies in the modification of pain perception. Recently it has been suggested that the presence of an overt action is a necessary component of these often multicomponent tasks. Research has also
Oates, Constance Elizabeth
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Participation for mental health service development in China: Conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Happily distracted: mood and a benefit of attention dysregulation in older adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
Positive mood states are believed to broaden the focus of attention in younger adults, but it is unclear whether the same is true for older adults. Here we examined one consequence of broader attention that has been shown in young adults: that memory ...
Renée K. Biss   +5 more
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Switching characters between stimuli improves P300 speller accuracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper, an alternative stimulus presentation paradigm for the P300 speller is introduced. Similar to the checkerboard paradigm it minimizes the occurrence of the two most common causes of spelling errors: adjacency distraction and double flashes ...
Buteneers, Pieter   +3 more
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A cognitive training intervention increases resting cerebral blood flow in healthy older adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2010
Healthy aging is typically accompanied by some decline in cognitive performance, as well as by alterations in brain structure and function. Here we report the results of a randomized, controlled trial designed to determine the effects of a novel ...
Jennifer L Mozolic   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multimodal Polynomial Fusion for Detecting Driver Distraction

open access: yes, 2018
Distracted driving is deadly, claiming 3,477 lives in the U.S. in 2015 alone. Although there has been a considerable amount of research on modeling the distracted behavior of drivers under various conditions, accurate automatic detection using multiple ...
Black, Alan W   +4 more
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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of distraction on memory and cognition: A commentary

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
This commentary is a review of the findings and ideas reported in the preceding nine articles on the effects of distraction on aspects of cognitive performance.
Fergus I. M Craik
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