Mathematical and Negative Information Are Similarly Processed: Pupil Dilation as an Indicator
Background: Emotional perception of math-related information can affect an individual’s attitude and professional choices, especially in the area of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions.
Lilach Layzer Yavin +2 more
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It is Time to Stop Talking and Start Doing: The Views of People with Learning Disability on Future Research [PDF]
There is a need for people with learning disabilities to be involved in directing research to ensure that the research is meaningful to those it concerns.
Marriott, Anna +2 more
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Piloting a manualised weight management programme (Shape Up-LD) for overweight and obese persons with mild-moderate learning disabilities: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial [PDF]
National obesity rates have dramatically risen over the last decade. Being obese significantly reduces life expectancy, increases the risk of a range of diseases, and compromises quality of life.
Beeken, RJ +8 more
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Equal Opportunity Interference: Both L1 and L2 Influence L3 Morpho-Syntactic Processing
We investigated cross-language influences from the first (L1) and second (L2) languages in third (L3) language processing, to examine how order of acquisition and proficiency modulate the degree of cross-language influences, and whether these cross ...
Nawras Abbas +3 more
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Different aspects of the lived experience of intellectual disabilities [PDF]
The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities: JOID, Vol.14 Issue 1, 2010, Copyright SAGE Publications Ltd on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/In this issue of Journal
Bob Gates, Booth, T.
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Learning disabilities matter [PDF]
Video Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8csdJ3myMy8&t ...
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Common Misconceptions about the Phonological Deficit Theory of Dyslexia
In this discussion paper, I review a number of common misconceptions about the phonological deficit theory (PDH) of dyslexia. These include the common but mistaken idea that the PDH is simply about phonemic awareness (PA), and, consequently, is a ...
David L. Share
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Throughout the history of modern psychology, the neural basis of cognitive performance, and particularly its efficiency, has been assumed to be an essential determinant of developmental and individual differences in a wide range of human behaviors. Here,
Adi Shechter +2 more
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Current evidence suggests emotion regulation is an important factor in both math anxiety and math performance, but the interplay between these constructs is unexamined.
Lital Daches Cohen +2 more
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Nothing About Us Without Us: Combining Professional Knowledge with Service User Experience in Training about Mental Health and Learning Disabilities [PDF]
Recent policy documents relating to people with learning disabilities have proposed that they be more fully included in generic mental health care provision. In practice such inclusion has been slow to proceed, hampered by factors which appear to include
Dhanjal, Kuljinder +2 more
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