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Objective Versus Subjective Effort in Schizophrenia
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Background and ObjectivesPerformance on cognitive tasks is often impaired in individuals with schizophrenia (SCZ), possibly resulting from either cognitive deficits (e.g., limited working memory capacity) or diminished mental effort or both.
Isabel Kreis +2 more
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Comparing written and photo-based indoor wayfinding instructions through eye fixation measures and user ratings as mental effort assessments. [PDF]
J Eye Mov Res, 2019 The use of mobile pedestrian wayfinding applications is gaining importance indoors. However, compared to outdoors, much less research has been conducted with respect to the most adequate ways to convey indoor wayfinding information to a user.
De Cock L +7 more
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Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution:A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm [PDF]
, 2020 People feel tired or depleted after exerting mental effort. But even preregistered studies often fail to find effects of exerting effort on behavioral performance in the laboratory or elucidate the underlying psychology.
Evans, Nathan J. +4 more
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Brain Sciences, 2021 Scents have the ability to affect peoples’ mental states and task performance with to different extents. It has been widely demonstrated that the lemon scent, included in most all-purpose cleaners, elicits stimulation and activation, while the lavender ...
Marco Mancini +12 more
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Microtiming and Mental Effort [PDF]
Music Perception, 2019 The present study tested two assumptions concerning the auditory processing of microtiming in musical grooves (i.e., repeating, movement-inducing rhythmic patterns): 1) Microtiming challenges the listener's internal framework of timing regularities, or meter, and demands cognitive effort.
Jo Fougner Skaansar +2 more
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What Is Mental Effort: A Clinical Perspective
Biological Psychiatry, 2023 Although mental effort is a frequently used term, it is poorly defined and understood. In neuroscience research, the term is used to mean both the cognitive ‘work’ that is done in meeting task demands, and the subjective experience of performing that work.
Wolpe, Noham +2 more
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Physiological and Subjective Responses Associated to Physical and Mental Load in a Simulated Task
Revista Ciencias de la Salud, 2018 Introduction: the objective is to develop a quasi-experimental study to know the changes in physiological responses and perceived efforts of a group of fifteen healthy students that performed a simulated task related with the operation of a CNC lathe in ...
Juan Luis Hernández Arellano +2 more
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Intra-individual movement variability during skill transitions: A useful marker? [PDF]
, 2014 Applied research suggests athletes and coaches need to be challenged in knowing when and how much a movement should be consciously attended to. This is exacerbated when the skill is in transition between two more stable states, such as when an already ...
Bartlett R. +13 more
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An Integrative Model of Effortful Control
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2019 This article presents an integrative model of effortful control, a resource-limited top-down control mechanism involved in mental tasks and physical exercises.
Nathalie André +2 more
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Random planar graphs and the London street network [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we analyse the street network of London both in its primary and dual representation. To understand its properties, we consider three idealised models based on a grid, a static random planar graph and a growing random planar graph. Comparing
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