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Food Safety Information Processing and Teaching Behavior of Dietitians: A Mental Model Approach

open access: yesAgriculture, 2015
Health professionals play an important role in educating the public about food safety risks. However, the ways this important group of educators remains up-to-date on these topics are not well defined.
Lydia C. Medeiros, Jeffrey T. LeJeune
doaj   +1 more source

Mental models: an interdisciplinary synthesis of theory and methods

open access: yes, 2011
Mental models are personal, internal representations of external reality that people use to interact with the world around them. They are constructed by individuals based on their unique life experiences, perceptions, and understandings of the world ...
Natalie A. Jones   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adult‐Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presenting With Subacute Cognitive Deficits

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We describe the case of a 41‐year‐old man diagnosed with adult‐onset subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). The patient presented with subacute progressive cognitive deficits and a neuropsychological profile indicating predominant frontoparietal dysfunction. MRI showed only mild parietal‐predominant cerebral atrophy.
Dennis Yeow   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural implementation of psychological spaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Psychological spaces give natural framework for construction of mental representations. Neural model of psychological spaces provides a link between neuroscience and psychology. Categorization performed in high-dimensional spaces by dynamical associative
Duch, Wlodzislaw
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
wiley   +1 more source

What Do Readers’ Mental Models Represent? Understanding Audience Processing of Narratives by Analyzing Mental Models Drawn by Fiction Readers in India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2016
This study extends the narrative-processing literature by examining mental models constructed by individuals who have read the same narrative. Sixteen adults from Chandigarh (India) read a fictional story in Hindi, drew a picture of the story, and ...
Neelam Sharma
doaj  

Simulation and learning: the role of mental models

open access: yesJe-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2009
A successful educational use of simulations at school and in formative courses requires a careful consideration of the cognitive mechanisms of learning. The most interesting educational simulations are not so much those which want to be a copy of reality,
Franco Landriscina
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Towards Deep Learning Models for Psychological State Prediction using Smartphone Data: Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
There is an increasing interest in exploiting mobile sensing technologies and machine learning techniques for mental health monitoring and intervention. Researchers have effectively used contextual information, such as mobility, communication and mobile ...
Mehrotra, Abhinav   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Traumatic Microhemorrhages Are Not Synonymous With Axonal Injury

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is caused by acceleration‐deceleration forces during trauma that shear white matter tracts. Susceptibility‐weighted MRI (SWI) identifies microbleeds that are considered the radiologic hallmark of DAI and are used in clinical prognostication.
Karinn Sytsma   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A formal theory can explain disjunctive illusory inferences.

open access: yesCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2014
There are disjunctive inferences that can be considered to be illusory, since, when faced to them, people tend to draw logically incorrect conclusions.
Miguel López Astorga
doaj   +1 more source

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