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Investigating mental representation of order with a speeded probed recall task [PDF]
Acta Psychologica, 2009 We compare three models of representation of item order in a verbal STM task: item-item associations, item-position associations, and primacy gradient. A speeded probed recall task is used, in which a list of words is presented, immediately followed by a probe; participants must report as fast as possible the word that was in the probed position.
Sergio Morra +2 more
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A White doctor recalls mental hospital practice in apartheid South Africa [PDF]
BJPsych International, 2021 The article offers a personal memoir of a psychiatric registrar's impressions of daily life while working in a South African mental hospital during the apartheid era in the late 1960s. From the perspective of a trainee psychiatrist, he recalls admission procedures, ward management, patient assessment, and medical and nursing care, including ...
Harold Behr
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Task-specific auditory distraction in serial recall and mental arithmetic [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2022 AbstractPrevious studies suggest that task-irrelevant changing-state sound interferes specifically with the processing of serial order information in the focal task (e.g., serial recall from short-term memory), whereas a deviant sound in the auditory background is supposed to divert central attention, thus producing distraction in various types of ...
Florian Kattner +3 more
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Story Recall by Mentally Retarded Children [PDF]
Psychological Reports, 1983 Three stories were read to 19 mildly retarded young adolescents and to 19 nonretarded children of comparable mental age. The two groups did not differ consistently in the amount they recalled orally. Moreover, the two groups tended to recall the same parts of the stories, indicating that both groups are sensitive to the stories' structure.
Ellen H. Bacon, David C. Rubin
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The Japanese Journal of Physiology, 2001 Preceding mental sweating response (MSR) during mental stress, small wavelets and large waves are observed on EEG. In the present study, locations of current sources of the large waves were estimated. The results revealed that the current dipole was estimated around the orbits, reflecting activity of the eyelid or eye muscles.
Ken’ichi Matsunami +3 more
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Mental Health and Language: Anxiety and Depression Impact Sentence Recall Differently [PDF]
, 2022 The present study examined how two mental health disorders (anxiety and depression) impact people’s ability to process language. Participants (N = 64) were asked to read and recall sentences. A secondary naming task was used to prompt lexical rehearsal of the second noun in the stimulus sentence that was either part of the subject (e.g., Tania and the ...
Rodilene Gittoes, JENS ROESER
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The Mental Representation of Irreversible Binomials: Evidence from a Serial Recall Task
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011 n ...
Giorgio Arcara +4 more
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PLOS ONE, 2022 Does reading fiction improve mental health and well-being? We present the results of five studies that evaluated the impact of five forms of exposure to fiction. These included the effects of recalling reading fiction, of being prescribed fiction, of discussing fiction relative to non-fiction, and of discussing literary fiction relative to best-seller ...
James Carney, Cole Robertson
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Do preschool children have modality specific recall abilities? - A cross-sectional pilot study
Cogent Education, 2022 Little is explored regarding the modality-specific differences in recall abilities of preschool children. Understanding modality-specific differences in the recall at an early age might give an insight into age-linked trends, which can lay a foundation ...
Aparna Prasanna +3 more
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Revista CEFAC, 2020 Objective: to carry out an integrative review of the literature on autobiographical narratives as a discursive activity in the older adult with neurocognitive disorder.
Ana Paula Machado Goyano Mac-Kay +4 more
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