Women can bear a bigger burden: ante- and post-mortem evidence for reserve in the face of tau. [PDF]
, 2020 In this study, we aimed to assess whether women are able to withstand more tau before exhibiting verbal memory impairment. Using data from 121 amyloid-β-positive Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative participants, we fit a linear model with Rey ...
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative +6 more
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Determinants of Activity Levels in African Americans With Mild Cognitive Impairment. [PDF]
, 2016 Engaging in cognitive, social, and physical activities may prevent cognitive decline. In a sample of older African Americans with mild cognitive impairment (MCI; N=221), we investigated the cross-sectional relationships between activity levels and ...
Casten, PhD, Robin J. +2 more
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Distributional effects and individual differences in L2 morphology learning [PDF]
, 2016 Second language (L2) learning outcomes may depend on the structure of the input and learners’ cognitive abilities. This study tested whether less predictable input might facilitate learning and generalization of L2 morphology while evaluating ...
Brooks, Patricia J. +2 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 Noise-vocoded speech is commonly used to simulate the sensation after cochlear implantation as it consists of spectrally degraded speech. High individual variability exists in learning to understand both noise-vocoded speech and speech perceived through ...
Stephanie Rosemann +8 more
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Embodiment and embodied design [PDF]
, 2014 Picture this. A preverbal infant straddles the center of a seesaw. She gently tilts her weight back and forth from one side to the other, sensing as each side tips downward and then back up again.
Abrahamson, D, Lindgren, R
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: a prospective paradigm to test Rachman's indirect pathways in children [PDF]
, 2001 Rachman's theory [The conditioning theory of fear insition: a critical examination. Behav. Res. Ther. 15 (1977) 375–387] of fear acquisition suggests that fears and phobias can be acquired through three pathways: direct conditioning, vicarious learning ...
Ajzen +56 more
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Treino e generalização de leitura crítica e criativa: um estudo experimental com universitários
Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)O objetivo deste trabalho foi testar a eficiência de procedimentos de treino em leitura crítica e leitura criativa. Ainda foi o de verificar a generalização do treino de leitura crítica para a motivação, compreensão e leitura criativa.
Carmen Lúcia Hussein
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Performance Variability During a Multitrial List-Learning Task as a Predictor of Future Cognitive Decline in Healthy Elders [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction: In clinical settings, neuropsychological test performance is traditionally evaluated with total summary scores (TSS). However, recent studies demonstrated that indices of intraindividual variability (IIV) yielded unique information ...
Durgerian, Sally +8 more
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A tale of six fish: Achieving social presence through discussion forums in an offline learning environment [PDF]
, 2011 It is widely held, through the Socratic tradition, that discussion is at the heart of learning. Moderated discussion forums have been shown to replicate the debate, argument and verbal defence of viewpoints that we have come to expect in face-to-face ...
Lloyd, Margaret
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Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2011 OBJECTIVE: The Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test, which is used to evaluate learning and memory, is a widely recognized tool in the general literature on neuropsychology.
João Vinícius Salgado +8 more
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