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Cognitive Psychology

Selected Works

2004

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Full-Text Articles in Psychology

Psychophysiological Reactivity To Traumatic And Abandonment Scripts In Borderline Personality And Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: A Preliminary Report, Christian G. Schmahl, Bernet M. Elzinga, Ulrich W. Ebner, Timothy Simms, Charles A. Sanislow, Eric Vermetten, Thomas H. Mcglashan, J. Douglas Bremner Mar 2004

Psychophysiological Reactivity To Traumatic And Abandonment Scripts In Borderline Personality And Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: A Preliminary Report, Christian G. Schmahl, Bernet M. Elzinga, Ulrich W. Ebner, Timothy Simms, Charles A. Sanislow, Eric Vermetten, Thomas H. Mcglashan, J. Douglas Bremner

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a highly prevalent and disabling condition linked to early stressors including traumatic abuse and abandonment. While much work has addressed traumatic events in childhood, little is known about the biological sequelae of BPD including how this disorder may be differentiated from other stressrelated disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The purpose of this study was to investigate psychophysiological effects of different types of stressful reminders in BPD and in PTSD. Psychophysiological measures including heart rate, skin conductance responses, systolic and diastolic blood pressure in response to standardized neutral scripts, and personalized scripts of traumatic …

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An Electronic Instruction Manual And Checklist For Steam Boiler Start-Up, Satoru Tokuda, Esa Rantenan, Jessica C. Hill Mar 2004

An Electronic Instruction Manual And Checklist For Steam Boiler Start-Up, Satoru Tokuda, Esa Rantenan, Jessica C. Hill

Jessica Hill

Development of an electronic user manual/checklist for a steam-generating power plant boiler start-up is described. Human factors guidelines for development of effective instructional materials were reviewed. Subject matter experts (experienced operators at the power plant) were used to gain requisite knowledge in the procedures and tasks involved in start-up of a steam boiler. Functions of the main components in the power plant and boilers were studied in relevant literature. The new manual/checklist includes description of the system components as part of operative actions and separate actions are arranged into categorical groups, each associated with informative headings. Flowcharts are used to …

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Imagery In Sentence Comprehension: An Fmri Study, Marcel Just, Sharlene Newman, Timothy Keller, Alice Mceleney, Patricia Carpenter Dec 2003

Imagery In Sentence Comprehension: An Fmri Study, Marcel Just, Sharlene Newman, Timothy Keller, Alice Mceleney, Patricia Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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How The Brain Processes Causal Inferences In Text: A Theoretical Account Of Generation And Integration Component Processes Utilizing Both Cerebral Hemispheres, Robert Mason, Marcel Just Dec 2003

How The Brain Processes Causal Inferences In Text: A Theoretical Account Of Generation And Integration Component Processes Utilizing Both Cerebral Hemispheres, Robert Mason, Marcel Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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Learning To Decode Cognitive States From Brain Images, Tom M. Mitchell, Rebecca Hutchinson, Radu S. Niculescu, Francisco Pereira, Xuerui Wang, Marcel Adam Just, Sharlene D. Newman Dec 2003

Learning To Decode Cognitive States From Brain Images, Tom M. Mitchell, Rebecca Hutchinson, Radu S. Niculescu, Francisco Pereira, Xuerui Wang, Marcel Adam Just, Sharlene D. Newman

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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Cortical Activation And Synchronization During Sentence Comprehension In High-Functioning Autism: Evidence Of Underconnectivity, Marcel Adam Just, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Timothy A. Keller, Nancy J. Minshew Dec 2003

Cortical Activation And Synchronization During Sentence Comprehension In High-Functioning Autism: Evidence Of Underconnectivity, Marcel Adam Just, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Timothy A. Keller, Nancy J. Minshew

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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How To Learn From Our Mistakes: Explanation And Moral Justification, Kristin Andrews Dec 2003

How To Learn From Our Mistakes: Explanation And Moral Justification, Kristin Andrews

Kristin Andrews, PhD

A new approach to developing models of folk psychology is suggested, namely that different models exist for different folk psychological practices. This point is made through an example: the explanation and justification of morally heinous actions. Human folk psychology in this area is prone to a specific error of conflating an explanation for behaviour with a justification of it. An analysis of the error leads me to conclude that simulation is used to generate both explanations and justifications of heinous acts. It is needed in both these cases because most of us lack theoretical information about evil actors. I will …

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