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Age Differences In Attentional Capture Effects Of Emotional Faces, Shelby King
Age Differences In Attentional Capture Effects Of Emotional Faces, Shelby King
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Sustained attention is necessary to accurately complete cognitive tasks. However, sustained attention can often be disrupted by distracting information. When distractors contain emotional content, past research suggests that they might attract attention. The rapid detection of emotional information is important in everyday life because emotion often emerges in social interaction, including unpleasant interactions where others might pose a threat. The attentional capture effects of emotional faces were explored by inserting them into a visual search task that included differing levels of perceptual load. Twenty-five younger adults and twenty older adults identified target letters in standard trials containing distracting elements, but …
Breaking The Rules: A Rebuttal Of Normal-Tension Glaucoma, David Brey
Breaking The Rules: A Rebuttal Of Normal-Tension Glaucoma, David Brey
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Glaucoma is a disease of the eyes generally characterized by high intraocular pressure, optic nerve death, and visual loss. Open-angle glaucoma and angle-closure glaucoma are the two main forms of the disease However, there is one form of open angle glaucoma that cannot be described by the above abnormalities. This form is known as normal-tension glaucoma, and while it is characterized by optic nerve death and visual loss, it does not display an abnormally high intraocular pressure. Indeed, as this thesis argues, normal-tension glaucoma should not be labeled as a glaucoma disease at all.