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Development Of An Exposure Control Plan For Diesel Particulate Matter: A Case Study In An Underground Metalliferous Mine, Fouad Rizk, Jane L. Whitelaw
Development Of An Exposure Control Plan For Diesel Particulate Matter: A Case Study In An Underground Metalliferous Mine, Fouad Rizk, Jane L. Whitelaw
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Abstract presented at the 32nd Annual Conference & Exhibition of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists Inc, 29 November - 3 December 2014, Melbourne, Australia.
Training-Induced Improvements In Inhibitor Control, Nicholas Benikos, Stuart Johnstone, Steven Roodenrys
Training-Induced Improvements In Inhibitor Control, Nicholas Benikos, Stuart Johnstone, Steven Roodenrys
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Abstract presented at the 17th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP2014) of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) Hiroshima, Japan, September 23rd to 27th, 2014
Clarifying Inhibitory Control: Diversity And Development Of Attentional Inhibition, Steven J. Howard, Janice Johnson, Juan Pascual-Leone
Clarifying Inhibitory Control: Diversity And Development Of Attentional Inhibition, Steven J. Howard, Janice Johnson, Juan Pascual-Leone
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Attentional inhibition is the ability to suppress task-irrelevant cognitive processing and ignore salient yet irrelevant features of the situation. However, it remains unclear whether inhibition is a singular function. Prominent are four proposals: a one-factor model of inhibition, an attentional model of inhibition, a response- versus cognitive-inhibition taxonomy, and an effortful- versus automatic-inhibition taxonomy. To evaluate these models, we administered nine inhibition and three attention tasks to 113 adults (Study 1) and 109 children (Study 2). Inhibition models were evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis after statistically controlling for attentional activation. Subsequent age analyses investigated whether inhibition tasks and factors related …
A Functional Polymorphism Of The Maoa Gene Is Associated With Neural Responses To Induced Anger Control, Thomas F. Denson, Carol Dobson-Stone, Richard Ronay, William Von Hippel, Mark M. Schira
A Functional Polymorphism Of The Maoa Gene Is Associated With Neural Responses To Induced Anger Control, Thomas F. Denson, Carol Dobson-Stone, Richard Ronay, William Von Hippel, Mark M. Schira
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Aggressiveness is highly heritable. Recent experimental work has linked individual differences in a functional polymorphism of the monoamine oxidase-A gene (MAOA) to anger-driven aggression. Other work has implicated the dorsal ACC (dACC) in cognitive-emotional control and the amygdala in emotional arousal. The present imaging genetics study investigated dACC and amygdala reactivity to induced anger control as a function of MAOA genotype. A research assistant asked 38 healthy male undergraduates to control their anger in response to an insult by a rude experimenter. Men with the low-expression allele showed increased dACC and amygdala activation after the insult, but men with the …
Chaos In Balance: Non-Linear Measures Of Postural Control Predict Individual Variations In Visual Illusions Of Motion, Deborah Apthorp, Fintan Nagle, Stephen Palmisano
Chaos In Balance: Non-Linear Measures Of Postural Control Predict Individual Variations In Visual Illusions Of Motion, Deborah Apthorp, Fintan Nagle, Stephen Palmisano
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Visually-induced illusions of self-motion (vection) can be compelling for some people, but they are subject to large individual variations in strength. Do these variations depend, at least in part, on the extent to which people rely on vision to maintain their postural stability? We investigated by comparing physical posture measures to subjective vection ratings. Using a Bertec balance plate in a brightly-lit room, we measured 13 participants' excursions of the centre of foot pressure (CoP) over a 60-second period with eyes open and with eyes closed during quiet stance. Subsequently, we collected vection strength ratings for large optic flow displays …