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Articles 1 - 17 of 17
Full-Text Articles in Cognitive Psychology
Damage To Association Fiber Tracts Impairs Recognition Of The Facial Expression Of Emotion, Carissa Philippi, Shruti Mehta, Thomas Grabowski, Ralph Adolphs, David Rudrauf
Damage To Association Fiber Tracts Impairs Recognition Of The Facial Expression Of Emotion, Carissa Philippi, Shruti Mehta, Thomas Grabowski, Ralph Adolphs, David Rudrauf
Psychology Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Mental Imagery And Basketball: A Comparison Of Cognitive-Specific And Flow Imagery, Evan Welo
Mental Imagery And Basketball: A Comparison Of Cognitive-Specific And Flow Imagery, Evan Welo
Psychology Honors Projects
Flow is a psychological state that is associated with optimal performance. Sports such as basketball are conducive to an individual experiencing flow because they have rules that structure and focus attention. Past research indicates that sports related mental imagery practice improves athletic performance; however few studies to date have systematically included the characteristics of flow in their sports mental imagery interventions. The present study compared the efficacy of a ―flow‖ and a standard basketball mental imagery intervention at improving performance on a basketball-shooting task. No significant differences were found between groups, but both reported increases in flow experiences.
Criterial Noise Effects On Rule-Based Category Learning: The Impact Of Delayed Feedback, Shawn W. Ell, David A. Ing, Todd W. Maddox
Criterial Noise Effects On Rule-Based Category Learning: The Impact Of Delayed Feedback, Shawn W. Ell, David A. Ing, Todd W. Maddox
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Variability in the representation of the decision criterion is assumed in many category learning models yet few studies have directly examined its impact. On each trial, criterial noise should result in drift in the criterion and will negatively impact categorization accuracy, particularly in rule-based categorization tasks where learning depends upon the maintenance and manipulation of decision criteria. The results of three experiments test this hypothesis and examine the impact of working memory on slowing the drift rate. Experiment 1 examined the effect of drift by inserting a 5 s delay between the categorization response and the delivery of corrective feedback, …
Not Scaring Yourself Silly: Effectively Managing Your Stage Fright, Jennifer Cumming
Not Scaring Yourself Silly: Effectively Managing Your Stage Fright, Jennifer Cumming
Jennifer Cumming
It is the moment you have been looking forward to for weeks with equal amounts of dread and excitement. Your preparation has gone well, but you wonder if you have done everything you can to be ready and are concerned you will make a mistake. As you wait backstage, you hear the audience taking their seats and the eager buzz of anticipation. Your fellow dancers are going through their last minute preparations and the nervous tension is building around you. Standing in your costume, you worry that your body is responding in the usual ways: your heart is beating faster …
Does Type Of Stimulus Influence Task-Irrelevant Evaluative Categorization Processes?, Guadalupe Corral
Does Type Of Stimulus Influence Task-Irrelevant Evaluative Categorization Processes?, Guadalupe Corral
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The effect of stimulus type on task-irrelevant evaluative categorization was examined in two separate studies by using the P3 component from event-related brain potentials. The first study presented idiosyncratic stimuli consisting of individuals that were rated by participants as either positive or negative within sequences of pictorial and verbal stimuli. The second study presented sequences of novel and familiar stimuli consisting of previously normed unattractive and neutral individuals. It was hypothesized that pictures would elicit task-irrelevant evaluative categorization processes and so would novel stimuli (relative to words and familiar stimuli, respectively). Task-irrelevance was examined by assessing P3 peak amplitude to …
"The Natural History Of Truth: The Neurobiology Of Belief", Neil Greenberg
"The Natural History Of Truth: The Neurobiology Of Belief", Neil Greenberg
Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The pursuit of truth is woven into the fabric of every organism*. Any estimate of how best to survive and thrive in the reality in which we are immersed requires a sense of self, of the world, and of their relationship to each other. I wish to explore the idea that this pursuit has at its heart two complementary modes of reality testing utilizing separate cerebral systems which deal, respectively with the correspondence of experience with the world and the coherence of the experience with previous experiences: “is it real” and “does it fit?” At multiple levels of the nervous …
The Neuroscientific Study Of The Self: Methodological And Theoretical Challenges, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Samuel E. Winer
The Neuroscientific Study Of The Self: Methodological And Theoretical Challenges, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Samuel E. Winer
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Neuroscientific research methods, such as brain imaging techniques, have increasingly been applied to social cognitive research efforts and, in particular, to the study of the self. In this essay we discuss the ability of such research to shed light on the emergent, dynamic psychological phenomenon of self. Although neuroscientific tools can be useful for gaining general knowledge about associated underlying structures, a careful consideration of the methodological and theoretical issues discussed herein is necessary to avoid simplifying or reifying the self.
A Study Of Possible Pre-Cognitive Advantages Of Bilingualism, Marisela Gutierrez
A Study Of Possible Pre-Cognitive Advantages Of Bilingualism, Marisela Gutierrez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Past research has suggested that second language acquisition has a beneficial effect on the development of inhibitory control processes in children and adults. This has been referred to as the "bilingual advantage" and is most commonly quantified using the Simon task. Whether the bilingual advantage extends to precognitive mechanisms has not yet been examined. The goals of this study were to examine the bilingual advantage in university students; and to examine whether the bilingual advantage extends to the precognitive filtering mechanism of sensorimotor gating. It was predicted that, as compared to monolinguals, bilingual university students would have greater inhibitory control, …
Effects Of Systemic And Intrabasalis Administration Of The Orexin-1 Receptor Antagonist, Sb-334867, On Attentional Performance In Rats, Karen Elizabeth Boschen
Effects Of Systemic And Intrabasalis Administration Of The Orexin-1 Receptor Antagonist, Sb-334867, On Attentional Performance In Rats, Karen Elizabeth Boschen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure On Adult Learning, Andrea Marie Spaeth
The Effects Of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure On Adult Learning, Andrea Marie Spaeth
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Neurocognitive Deficits And Functional Outcome In Bipolar Disorder, Danielle T. Bello
Neurocognitive Deficits And Functional Outcome In Bipolar Disorder, Danielle T. Bello
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Bipolar disorder affects approximately 1% of the population. It is a severe and debilitating illness, causing serious impairment of interpersonal, occupational and social functioning. The disorder is characterized by marked mood swings as well significant neurocognitive deficits. Based on work with other psychiatric and neurological disorders, neurocognitive deficits in bipolar disorder are expected to be strong predictors of functional capacity. However, few studies have evaluated the consequences of neurocognitive deficits in this disorder. Most available studies have focused on the clinical correlates of functional outcome, such as number of hospitalizations, age of disorder onset, and severity of symptoms. While useful, …
Blockade Of Muscarinic M1 Receptors Disrupts Performance On An Attention-Demanding Visual Discrimination Task, Andrea Maureen Robinson
Blockade Of Muscarinic M1 Receptors Disrupts Performance On An Attention-Demanding Visual Discrimination Task, Andrea Maureen Robinson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Brain Activation For Reading And Listening Comprehension: An Fmri Study Of Modality Effects And Individual Differences In Language Comprehension., Augusto Buchweitz, Robert Mason, Tomitch Leda, Marcel Just
Brain Activation For Reading And Listening Comprehension: An Fmri Study Of Modality Effects And Individual Differences In Language Comprehension., Augusto Buchweitz, Robert Mason, Tomitch Leda, Marcel Just
Marcel Adam Just
No abstract provided.
Altering Cortical Connectivity: Remediation-Induced Changes In The White Matter Of Poor Readers, Timothy Keller, Marcel Just
Altering Cortical Connectivity: Remediation-Induced Changes In The White Matter Of Poor Readers, Timothy Keller, Marcel Just
Marcel Adam Just
No abstract provided.
Japanese And English Sentence Reading Comprehension And Writing Systems: An Fmri Study Of First And Second Language Effects On Brain Activation, Augusto Buchweitz, Robert A. Mason, Akiko Hasegawa, Marcel Adam Just
Japanese And English Sentence Reading Comprehension And Writing Systems: An Fmri Study Of First And Second Language Effects On Brain Activation, Augusto Buchweitz, Robert A. Mason, Akiko Hasegawa, Marcel Adam Just
Marcel Adam Just
No abstract provided.
Atypical Frontal-Posterior Synchronization Of Theory Of Mind Regions In Autism During Mental State Attribution, Rajesh K. Kana, Timothy A. Keller, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Nancy J. Minshew, Marcel Adam Just
Atypical Frontal-Posterior Synchronization Of Theory Of Mind Regions In Autism During Mental State Attribution, Rajesh K. Kana, Timothy A. Keller, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Nancy J. Minshew, Marcel Adam Just
Marcel Adam Just
No abstract provided.
The Role Of The Theory-Of-Mind Cortical Network In The Comprehension Of Narratives, Robert Mason, Marcel Just
The Role Of The Theory-Of-Mind Cortical Network In The Comprehension Of Narratives, Robert Mason, Marcel Just
Marcel Adam Just
No abstract provided.