memory
ZINGIBER OFFICINALE : EVALUATION OF ITS NOOTROPIC EFFECT IN MICE
by: shinta, 11 pagesDementia is one of the age-related mental problems, and a characteristic symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Nootropic agents and cholinesterase inhibitors like donepezil ® ...
Cognition and the We b: Moving from Theory to Web Design
by: shinta, 30 pagesThe links from basic cognitive theory to applied web design practice are not as strong as we would like to see. This chapter outlines some areas in which the two disciplines complement each ...
Cognitive Psychology Component : Benefits of Metacognitive Strategies
by: shinta, 3 pagesToday, the field of cognitive psychology is in the midst of a major outpouring of scientific work on the processes of thinking and learning and on the development of improving long-term ...
How Should Implicit Memory Phenomena Be Modeled ?
by: shinta, 8 pagesIn a reply to R. Ratcliff and G. McKoon's (1995a) article on bias in the object decision task, D. L. Schacter and L. A. Cooper (1995) critiqued their theoretical arguments and presented an ...
Direct Comparison of Two Implicit Memory Tests : Word Fragment and Word Stem Completion
by: shinta, 19 pagesIn 3 experiments, the implicit memory tests of word fragment and word stem completion showed comparable effects over several variables: Study of words produced more priming than did study ...
Effects of Perceiving and Imagining Scenes on Memory for Pictures
by: shinta, 15 pagesBoundary extension is the tendency to remember having seen a greater expanse of a scene than was shown. Four experiments tested whether a picture must depict a partial view of a scene for ...
When Unfamiliarity Matters : Changing Environmental Context Between Study and Test Affects Recognition Memory for Unfamiliar Stimuli
by: shinta, 12 pagesPerformance in recognition memory has been shown to be relatively insensitive to the effect of environmental context changes between study and test. Recent evidence (P. Dalton, 1993) ...
The Effect of Retrieval Cues on Visual Preferences and Memory in Infancy : Evidence for a Four-Phase Attention Function
by: shinta, 20 pagesBahrick and Pickens (1995) proposed a four-phase model of infant attention, sug- gesting that recent memories are expressed as a visual preference for novelty, interme- diate memories as ...
An Environmental Approach to Positive Emotion : Flowers
by: shinta, 29 pagesFor more than 5000 years, people have cultivated flowers although there is no known reward for this costly behavior. In three different studies we show that flowers are a powerful ...
Peripheral Delivery of a ROCK Inhibitor Improves Learning and Working Memory
by: shinta, 6 pagesPreviously, utilizing a series of genome-wide association, brain imaging, and gene expression studies we implicated the KIBRA gene and the RhoA/ROCK pathway in hippocampal-mediated human ...
