Browsing by Subject "Perception"
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Age mediation of frontoparietal activation during visual feature search.
(Neuroimage, 2014-11-15)Activation of frontal and parietal brain regions is associated with attentional control during visual search. We used fMRI to characterize age-related differences in frontoparietal activation in a highly efficient feature ... -
Age-related differences in the neural bases of phonological and semantic processes.
(Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2014-12)Changes in language functions during normal aging are greater for phonological compared with semantic processes. To investigate the behavioral and neural basis for these age-related differences, we used fMRI to examine younger ... -
Autobiographical memories of anxiety-related experiences.
(Behav Res Ther, 2004-03)Ninety-nine undergraduate students retrieved three memories associated with each of the five emotional experiences: panic, trauma, worry, social anxiety, and feeling content. Subsequently, they answered 24 questions assessing ... -
Comparing actual and perceived causes of fever among community members in a low malaria transmission setting in northern Tanzania.
(Trop Med Int Health, 2013-11)OBJECTIVE: To compare actual and perceived causes of fever in northern Tanzania. METHODS: In a standardised survey, heads of households in 30 wards in Moshi, Tanzania, were asked to identify the most common cause of fever ... -
Corollary discharge across the animal kingdom.
(Nat Rev Neurosci, 2008-08)Our movements can hinder our ability to sense the world. Movements can induce sensory input (for example, when you hit something) that is indistinguishable from the input that is caused by external agents (for example, when ... -
Food, class, and health: the role of the perceived body in the social reproduction of health.
(Health communication, 2013-05)The association between social class and cardiovascular health is complex, involving a constant interplay of factors as individuals integrate external information from the media, health care providers, and people they know ... -
Getting under the hood: how and for whom does increasing course structure work?
(CBE life sciences education, 2014-01)At the college level, the effectiveness of active-learning interventions is typically measured at the broadest scales: the achievement or retention of all students in a course. Coarse-grained measures like these cannot inform ... -
"I Use Weed for My ADHD": A Qualitative Analysis of Online Forum Discussions on Cannabis Use and ADHD.
(PLoS One, 2016)BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a risk factor for problematic cannabis use. However, clinical and anecdotal evidence suggest an increasingly popular perception that cannabis is therapeutic ... -
Linking cognitive and visual perceptual decline in healthy aging: The information degradation hypothesis.
(Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 2016-10)Several hypotheses attempt to explain the relation between cognitive and perceptual decline in aging (e.g., common-cause, sensory deprivation, cognitive load on perception, information degradation). Unfortunately, the majority ... -
Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk.
(Scientific reports, 2021-05)This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative ... -
Misjudging our Influence on Others: Blind Spots in Perceptions of Peer Use of Advice
(2015)People give each other advice on a variety of topics throughout their lifetimes. In this dissertation, I ask: Do advisors accurately perceive the impact of their advice? Or, do they possess blind spots that prevent them ... -
Perceived sexual control, sex-related alcohol expectancies and behavior predict substance-related sexual revictimization.
(Child Abuse Negl, 2013-05)OBJECTIVES: Although numerous studies have documented linkages between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and later sexual revictimization, mechanisms underlying revictimization, particularly assaults occurring in the context ... -
Perceived stress and biological risk: is the link stronger in Russians than in Taiwanese and Americans?
(Stress, 2013-07)Allostatic load theory implies a relationship between exposure to psychological stress and multi-system physiological dysregulation. We used data from population-based samples of men and women in Russia (Moscow; n = 1800; ... -
Perception Versus Actual Performance in Timely Tissue Plasminogen Activation Administration in the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2015-07-22)BACKGROUND: Timely thrombolytic therapy can improve stroke outcomes. Nevertheless, the ability of US hospitals to meet guidelines for intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) remains suboptimal. What is unclear is ... -
Perceptions of Institutional Support for "Second Victims" Are Associated with Safety Culture and Workforce Well-Being.
(Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety, 2021-05)<h4>Objective</h4>This study was performed to determine whether health care worker (HCW) assessments of good institutional support for second victims were associated with institutional safety culture and workforce ... -
Public perception of bioenergy in North Carolina and Tennessee
(Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2016-12)© 2016, The Author(s). Background: The goal of the study is to examine the general public’s understanding and perceptions of bioenergy and biofuels in North Carolina (NC) and Tennessee (TN). The study focuses on the public ... -
Spectral sensitivity, spatial resolution and temporal resolution and their implications for conspecific signalling in cleaner shrimp.
(J Exp Biol, 2016-02)Cleaner shrimp (Decapoda) regularly interact with conspecifics and client reef fish, both of which appear colourful and finely patterned to human observers. However, whether cleaner shrimp can perceive the colour patterns ... -
Student nurse perceptions of an innovative role to support clinical practices during a pandemic: A qualitative study.
(Nurse education today, 2021-08)<h4>Introduction</h4>During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems needed to quickly identify personnel to provide symptom screening and PPE observations. Through an established academic-practice partnership, pre-licensure ... -
Surgeons' risk perception in ASD surgery: The value of objective risk assessment on decision making and patient counselling.
(European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2022-05)<h4>Background</h4>Surgeons often rely on their intuition, experience and published data for surgical decision making and informed consent. Literature provides average values that do not allow for individualized assessments. ... -
Survival expectations of the obese: Is excess mortality reflected in perceptions?
(Obes Res, 2005-04)OBJECTIVE: This study compared self-reported subjective life expectancy (i.e., probability of living to age 75) for normal-weight, overweight, and obese weight groups to examine whether individuals are internalizing information ...
