http://myneuroscience.com www.MyNeuroScience.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:49:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://myneuroscience.com/list-of-articles/ The process of recognition is usually conceptualized as finding a match between a perceptual representation of a given stimulus and the representations (or traces) in memory of previously encountered stimuli. Thus, this notion of recognition is intimately connected to the notion of representation, “the most important concept ever evoked in ... http://myneuroscience.com/views-of-shape-space-order-isomorphism/ When the nature of an action pattern is such that instruction focuses on developing a single recommended movement pattern, learning is often stimulated by providing the learner with demonstrations from a skilled model performing the movement pattern. The principal theoretical influence of modeling is to leave the learner with a ... http://myneuroscience.com/overt-practice-and-pre-practice/ Animal evidence on the organization of frontal lobe and limbic structures and pathways and evidence from frontal lobe patients have led to cognitive models which attempt to explain human-motivated abstract reasoning abilities. These models relate motivated information processing to the activation of specific frontal brain areas and circuits that are ... http://myneuroscience.com/the-wcst-frontal-lobe-rule-application/ Age-of-acquisition (AoA) is cited increasingly as an important variable in verbal tasks, largely due to the work of Ellis and his co-workers. The notion that words learned earlier in life are faster to name than later-acquired words was first addressed experimentally by Carroll and White (1973), who examined picture-naming latencies. ... http://myneuroscience.com/acquired-words-aoa-effect/ In reading, the eyes progress on the line of text with forward saccades of variable sizes. Two out of three words are fixated with a forward saccade, some words being skipped during a first eye pass. The position where the eyes initially land in a word is generally located between ... http://myneuroscience.com/initial-landing-sites-parafoveal-word/ Facial attractiveness plays a major role in the formation of interpersonal social judgements. Many studies showed that attractive individuals enjoy advantages over less attractive people. They are perceived as more likeable, kind, and intelligent and are more likely to be professionally successful than their less attractive counterparts. Even children have ... http://myneuroscience.com/facial-attractiveness-perception-of-face-processing/ Cognitive psychologists have now studied the response performance of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on a wide variety of information processing tasks (for a comprehensive review see Douglas, 1999). In conjunction with the fact that ADHD children often make more errors than control children, the most consistent finding in the ... http://myneuroscience.com/response-time-of-adhd-children/ When manually intercepting moving targets, it has been shown that the characteristics of the target motion influence how the arm reaches toward the target. In computer simulations of reaching van Donkelaar, Lee and Gellman (1992) have shown that the duration of a reaching movement is shorter when the target is ... http://myneuroscience.com/visual-information-about-target-motion/ During their career people go through a professional socialization process in which they learn the theories of their field and adopt its metaphysical assumptions. This process defines for the members of the profession the phenomena that are worthy of observation, and the type of information that is relevant to their ... http://myneuroscience.com/criterion-of-clinical-mmpi-profiles/