Cognitive psychology
Enhanced cognitive processing by viewing snakes in children with autism spectrum disorder. A preliminary study
Prioritization of the processing of threatening stimuli induces deleterious effects on task performance. However, emotion evoked by viewing images of snakes exerts a facilitating effect upon making judgments o...BMC Psychology 2019 7:74The efficacy of a resilience-enhancement program for mothers in Japan based on emotion regulation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
The demands of daily life often cause mothers high levels of distress and other negative emotions. Anger, including harsh verbal discipline, has been linked to child maltreatment, with long-term adverse effect...BMC Psychology 2019 7:69Identifying culturally acceptable cognitive tests for use in remote northern Australia
A lack of culturally appropriate tests hampers accurate assessment of cognition in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. In Arnhem Land, this study employed a community consultation process to evaluate com...BMC Psychology 2019 7:62A randomized controlled trial to examine the effect of two teaching methods on preschool children’s language and communication, executive functions, socioemotional comprehension, and early math skills
During the preschool years, children’s development of skills like language and communication, executive functions, and socioemotional comprehension undergo dramatic development. Still, our knowledge of how the...BMC Psychology 2019 7:59Expectation of reward differentially modulates executive inhibition
Inhibitory control, a key modulatory component of cognition guiding strategy and behaviour, can be affected by diverse contingencies. We explore here the effect of expectation of reward over behavioural adjust...BMC Psychology 2019 7:55Monitoring neurocognitive functioning in childhood cancer survivors: evaluation of CogState computerized assessment and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF)
Many childhood cancer survivors develop neurocognitive impairment, negatively affecting education and psychosocial functioning. Recommended comprehensive neuropsychological testing can be time- and cost- inten...BMC Psychology 2019 7:26Early maladaptive schemas as predictors of maternal bonding to the unborn child
The quality of an expectant mother’s bonding to the fetus has been shown to be associated with important developmental outcomes. Previous studies suggest that bonding quality is predicted by, for example, soci...BMC Psychology 2019 7:23The hidden identity of faces: a case of lifelong prosopagnosia
Not being able to recognize a person’s face is a highly debilitating condition from which people with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) suffer their entire life. Here we describe the case of J, a 30 year old wo...BMC Psychology 2019 7:4The Mizan meta-memory and meta-concentration scale for students (MMSS): a test of its psychometric validity in a sample of university students
Predisposing factors for metacognitive dysfunctions are common in university students. However, there is currently no valid questionnaire instrument designed to assess metacognitive aspects including meta-memo...BMC Psychology 2018 6:59Media multitasking is associated with altered processing of incidental, irrelevant cues during person perception
Media multitasking (MMT)—using and switching between unrelated forms of media—has been implicated in altered processing of extraneous stimuli, resulting in performance deficits. Here, we sought to extend our p...BMC Psychology 2018 6:44Memory-related subjective cognitive symptoms in the adult population: prevalence and associated factors – results of the LIFE-Adult-Study
Subjectively perceived memory problems (memory-related Subjective Cognitive Symptoms/SCS) can be an indicator of a pre-prodromal or prodromal stage of a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s disease. W...BMC Psychology 2018 6:23An empirical examination of the conceptualization of companion animals
The extensive keeping of companion animals and the substantial monetary amount we spend on these animals indicate that they are highly valued. Although the benefits humans derive from keeping cats and dogs hav...BMC Psychology 2018 6:15Randomized control trial of computer-based training targeting alertness in older adults: the ALERT trial protocol
Healthy aging is associated with a decline in multiple functional domains including perception, attention, short and long-term memory, reasoning, decision-making, as well as cognitive and motor control functio...BMC Psychology 2018 6:22A randomised active-controlled trial to examine the effects of an online mindfulness intervention on executive control, critical thinking and key thinking dispositions in a university student sample
Arguments for including mindfulness instruction in higher education have included claims about the benefits of mindfulness practice for critical thinking. While there is theoretical support for this claim, emp...BMC Psychology 2018 6:13The effect of recall, reproduction, and restudy on word learning: a pre-registered study
Certain manipulations, such as testing oneself on newly learned word associations (recall), or the act of repeating a word during training (reproduction), can lead to better learning and retention relative to ...BMC Psychology 2017 5:28In your face: the biased judgement of fear-anger expressions in violent offenders
Why is it that certain violent criminals repeatedly find themselves engaged in brawls? Many inmates report having felt provoked or threatened by their victims, which might be due to a tendency to ascribe malic...BMC Psychology 2017 5:16Comparison of cognitive functioning as measured by the Ruff Figural Fluency Test and the CogState computerized battery within the LifeLines Cohort Study
The Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT; a pencil and paper test) and the CogState (a computerized cognitive test battery) are well-validated and suitable tests to evaluate cognitive functioning in large observati...BMC Psychology 2017 5:15A case matched study examining the reliability of using ImPACT to assess effects of multiple concussions
Approximately 3.8 million sport and recreational concussions occur per year, creating a need for accurate diagnosis and management of concussions. Researchers and clinicians are exploring the potential dose-re...BMC Psychology 2017 5:14Is mid-life social participation associated with cognitive function at age 50? Results from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS)
Some studies have indicated that social engagement is associated with better cognitive outcomes. This study aimed to investigate associations between life-course social engagement (civic participation) and cog...BMC Psychology 2016 4:58Getting nowhere fast: trade-off between speed and precision in training to execute image-guided hand-tool movements
The speed and precision with which objects are moved by hand or hand-tool interaction under image guidance depend on a specific type of visual and spatial sensorimotor learning. Novices have to learn to optima...BMC Psychology 2016 4:55Psychology, replication & beyond
Modern psychology is apparently in crisis and the prevailing view is that this partly reflects an inability to replicate past findings. If a crisis does exists, then it is some kind of ‘chronic’ crisis, as psy...BMC Psychology 2016 4:30The mental-attention Tai Chi effect with older adults
Tai Chi practice has some fitness, wellness, and general cognitive effects in older adults. However, benefits of Tai Chi on specific mental-attentional executive processes have not been investigated previously. W...BMC Psychology 2016 4:29Replication initiatives will not salvage the trustworthiness of psychology
Replication initiatives in psychology continue to gather considerable attention from far outside the field, as well as controversy from within. Some accomplishments of these initiatives are noted, but this art...BMC Psychology 2016 4:28The testing effect for mediator final test cues and related final test cues in online and laboratory experiments
The testing effect is the finding that information that is retrieved during learning is more often correctly retrieved on a final test than information that is restudied. According to the semantic mediator hyp...BMC Psychology 2016 4:25On the reproducibility of meta-analyses: six practical recommendations
Meta-analyses play an important role in cumulative science by combining information across multiple studies and attempting to provide effect size estimates corrected for publication bias. Research on the repro...BMC Psychology 2016 4:24Triangulating meta-analyses: the example of the serotonin transporter gene, stressful life events and major depression
Meta-analysis is intended as a tool for the objective synthesis of evidence across a literature, in order to obtain the best evidence as to whether or not an association or effect is robust. However, as the us...BMC Psychology 2016 4:23A protocol for a randomised active-controlled trial to evaluate the effects of an online mindfulness intervention on executive control, critical thinking and key thinking dispositions in a university student sample
While most modern research focuses on the clinical benefits of mindfulness, an emerging body of work suggests that mindfulness can facilitate self-regulation of everyday thinking in typically developing indivi...BMC Psychology 2016 4:17Interaction between COMT rs5993883 and second generation antipsychotics is linked to decreases in verbal cognition and cognitive control in bipolar disorder
Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are increasingly utilized in Bipolar Disorder (BD) but are potentially associated with cognitive side effects. Also linked to cognitive deficits associated with SGA-trea...BMC Psychology 2016 4:14Neural responses to a modified Stroop paradigm in patients with complex chronic musculoskeletal pain compared to matched controls: an experimental functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSKP) is attentionally demanding, complex and multi-factorial; neuroimaging research in the population seen in pain clinics is sparse. A better understanding of the neural activi...BMC Psychology 2016 4:5Who’s been framed? Framing effects are reduced in financial gambles made for others
Decisions made on behalf of other people are sometimes more rational than those made for oneself. In this study we used a monetary gambling task to ask if the framing effect in decision-making is reduced in su...BMC Psychology 2015 3:9The declarative system in children with specific language impairment: a comparison of meaningful and meaningless auditory-visual paired associate learning
It has been proposed that children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) have a selective deficit in procedural learning, with relatively spared declarative learning. In previous studies we and others confir...BMC Psychology 2015 3:3The relationship between trait empathy and memory formation for social vs. non-social information
To navigate successfully through their complex social environment, humans need both empathic and mnemonic skills. Little is known on how these two types of psychological abilities relate to each other in human...BMC Psychology 2015 3:2Implicit priming of conflicting motivational orientations in heavy drinkers
Approach and avoidance motivation for alcohol are relatively independent, and they operate in both automatic (or implicit) and controlled processes. In this study, we adapted methods previously used in the app...BMC Psychology 2014 2:28Toward a new computer-based and easy-to-use tool for the objective measurement of motivational states in humans: a pilot study
The experimental methods currently used for assessing motivational processes in humans have two major limitations. Some of them rely on global subjective assessments while others evaluate these processes using...BMC Psychology 2014 2:23Determinants of variability in motor performance in middle childhood: a cross-sectional study of balance and motor co-ordination skills
Physical activity is a key component of exploration and development. Poor motor proficiency, by limiting participation in physical and social activities, can therefore contribute to poor psychological and soci...BMC Psychology 2013 1:29After a pair of self-control-intensive tasks, sucrose swishing improves subsequent working memory performance
The limited strength model of self-control predicts that acts of self-control impair subsequent performance on tasks that require self-control (i.e., “ego depletion”), and the majority of the published researc...BMC Psychology 2013 1:22Size and emotion or depth and emotion? Evidence, using Matryoshka (Russian) dolls, of children using physical depth as a proxy for emotional charge
The size and emotion effect is the tendency for children to draw people and other objects with a positive emotional charge larger than those with a negative or neutral charge. Here we explored the novel idea t...BMC Psychology 2013 1:21The impact of early life factors on cognitive function in old age: The Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)
Previous studies have shown that adverse conditions during fetal and early life are associated with lower performance on neurocognitive tests in childhood, adolescence and adult life. There is, however, a pauc...BMC Psychology 2013 1:16Evaluation of emotion processing in HIV-infected patients and correlation with cognitive performance
Facial emotion recognition depends on cortical and subcortical networks. HIV infection of the central nervous system can damage these networks, leading to impaired facial emotion recognition.BMC Psychology 2013 1:3Negativland - a home for all findings in psychology
Psychology has been historically plagued by the under-reporting of both replications and null findings. The avoidance of these core ingredients of scientific practice means that the psychology literature is un...BMC Psychology 2013 1:2
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