Hyposmia is one of the most prevalent symptoms of Parkinson's disease. It may occur even before the motor symptoms start. To determine whether the olfactory dysfunctions, like the motor symptoms, are associated with a loss of dopamine, the number of…
Papers in Community and Environmental Psychology
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Memory for complex everyday events involv- ing vision, hearing, smell, emotion, narrative, and lan- guage cannot be understood without considering the properties of the separate systems that process and store each of these forms of information.…
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PURPOSE: The lack of agreement regarding assessment methods is responsible for the variability in the reported rate of occurrence of unilateral neglect (UN) after stroke. In addition, dissociations have been reported between performance on…
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Freedom of hospital choice has become a popular policy among the European public health services to ensure better patient rights, reduce waiting times and improve efficiency and quality in public hospitals. The English National Health Service has…
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The seat belt usage of drivers was observed at the entrance to two campus parking lots during morning arrival times. After 11 days of baseline, fliers which prompted seat belt wearing were handed to drivers of incoming vehicles. At one parking lot…
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In Suriname, the Maroons have practiced shifting cultivation for generations, but now the increasing influence of modern society is causing a trend of decreasing fallow periods with potentially adverse effects for the vulnerable tropical soils.…
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The existing model of community mental health has failed to meet several of the goals for which it was designed. Neither the observational-correlational approach of traditional community sociology nor the medical model has contribured to the…
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This paper serves as a best practices guide for researchers interested in applying intersectionality theory to psychological research. Intersectionality, the mutually con- stitutive relations among social identities, presents several issues to…
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Mental health practitioners have offered relatively little in response to the pervasive community violence faced by many children living in impoverished neighborhoods. The "neighborhood club" is a school-based, short-term, support group designed to…
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Mammalian memory is commonly "explained" in terms of long-term potentiation (LTP) of excitatory synapses. However, depotentiation of inhibitory pathways (disinhibition) is also a known phenomenon in the brain. Artificial neural networks which are…
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Scales are collections of tones that divide octaves into specific intervals used to create music. Since humans can distinguish about 240 different pitches over an octave in the mid-range of hearing 1, in principle a very large number of tone…
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A theory is presented that attempts to answer two questions. What visual contents can an observer consciously access at one moment? Answer: only one feature value (e.g., green) per dimension, but those feature values can be associated (as a group)…
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What is the time course of visual attention? Attentional blink studies have found that the 2nd of 2 targets is often missed when presented within about 500 ms from the 1st target, resulting in theories about relatively long-lasting capacity…
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There is evidence that face processing is capacity-limited in distractor interference tasks and in tasks requiring overt recognition memory.We examined whether capacity limits for faces can be observed with amore sensitivemeasure of visual…
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Previous research has shown that people solve insight or creative problems better when in a positive mood (assessed or induced), although the precise mechanisms and neural substrates of this facilitation remain unclear. We assessed mood and…
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Eye-tracking applications are surveyed in a breadth-first manner, reporting on work from the following domains: neuroscience, psychology, industrial engineering and human factors, marketing/advertising, and computer science. Following a review of…
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There are two research traditions on dynamic memory processes. In cognitive psychology, the malleable nature of long-term memory has been extensively documented. Distortions, such as the misinformation effect or hindsight bias, illustrate that…
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Guidelines in clinical dentistry are regularly growing in number. At their best, these represent succinct evidence-based recommendations that are directly applicable and improve clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness of interventions. At worst…
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