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- 1From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEditors' note: This year marks the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth. Darwin famously breathed new life into the philosophical and scientific debates about humanness by asserting in "The Descent of Man " (1871)...
- 2From:Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Vol. 20, Issue 3)Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-founder of the theory of evolution, differed with his senior partner Charles Darwin over whether natural selection could plausibly account for the unique abilities of the human brain. He...
- 3From:Clinical Interventions in Aging (Vol. 8) Peer-ReviewedConsiderable research over the past decade has garnered support for the notion that the mind is both embodied and relational. Jointly, these terms imply that the brain, physical attributes of the self, and features of...
- 4From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedJudgment of agency involves the comparison of motor intention and proprioceptive/visual feedback, in addition to a range of cognitive factors. However, few studies have experimentally examined the differences or...
- 5From:Innovation in Aging (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground and Objectives: Identifying potential intervention strategies to reduce cognitive decline, particularly among older African Americans at high risk for Alzheimer's dementia, is critical. This study aimed to...
- 6From:Journal of Cognition (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAn extensive literature exists regarding the effect of bilingualism on cognition in developing populations. However, the term 'cognition' is vague and applies to a large number of different abilities. We reviewed 60...
- 7From:Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services (Vol. 59, Issue 7)Little research has focused on aging changes in the normal brain, despite its significance as a public health problem. Recent research on neural mechanisms that underlie cognitive decline in the aging brain suggests that...
- 8From:International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFifty blogs were analysed and classified according to both their content and formal structure. The SOLAT questionnaire, aimed at assessing the right (i.e., intuitive-holistic) vs. left (i.e., systematic-analytical)...
- 9From:Analysis and Metaphysics (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedThe main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the development of social reasoning, the relation of language use and cognition, the role of language variations in attitude change, and language as a set of...
- 10From:Advanced Biomedical Research (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sayed. Hashemi, Sayed. Heidari, Azadeh. Rahavi Background: Cognitive dysfunction after surgery is common in elderly patients. Many factors such as anesthetic drugs can cause complication in this surgery....
- 11From:Indian Journal of Pharmacology (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: V. Nade, L. Kawale, K. Valte, N. Shendye Objective: The present study was designed to investigate cognitive enhancing property of angiotensin-converting enzymes inhibitors (ACEI) and angiotensin receptor...
- 12From:Human Biology (Vol. 83, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCultural and Biological Explanations of Human Cognition Humans are cultural organisms: a human raised in isolation or by non-cultural animals will be as deficient as a bird prevented from flying or a mole prevented...
- 13From:Diabetes Care (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE--Evidence that the metabolic syndrome is a risk factor for poor cognition is mixed and is focused mainly on the elderly population; rarely is an adjustment made for socioeconomic factors. We examined this...
- 14From:Aging Health (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Dag Aarsland [[dagger]â ] 3 , Uwe Ehrt 1 , Irena Rektorova 2 Keywords *⢠apathy; cognitive impairment; dementia; depression; hallucinations; Parkinson'âs disease; psychiatric symptoms; psychosis...
- 15From:Journal of Psychopharmacology (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Buspirone is a serotonin 5-H[T.sub.1A] receptor agonist licensed for the treatment of anxiety. Other anxiolytic drugs such as benzodiazepines show significant sedative and other unwanted effects on...
- 16From:British Journal of Psychology (Vol. 97, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe present research seeks to build upon a body of research that has attempted to underpin developmental attention difficulties by identifying cognitive processing deficits that reliably differentiate children with...
- 17From:British Journal of Psychology (Vol. 93, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe number of people believing in paranormal phenomena is surprisingly high, given the lack of any clear evidence for the existence of such phenomena. Many individuals refer to personal experience as the most important...
- 18From:Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMaria Luisa Calero Vaquera and Maria de los Angeles Hermosilla Alvarez, eds. 2013. Lenguaje, Literatura y Cognicion. Cordoba: sp u de Cordoba. Language, literature and cognition, as the three central themes of the...
- 19From:Training & Development (Vol. 52, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTacit knowledge is the result of involuntary learning that guides how people behave and act. It is deeper than explicit knowledge because it is internalized when individuals are least conscious that learning is taking...
- 20From:British Journal of Psychology (Vol. 90, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSceptical researchers have tended to characterize believers in the paranormal as being cognitively inferior to disbelievers (see e.g. Alcock, 1981, ch. 3). Indeed, a sizable proportion of the empirical work generated by...