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Putting the Distributed Practice Effect into Context 

Weston, Christina (2019-03-05)
Spaced repetition leads to superior final memory relative to massed repetition, a phenomenon known as the distributed practice effect. However, when items are repeated in variable study contexts across learning opportunities ...
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Spatial Attention-Modulated Surround Suppression Across Development: A Psychophysical Study 

Wong Kee You, Audrey Marie Beatrice (2019-03-05)
Several studies have demonstrated that surrounding a given spatial location of attentional focus is a suppressive field (e.g., Hopf et al., 2006). Though several studies have provided psychophysical (e.g., Cutzu & Tsotsos, ...
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The Development of Infants' Expectations for Event Timing 

Comishen, Kyle Joseph (2018-05-28)
The ability to process and incorporate temporal information into behaviour is necessary for functioning in our environment. While previous research has extended adults temporal processing capacity onto infants, little ...
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Insight During Development, and its Structural Correlates 

Jih, Weipeng (2018-11-21)
We investigate whether adolescents and adults differ in their use of common cognitive processes in solving insight problems. We also investigate whether performance on insight problems is associated with brain structure, ...
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Ecological and Cognitive Influences on Orangutan Space Use 

Bebko, Adam Osborne (2019-03-05)
Many primates depend on resources that are dispersed non-uniformly. Primates able to encode the locations of such resources and navigate efficiently between them would gain a selective advantage. However, little is currently ...
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Sentence Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children 

Ostadghafour, Sarvenaz (2019-03-05)
Abstract Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on non-linguistic tasks that tap executive function. It still unknown whether the enhancement of executive functioning found for bilingual children improves ...
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Alleviates Stress and Depression in Adults with Chronic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial 

Paneduro, Denise (2017-07-27)
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in improving attention and pain-related outcomes, using a randomized controlled trial. Secondary aims included ...
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The Effect of Art Training on Dementia 

Matthews, Katherine Gladys (2019-03-05)
The present study explores the effect of visual art training on people with dementia (PWD), utilizing a randomized control trial (RCT) design, with a structured usual activity waitlist control group, in order to investigate ...
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The Effect of Art Training on Dementia 

Matthews, Katherine Gladys (2016-11-25)
The present study is a pilot project investigating the effect of visual art training on the mood, behaviour, and cognition of persons with dementia (PWD). The study utilized a randomized control trial (RCT) design, with a ...
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Judging Credibility: Can Spaced Lessons Help Students Think More Critically Online? 

Foot, Vanessa Lauren (2016-11-25)
Despite its prevalence in the psychological literature, the spacing effect has not yet been fully explored in real-world classroom settings using curriculum-based material. The current study investigated whether laboratory ...
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AuthorMatthews, Katherine Gladys (2)0bb40e89b81aecafa4ec2e807a7c81cd (1)212af0715ce9a0f6bac9d09277ad8be4 (1)79e67904881826d2cbf76936c0a53fbd (1)Bach-Kay, Shir (1)Bebko, Adam Osborne (1)Berkes, Matthias Daniel (1)c005bddb271b3e079ffb93035bfc6e28 (1)Capani, Angela M. (1)Carson, Amanda Lauren Simpson (1)... View MoreSubjectDevelopmental psychology (8)Psychology (8)Bilingualism (6)Cognitive psychology (6)Aging (4)Attention (4)Dementia (3)Neurosciences (3)Chronic pain (2)Cognition (2)... View MoreDate Issued2019 (7)2018 (5)2020 (4)2022 (3)2016 (2)2017 (2)2021 (2)2015 (1)Has File(s)Yes (26)

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