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Propper, Ruth E.; Brunye, Tad T.; Christman, Stephen D.; Januszewskia, Ashley – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Based on their specialized processing abilities, the left and right hemispheres of the brain may not contribute equally to recall of general world knowledge. US college students recalled the verbal names and spatial locations of the 50 US states while sustaining leftward or rightward unilateral gaze, a procedure that selectively activates the…
Descriptors: College Students, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Memory, Specialization
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Saetrevik, Bjorn; Specht, Karsten – Brain and Cognition, 2012
It has previously been shown that task performance and frontal cortical activation increase after cognitive conflict. This has been argued to support a model of attention where the level of conflict automatically adjusts the amount of cognitive control applied. Conceivably, conflict could also modulate lower-level processing pathways, which would…
Descriptors: Syllables, Conflict, Identification, Auditory Perception
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Castro-Schilo, Laura; Kee, Daniel W. – Brain and Cognition, 2010
The present study examined relationships between emotional intelligence, measured by the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, and right hemisphere dominance for a free vision chimeric face test. A sample of 122 ethnically diverse college students participated and completed online versions of the forenamed tests. A hierarchical…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Emotional Intelligence, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes
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Yan, Xiaodan; Zhang, Jiaxing; Gong, Qiyong; Weng, Xuchu – Brain and Cognition, 2011
With an increasing population living at a high altitude (HA), the impact of HA residence on human cognitive function has raised concerns. We recruited two groups of college students with one group born and grew up at HA until early adulthood and the control group born and grew up at near sea level (SL); the two groups were matched at age, gender…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reaction Time, Physiology, Short Term Memory
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Ketelsen, Kirk; Welsh, Marilyn – Brain and Cognition, 2010
The current study was designed to examine the possible existence of two limited-capacity pools of central executive resources: one each for verbal and visuospatial processing. Ninety-one college students (M age = 19.0, SD = 2.2) were administered a verbal working memory task that involved updating numbers in 2-, 3-, and 4-load conditions. The task…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Arithmetic
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Lim, Vanessa K.; Wilson, Anna J.; Hamm, Jeff P.; Phillips, Nicola; Iwabuchi, Sarina J.; Corballis, Michael C.; Arzarello, Ferdinando; Thomas, Michael O. J. – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Objective: To examine whether or not university mathematics students semantically process gestures depicting mathematical functions (mathematical gestures) similarly to the way they process action gestures and sentences. Semantic processing was indexed by the N400 effect. Results: The N400 effect elicited by words primed with mathematical gestures…
Descriptors: Sentences, Topography, Semantics, Mathematical Concepts