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Edlin, James M.; Lyle, Keith B. – Brain and Cognition, 2013
The simple act of repeatedly looking left and right can enhance subsequent cognition, including divergent thinking, detection of matching letters from visual arrays, and memory retrieval. One hypothesis is that saccade execution enhances subsequent cognition by altering attentional control. To test this hypothesis, we compared performance…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Executive Function, Hypothesis Testing, Reaction Time
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Roessner, Veit; Wittfoth, Matthias; August, Julia M.; Rothenberger, Aribert; Baudewig, Jurgen; Dechent, Peter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Disturbances of motor circuitry are commonly encountered in Tourette syndrome (TS). The aim of this study was to investigate simple motor performance differences between boys with TS and healthy controls. Methods: We attempted to provide insight into motor network alterations by studying a group of treatment-naive patients suffering…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Foreign Countries, Males, Early Adolescents
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Casasanto, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
Do people with different kinds of bodies think differently? According to the "body-specificity hypothesis," people who interact with their physical environments in systematically different ways should form correspondingly different mental representations. In a test of this hypothesis, 5 experiments investigated links between handedness and the…
Descriptors: Handedness, Cognitive Processes, Physical Environment, Hypothesis Testing