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Can a tDCS Treatment Enhance Subjective and Objective Sleep among Student-Athletes?
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Charest, Jonathan; Marois, Alexandre; Bastien, Celyne H. – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Introduction: Previous studies have shown that student-athletes suffer from sleep difficulties. This study explored the impact of tDCS on sleep parameters among student-athletes. Method: Thirty student-athletes (15 females, 15 males, age 21.1 ± 2.1 years) were recruited. All participants underwent a series of questions to rule out depressive and…
Descriptors: Sleep, Foreign Countries, College Students, Athletes
Shall We Do This Together? Social Gaze Influences Action Control in a Comparison Group, but Not in Individuals with High-Functioning Autism
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Schilbach, Leonhard; Eickhoff, Simon B.; Cieslik, Edna C.; Kuzmanovic, Bojana; Vogeley, Kai – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Perceiving someone else's gaze shift toward an object can influence how this object will be manipulated by the observer, suggesting a modulatory effect of a gaze-based social context on action control. High-functioning autism (HFA) is characterized by impairments of social interaction, which may be associated with an inability to automatically…
Descriptors: Cues, Reaction Time, Autism, Social Cognition
Fear Relevancy, Strategy Use, and Probabilistic Learning of Cue-Outcome Associations
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Thomas, Laura A.; LaBar, Kevin S. – Learning & Memory, 2008
The goal of this study was to determine how the fear relevancy of outcomes during probabilistic classification learning affects behavior and strategy use. Novel variants of the "weather prediction" task were created, in which cue cards predicted either looming fearful or neutral outcomes in a between-groups design. Strategy use was…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Development, Stimuli, Mathematical Models
Origins of Effortful Control: Infant and Parent Contributions
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Gartstein, Maria A.; Bridgett, David J.; Young, Brandi N.; Panksepp, Jaak; Power, Thomas – Infancy, 2013
Effortful control (EC) refers to the ability to inhibit a dominant response to perform a subdominant one and has been shown as protective against a myriad of difficulties. Research examining precursors of EC has been limited to date, and in this study, infancy contributors to toddler EC were examined. Specifically, parent/family background…
Descriptors: Infants, Self Control, Parent Background, Mothers
Humorous Stimuli and Depression: An Examination of Beck's Premise.
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Scogin, Forrest R.; Merbaum, Michael – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Studied the relationship between depression and humor in 85 college students who took the Beck Depression Inventory and then rated 10 cartoons. Results showed no difference between mildly depressed and nondepressed subjects. However, some trends were noted on a mood scale related to immediate feelings and humor preference. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Cartoons, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
Trauma-Cueing and Short-Term Memory in College Students with PTSD
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Kolts, Russell L.; Lombardo, Thomas W.; Faulkner, Ginger – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2004
A number of studies have revealed short-term memory deficits in individuals with PTSD. The current study sought to extend these findings to a college PTSD population. Additionally, a cueing manipulation was used to examine the effects of trauma-memory cueing on memory in PTSD and control groups. The study utilized a 2 x 2 (PTSD, No PTSD;…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Stimuli, Control Groups, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder