Background: The rehabilitation of people with cochlear implants (PwCI) who speak more than one language poses significant challenges to healthcare systems, particularly in countries experiencing global migration. This study investigates the potential of cognates (CO) to enhance speech and language therapy for PwCI with German as a second language.…

Physiology core concepts (CCs) are essential for understanding physiology and enhancing students' learning outcomes, but their impact in flipped learning (FL) settings remains unclear. This study evaluated whether integrating CCs into FL improves medical students' performance in a 3-wk cardiovascular physiology module. Third-year medical students…

Office hours are a widely used, optional form of academic support that allow students to meet with their instructors outside of class time. Despite evidence that students benefit from student-faculty interactions, instructors broadly report that office hour attendance is poor. This article describes the implementation of a weekly "Alternative…

Purpose: Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS), a rare, genetically linked complex developmental disorder caused by a deletion or mutation within chromosome 17p11.2, is associated with delays in speech-language development, otopathology, and hearing loss, yet previous studies lack comprehensive descriptions of hearing and communication profiles. Here,…

Flipped classrooms are being utilized more frequently in biomedical education to provide more active learning opportunities to students although there are mixed results on the benefits of the flipped classroom in biomedical education. In this study, the effects of using a flipped classroom with case-based learning in the endocrine section of a…

Interoception, the sense of the physiological condition of our body, is impaired in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Evidence suggests that subclinical autistic traits are mild manifestations of autistic symptoms, present in the general population. We examined the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) associating with…

Objective: This review evaluates current literature on intensity selection, perceptual responses, activity enjoyment and adherence rates of exergaming. Methods: The literature search identified manuscripts that investigated exercise intensity, perceptual responses, or exercise adherence of exergaming in young adults. Results: Based on results of…

With the development of technology, people expect real-time communication with computers. Wearable devices, such as those for monitoring physiological signals, have rapidly developed and are now being applied in college and university evaluation. Due to the non-standard and unscientific practices in teaching, teachers may experience psychological…

After a time away from the classrooms and laboratories due to the global pandemic, the return to teaching activities during the semester represented a challenge to both teachers and students. Our particular situation in a Microbial Physiology course was the necessity of imparting in shorter time, laboratory practices that usually take longer. This…

Given the inclusion of sensory reactivity as a diagnostic criterion for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the theorized etiological role of sensory reactivity in the development of autism, adequate sensory measures of sensory reactivity in autism, including measures extending to use in infancy, are needed. Adequate sensory measurement relies on…

We investigated the influence of family alliance on infants' vagal tone. Physiological studies have shown that the quality of mother-infant interactions can influence infants' vagal tone, which is an important indicator of emotion regulation. Although research has shown that family-level relationships have a unique impact on child development,…

Background: This study examined the relations between students' expectancies for success and a physiological component of test anxiety, salivary cortisol, during an authentic testing setting. Aims: The aim of the study was to better understand the connection between shifts in students' control appraisals and changes in the physiological component…

Background: This study explored the physiological correlates of students' self-reported emotions in ecologically valid settings by combining biosignal data (on physical and cardiac activity) and experience sampling method (ESM) data. Aims: The aim was to examine the concurrent associations between self-reported excitement, calmness, anxiety, and…

Interoception, the body's perception of its own internal states, is thought to be altered in autism, though results of empirical studies have been inconsistent. The current study systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed the extant literature comparing interoceptive outcomes between autistic (AUT) and neurotypical (NT) individuals, determining…

Prolonged dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) may increase propensity for physical or psychiatric illness. The current study examined differences in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) regulation in 215 adolescents with or without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at Time 1 (T1; 10-13 years old) and 1 year later (Time 2; T2). Linear…