Human Aging Compromises Attentional Control of Auditory Perception
... Carlsson, & Eichele, 2001; Takio et al., 2009; Strouse, Wilson, & Brush, 2000). In dichotic listening, two different auditory stimuli are presented simultaneously to the right and left ear. Even with seemingly simple dichotic listening tasks that do not manipulate attentional focus, older adults rec ...
... Carlsson, & Eichele, 2001; Takio et al., 2009; Strouse, Wilson, & Brush, 2000). In dichotic listening, two different auditory stimuli are presented simultaneously to the right and left ear. Even with seemingly simple dichotic listening tasks that do not manipulate attentional focus, older adults rec ...
Relationship Between Serum BDNF Levels and Cognitive Functions
... BDNF levels and attention and memory performances for patients with depression. It was determined that elevated morning baseline cortisol levels affected attention negatively. There was no correlation between serum BDNF levels and morning cortisol levels. ...
... BDNF levels and attention and memory performances for patients with depression. It was determined that elevated morning baseline cortisol levels affected attention negatively. There was no correlation between serum BDNF levels and morning cortisol levels. ...
Hippocampal contributions to language
... in the past five years and I wouldn’t be any where near the person/scientist/teacher that I am today without her. I would also like to thank the members of my thesis committee, Daniel Tranel, Neal Cohen, Steven Anderson, Michelle Voss and Kristine Williams for their helpful contributions to shaping ...
... in the past five years and I wouldn’t be any where near the person/scientist/teacher that I am today without her. I would also like to thank the members of my thesis committee, Daniel Tranel, Neal Cohen, Steven Anderson, Michelle Voss and Kristine Williams for their helpful contributions to shaping ...
Background Paper 3 - Yale School of Medicine
... decline is more likely to be associated with alterations in synaptic connectivity than with neuronal loss. This article will review the cellular and synaptic changes observed in the hippocampus and the PFC during aging that can be directly related to cognitive performance and decline, highlighting i ...
... decline is more likely to be associated with alterations in synaptic connectivity than with neuronal loss. This article will review the cellular and synaptic changes observed in the hippocampus and the PFC during aging that can be directly related to cognitive performance and decline, highlighting i ...
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... • Special needs in older adulthood vary • Many special needs are related to physical ailments, as the body is declining in ability • In addition to medications, adults may need to make other lifestyle adjustments to accommodate for changes ...
... • Special needs in older adulthood vary • Many special needs are related to physical ailments, as the body is declining in ability • In addition to medications, adults may need to make other lifestyle adjustments to accommodate for changes ...
Domain-general mechanisms of complex working memory span
... studies have required recall rather than recognition (Gilbert and Fiez, 2004; Osaka et al., 2004), very few studies have also included an analysis of neural activity during the recall period (cf. Chein and Fiez, 2001). This emphasis on recognition tasks, and on trial periods that precede retrieval, ...
... studies have required recall rather than recognition (Gilbert and Fiez, 2004; Osaka et al., 2004), very few studies have also included an analysis of neural activity during the recall period (cf. Chein and Fiez, 2001). This emphasis on recognition tasks, and on trial periods that precede retrieval, ...
Contribution of Implicit Sequence Learning to
... (CIs) as well as deaf and hard-of-hearing children more generally. A deficit or delay in domain-general sequencing skills, triggered by lack of auditory stimulation at an early age, could provide a significant impediment to normal development even following cochlear implantation. That is, for our pu ...
... (CIs) as well as deaf and hard-of-hearing children more generally. A deficit or delay in domain-general sequencing skills, triggered by lack of auditory stimulation at an early age, could provide a significant impediment to normal development even following cochlear implantation. That is, for our pu ...
More is Better: The Effects of Multiple Repetitions on Implicit Memory
... In the Reder et al. (1998) experiments, the words were selected from the Medical Research Council psycholinguistic database (Coltheart, 1981). Half the word were selected to have high normative frequencies, and half were selected to have low frequencies. The mean normative Kucera and Francis (1967) ...
... In the Reder et al. (1998) experiments, the words were selected from the Medical Research Council psycholinguistic database (Coltheart, 1981). Half the word were selected to have high normative frequencies, and half were selected to have low frequencies. The mean normative Kucera and Francis (1967) ...
Three Cases of Enduring Memory Impairment after Bilateral Damage
... He also underwent left thyroid lobectomy because of loss of blood to the left lobe of the thyroid during removal of the parathyroids. Two and a half hours into surgery he experienced cardiac arrhythmia (a junctional rhythm), and his heart rate dropped to 45 beats/min. For a period of 15 min at that ...
... He also underwent left thyroid lobectomy because of loss of blood to the left lobe of the thyroid during removal of the parathyroids. Two and a half hours into surgery he experienced cardiac arrhythmia (a junctional rhythm), and his heart rate dropped to 45 beats/min. For a period of 15 min at that ...
Implicit Memory for New Associations: An
... Sala, 1978). This view is somewhat different from that of Roediger and his colleagues (e.g., Blaxton, 1989; Roediger et al., 1989), in which it is assumed that the degree of datadriven and conceptually driven processing varies across memory tasks. Rather than emphasizing the relative amount of contr ...
... Sala, 1978). This view is somewhat different from that of Roediger and his colleagues (e.g., Blaxton, 1989; Roediger et al., 1989), in which it is assumed that the degree of datadriven and conceptually driven processing varies across memory tasks. Rather than emphasizing the relative amount of contr ...
template for PR`s - Indiana University
... benefit following implantation. Research on device efficacy requires well-defined assessment measures of outcome performance that are familiar to surgeons and clinicians who work with deaf patients. However, in order to specify how various central factors may combine to determine the degree of benef ...
... benefit following implantation. Research on device efficacy requires well-defined assessment measures of outcome performance that are familiar to surgeons and clinicians who work with deaf patients. However, in order to specify how various central factors may combine to determine the degree of benef ...
Using Quality of Life Metrics to Improve Outcomes after Early
... …We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the ...
... …We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the ...
Identification of a Functional Connectome for Long
... all functional connections had corresponding anatomical connections in the primary and high confidence networks (Figure S6 and Table S2). While direct anatomical connections are not necessary for two regions to be functionally connected (e.g., they might be comodulated by a third region), nonetheles ...
... all functional connections had corresponding anatomical connections in the primary and high confidence networks (Figure S6 and Table S2). While direct anatomical connections are not necessary for two regions to be functionally connected (e.g., they might be comodulated by a third region), nonetheles ...
Caring for Older Adults Holistically, 4th Edition Minerals
... Illness that may have impact on nutrition Difficulty chewing or swallowing Weight gain or loss Regular eating habits ...
... Illness that may have impact on nutrition Difficulty chewing or swallowing Weight gain or loss Regular eating habits ...
Working Memory in the Prefrontal Cortex
... for an entire experiment that lasted for several weeks or months [22,41]. The visual discrimination task is an example of a task that is considered to require reference memory. In this task, the subject’s behavioral response to a particular visual stimulus is always rewarded throughout the experimen ...
... for an entire experiment that lasted for several weeks or months [22,41]. The visual discrimination task is an example of a task that is considered to require reference memory. In this task, the subject’s behavioral response to a particular visual stimulus is always rewarded throughout the experimen ...
Hyperfrontality and hypoconnectivity during refreshing in
... than controls in the refresh condition. Interestingly, and in contrast to older healthy adults, their ability to subsequently remember words could benefit from refreshing (Grillon et al., 2005). Thus, although patients were slower to refresh, requiring patients to refresh helped them to improve long- ...
... than controls in the refresh condition. Interestingly, and in contrast to older healthy adults, their ability to subsequently remember words could benefit from refreshing (Grillon et al., 2005). Thus, although patients were slower to refresh, requiring patients to refresh helped them to improve long- ...
Meditation Effects on Cognitive Function and
... blood flow (CBF) after a simple 8-week meditation program. Fourteen subjects with memory problems had an IV inserted and were injected with 250MBq of Tc-99m ECD while listening to a neutral stimulus CD. They then underwent a pre-program baseline SPECT scan. Then subjects were guided through their fi ...
... blood flow (CBF) after a simple 8-week meditation program. Fourteen subjects with memory problems had an IV inserted and were injected with 250MBq of Tc-99m ECD while listening to a neutral stimulus CD. They then underwent a pre-program baseline SPECT scan. Then subjects were guided through their fi ...
The pathophysiology of fluid and electrolyte balance in the older
... Electrolyte abnormalities can also occur without any obvious kidney disease as a result of structural and functional changes associated with ageing.15,16 Fluid intake is primarily through oral ingestion of fluid: this is stimulated by the thirst mechanism which may be impaired in older adults, as a c ...
... Electrolyte abnormalities can also occur without any obvious kidney disease as a result of structural and functional changes associated with ageing.15,16 Fluid intake is primarily through oral ingestion of fluid: this is stimulated by the thirst mechanism which may be impaired in older adults, as a c ...
PRESERVATION OF IMPLICIT MEMORY FOR NEW
... relative to new pairs reflects single-word priming. Superior performance for old relative to recombined pairs must reflect new associations made between words by their arbitrary study-phase pairing because all words in old and recombined pairs were seen in the study phase. The test-phase task may re ...
... relative to new pairs reflects single-word priming. Superior performance for old relative to recombined pairs must reflect new associations made between words by their arbitrary study-phase pairing because all words in old and recombined pairs were seen in the study phase. The test-phase task may re ...
Text - ACT on Alzheimer`s
... brought into the clinic by his son, Dave. Mr. Johnson does not believe he has any significant memory problems, yet Dave describes 2.5 years of progressive memory deficits characterized by increasing late fees while paying bills and difficulty maintaining the household. Over the past three months, Da ...
... brought into the clinic by his son, Dave. Mr. Johnson does not believe he has any significant memory problems, yet Dave describes 2.5 years of progressive memory deficits characterized by increasing late fees while paying bills and difficulty maintaining the household. Over the past three months, Da ...
Episodic autobiographical memories over the course of time
... is defined by a sense of self in time and the mental reliving of subjective experiences arising from the encoding context. Hence, based on a combination of self, autonoetic consciousness and subjectively sensed time, episodic memory makes it possible to travel mentally through subjective time, from p ...
... is defined by a sense of self in time and the mental reliving of subjective experiences arising from the encoding context. Hence, based on a combination of self, autonoetic consciousness and subjectively sensed time, episodic memory makes it possible to travel mentally through subjective time, from p ...
The Cholinergic Hypothesis of Age and Alzheimer`s Disease
... that may be disrupted in many neuronal populations in AD brains including cholinergic neurons, and further, deficits in axonal transport could underlie the deficits of retrograde transport of NGF. It is certainly conceivable that early subtle deficits in both retrograde and anterograde axonal transp ...
... that may be disrupted in many neuronal populations in AD brains including cholinergic neurons, and further, deficits in axonal transport could underlie the deficits of retrograde transport of NGF. It is certainly conceivable that early subtle deficits in both retrograde and anterograde axonal transp ...