Sounds in intensive care units: Perspectives of patients and parents. A qualitative studyAbstract:Background: Sound levels in intensive care units exceed internationally recommended limits. This can have negative effects on ...
Modelling techniques play an important role in psychological research. This article discusses the formalism of discrimination nets. Using the CHREST architecture as an example, we show how this formalism can account for behaviour in various domains, such ...
Summary:Current research on neurobiological correlates of developmental dyslexiaObjective: The present article provides an overview of the main approaches in the current literature on the neurobiological correlates of developmental dyslexia. Methods: ...
The passive surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry is based essentially on the reporting of suspicious clinical cases by the poultry keepers to the veterinary services. As little was known about HPAI disease awareness ...
Abstract. The relationship between tics and preceding urges in Tourette syndrome suggests that abnormal internal monitoring is reflected in abnormal perceptual, attentional, and response selection. This article uses ...
Cognitive experimental research on experts has been dominated by research on Chess masters. De Groot’s work on Chess masters (de Groot 1946/1965) started a tradition of Chess research concentrating on perception, memory and problem-solving expertise (e.g. ...
Abstract. The color red has been shown to affect psychological functioning. In performance settings, it is associated with negative emotions, avoidance motivation, and cognitive restriction. Because red is frequently used in written performance feedback, ...
Perception of emotional facial expressions in female adolescents with borderline personality disorderSummary:Objectives: Investigation of the perception of emotional and neutral facial expressions in female adolescents with borderline personality ...
Objective: This study examines retrospective correlates of nonshared family environment prior to onset of disease, by means of multiple familial informants, among anorexia and bulimia nervosa patients. Methods: A total of 332 participants was included (...
It is recognized that humans are participants in complex ecosystems and that their potential for health is proportional to the health function of those ecosystems («ecosystem health»). From the medical viewpoint this close connection between environment ...
Bisection with achromatic colors: Plateau's classical experimentAbstract. Experimental data on the perception of achromatic colors nearly exclusively rely on ordinal information from color matching. As already as in 1872, however, J. Plateau introduced ...
Zusammenfassung. In zwei Laborexperimenten (N1 = 84, N2 = 20) sind Auswirkungen von Zielsetzungen auf Wahrnehmungsprozesse bei Buchstabenvergleichsaufgaben untersucht worden. Es wurde erwartet, daß die Vorgabe schwieriger Zielsetzungen für die ...
Zusammenfassung. Ausgangspunkt des Artikels ist der Gedanke, dass Soziale Arbeit immer auch eine Auseinandersetzung damit ist, wie der Mensch sich und seine Umwelt wahrnimmt. Um bei der Diskussion um die Wahrnehmungsweisen des Menschen einen neuen ...
Zusammenfassung. Ausgehend von der Definition des Ästhetischen als eines “sinnlich-vielfältigen Erlebens“ (Seubert, 1997, S. 141) und damit als ein “eigener Modus des In-der-Welt-Seins“ (Kleimann, 1996, zit. nach Otto, 1998, S. 90) zeigt dieser Beitrag ...
Autistische Störungen (ASD) sind definiert durch Einschränkungen der sozialen Interaktion, Kommunikation und Sprache sowie durch stereotypes Verhalten und Sonderinteressen. Zusätzlich sind neuropsychologische Besonderheiten beschrieben worden. Methoden: ...
Speculations about the structure of ideomotor relationsAbstract. The ideomotor hypothesis predicts that actions become connected bidirectionally with their sensory effects so that anticipations of the effects directly trigger the actions that have been ...
Zusammenfassung: Je häufiger Golfspieler erfolgreich einlochen, desto größer sehen sie das Loch und je erfolgreicher Baseballspieler den Ball treffen, desto größer nehmen sie diesen war. Dieser spannende Zusammenhang von Wahrnehmung und Leistung wird als „...
Advertising for elderly consumersAbstract. Marketing managers are aware of the importance of elderly consumers in advertising. However, managers and creative directors often neglect the basic characteristics of elderly consumers as recipients of ...
Abstract Most cognitive psychophysiological studies assume (1) that there is a chain of (partially overlapping) cognitive processes (processing stages, mechanisms, operators) leading from stimulus to response, and (2) that components of event-related ...