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How does allostatic load relate to cognitive ability, depressive symptoms and other measures of physiological weathering in older age?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)Allostasis is the process through which the human body aims to achieve homeostasis - long-term physiological stability in each of its systems - through short-term changes. If someone experiences chronic stress or repeated ... -
Is there evidence for non-conscious processing in working memory?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)Working Memory can be conceived as a mental workspace holding and manipulating a limited amount of recently acquired information for a limited time. Some theories assume that it is tightly coupled with Consciousness ... -
Enhancing cognitive and functional assessment for Alzheimer’s disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)One major challenge recently recognised by a EU consensus conference is the need of brief, reliable, simple methods to assess Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). There is an emphasis on the need for cognitive, behavioural and ... -
Role of foveal vision in static and dynamic environments
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The visual field has multiple regions, with visual acuity being highest in the centre before declining rapidly outward toward the periphery. This central region, otherwise known as the fovea, is typically defined as the ... -
Vision, attention and action in posterior cortical atrophy and other dementias
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) is a rare, progressive dementia characterised by visuospatial and visuoperceptual deficits (often with intact visual acuity), and a generally younger age of onset than typical Alzheimer’s ... -
Individual differences and ageing effects in mental rotation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)There is a long-lasting debate as to whether mental imagery plays a functional role in cognition: one view states that mental imagery indeed plays a key functional role in cognitive processing, whereas other views suggest ... -
Role of labelling and interaction in the development of linguistic category coherence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)When we perceive the world, we can carve it up in different ways. People divide up objects into categories in similar ways when asked to do so without language. In contrast, when people use language to label groups of ... -
Cross-sectional investigation into the antecedents and sequelae of alexithymia: a comparison of children and adults
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The term alexithymia, meaning “no words for emotions”, is a subclinical personality trait associated with both affective (e.g., difficulties identifying and describing emotions) and cognitive (e.g., externally oriented ... -
Coordinating utterances during conversational dialogue: the role of content and timing predictions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)During conversation, we take turns at talk and switch between listening to a speaker and producing an appropriate and timely response. In fact, we often do so with relatively little gap or overlap between our own and our ... -
Emergence and adaptation of referential conventions in dialogue
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)When speakers in dialogue are faced with the need to repeatedly refer to the same items, they usually use the same references they or their partners had used before. These previously-used references act as precedents, ... -
On the fallibility of human memory for future actions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Human memory is a system that is inherently fallible and prone to distortion, and our memory for future actions is no exception. Prospective memory is defined either as remembering to carry out a task at a particular moment ... -
An investigation into temperament: its relation to intelligence, and special abilities
(The University of Edinburgh, 1942)We started out in our investigation with the idea of making an attempt to combine qualitative and quantitative methods in assessing some traits of temperament. Many of the purely qualitative surveys have given most ... -
Authoritarianism in parents and the upbringing of children
(The University of Edinburgh, 1958)Several lines of enquiry which would have been of special interest were closed for lack of greater numbers of subjects. For example, although one of the five lower middle-class schools was Roman Catholic, the question ... -
An experimental study of affects & associations due to certain odours. (Appendix: a bibliography of odours)
(The University of Edinburgh, 1924)A number of considerations arise from the experiments made, and while further experimental investigation is needed with regard to the various problems mentioned, it is possible to draw certain definite conclusions. -
Rheumatism
(The University of Edinburgh, 1911)Obviously it is beyond the scope of this essay to enter into a full and critical account of all the above various conditions to which the term rheumatism has been in one sense or other applied. Such being,then, both ... -
Foraging in the Barbary dove: evolution, optimisation, and rules of thumb
(The University of Edinburgh, 1986)Barbary Doves (Streptope/ia risoriet) were tested in two simple foraging experiments based on concurrent interval schedules of reinforcement, in both experiments food reinforcement was made available, independently on each ... -
Discovering infant logic
(The University of Edinburgh, 1986)Adults have characterised infants as incompetent in action and cognition. An- alternative interpretation which characterises infants as different rather than deficient is asserted. This alternative explanation is derived ... -
An examination of the influence of behaviour topography and level of severity of learning disability on staff attributions and emotional responses towards challenging behaviour shown by adults with learning disabilities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2003)It has been long acknowledged that staff responses to challenging behaviour shown by people with learning disabilities often contributes to the long-term maintenance of the challenging behaviour. In recent years, in an ... -
Modernity and the problem of self-understanding
(The University of Edinburgh, 1998)This thesis investigates central issues of self-understanding in modern western society. Given that modernity is defined and grasped in terms of the postulate of human autonomy these issues are central to sociological ... -
A factorial analysis of mental tests
(The University of Edinburgh, 1950)SECTION I: A Factorial Analysis of Intelligence and Performance Tests used in the Polish Army. I Object and Scope • II The Sample • III The Tests • IV The Analysis: Rank of a matrix: Geometric Interpretation of ...
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