Blindfolded adults use mental transformation strategies for spatial scaling of tactile maps
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10401-x
Abstract: The current study tested strategies of spatial scaling in the haptic domain. Blindfolded adults (N = 31, aged 20–24 years) were presented with an embossed graphic including a target and asked to encode a target location on… read more here.
Keywords: mental transformation; blindfolded adults; strategies spatial; spatial scaling ... See more keywords
Differences in rates of impairment in adults who use methamphetamine using two sets of demographically corrected norms.
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DOI: 10.1080/23279095.2022.2164197
Abstract: Neuropsychologists can expect to meet with increasing rates of patients who use methamphetamine (MA), as MA use is on the rise, often comorbid with other substance use disorders, and frequently accompanied by changes in cognitive… read more here.
Keywords: age; corrected age; education; norms corrected ... See more keywords
Iconicity in the speech of children and adults.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.12572
Abstract: Iconicity - the correspondence between form and meaning - may help young children learn to use new words. Early-learned words are higher in iconicity than later learned words. However, it remains unclear what role iconicity… read more here.
Keywords: iconicity speech; iconicity; children adults; speaking children ... See more keywords
Quantifying Drosophila adults with the use of a smartphone.
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DOI: 10.1242/bio.054452
Abstract: A method for automation of imago quantifying and fecundity assessment in Drosophila with the use of mobile devices running Android operating system is proposed. The traditional manual method of counting the progeny takes a long… read more here.
Keywords: drosophila; smartphone; use smartphone; drosophila adults ... See more keywords
Children’s and adults’ use of fictional discourse and semantic knowledge for prediction in language processing
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267297
Abstract: Using real-time eye-movement measures, we asked how a fantastical discourse context competes with stored representations of real-world events to influence the moment-by-moment interpretation of a story by 7-year-old children and adults. Seven-year-olds were less effective… read more here.
Keywords: semantic knowledge; language; knowledge; discourse ... See more keywords
Diversity in Older Adults’ Use of the Internet: Identifying Subgroups Through Latent Class Analysis
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DOI: 10.2196/jmir.6853
Abstract: Background As for all individuals, the Internet is important in the everyday life of older adults. Research on older adults’ use of the Internet has merely focused on users versus nonusers and consequences of Internet… read more here.
Keywords: diversity; older adults; internet; adults use ... See more keywords