To address this, the focus has shifted towards understanding the 'meaning' of behaviors in aNCD, recognizing them as a 'mode of communication'. To date, there are no existing frameworks to ascribe 'meaning' to behaviors in aNCD. Objectives: LuBAIR paradigm is the f...
To ensure that familiarity with the stimuli did not influence our results, all participants also completed a brief 9-point questionnaire asking about prior familiarity with each of these two episodes (with 1 meaning “not at all” and 9 meaning “very much”). These data were used to split ...
A society's role expectations and stereotypes can have a severe impact on people's mental health, and in some cases, it may even lead to atypical psychological behaviors. Explore the impact that gender identity, socialization, and sexuality have on a person's psychology. ...
Because they interfere with normal dopamine function, one of the most significant concerns is the risk ofextrapyramidal symptoms(EPS), meaning they can affect the motor system, including causing tremors, muscle stiffness, and involuntary movements.4 Another serious side effect istardive dyskinesia, a ...
Interestingly, we also found an association in adults between increased small-worldness and less accurate descriptions of videos of the animated shapes random condition; less accurate meaning the attribution of mental states to randomly moving objects that did not have any interaction. It could ...
A further six children with ASD and one TD child had been tested, but their data were excluded as they performed the task at a chance level, meaning that their percentage of correct recognition (HITS) was equal or higher than the percentage of false alarm (FA), whatever the task condition...
North America (Liu, Wellman, Tardif, & Sabbagh, 2008). Verb factivity is marked in the Chinese language through different mental terms (e.g., xiang3 meaning think, yi3wei2 meaning thought). Verb factivity plays an important role in ...
Several studies have suggested a role for increased gamma band activity in the amygdala in automatic processing and evaluation of emotional faces in early perception, as well as the binding of perceptual representations with emotional meaning (Liu et al., 2015; Oya et al., 2002; Sato et al.,...
, but almost no mixed-footers (68 or 1.8%). As evident from these results, individual samples can hardly achieve a representative prevalence of the population due to potential sampling biases and different measurements of footedness. Furthermore, both the fields of psychology and neuroscience have...
Neuropsychological tests were conducted by Master students of psychology under the supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist in a session of ca. 2 h at the Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki. Domains of phonological processing, reading, IQ, and memory functions were ...