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Cognitive psychology

Section edited by Keith Laws

This section covers all areas encompassing cognitive psychology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, cognitive neuropsychology, language, memory, problem solving and thinking to name a few.

  1. The fear of hypoglycemia leads to psychological symptoms in patients with diabetes type 2. In this research, the effects of EDMR on the fear of hypoglycemia in patients with diabetes type 2 were examined.

    Authors: Mohammadreza Sheikhi, Mohamad Moradi, Saeed Shahsavary, Zainab Alimoradi and Hamid Reza Salimi

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2020 8:82

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Technological advances provide an opportunity to refine tools that assess central nervous system performance. This study aimed to assess the test-retest reliability and convergent and ecological validity of a ...

    Authors: Ben Horan, Rachael Heckenberg, Paul Maruff and Bradley Wright

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2020 8:61

    Content type: Technical advance

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  4. Many significant others of persons with serious conditions like spinal cord injury (SCI) and acquired brain injury (ABI) report high levels of psychological distress. In line with the stress-coping model, the ...

    Authors: Eline W. M. Scholten, Julia D. H. P. Simon, Tijn van Diemen, Chantal F. Hillebregt, Marjolijn Ketelaar, Kees Hein Woldendorp, Rutger Osterthun, Johanna M. A. Visser-Meily and Marcel W. M. Post

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2020 8:51

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Intelligence is the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with the environment. Previous studies have shown that individuals with intel...

    Authors: Linde Melby, Marit S. Indredavik, Gro Løhaugen, Ann Mari Brubakk, Jon Skranes and Torstein Vik

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2020 8:7

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Response inhibition can be classified into stimulus-driven inhibition and intentional inhibition based on the degree of endogenous volition involved. In the past decades, abundant research efforts to study the...

    Authors: Yang Liu, Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg, Gorka Fraga González, Davide Rigoni, Marcel Brass, Reinout W. Wiers and K. Richard Ridderinkhof

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2020 8:2

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Symptoms of anxiety and depression are common mental health problems in children and are often referred to as internalizing symptoms. Youth with such symptoms are at greater risk for poor academic achievement,...

    Authors: Marit Løtveit Pedersen, Solveig Holen, Stian Lydersen, Kristin Martinsen, Simon-Peter Neumer, Frode Adolfsen and Anne Mari Sund

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:88

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Using the Iowa Gambling Test (IGT), we demonstrated previously impaired decision- making process in young tattooed women. The purpose of the present study was to explore the associations among the three facets...

    Authors: Semion Kertzman, Alex Kagan, Omer Hegedish, Rina Lapidus and Abraham Weizman

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:87

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Prioritization of the processing of threatening stimuli induces deleterious effects on task performance. However, emotion evoked by viewing images of snakes exerts a facilitating effect upon making judgments o...

    Authors: Marine Grandgeorge, Alban Lemasson, Martine Hausberger, Hiroki Koda and Nobuo Masataka

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:74

    Content type: Research article

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  10. The demands of daily life often cause mothers high levels of distress and other negative emotions. Anger, including harsh verbal discipline, has been linked to child maltreatment, with long-term adverse effect...

    Authors: Hiromi Tobe, Mariko Sakka and Kiyoko Kamibeppu

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:69

    Content type: Study protocol

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  12. During the preschool years, children’s development of skills like language and communication, executive functions, and socioemotional comprehension undergo dramatic development. Still, our knowledge of how the...

    Authors: Tove Gerholm, Petter Kallioinen, Signe Tonér, Sofia Frankenberg, Susanne Kjällander, Anna Palmer and Hillevi Lenz-Taguchi

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:59

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Inhibitory control, a key modulatory component of cognition guiding strategy and behaviour, can be affected by diverse contingencies. We explore here the effect of expectation of reward over behavioural adjust...

    Authors: Paula M. Herrera, Alberto Vélez Van Meerbeke, Mario Speranza, Claudia López Cabra, Mauricio Bonilla, Michaël Canu and Tristan A. Bekinschtein

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:55

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Many childhood cancer survivors develop neurocognitive impairment, negatively affecting education and psychosocial functioning. Recommended comprehensive neuropsychological testing can be time- and cost- inten...

    Authors: Lyn M. Balsamo, Hannah-Rose Mitchell, Wilhelmenia Ross, Catherine Metayer, Kristina K. Hardy and Nina S. Kadan-Lottick

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:26

    Content type: Research article

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  15. The quality of an expectant mother’s bonding to the fetus has been shown to be associated with important developmental outcomes. Previous studies suggest that bonding quality is predicted by, for example, soci...

    Authors: Dag Nordahl, Ragnhild Sørensen Høifødt, Agnes Bohne, Inger Pauline Landsem, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson Wang and Jens C. Thimm

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:23

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Not being able to recognize a person’s face is a highly debilitating condition from which people with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) suffer their entire life. Here we describe the case of J, a 30 year old wo...

    Authors: Martin Wegrzyn, Annika Garlichs, Richard W. K. Heß, Friedrich G. Woermann and Kirsten Labudda

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2019 7:4

    Content type: Case report

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  17. Predisposing factors for metacognitive dysfunctions are common in university students. However, there is currently no valid questionnaire instrument designed to assess metacognitive aspects including meta-memo...

    Authors: Md. Dilshad Manzar, Abdulrhman Albougami, Mohammed Salahuddin, Peter Sony, David Warren Spence and Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2018 6:59

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Media multitasking (MMT)—using and switching between unrelated forms of media—has been implicated in altered processing of extraneous stimuli, resulting in performance deficits. Here, we sought to extend our p...

    Authors: Richard B. Lopez, Julia M. Salinger, Todd F. Heatherton and Dylan D. Wagner

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2018 6:44

    Content type: Research article

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  19. Subjectively perceived memory problems (memory-related Subjective Cognitive Symptoms/SCS) can be an indicator of a pre-prodromal or prodromal stage of a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s disease. W...

    Authors: Tobias Luck, Susanne Roehr, Francisca S. Rodriguez, Matthias L. Schroeter, A. Veronica Witte, Andreas Hinz, Anja Mehnert, Christoph Engel, Markus Loeffler, Joachim Thiery, Arno Villringer and Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2018 6:23

    Content type: Research article

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  20. The extensive keeping of companion animals and the substantial monetary amount we spend on these animals indicate that they are highly valued. Although the benefits humans derive from keeping cats and dogs hav...

    Authors: Ruben Hoffmann, Carl Johan Lagerkvist, Malin Hagberg Gustavsson and Bodil S. Holst

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2018 6:15

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Healthy aging is associated with a decline in multiple functional domains including perception, attention, short and long-term memory, reasoning, decision-making, as well as cognitive and motor control functio...

    Authors: Thomas VanVleet, Michelle Voss, Sawsan Dabit, Alex Mitko and Joseph DeGutis

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2018 6:22

    Content type: Study protocol

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  22. Arguments for including mindfulness instruction in higher education have included claims about the benefits of mindfulness practice for critical thinking. While there is theoretical support for this claim, emp...

    Authors: Chris Noone and Michael J. Hogan

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2018 6:13

    Content type: Research article

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  25. The Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT; a pencil and paper test) and the CogState (a computerized cognitive test battery) are well-validated and suitable tests to evaluate cognitive functioning in large observati...

    Authors: Jisca S. Kuiper, Richard C. Oude Voshaar, Floor E. A. Verhoeven, Sytse U. Zuidema and Nynke Smidt

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2017 5:15

    Content type: Research article

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  26. Approximately 3.8 million sport and recreational concussions occur per year, creating a need for accurate diagnosis and management of concussions. Researchers and clinicians are exploring the potential dose-re...

    Authors: Trevor Barker, Stephen A. Russo, Gaytri Barker, Mark A. Rice Jr., Mary G. Jeffrey, Gordon Broderick and Travis J. A. Craddock

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2017 5:14

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Some studies have indicated that social engagement is associated with better cognitive outcomes. This study aimed to investigate associations between life-course social engagement (civic participation) and cog...

    Authors: Ann Bowling, Jitka Pikhartova and Brian Dodgeon

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:58

    Content type: Research article

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  28. The speed and precision with which objects are moved by hand or hand-tool interaction under image guidance depend on a specific type of visual and spatial sensorimotor learning. Novices have to learn to optima...

    Authors: Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Michel de Mathelin and Birgitta Dresp-Langley

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:55

    Content type: Research article

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  29. Modern psychology is apparently in crisis and the prevailing view is that this partly reflects an inability to replicate past findings. If a crisis does exists, then it is some kind of ‘chronic’ crisis, as psy...

    Authors: Keith R. Laws

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:30

    Content type: Editorial

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  30. Tai Chi practice has some fitness, wellness, and general cognitive effects in older adults. However, benefits of Tai Chi on specific mental-attentional executive processes have not been investigated previously. W...

    Authors: Theresa H. M. Kim, Juan Pascual-Leone, Janice Johnson and Hala Tamim

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:29

    Content type: Research article

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  32. The testing effect is the finding that information that is retrieved during learning is more often correctly retrieved on a final test than information that is restudied. According to the semantic mediator hyp...

    Authors: Leonora C. Coppens, Peter P. J. L. Verkoeijen, Samantha Bouwmeester and Remy M. J. P. Rikers

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:25

    Content type: Research article

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  35. While most modern research focuses on the clinical benefits of mindfulness, an emerging body of work suggests that mindfulness can facilitate self-regulation of everyday thinking in typically developing indivi...

    Authors: Chris Noone and Michael J. Hogan

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:17

    Content type: Study protocol

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  36. Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are increasingly utilized in Bipolar Disorder (BD) but are potentially associated with cognitive side effects. Also linked to cognitive deficits associated with SGA-trea...

    Authors: Stephanie A. Flowers, Kelly A. Ryan, Zongshan Lai, Melvin G. McInnis and Vicki L. Ellingrod

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:14

    Content type: Research article

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  37. Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSKP) is attentionally demanding, complex and multi-factorial; neuroimaging research in the population seen in pain clinics is sparse. A better understanding of the neural activi...

    Authors: Ann M. Taylor, Ashley D. Harris, Alice Varnava, Rhiannon Phillips, Owen Hughes, Antony R. Wilkes, Judith E. Hall and Richard G. Wise

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2016 4:5

    Content type: Research article

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  39. It has been proposed that children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) have a selective deficit in procedural learning, with relatively spared declarative learning. In previous studies we and others confir...

    Authors: Dorothy V M Bishop and Hsinjen Julie Hsu

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2015 3:3

    Content type: Research article

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  42. The experimental methods currently used for assessing motivational processes in humans have two major limitations. Some of them rely on global subjective assessments while others evaluate these processes using...

    Authors: Bruno Aouizerate, Camille Gouzien, Olivier Doumy, Pierre Philip, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany, Pier Vincenzo Piazza and Daniela Cota

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2014 2:23

    Content type: Technical advance

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  43. Physical activity is a key component of exploration and development. Poor motor proficiency, by limiting participation in physical and social activities, can therefore contribute to poor psychological and soci...

    Authors: Patricia K Kitsao-Wekulo, Penny A Holding, Hudson Gerry Taylor, Jane D Kvalsvig and Kevin J Connolly

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2013 1:29

    Content type: Research article

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  45. The size and emotion effect is the tendency for children to draw people and other objects with a positive emotional charge larger than those with a negative or neutral charge. Here we explored the novel idea t...

    Authors: Andrew K Dunn, Nicola Taylor and Thom Baguley

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2013 1:21

    Content type: Research article

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  46. Previous studies have shown that adverse conditions during fetal and early life are associated with lower performance on neurocognitive tests in childhood, adolescence and adult life. There is, however, a pauc...

    Authors: Jens Christoffer Skogen, Simon Øverland, A David Smith, Arnstein Mykletun and Robert Stewart

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2013 1:16

    Content type: Research article

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  47. Facial emotion recognition depends on cortical and subcortical networks. HIV infection of the central nervous system can damage these networks, leading to impaired facial emotion recognition.

    Authors: Eleonora Baldonero, Nicoletta Ciccarelli, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Manuela Colafigli, Erika Improta, Alessandro D’Avino, Annalisa Mondi, Roberto Cauda, Simona Di Giambenedetto and Maria Caterina Silveri

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2013 1:3

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Psychology has been historically plagued by the under-reporting of both replications and null findings. The avoidance of these core ingredients of scientific practice means that the psychology literature is un...

    Authors: Keith R Laws

    Citation: BMC Psychology 2013 1:2

    Content type: Commentary

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