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Objectives: Explore the psychometric properties of a sleep quality index to be used with the elderly population. Methods: 99 elderly (mean age, M=78.65; SD= 6.92; range=60-95) under social responses in institutions from Coimbra Council... more
Chpt in R. Kunzendorf (Ed.) Imagery: Recent Developments, NY: Plenum Press, 1991, p. 101-112.
What the excavations at Sobibor they challenge a prehistorian?
En quoi les fouilles à Sobibor interpellent-elles un préhistorien ?
En quoi les fouilles à Sobibor interpellent-elles un préhistorien ?
Practicing retrieval of recently studied information enhances the likelihood of the learner retrieving that information in the future. We examined whether short-answer and multiple-choice classroom quizzing could enhance retention of... more
Delusions are fixed ‘false beliefs’ and, although a hallmark feature of schizophrenia, no previous study has examined if delusions might be related to ‘false memories’. We used the classic Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm to... more
It has recently been found that during recognition memory tests participants’ pupils dilate more when they view old items compared to novel items. This thesis sought to replicate this novel ‘‘Pupil Old/New Effect’’ (PONE) and to determine... more
Fear, which can be expressed innately or after conditioning, is triggered when a danger or a stimulus predicting immediate danger is perceived. Its role is to prepare the body to face this danger. However, dysfunction in fear processing... more
Practicing retrieval of recently-studied information enhances the likelihood of the learner retrieving that information in the future. We examined whether short-answer and multiple-choice classroom quizzing could enhance retention of... more
En la arqueología de la región patagónica se han desarrollado distintas investigaciones que focalizaron, entre otras cosas, en las estrategias de movilidad y los flujos de información entre grupos cazadores recolectores. Estos temas... more
Highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) is a recently identified ability that has been difficult to explain with existing memory science. The present study measured HSAM participants’ and age/gender matched controls’ on a number of... more
This research, conducted by the author when a Senior Researcher at Newcastle University, UK, was funded by a UK governance organisation to help them assess, integrate and improve their understanding of the governed population.... more
The material we have developed for use with groups of students from a number of different ethnic backgrounds consists of commands—action series—which students learn to respond to physically and to produce orally to evoke physical response... more
Test-enhanced learning refers to the finding that practice tests during study increase the likelihood that information will be recalled at a later time. This view contrasts with the traditional idea that tests merely measure prior... more
Contemporary culture is somewhat uncontemporary. One can even say that it is anachronistic and filled with nostalgia and unexplainable longing for what has been recently alive and new in it.
This special issue addresses the possible connections and mutual benefits of examining together two analytic concepts – memory and periphery. These concepts receive much attention in various scholarly discussions, yet they have done so... more
Study of self-knowledge and self-love as underlying aspects of personality in order to develop a thomistic theory of personality. Nevertheless this document is just a brief explanation of knowledge, love, personality and hapiness... more
"Cette monographie – la première du genre – est une réflexion sur les miniatures hippiatriques grecques, où se demander pour quel usage et comment le lecteur médiéval les « lisait », conduit nécessairement à essayer d’expliciter les... more
The aim of this article is to present a succinct review and evaluation of the main areas of contention in the false memory debate and, from this basis, to suggest ways in which the best from both sides can be utilized. We examine the... more
Introducción. Las quejas subjetivas de memoria constituyen uno de los motivos de consulta más frecuentes a los servicios sanitarios, aunque apenas existen instrumentos validados en castellano para valorar su magnitud. Así como los... more
Resumen: Introducción. El presente estudio analiza si una tarea de fluidez verbal escrita es útil para discriminar el deterioro cognitivo leve (DCL) frente al envejecimiento normal con quejas subjetivas de memoria (EN). Método. Se... more
F.C. Bartlett and L.S.Vygotsky were two seminal figures in the psychological study of remembering. Both emphasized the role of meaning and imagination in this process. Bartlett did this by showing the systematic and holistic changes that... more
En esta Memoria de Gestión Regional 11 de Educación 2019-2020, se presentan las actividades más relevantes.
This paper crosses the borders of human geography to bring back two related bodies of work from experimental psychology that investigate, in an unusual and refreshingly precise way, long-standing human geographical concerns with... more
A strategy for adaptive control and energetic optimization of aerobic fermentors was implemented, with both air flow and agitation speed as manipulated variables. This strategy is separable in its components: control, optimization,... more
People constantly talk about past experiences. Burgeoning psychologi- cal research has examined the role of communication in remembering by placing rememberers in conversational settings. In reviewing this work, we first discuss the... more
A personal, intellectual, and philosophical report of how Joseph Agassi’s critical rationalism helped me overcome the drawbacks of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).
Augustine’s discussion of our memoria of the liberal arts in Confessions X poses a series of challenging questions which are best tackled in the broader context of his ideas on teaching, learning, understanding and the acquisition of... more
Using a dual neurocognitive systems framework, Piaget’s ideas are elaborated to allow for executive processes and post formal thinking. Developing imagination, emotional expression, and creativity through the ‘arts’ should not be seen as... more
Resumen: El presente trabajo trata de estudiar si el aprendizaje procedimental de una tarea de categorización semántica puede verse infl uido por el tipo de categoría al que pertenezcan los estímulos empleados (biológicos o no... more