Browsing by Subject "cognition"
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(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2019-08-06)Background-Subtle reductions in cardiac output relate to lower cerebral blood flow, especially in regions where Alzheimer's disease pathology first develops. Apolipoprotein E (APOE)-epsilon 4 is a genetic susceptibility ...
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(2023-08)This improvement project took place at a law school whose graduates were struggling to pass the bar exam. The law school sought to redesign its bar preparation program. More broadly, the school wanted to learn how to use ...
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(2012-09-25)Department: Teaching and LearningActor Network Theory (ANT) is invoked in order to characterize the performance of objects in demonstrations around representational forms, examples of which include tables, equations, graphs, and embodied, “narrative ...
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(2022-09-16)Department: NeuroscienceEnlarged perivascular spaces (ePVS) are a marker of small vessel disease that have not been well studied. The etiologies and clinical consequences of ePVS are not well studied. The objective of this project was to identify ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: PharmacologyCurrent antipsychotic medications (APDs) for schizophrenia primarily treat positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions) yet are largely ineffective in treating the negative (anhedonia, social withdrawal, apathy) and ...
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(2013-04-18)Department: PsychologyIt has long been recognized that people demonstrate orienting responses to novel, salient stimuli in the environment. The presentation of such an oddball stimulus does not only induce physiological, reflexive responses, ...
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(2011-08-03)Department: PsychologySELF-EXPLANATION WORTH THE WHILE: A COMPARISON AGAINST PRACTICE AND TIME ON TASK KATHERINE L. McELDOON Thesis under the direction of Professor Bethany Rittle-Johnson Self-explanation, or generating explanations to ...
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(2013-07-18)Department: PsychologyThis thesis presents three experiments examining 7- to 9-month-old infants’ use of category knowledge of 3-dimensional objects to perceive 2-dimensional exemplars from the same category. In all experiments, infants failed ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: NeuroscienceThe Role of Aortic Stiffness and Vascular Dysregulation in Brain Aging Research efforts in age-related cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and related dementias are complicated by their multifactorial nature, including ...