This paper reviews evidence from neuropsychological patient studies relevant to two questions concerning the functions of the medial temporal lobe in humans.The first is whether the hippocampus and the adjacent perirhinal cortex make different contributions to memory.Data are discussed from two patients with adult-onset bilateral hippocampal damage who show a sparing of item recognition relative to recall and certain types of associative recognition.It is argued that these data are consistent with Aggleton and Brown's (1999) proposal that familiarity-based recognition memory is not dependent on the hippocampus but is mediated by the perirhinal cortex and dorso-medial thalamic nucleus.The second question is whether the recognition memory deficit observed in medial temporal lobe amnesia can be explained by a deficit in perceptual processing and representation of objects rather than a deficit in memory per se.The finding that amnesics were impaired at recognizing, after short delays, patterns that they could successfully discriminate suggests that their memory impairment did not result from an objectprocessing deficit.The possibility remains, however, that the human perirhinal cortex plays a role in object processing, as well as in recognition memory, and data are presented that support this possibility.The medial temporal lobes are known to play a critical role in declarative memory (memory for facts and events) in humans, but it is currently unresolved whether the hippocampus and the adjacent medial temporal lobe cortices (entorhinal, perirhinal, and parahippocampal cortices) make distinct contributions to memory, and, if so, what these contributions are.Furthermore, recent work with nonhuman primates has suggested that the role of the perirhinal cortex may not be exclusively one of memory.The current paper focuses primarily on two issues: first, whether recognition memory for individual items in humans is dependent on the integrity of the hippocampus or whether it can be mediated by adjacent cortical regions such as the perirhinal cortex; second, whether the object recognition memory deficit observed in amnesics with medial temporal lobe lesions can be explained by
www.redalyc.org Non-Profit Academic Project, developed under the Open Acces Initiative Among the ongoing attempts to enhance cognitive performance, an emergent and yet underrepresented venue is brought by hemoencefalographic neurofeedback (HEG). This paper presents three related advances in HEG neurofeedback for cognitive enhancement: a) a new HEG protocol for cognitive enhancement, as well as b) the results of independent measures of biological efficacy (EEG brain maps) extracted in three phases, during a one year follow up case study; c) the results of the first controlled clinical trial of HEG, designed to assess the efficacy of the technique for cognitive enhancement of an adult and neurologically intact population. The new protocol was developed in the environment of a software that organizes digital signal algorithms in a flowchart format. Brain maps were produced through 10 brain recordings. The clinical trial used a working memory test as its independent measure of achievement. The main conclusion of this study is that the technique appears to be clinically promising. Approaches to cognitive performance from a metabolic viewpoint should be explored further. However, it is particularly important to note that, to our knowledge, this is the world’s first controlled clinical study on the matter and it is still early for an ultimate evaluation of the technique.
This new addition to the periodical literature on abnormal psychology, made its first appearance on April ist last, and is to be published bi-monthly. The Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Morton Prince, Professor of Nervous Diseases, assisted by Dr. Hugo Münsterberg, of Harvard, Dr. C. L. Dana, of Cornell, Dr. I. I. Putnam, of Boston, and Dr. Adolf Meyer.
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Increasingly, adult Indigenous language learners are being identified as the “missing generation” of learners who hold great potential to contribute to the revival of Indigenous languages by acting as the middle ground between Elders, children and youth within their communities. Our research project NEȾOLṈEW̱ ‘one mind, one people’ investigated adult Indigenous language learning through the popular Mentor-Apprentice Program (MAP) method (Leanne Hinton, 2001). Over the course of 14 months, our team conducted 133 interviews with four groups of participants involved in MAP. The participants were current and past apprentices, mentors, and administrators of MAP programs in British Columbia, Canada. Our primary interest was to learn about the successes and challenges of MAP for language learning, but we also included interview questions that gave participants space to share how participating in MAP may have affected them. During thematic analysis of the interviews (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2014) we noticed repeating comments across all four participant groups on how their involvement with MAP impacted their own and their community’s wellbeing. Six exploratory themes were identified: • Language loss negatively impacts the wellbeing of Indigenous people: “[the word] doesn’t just mean a bad, misbehaving child, it also means a poor child that has been uprooted […] and is disconnected from their culture” • The relationship between burden and wellbeing among participants in MAP: “there’s so much to be done. […] that’s the exhausting part of it. It’s trying to learn and teach at the same time” • Strengthening MAP apprentices to become future community leaders: “it brings a huge sense of pride […] and helps me be an inspiration to anyone else” • Elder’s healing through becoming language mentors: “we once again have that believe in ourselves where we can feel free” • Cultural and spiritual health and healing: “I am keeping something very precious alive by speaking my language” • Health outcomes: “it was […] the language that... pushed me to sobriety, […] it gave me... a sense of who I was”. Although studies have reported protective effects of Indigenous language use on health (Ball & Moselle, 2013; Hallett, Chandler, & Lalonde, 2007; McIvor, 2013), health-related outcomes of language revitalization efforts, including MAP, remain underexplored (Whalen, Moss, & Baldwin, 2016). In addition to discussing the six exploratory themes from our study, our paper also proposes that these themes can inform future research in the area of language revitalization and wellbeing. References Ball, J., & Moselle, K. (2013). Contributions of culture and language in aboriginal head start in urban and northern communities to children’s health outcomes: A review of theory and research. Prepared for Division of Children, Seniors & Healthy Development, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch. Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3, 77–101. http://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oa Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2014). What can “thematic analysis” offer health and wellbeing researchers? International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 9, 26152. http://doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v9.26152 Hallett, D., Chandler, M. J., & Lalonde, C. E. (2007). Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide. Cognitive Development, 22(3), 392–399. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.02.001 Hinton, L. (2001). The master-apprentice language learning program. In L. Hinton & K. Hale (Eds.), The green book of language revitalization in practice (pp. 217–226). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. McIvor, O. (2013). Protective effects of language learning, use and culture on the health and well-being of Indigenous people in Canada. In Proceedings of the 17th FEL Conference, FEL XVII: Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Community Connections, Collaborative Approaches and Cross-Disciplinary Research (pp. 123–131). Foundation for Endangered Languages in association with the University of Carleton. Whalen, D. H., Moss, M., & Baldwin, D. (2016). Healing through language: Positive physical health effects of indigenous language use. F1000Research, 5(852). http://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8656.1
Health Psychology Complementing both the American Psychological Association's<i>Health Psychology</i>and the British Psychological Society's<i>British Journal of Health Psychology</i>, this journal aims to be the international journal of health psychology and behavioral medicine. To this end, the editorial board represents an impressive 19 countries. Although authors in the first three issues were overwhelmingly from the United States, with the United Kingdom coming in second, this pattern probably reflects the current loci of interest. An editorial indicates that subjects to be covered include clinical, cross-cultural, and social psychology, medicine, epidemiology, public health, anthropology, sociology, social policy, health education, and health communication. Topics in the first three issues included pregnancy, human immunodeficiency virus, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, as well as less frequently addressed issues, such as family health promotion and health communication. Equal weight was given to theoretical, empirical, and public policy articles. Some articles address the ideas widely explored in
A study of the naming patterns used for 648 children in 322 American families provided mixed support for a number of hypotheses that are derived from the propositions that namesaking (the naming of a child after another person) functions as advertisement of genetic kinship when it may be in doubt and as a strategy to procure future investment of resources from the father and other relatives. Males and second-born children with older sisters were more likely to be namesaked, and birth order was a significant predictor of the probability of being namesaked for males. First-borns were more likely to be named after a patrilineal relative, but there was no tendency for children born early in a marriage to be namesaked more frequently than children born after many years of marriage. Parents who themselves were namesaked were more likely to namesake their own children.
Abstract The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ( JCCP ) is a bimonthly academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. It has a long‐standing reputation as the premier journal for the publication of research and scholarship in clinical psychology in the United States. The JCCP welcomes submissions on treatment and prevention in all areas of clinical and clinical health psychology and especially on topics that appeal to a broad clinical scientist and practitioner audience. It further encourages the submission of theory‐based interventions, studies that investigate mechanisms of change, and studies of the effectiveness of treatments in real‐world settings.
Objective: Posttrauma adjustment theories postulate that intense stressors violate people s beliefs about the world and perceived ability to achieve valued goals. Failure to make meaning from traumatic events exacerbates negative adjustment (e.g., PTSD), whereas success facilitates positive adjustment (e.g., stress–related growth). The current study aimed to test this model of direct and indirect effects among a sample of veterans. Method: Vietnam veterans (N = 130) completed assessment measures in an online survey format. Participants were largely male (91%) and Caucasian (93%) with a mean age of 61 years. Results: Results supported basic model tenets, linking military stress severity to violations of beliefs and goals. In the final model, only goal violations carried indirect effects of severity on PTSD symptoms. Presence of and search for meaning carried a portion of the indirect effects between goal violations and both PTSD and stress–related growth. Conclusion: Findings suggest that traumatic stress may disrupt people s goals and meaning–making may center on these disruptions. C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Clin. Psychol. 71:105 116, 2015.
Encouragement is a fundamental concept in helping parents to improve relationships with their children and to create an atmosphere of cooperation and democracy in their families. It is also a key concept in the development of social interest. Yet, few parents recognize the value of encouraging their children. This article will explore the slow progress made in our attempts to develop responsible children and spell out key aspects of the encouragement process (Evans,
The International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy(ISSN 2348-5396) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, academic journal that examines the intersection of Psychology, Social sciences, Education, and Home science with IJIP. IJIP is an international electronic journal published in quarterly. All peer-reviewed articles must meet rigorous standards and can represent a broad range of substantive topics, theoretical orientations, and empirical methods.
In the light of continuing debate over the applications of significance testing in psychology journals and following the publication of Cohen (1994), the Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) of the APA convened a committee called the Task Force on Statistical Inference (TFSI) whose charge was “to elucidate some of the controversial issues surrounding applications
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary。 Hidden within the ancient cluster are clues to how exploding stars helped transform the young universe into one capable of forming planets and, eventually, life
This study explores an emergent area of bystander research by describing associations between bystander involvement and community or microsystemic support factors across different types of victimizations. A total of 1703 adults and adolescents were surveyed about bystander presence, bystander actions, and bystander safety across 9 forms of victimization. They were also surveyed about 3 community-level factors—collective efficacy, support for community youth, informal community support—and 2 microsystemic factors—social support and tangible family resources community and microsystemic support scores were not typically associated with bystander presence. Higher community and microsystemic support scores, particularly support for community youth, informal community support, and social support, were commonly associated with perceiving bystanders as helpful to the situation. Support scores, especially collective efficacy, were also associated with bystander safety for some victimization types. Our exploratory findings show a relationship between bystander helpfulness and characteristics of the victim's community and microsystem, especially for victimization types that are typically public, like peer aggression.
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BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY Get access Mind, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1, 1919, Pages 117-a–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XXVIII.1.117-a Published: 01 January 1919