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Open AccessThe added value of game elements: better training performance but comparable learning gains
Even though game elements can increase motivation and engagement, they also might distract learners and thereby decrease performance and learning outcomes. In the current study, we investigated the effects of ...
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Open AccessHumor creation during efforts to find humorous cognitive reappraisals of threatening situations
This interdisciplinary study examined the structure of humor creation in the specific context of efforts to positively reappraise stressful situations for effective co**. In a sample of n = 101 participants, a ...
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Open AccessImpact of repeated morning bright white light exposures on attention in a simulated office environment
Attention is essential to the work. This study investigated the effects of two different light pulses on a simple attention task. In addition, the effects of subsequent exposure to constant but different illum...
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Open AccessEffects of dynamic bedroom lighting on measures of sleep and circadian rest-activity rhythm in inpatients with major depressive disorder
Bright light therapy is an effective treatment option for seasonal and non-seasonal affective disorders. However up to now, no study has investigated effects of dynamic bedroom lighting in hospitalized patient...
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Potenziale von Videospielen (Serious Games) für gesundheitliche und psychotherapeutische Maßnahmen
Prof. Dr. Tobias Greitemeyer, Dr. Manuel Ninaus, Prof.in Dr.in Elisabeth Weiss zeigen die positiven kognitiven, verhaltensbezogenen, affektiven, motivationalen und sozialen Effekte von Videospielen auf, die vor a...
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Open AccessCreativity is associated with a characteristic U-shaped function of alpha power changes accompanied by an early increase in functional coupling
Although there exists increasing knowledge about brain correlates underlying creative ideation in general, the specific neurocognitive mechanisms implicated in different stages of the creative thinking process...
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Open AccessPoor control of interference from negative content hampers the effectiveness of humour as a source of positive emotional experiences
The brain-based ability to direct attention away from interfering negative information may co-determine to which degree one may benefit from humour as a source of positive emotional experiences. This should be...
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Open AccessAge-moderating effect in prepotent response inhibition in boys with Asperger syndrome: a 2.5 years longitudinal study
Following our previous cross-sectional analysis, indicating age-related improvements of response inhibition in a random-motor-generation task (MPT) in adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS), the present study...
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Open AccessLearning Unicycling Evokes Manifold Changes in Gray and White Matter Networks Related to Motor and Cognitive Functions
A three-week unicycling training was associated with (1) reductions of gray matter volume in regions closely linked to visuospatial processes such as spatial awareness, (2) increases in fractional anisotropy p...
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Open AccessSubtypes in clinical burnout patients enrolled in an employee rehabilitation program: differences in burnout profiles, depression, and recovery/resources-stress balance
Burnout is generally perceived a unified disorder with homogeneous symptomatology across people (exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy). However, increasing evidence points to intra-individua...
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Open AccessAge-related differences in inhibitory control and memory updating in boys with Asperger syndrome
Deficits in specific executive domains are highly prevalent in autism spectrum disorder; however, age-related improvements in executive functions (reflecting prefrontal maturational changes) have been reported...
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Open AccessThe capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
Encouraging patients to use cognitive reappraisal constitutes the core of modern psychotherapeutic approaches. However, evidence for specific neural correlates of the capacity for cognitive reappraisal, which ...
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Kognitive Defizite beim Burnout-Syndrom – Ein Überblick
Durch die steigende Prävalenz des Burnout-Syndroms entwickelt sich dieses zu einem Thema zunehmenden wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Neben emotionaler Erschöpfung und Depersonalisation wirkt sich vor allem die ...
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Open AccessThe Use of Bright and Dark Types of Humour is Rooted in the Brain
The ways in which humour can be used are related to the manifold interpersonal functions humour can serve, some of which are positive, and some negative. In the present study, phasic changes in the functional ...
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Open AccessCreative ways to well-being: Reappraisal inventiveness in the context of anger-evoking situations
Neuroscientific studies in the field of creativity mainly focused on tasks drawing on basic verbal divergent thinking demands. This study took a step further by investigating brain mechanisms in response to ot...
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Biologische Grundlagen des Problematischen Internetnutzungsverhaltens (PIN) und therapeutische Implikationen
Exzessive Mediennutzung und Internetabhängigkeit sind ein wichtiges gesellschafts- und gesundheitspolitisches Thema der heutigen Zeit, auch wenn die phänomenologische Einteilung von Verhaltenssüchten, wie dem ...
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Gray matter density in relation to different facets of verbal creativity
Neuroscience studies on creativity have revealed highly variegated findings that often seem to be inconsistent. As recently argued in Fink and Benedek (Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 2012), this might be primarily due to...
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Creativity and schizotypy from the neuroscience perspective
Behavioral research has revealed that some cognitive features may be similar between creative and psychotic/schizophrenic-like thoughts. In this study, we addressed the potential link between creativity and sc...
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Cardiovascular Effects of Acute Positive Emotional Arousal
Since there are several popular beliefs about putative health benefits of amusement which are empirically substantiated poorly about putative health benefits of amusement, the immediate cardiovascular effects...
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Brief Report: CANTAB Performance and Brain Structure in Pediatric Patients with Asperger Syndrome
By merging neuropsychological (CANTAB/Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery) and structural brain imaging data (voxel-based-morphometry) the present study sought to identify the neurocognitive co...
