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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial on the digital socio-emotional competence training Zirkus Empathico for preschoolers
In this randomized controlled trial (RCT), the digital socio-emotional competence training Zirkus Empathico was tested in 74 Central European children (5.1 (0.9) years; 34 females) within a longitudinal design...
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Open AccessAberrant neural processing of event boundaries in persons with Parkinson’s disease
The perception of everyday events implies the segmentation into discrete sub-events (i.e. event segmentation). This process is relevant for the prediction of upcoming events and for the recall of recent activi...
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Die Cloud als Höheres Wesen? Digitale Psychologie
Digitalwissenschaft kann Temposteuerung und Erkenntnisvalidität auf ihrem Gebiet, aber im abgesicherten Modus auch für andere Bereiche ermöglichen. Sie wird sich dabei der Medien und Techniken bedienen, die si...
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Same or different pitch? Effects of musical expertise, pitch difference, and auditory task on the pitch discrimination ability of musicians and non-musicians
Musical expertise promotes both the perception and the processing of music. The aim of the present study was to analyze if musicians compared to non-musicians already have auditory processing advantages at the...
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Assessing cancer-related distress in cancer patients and caregivers receiving outpatient psycho-oncological counseling
The diagnosis of cancer, the symptoms of the illness and its treatment have an influence on how patients and their caregivers experience distress. However, data focusing on caregivers and their cancer-related ...
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Seven Cognitive Secrets that Make You Smarter
The process of knowledge acquisition involves a variety of challenges students are typically faced with. This chapter focuses on some less familiar cognitive and physiological mechanisms strongly infl uencing ...
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Semantic Priming of Progression Features in Events
Event knowledge includes persons and objects and their roles in the event. This study investigated whether the progression of patients from a source to a resulting feature, such as the progression of hair that...
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The role of temporal properties on the detection of temporal violations: insights from pupillometry
Scripts store the temporal order of component events of everyday activities as well as the temporal position of the events within the activity (early or late). When confronted with an activity, predictions are...
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Context- and Prosody-Driven ERP Markers for Dialog Focus Perception in Children
The development of language proficiency extends late into childhood and includes not only producing or comprehending sounds, words and sentences, but likewise larger utterances spanning beyond sentence borders...
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Human Perception of Urban Environment and Consequences for its Design
In psychology, there is converging empirical evidence that it is necessary to differentiate between objective and subjective attributes of the environment and to take into account accompanying processes of per...
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Aktualität Simmels in der Wahrnehmung von Metropolen
Dargestellt wird eine Untersuchung zur Wahrnehmung der drei Metropolen Paris, London und Berlin. Es wurden erstens an Simmels Großstadtcharakteristika angelehnte Erscheinungsmerkmale bezüglich ihrer Aktualität...
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Long-term characteristics of analogical processing in high-school students with high fluid intelligence: an fMRI study
Intelligence is known to predict scholastic achievement and enables high performance in cognitive tasks. Fluid intelligence is strongly related to analogical reasoning abilities, which are fundamental to mathe...
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Mathematical cognition: individual differences in resource allocation
Individuals scoring higher in tests of general cognitive abilities tend to perform better on novel and familiar mathematical tasks. It has been scarcely investigated how this superior mathematical performance ...
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Open AccessEmotional Stroop task: effect of word arousal and subject anxiety on emotional interference
Inconsistent findings regarding the emotional Stroop effect in healthy subjects may be explained by confounding effects of stimulus valence and arousal, as well as individual differences in anxiety. We examine...
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Zur Kodierung von Zeitbezügen in begrifflichen Wissensstrukturen
Zeit gilt in der Physik als eines der grundlegenden Konzepte zur Beschreibung der Welt und ihrer inneren Zusammenhänge. Dennoch gibt es bis heute keine allgemein akzeptierte Definition des Zeitbegriffes. Der n...
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Dynamics of Knowledge Structures: Some Underlying Strategies
Flexibility and efficiency in co** with a variety of demands are essential characteristics of human cognition that allow adaptability in a variable environment. The flexibility and efficiency of cognitive pr...
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Emotionale Bewertung von begrifflichem Wissen
Die Frage nach der emotionalen Bewertung begrifflichen Wissens tangiert ein ebenso aktuelles wie heiß umstrittenes Gegenstandsgebiet der gegenwärtigen psychologischen Forschung. Dabei handelt es sich um das Pr...
