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What do others feel? Cognitive empathy deficits explain the association between callous-unemotional traits and conduct problems among preschool children
(2019)Callous-unemotional traits (CU) are a risk factor for antisocial behavior, although it is unclear whether deficits in affective or cognitive empathy explain this association. Using a multi-informant approach involving data ...
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What Do the Hands Externalize in Simple Arithmetic?
(2007)In 4 experiments, the authors examined the use of the hands in simple arithmetic tasks. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that pointing increases both accuracy and speed in counting arrays of items, whether those items are ...
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What if anything do our clients gain from life after eating disorders?
(2007)Reviews the book, Gaining: The truth about life after eating disorders by Aimee Liu (see record 2007-02917-000). The reviewers praise the author for writing an ambitious, comprehensive and informative book about the lives ...
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What neuroimaging and perceptions of self-other similarity can tell us about the mechanism underlying mentalizing
(2009)Carruthers' "mindreading is prior" model postulates one unitary mindreading mechanism working identically for self and other. While we agree about shared mindreading mechanisms, there is also evidence from neuroimaging and ...
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What Unilateral Visual Neglect Teaches us About Perceptual Phenomenology
(2015)Studies on the syndrome called ‘unilateral visual or spatial neglect’ have been used by philosophers in discussions concerning perceptual phenomenology. Nanay (Philos Perspect 26:235–246, 2012), based on spatial neglects ...
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What’s so difficult with adopting imagined perspectives?
(2015)Research on spatial cognition suggests that transformation processes and/or spatial conflicts may influence performance on mental perspective-taking tasks. However, conflicting findings have complicated our understanding ...
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When gestures show us the way: Co-thought gestures selectively facilitate navigation and spatial memory
(2018)How does gesturing during route learning relate to subsequent spatial performance? We examined the relationship between gestures produced spontaneously while studying route directions and spatial representations of the ...
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White matter microstructural abnormalities in the frontal lobe of adults with antisocial personality disorder
(2012)Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and psychopathy involve significant interpersonal and behavioural impairments. However, little is known about their underlying neurobiology and in particular, abnormalities in white ...
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White-matter relaxation time and myelin water fraction differences in young adults with autism
(2015)Background. Increasing evidence suggests that autism is associated with abnormal white-matter (WM) anatomy and impaired brain 'connectivity'. While myelin plays a critical role in synchronized brain communication, its ...
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Who is the Hooligan? The Role of Psychopathic Traits
(2019)The current study aims to examine associations between distinct psychopathic traits with hooliganism, after controlling for the influence of levels of aggression. In addition, we aim to investigate potential associations ...
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Whole brain and corpus callosum diffusion tensor metrics: How do they correlate with visual and verbal memory performance in chronic traumatic brain injury
(2019)This research investigates the chronic effect of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury on brain white matter integrity, as reflected by diffusion tensor imaging metrics, and the assessment of their correlation to ...
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Whole brain white matter integrity measures on patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). FA and entropy analysis
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)Introduction Mean Fractional Anisotropy (FA) along with Longitudinal and Transverse Apparent Diffusion Coefficients (ADC) are the established measures in assessing white matter (WM) integrity in TBI patients. A question ...
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Why are Autism Spectrum conditions more prevalent in Males?
(2011)Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are much more common in males, a bias that may offer clues to the etiology of this condition. Although the cause of this bias remains a mystery, we argue that it occurs because ASC is an ...
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Why is autism more common in males?
(2014)Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are much more common in males, a bias that may offer clues to the etiology of this condition. We argue that it occurs because ASC are an extreme manifestation of the male brain. The extreme ...
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Why is rapid automatized naming related to reading?
(2013)The objective of this study was to examine why rapid automatized naming (RAN) is related to reading by manipulating processes involved at the input, processing, and output stages of its production. In total, 65 children ...
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Worried, sad, and breaking rules? Understanding the developmental interrelations among symptoms of anxiety, depression, and conduct problems during early childhood
(2019)Research investigating the developmental interrelations among symptoms of anxiety, depression, and conduct problems in early childhood is lacking. The present study aims to fill this significant knowledge gap. A large ...
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