Measuring Transference Phenomena With fMri

Measuring Program Comprehension with fMRI

Software development is in essence a human-centered activity, because humans design, implement, and maintain software. Thus, the human factor plays an important role in software engineering. One of the major activities during the entire softwaredevelopment cycle is program comprehension: Developers spend most of their time with comprehending source code [14]. Thus, if we can support developers ...

Transference phenomena in medical practice: being whom the patient needs.

Transference is a process in which individuals displace patterns of behavior that originate through interaction with significant figures in childhood onto other persons in their current lives. It is a powerful determinant of patient behavior in medical encounters. Transference can affect the kind of physician-patient relationship a patient seeks and his or her response to interventions prescrib...

Transference, transference interpretations, and transference-focused psychotherapies.

The concept of transference and the use of transference interpretations in psychotherapy have been highly controversial topics garnering frequent attention both within psychoanalysis and across multiple orientations of psychotherapy. In this article, we review the empirical evidence as it bears on this controversy and discuss the implications of the evidence for psychoanalysis, psychodynamic ps...

Incestuous failure. Studies of transference phenomena with young psychotic patients and their mothers.

Measuring fMRI reliability with the intra-class correlation coefficient

The intra-class class correlation coefficient (ICC) is a prominent statistic to measure test-retest reliability of fMRI data. It can be used to address the question of whether regions of high group activation in a first scan session will show preserved subject differentiability in a second session. With this purpose, we present a method that extends voxel-wise ICC analysis. We show that voxels ...