background and aims: internet addiction is one of the problems emerged with the development of technology. considering the potential negative effects of internet addiction on health, the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of internet addiction in university students in ilam, west of iran, in 2014. methods:in this cross– sectional study, 1066 university students in both public and ...

Studies using the single trial Stroop task consistently reveal increased reaction time (RT) facilitation effects among schizophrenia patients. One possible mechanism underlying this effect is increased automatic spreading activation in semantic networks. The current study was designed to test this hypothesis. We administered the Stroop task and two semantic priming tasks to the same subjects. P...

background: visualattention is known as acritical base for learning.thepurpose of the present study was to design, develop and evaluate the test-retest and internal consistency reliability as well as face, content and convergent validity of thecomputer- based selective visual attention test (sevat) for healthy first-grade school children.   methods :in thefirst phase of this study,the computer-...

El ajedrez ha demostrado promover el desarrollo de habilidades intelectuales y emocionales en quienes lo practican. Por su parte, la inhibición cognitiva forma parte las denominadas Funciones Ejecutivas, mismas que tienen lugar corteza prefrontal del cerebro. La presente investigación tuvo por objetivo determinar diferencias respecto al nivel habilidad entre alumnos practican no ajedrez. paradi...