Effects of attention control and forewarning on the activation and monitoring of experimentally induced false memories in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm were investigated in a young adult sample (N=77). We found that reducing the degree of attention during encoding led to a decrease in veridical recall and an increase in non-presented critical lure intrusions. This effect could not be co...

Recent research has explored age-related differences in multiple areas of cognitive functioning using fMRI, PET, and SPECT. However, because these studies used different tasks, subjects, and methods, little is known about whether the results of these studies are generalizable or repeatable. The present study replicated a previous study [Psychol. Aging 17 (2002) 56] using the same Go/No-go task ...

In the present study, we examined the impacts of participant age and confederate age on social memory processes. During a collaborative recall phase, young and older adult participants were exposed to the erroneous memory reports of a young or an older adult confederate. On a subsequent individual recall test, young and older adult participants were equally likely to incorporate the confederate...

Perceived age is a psychosocial factor that can influence both with whom and how we choose to interact socially. Though intuition tells us that a smile makes us look younger, surprisingly little empirical evidence exists to explain how age-irrelevant emotional expressions bias the subjective decision threshold for age. We examined the role that emotional expression plays in the process of judgi...

To simulate the effects of acute psychological stress, the effects of stressful computer game in young adult subjects were assessed by various physiological, psychological and biochemical parameters. The results showed a significant increase in the physiological and psychological markers of stress. It is concluded from these results that computer game can be used as an acute laboratory psycholo...

Because of the longevity of children diagnosed with chronic illness, many adult institutions are now seeing an influx of adolescents with chronic illnesses. An urgent need exists to educate adult care nurses on adolescent development, childhood chronic illness, and techniques to guide young adult patients through illness and hospitalization.This article describes the development of an education...

background and objective: varicella is a benign childhood infection with considerable complication in none immune adults. the aim of this study was to survey varicella zoster virus (vzv) seroepidemiology in children, adolescents and medical students in children medical center, tehran, iran. material and methods: in this cross sectional study, serum sample of children, adolescents 10 to 18 years...

The outcomes of school-based counseling incorporating the Partners for Change Outcome Monitoring System (PCOMS) were evaluated using a cohort design, with multilevel modeling to identify predictors of change. Participants were 288 7-11 year olds experiencing social, emotional or behavioral difficulties. The intervention was associated with significant reductions in psychological distress, with ...

Good nutritional practices are important for exercise performance and health during all ages. Athletes and especially growing children engaged in heavy training have higher energy and nutrient requirements compared to their non-active counterparts. Scientific understanding of sports nutrition for the young athlete is lacking behind the growing number of young athletes engaged in sports. Most of...

background and aim: hearing impaired students experience binaural hearing like normal peers and school age is challenging time for using dichotic listening. lack of research was found on relationship of persian hearing impair­ed children with central auditory processing (cap). one of the aims of this study was a comparison between persian dichotic digit test (ddt) score in children with mild an...