Research on age-related cognitive change traditionally focuses on either development or aging, where development ends with adulthood and aging begins around 55 years. This approach ignores age-related changes during the 35 years in-between, implying that this period is uninformative. Here we investigated face recognition as an ability that may mature late relative to other abilities. Using data...

The objective of our study was to establish whether rectal temperature recordings in humans could be replaced by a non-invasive skin temperature sensor combined with a heat flux sensor (Double Sensor) located at the forehead to monitor core body temperature changes due to circadian rhythms. Rectal and Double Sensor data were collected continuously for 24h in seven men undertaking strict head-do...

OBJECTIVE The current study examined a 5-year cognitive change in untrained African American and White participants from the Advanced Cognitive Training in Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study. METHOD Five-year trajectories of memory, reasoning, visual processing speed/useful field of view, digit-symbol substitution, and vocabulary were investigated. Education, health, gender, age, an...

Using three waves of data, we assessed the relationships between endorsement of religious values, some of the major personality dimensions, and social and emotional well-being amongst teenagers. Participants were 784 high school students at Time 1 (382 males and 394 females; 8 did not indicate their gender) and 563 provided data at each of Time 1, Time 2 and Time 3. We examined the impact of ch...

Rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus rnykiss ) retain the majority of lactate produced during exhaustive exercise within the white muscle. Previous studies have suggested that this retention is partiaiiy via a reuptake of released lactate. The purpose of this work was to study lactate uptake using trout white muscle sarcolemmai vesicles. Through modifications to the original mammalian giant vesicle tec...

In the paper Children’s Books: from ABCs to Pop-ups, I reconstruct development of published offerings for pre-schoolers, both in Italy and abroad, across nineteenth twentieth centuries. The rich varied documentation held at Turin’s school museum allows us analyse this kind source multiple levels: graphics (dimensions, colours, font type) messages directed children calibrated their social class;...

We, as normal people, have access to a potent communication tool, which is sound. Although we can continuously gather, analyse, and interpret sounds thanks our sense of hearing, it be challenging for people with hearing impairment perceive their surroundings through Also known PWHI (People Hearing Impairment). Auditory/phonic one the most prevailing sensory deficits in humans at present. Fortun...

Previous genetic analyses have demonstrated that two phonic types of one of the most common European bats, the Common pipistrelle, belong to distinct species, although they are almost identical morphologically (45 kHz Pipistrellus pipistrellus and 55 kHz Pipistrellus pygmaeus). To reconstruct the history of the species complex and explain the codistribution of both forms in Europe and the Medit...

Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a neurologic condition characterized by both motor and phonic tics and is typically associated with psychiatric comorbidities, including obsessive-compulsive disorder/behavior and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and can be psychologically and socially debilitating. It is considered a disorder of the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuitry, as suggested b...

Tics are defined, rather vaguely, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) nosology as a recurrent, non-rhythmic series of movements (of a non-voluntary nature) in one or several muscle groups. Tics are usually divided into simple and complex tics of a motor, sensory, phonic or cognitive nature. In practice, simple tics have t...