BACKGROUND Controlled induced hypotension guarantees less blood loss and better visibility of the surgical site. The impact of hypotension on post-operative cognitive functions is still being discussed. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of controlled induced hypotension on the cognitive functions of patients undergoing functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). MATERIAL...

Three studies investigated the veracity of a resource depletion account of the impairment of inhibitory task performance after interracial contact. White individuals engaged in either an interracial or same-race interaction, then completed an ostensibly unrelated Stroop color-naming test. In each study, the self-regulatory demands of the interaction were either increased (Study 1) or decreased ...

For the last 80 years, the Stroop task has been used to test theories of attention and cognitive control and it has been applied in many clinical settings. Most theories posit that the overwhelming power of written words overcomes strict instructions to focus on print color and ignore the word. Recent evidence suggests that trials in the Stroop task could in fact be a mixture of reading trials ...

The process of learning symbolic Arabic digits in early childhood requires that magnitude and spatial information integrates with the concept of symbolic digits. Previous research has separately investigated the development of automatic access to magnitude and spatial information from symbolic digits. However, developmental trajectories of symbolic number knowledge cannot be fully understood wh...

this paper is based on a research carried out for evaluation of addict rehabilitation centers in iran. the research has been conducted by application of survey method, questionnaire technique and interview with help seekers (addicts) in qarchak varamin rehabilitation and de-addicion center in south- eastern of tehran. this study has been carried out in two stages of pre-treatment and rehabilita...

Previous research on the effect of response set size on the interference resulting from processing in the Stroop task – a paradigmatic test of executive control – brought equivocal conclusions. In the present paper, we analyze what predictions regarding this effect should be drawn from the most influential computational models of the Stroop as well as from our own new model. Then we test these ...