Many psychiatric disorders emerge during adolescence. The study of executive functions in animal models of these disorders critically requires short-duration tasks measuring these functions before the animal ages. Here, a novel 5-choice serial reaction time task (5-CSRTT) protocol is presented, to measure attention and impulsivity within one week, without scheduled food deprivation and with lit...

This article presents a cognitive model of distraction and mind-wandering that combines formalizes several existing theories. It assumes task-related goals opportunities for are continuously in competition mental resources. If the goal does not need particular resource at moment, likelihood it is captured by high. We applied this to explain results three experiments differ from each other numbe...

Reactivation of hippocampal place cell sequences during behavioral immobility and rest has been linked with both memory consolidation and navigational planning. Yet it remains to be investigated whether these functions are temporally segregated, occurring during different behavioral states. During a self-paced spatial task, awake hippocampal replay occurring either immediately before movement t...

This paper reviews software design guidelines from the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and empirical results from the field of vocabulary acquisition. We categorize the empirical evidence in terms of three key aspects of instructional software for vocabulary teaching: task type, media and scheduling. We describe how design of an online adaptive vocabulary teaching system inc...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability evidence for the Omron Healthcare HJ-151 and HJ-720ITC pedometers for prescribed and self-paced walking. METHODS A total of 47 adults (24 males, 23 females; age = 24 +/- 4.4 yr.; body mass index = 25.7 +/- 4.2 kg x m(-2)) participated in this study. Under prescribed walking conditions, 34 participants completed thre...

Most existing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) detect specific mental activity in a so-called synchronous paradigm. Unlike synchronous systems which are operational at specific system-defined periods, self-paced (asynchronous) interfaces have the advantage of being operational at all times. The low-frequency asynchronous switch design (LF-ASD) is a 2-state self-paced BCI that detects the presen...

Abstract. The purpose of this study is to examine whether online text vowelization of words in context facilitates reading in Hebrew, which is a deep orthography language. The study compares the effect of vowelization on reading among native and non-native Hebrew speakers. Participants will perform a self-paced reading cumulative presentation (Marinis, 2003) task, that includes a 2 (voweled/non...