The relevance of the research is that in general psychology class positive mental states hasn't been studied properly. goal to identify frequently experienced everyday and stressful situations educational professional training students, their relationship structural functional organization. 114 students participated research, aged 18 25 years (85 % women, Me=21; 15 men, Me=22.5). Hypothesis - t...

The evolutionary origins of human language are obscured by the scarcity of essential linguistic characteristics in non-human primate communication systems. Volitional control of vocal utterances is one such indispensable feature of language. We investigated the ability of two monkeys to volitionally utter species-specific calls over many years. Both monkeys reliably vocalized on command during ...

The objective of this investigation was to measure subtle disturbances in information processing after mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) for spatially presented stimuli as compared to a sample of control participants. Participants completed a temporal order judgment task requiring the correct identification of the order of two asynchronously presented stimuli that were precued either by a perip...

This paper presents development of two different biosignal based computer interfaces for people with motor disabilities: 1) electromyography (EMG)-based computer interface (ECI) and 2) hybrid EMG-based computer interface (HECI). The ECI made both movements of a cursor and clicking from muscle contractions induced by volitional wrist movements. On the other hand, the HECI made movements of a cur...

The eyes never cease to move: ballistic saccades quickly turn the gaze toward peripheral targets, whereas smooth pursuit maintains moving targets on the fovea where visual acuity is best. Despite the oculomotor system being endowed with exquisite motor abilities, any attempt to generate smooth eye movements against a static background results in saccadic eye movements. Although exceptions to th...

Personality measures were predicted to be susceptible to response distortion above and beyond volitional strategies of impression management. A 2 (Instruction Set) x 2 (Personality Feedback) x 2 (Mortality Salience) factorial design addressed social desirability biases in responding to personality measures. There were significant changes in all measures due to volitional (Fake Good) strategies....

Investigation of volitional animal models of resistance training has been instrumental in our understanding of adaptive training. However, these studies have lacked reactive force measurements, a precise performance measure, and morphological analysis at a distinct phase of training - when initial strength gains precede muscle hypertrophy. Our aim was to expose rats to one month of training (70...

Respiratory muscle testing is often limited to noninvasive volitional tests such as vital capacity and maximal static pressures. We report the case of a 12-year-old boy with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) in whom invasive and non-volitional respiratory muscle tests showed an elective diaphragmatic dysfunction with the preservation of expiratory muscle strength. This finding, coupled with a...