The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a cognitive screening tool used in clinical and research settings. Despite its role on the assessment of global cognitive functioning, the specific cognitive components required for test performance are still unclear. We aim to assess the role of executive functioning, global cognitive status, visuospatial abilities, and semantic knowledge on Shulman's CDT perfor...

neuropsychological studies have demonstrated that preclinical dementia accompanies a decreasing trend in cognitive state a few years prior to clinical diagnosis. sudden decline in episodic memory and semantic knowledge have been found to have the capability to differentiate patients in preclinical state of dementia from those experiencing normal aging. in addition, decline in episodic memory is...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on martial adjustmentand life quality of couples. method: this experimental study had been done by pre-test and post-test method, with control group. the sample population included students who visited urmia psychological and counseling service clinics in the second half of the year 2013 to receive pr...

introduction: computer games have attracted remarkable attentions in general publics with different cultures and their effects are subject of research by cognitive neuroscientists. in the present study, possible effects of the game fifa 2015 on cognitive performance, hormonal levels, and electroencephalographic (eeg) signals were evaluated in young male volunteers. methods: thirty two subjects ...

the present study examined the effect of grouped meta-cognitive therapy on meta-cognitive beliefs of patients' anxieties suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. this research is a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group in which two groups of experiment and control are used. the present study population includes all state universities, islamic azad uni...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were collected while students worked with a tutoring system that taught an algebra isomorph. A cognitive model predicted the distribution of solution times from measures of problem complexity. Separately, a linear discriminant analysis used fMRI data to predict whether or not students were engaged in problem solving. A hidden Markov algorithm me...