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'Me', 'My', 'Mine': Maternal Mental State Talk, Children's Social Understanding and the Role of the Self-Concept
This longitudinal study assessed the role of children’s self-concept in the relation between maternal mental state talk and children’s later social understanding as measured by their mental state vocabulary and performance ...
Is a Picture Worth A Thousand Words? The Clinical Use of Children's Drawings.
Clinicians who work with children commonly use drawing in their assessment interviews. Drawing in clinical interviews is usually used in one of two ways; as a projective tool, where aspects of a child’s drawing are interpreted ...
The Acute Impact of Risk Information for Schizophrenia: Ethical Implications of Psychometric Screening
Background: In the psychometric high-risk paradigm, contrary to the principle of informed consent, participants are not usually informed of their risk status. One argument for this nondisclosure is that risk information ...
Establishing movement heuristics for voluntary action: Electrophysiological correlates of movement-outcome learning and the sense of agency
Human behaviour is effect-oriented; we perform many different types of movements to obtain and respond to a variety of sensory consequences. In our everyday lives we have the experience of being in control of our movements ...
Prefrontal cortex delay activity: Sample code or reward code?
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) delay activity found in working memory tasks has been said to be a neural correlate of memory. However, similar PFC delay activity has been found in reward tasks. Given that a reward usually follows ...
Examination of an Assessment-Informed Instructional Consultation Process Implemented with Junior Primary School Teachers
Literacy is an enabler within our society (Stanovich, 2000). The majority New Zealand (NZ) children have and are responding favourably to current teaching methods (Wilkinson, 1998). Those who continue to struggle may ...
Perceptual and neural processing of consonance and dissonance in musicians and non-musicians: an ERP study
The concept of consonance and dissonance, which are considered to evoke pleasant and unpleasant emotions is one of the most important fundamental concepts in the theory of music. Some argued that perceiving the consonance ...
The Training and Transfer of Dynamic Decision Making Performance
This study investigated the relationship between the cognitive load experienced during training, cognitive ability and previous electronic gaming experience, and the transfer of performance to a novel situation. The training ...
Pitfalls of Extrinsic Goal Pursuit: Wellbeing, Life Goals, and Self-focused Attention
Past research has shown that extrinsic goal pursuit predicts lower psychological wellbeing and maladaptive behaviours, whereas intrinsic goal pursuit predicts greater wellbeing and less distress. The research presented in ...
More than meets the eye: Co-witness misinformation about a target's appearance can impair target-absent lineup performance
Past research has demonstrated that co-witness misinformation may impair not only eyewitness testimony, but also eyewitness identification (Zajac & Henderson, 2009). The present study aimed to replicate the findings of ...