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Title: ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE TRAINING IN PEOPLE WITH MILD TO MODERATE DEMENTIA
Author: Rouse, Hillary
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Cognitive psychology, Gerontology
Description: The main goal is to see how computer game play experiences can affect cognitive, social, behavioral, and psychological functioning in a population of older adults with mild-to-moderate dementia. Participants engaged in various cognitive games from...

Title: Cognitive, affective, and personality predictors of confirmatory political information seeking
Author: Brunswick, Michael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Confirmation bias is the phenomenon where an individual seeks, navigates, and processes information in ways to reinforce previously held beliefs or attitudes. Contentious political climates exacerbate effects of confirmatory information seeking, w...

Title: Exploring the Neurocorrelates of Virtual Reality Immersion Using EEG Frequency Decomposition Analysis
Author: Granson, Matthew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Neurosciences
Description: Immersion is a psychological state resulting in the sensation of being enveloped in another reality or environment and is commonly experienced while using interactive media such as videogames. The goals of the present thesis project were to (a) te...

Title: Gaze-Following, Social Monitoring, and Joint Attention in the Great Apes: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Communication and Potential Implications for Cognition
Author: Downing, Danay
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Animal behavior, Physical anthropology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Previous experimental studies indicate that gaze-following is a reliable indicator of advanced cognitive capacity in social primates. Group-living primates, in particular, must navigate complex social relationships among group members and other co...

Title: Improving Improv: Effects of Interpersonal Coordination on Music Improvisation
Author: Williams, Tevin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Previous research has shown that rigidity in interpersonal coordination (too muchalignment) is negatively associated with creativity as measured by ratings of aesthetic appeal. In this study, we examine the signatures of music improvisation follow...

Title: Indoor Air Quality, Sleep Quality and Next-Day Cognitive Performance
Author: Zendels, Philip
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Atmospheric science, Cognitive psychology
Description: Sleep is important for numerous regulatory processes of health and cognition and sleep impairments can lead to impairments in these outcomes. Sleep and breathing disorders such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) have been well documented in impairin...

Title: The influence of emotion regulation on psychological distress and physiological functioning following a romantic breakup
Author: Roos, Lydia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Psychophysiology
Description: Being in a romantic relationship confers better psychological wellbeing and physical health than being single; however, relationship dissolution can be psychologically stressful, and separation and divorce have been linked to an array of poor heal...