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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: Aviatar- An Augmented Reality System to Improve Pilot Performance for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Author: Abbott, Robert
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Aerospace engineering, Cognitive psychology
Description: In the modern airspace, small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) such as drones are becoming increasingly popular with both amateur enthusiasts as well as professional pilots. In the three years following the initiation of the small drone registratio...

Title: Cognitive Control of Attention, Emotion, and Memory: An ERP Study
Author: Eyer, Joshua
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: Unwanted retrieval of negative memories can be problematic for many clinical populations. The Think/No-Think (T/NT) task (Anderson & Green, 2001) is a new paradigm for studying cognitive control during cued recall. In this task participants view a...

Title: Cognitive biases in decision-making under uncertainty with interactive data visualizations
Author: Wesslen, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology, Information science
Description: In this thesis, we hypothesize that data visualization users are subject to systematic errors, or cognitive biases, in decision-making under uncertainty. Based on research from psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science, we design fiv...

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: 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: FROM OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION TO OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION: A CONGRUENCE PERSPECTIVE OF OPPORTUNITY BELIEF FORMATION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Entrepreneurship
Description: Beliefs about the existence and attractiveness of opportunities underpin entrepreneurial action. Belief formation is broken into two distinct phases. Third-person opportunity beliefs (i.e., an opportunity for someone) form as a result of the oppor...

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: 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: Measuring the Effects of Chart Embellishments to Better Understand our Perception of Charts
Author: Skau, Drew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: News organizations, non-profits, and even government agencies use information graphics to advertise and communicate their messages. Data visualizations are used heavily in these graphics, but they also often incorporate unusual design elements to ...

Title: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
Author: Bickart, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
Description: U.S. schools teach predominately to the analytical, left-brain, which has foundations in behaviorism, and uses a mechanistic paradigm that influences epistemic beliefs of how learning takes place. This result is that learning is impeded. Using dis...

Title: Tabletop Roleplaying Strucutre for SImulating Active-Shooter Events
Author: Hawkins, M
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive psychology
Description: This research presents a structure based on tabletop roleplaying forcreating better computational models for simulating active-shooterevents. Active-shooter events involve one or more people activelytrying to kill others inside a populated and con...

Title: Task goals constrain interpersonal coordination : evidence from the alignment of speech in dialogues
Author: Sulkunte, Niyathi
Date Created: 2021, 2021, 2021
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Cognitive styles

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...

Title: The power of our inner voice: The predictive validity of self-talk
Author: Uhrich, Benjamin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial, Cognitive psychology
Description: Self-talk, or verbalized cognition, has been a focal construct of empirical studies in sports and clinical psychology for decades, but has only recently become of interest to organizational researchers. In the current study, we investigated the re...

Title: Toward a better understanding of viewers' perceptions of tag clouds: relative size judgment
Author: Dhou, Khaldoon
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: This dissertation focuses on viewers' perception of the relative size of words presented in tag clouds. A tag cloud is a representation of the word content of a source document where the relative frequency, or importance, of the keywords (i.e., ta...

Title: Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Uncertainty and Emotional Content on Users' Decision-making About Misinformation
Author: Karduni, Alireza
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Cognitive psychology
Description: Misinformation on social media is a phenomenon with considerable impacts on our societies. To effectively mitigate its effects, we need to employ a cross-disciplinary effort to holistically address the critical elements involved in the process, in...

Title: Understanding the Structure of Information Visualization Through Visual Metaphors
Author: Ziemkiewicz, Caroline
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: Information visualization is an increasingly widespread way to present and analyze complex data, but there is much we still do not know about how people understand visually presented information. Every visualization contains certain assumptions ab...