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ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE TRAINING IN PEOPLE WITH MILD TO MODERATE DEMENTIA
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Author
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Rouse, Hillary
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Social sciences--Research, Cognitive psychology, Gerontology
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Description
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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...
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Aviatar- An Augmented Reality System to Improve Pilot Performance for Unmanned Aerial Systems
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Author
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Abbott, Robert
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Aerospace engineering, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...
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Cognitive biases in decision-making under uncertainty with interactive data visualizations
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Author
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Wesslen, Ryan
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Cognitive psychology, Information science
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Description
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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...
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Improving Improv: Effects of Interpersonal Coordination on Music Improvisation
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Author
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Williams, Tevin
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...
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Individual Facets of Sleep Hygiene as Predictors of Health
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Author
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Zendels, Philip
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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Sleep is an important health behavior that many people struggle with. Sleep Hygiene is a set of behaviors and conditions that promote optimal sleep at night. These include avoiding physiologically arousing situations, avoiding unhealthy eating beh...
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Indoor Air Quality, Sleep Quality and Next-Day Cognitive Performance
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Author
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Zendels, Philip
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Atmospheric science, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...
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THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
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Author
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Bickart, John
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...
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Tabletop Roleplaying Strucutre for SImulating Active-Shooter Events
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Author
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Hawkins, M
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...
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The power of our inner voice: The predictive validity of self-talk
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Author
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Uhrich, Benjamin
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...
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Toward a better understanding of viewers' perceptions of tag clouds: relative size judgment
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Author
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Dhou, Khaldoon
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Understanding the Structure of Information Visualization Through Visual Metaphors
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Author
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Ziemkiewicz, Caroline
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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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...