Cognition Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Cognition, including details on psychology, neuroscience, memory, brain theory.

Volume 2 (2006), Issue 1 (January)

1. Effects of testosterone on cognitive and brain aging in elderly men.
   Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1055: 80-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. A double-blind sham controlled study of right prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): therapeutic and cognitive effect in medication free unipolar depression during 4 weeks.
   Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 30(1): 126-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Cognitive evaluation of disease-modifying efficacy of galantamine and memantine in the APP23 model.
   Eur Neuropsychopharmacol, 16(1): 59-69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Use of hippocampal and amygdalar volumes on magnetic resonance imaging to predict dementia in cognitively intact elderly people.
   Arch Gen Psychiatry, 63(1): 57-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Reproductive period and cognitive function in a representative sample of naturally postmenopausal women aged 60-64 years.
   Climacteric, 8(4): 380-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The importance of handwriting speed in adult writing.
   Dev Neuropsychol, 29(1): 197-216. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Clinical management of chronic nightmares: imagery rehearsal therapy.
   Behav Sleep Med, 4(1): 45-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Effects of a structured problem-solving procedure on pre-sleep cognitive arousal in college students with insomnia.
   Behav Sleep Med, 4(1): 13-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Sensitivity and specificity of various digit span scores in the detection of suspect effort.
   Clin Neuropsychol, 20(1): 145-59. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. The effect of oxygen administration on visuospatial cognitive performance: time course data analysis of fMRI.
    Int J Neurosci, 116(2): 177-89. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Dhea supplementation and cognition in postmenopausal women.
    Int J Neurosci, 116(2): 141-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Interactions among the imagination, expertise reversal, and element interactivity effects.
    J Exp Psychol Appl, 11(4): 266-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Information about a layperson's knowledge supports experts in giving effective and efficient online advice to laypersons.
    J Exp Psychol Appl, 11(4): 219-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Defensive pride and consensus: strength in imaginary numbers.
    J Pers Soc Psychol, 89(6): 978-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Establishing a causal chain: why experiments are often more effective than mediational analyses in examining psychological processes.
    J Pers Soc Psychol, 89(6): 845-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Randomized controlled trial of the cognitive side-effects of magnetic seizure therapy (MST) and electroconvulsive shock (ECS).
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 9(1): 1-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Role of cognitive function in assessing informed consent for endoscopy.
    Postgrad Med J, 82(963): 65-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Transient improvement in cognitive function and synaptic plasticity in rats following cancer chemotherapy.
    Clin Cancer Res, 12(1): 198-205. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Cognitive function is not impaired in people with a long history of migraine: a blinded study.
    Cephalalgia, 26(1): 74-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Distance cognition in virtual environmental space: further investigations to clarify the route-angularity effect.
    Psychol Res, 70(1): 43-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Children can solve Bayesian problems: the role of representation in mental computation.
    Cognition, 98(3): 287-308. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Numerical order and quantity processing in number comparison.
    Cognition, 98(3): 273-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Why is that? Structural prediction and ambiguity resolution in a very large corpus of English sentences.
    Cognition, 98(3): 245-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Folate and the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase 677C-->T mutation correlate with cognitive performance.
    Neurobiol Aging, 27(2): 334-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Antimuscarinic drugs for overactive bladder and their potential effects on cognitive function in older patients.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 53(12): 2195-201. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Effect of cataract surgery on cognitive function in older adults.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 53(12): 2140-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Glycated hemoglobin levels and intellectual activity in an aged population.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 53(12): 2128-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain signals between physically and sensory isolated subjects.
    J Altern Complement Med, 11(6): 955-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Cognitive and memory effects of the new antiepileptic drugs.
    Epilepsy Res, 68(1): 63-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Seizure anticipation, states of consciousness and marginal predictability in temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Epilepsy Res, 68(1): 9-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. A metric for the cognitive map: found at last?
    Trends Cogn Sci, 10(1): 1-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Anaemia increases the risk of dementia in cognitively intact elderly.
    Neurobiol Aging, 27(2): 278-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Oscillatory EEG correlates of episodic trace decay.
    Cereb Cortex, 16(2): 280-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Imagery-induced cortical excitability changes in stroke: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study.
    Cereb Cortex, 16(2): 247-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Cognitive evaluation of neurologically asymptomatic boys with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy.
    Arch Neurol, 63(1): 69-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Variation in the readability of items within surveys.
    Am J Med Qual, 21(1): 49-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. The relationship among insight, cognitive function of patients with schizophrenia and their relatives' perception.
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 59(6): 657-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Evaluation of the cognitive, psychomotor and pharmacokinetic profiles of rupatadine, hydroxyzine and cetirizine, in combination with alcohol, in healthy volunteers.
    Hum Psychopharmacol, 21(1): 13-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Ginkgo biloba: no robust effect on cognitive abilities or mood in healthy young or older adults.
    Hum Psychopharmacol, 21(1): 27-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Bromocriptine in traumatic brain injury.
    Brain Inj, 20(1): 111-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Positive relationships between public awareness activity and recognition of the impacts of depression in Australia.
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry, 40(1): 55-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Changes in depression awareness and attitudes in Australia: the impact of beyondblue: the national depression initiative.
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry, 40(1): 42-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Gender-specific cerebral activation during cognitive tasks using functional MRI: comparison of women in mid-luteal phase and men.
    Neuroradiology, 48(1): 14-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Effects of radiofrequency radiation emitted by cellular telephones on the cognitive functions of humans.
    Bioelectromagnetics, 27(2): 119-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Rewarding properties of visual stimuli.
    Exp Brain Res, 168(4): 541-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Death as a transformation of wholeness: an "aha" experience of health as expanding consciousness.
    Nurs Sci Q, 19(1): 57-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Feeling respected: a Parse method study.
    Nurs Sci Q, 19(1): 51-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Cognitive functioning as a predictor of functional disability in later life.
    Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 14(1): 36-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Infant motor development is associated with adult cognitive categorisation in a longitudinal birth cohort study.
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 47(1): 25-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Hippocampal volume and cognitive performance in long-standing Type 1 diabetic patients without macrovascular complications.
    Diabet Med, 23(1): 32-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Improvement and generalization of arm motor performance through motor imagery practice.
    Neuroscience, 137(3): 761-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Noradrenergic modulation of cognitive function in rat medial prefrontal cortex as measured by attentional set shifting capability.
    Neuroscience, 137(3): 1039-49. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Neural representations of two-digit numbers: a parametric fMRI study.
    Neuroimage, 29(2): 358-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. The effects of noxious heat, auditory stimulation, a cognitive task, and time on task on pain perception and performance accuracy in healthy volunteers: a new experimental model.
    Pain, 120(1): 155-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Neuroligins and neurexins: linking cell adhesion, synapse formation and cognitive function.
    Trends Neurosci, 29(1): 21-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Single-neuron theory of consciousness.
    J Theor Biol, 238(3): 704-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Cognitive processing in Chinese literate and illiterate subjects: an fMRI study.
    Hum Brain Mapp, 27(2): 144-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Confirmatory factor analysis of a Spanish version of the sex fantasy questionnaire: assessing gender differences.
    J Sex Marital Ther, 32(2): 137-59. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Neural mechanisms of cognitive control: an integrative model of stroop task performance and FMRI data.
    J Cogn Neurosci, 18(1): 22-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Exploiting human anatomical variability as a link between genome and cognome.
    Genes Brain Behav, 5: 64-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Investigating cognitive genetics and its implications for the treatment of cognitive deficit.
    Genes Brain Behav, 5: 44-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Influence and interactions of cathepsin D, HLA-DRB1 and APOE on cognitive abilities in an older non-demented population.
    Genes Brain Behav, 5: 23-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Cognitive functions evaluated by P300 and visual and auditory number assays in children with childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (CEOP).
    Seizure, 15(1): 22-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Localization of tactile stimuli depends on conscious detection.
    J Neurosci, 26(3): 948-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Predicting driving cessation over 5 years in older adults: psychological well-being and cognitive competence are stronger predictors than physical health.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(1): 121-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Cognitive function in normal-weight, overweight, and obese older adults: an analysis of the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly cohort.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(1): 97-103. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. The relationship between older adults' knowledge of their drug coverage and medication cost problems.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(1): 91-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Can high-risk older drivers be identified through performance-based measures in a Department of Motor Vehicles setting?
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(1): 77-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Cognitive, extrapyramidal, and magnetic resonance imaging predictors of functional impairment in nondemented older community dwellers: the Sydney Older Person Study.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(1): 3-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. The formation of cognitive maps of adjacent environments: evidence from the head direction cell system.
    Behav Neurosci, 119(6): 1511-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Cortico-striatal contributions to category learning: dissociating the verbal and implicit systems.
    Behav Neurosci, 119(6): 1438-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Goal-directed memory: the role of cognitive control in older adults' emotional memory.
    Psychol Aging, 20(4): 554-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Developmental and individual differences in pure numerical estimation.
    Dev Psychol, 42(1): 189-201. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Contingency, imitation, and affect sharing: Foundations of infants' social awareness.
    Dev Psychol, 42(1): 132-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Picking up speed in understanding: Speech processing efficiency and vocabulary growth across the 2nd year.
    Dev Psychol, 42(1): 98-116. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Preschool children's mathematical knowledge: The effect of teacher "math talk.".
    Dev Psychol, 42(1): 59-69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Core knowledge of geometry in an Amazonian indigene group.
    Science, 311(5759): 381-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. Memories of uncertain origin: dreamt or real?
    Memory, 14(1): 87-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. Adult recollections of earliest childhood dreams: a cross-cultural study.
    Memory, 14(1): 57-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. The influence of birth weight and socioeconomic position on cognitive development: Does the early home and learning environment modify their effects?
    J Pediatr, 148(1): 54-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. Subjective preference for lamotrigine or topiramate in healthy volunteers: relationship to cognitive and behavioral functioning.
    Epilepsy Behav, 8(1): 181-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. Determining empirically based self-reported cognitive change: development of reliable change indices and standardized regression-based change norms for the multiple abilities self-report questionnaire in an epilepsy sample.
    Epilepsy Behav, 8(1): 239-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. Older adults with epilepsy demonstrate cognitive impairments compared with patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment.
    Epilepsy Behav, 8(1): 161-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
84. Neurocognitive effects of phenobarbital discontinuation in epileptic children.
    Epilepsy Behav, 8(1): 145-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
85. Cognitive and behavioral effects of nocturnal epileptiform discharges in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes.
    Epilepsy Behav, 8(1): 56-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
86. Social cognition and epilepsy surgery.
    Epilepsy Behav, 8(1): 71-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
87. Lateral somatotopic organization during imagined and prepared movements.
    J Neurophysiol, 95(2): 811-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
88. Effect of micronutrient supplement on health and nutritional status of schoolchildren: mental function.
    Nutrition, 22(1): S26-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
89. Effect of micronutrient supplement on health and nutritional status of schoolchildren: study design.
    Nutrition, 22(1): S1-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
90. Safety of sports participation in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators: a survey of heart rhythm society members.
    J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol, 17(1): 11-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
91. Nightmares: from anxiety symptom to sleep disorder.
    Sleep Med Rev, 10(1): 19-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
92. Multifractality of decomposed EEG during imaginary and real visual-motor tracking.
    Biol Cybern, 94(2): 149-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
93. Perceptions of teachers and parents on the cognitive functioning of children with severe mental disability and children with congenital deafblindness.
    Int J Rehabil Res, 29(1): 9-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
94. Effects of changes in hemoglobin level on quality of life and cognitive function in inflammatory bowel disease patients.
    Inflamm Bowel Dis, 12(2): 123-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
95. Changes in prognostic awareness among seriously ill older persons and their caregivers.
    J Palliat Med, 9(1): 61-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
96. The paranoid optimist: an integrative evolutionary model of cognitive biases.
    Pers Soc Psychol Rev, 10(1): 47-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
97. Contingency awareness in human aversive conditioning involves the middle frontal gyrus.
    Neuroimage, 29(3): 1007-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
98. The development of sustained and transient neural activity.
    Neuroimage, 29(3): 812-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
99. Selective increase of cortical thickness in high-performing elderly--structural indices of optimal cognitive aging.
    Neuroimage, 29(3): 984-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
100. The effect of education and occupational complexity on rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients.
     J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 12(1): 147-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
101. A metacognitive contextual intervention to enhance error awareness and functional outcome following traumatic brain injury: a single-case experimental design.
     J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 12(1): 54-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
102. Decreased corpus callosum size in sickle cell disease: relationship with cerebral infarcts and cognitive functioning.
     J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 12(1): 24-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
103. Neurocognitive function in patients with ventricular assist devices: a comparison of pulsatile and continuous blood flow devices.
     ASAIO J, 52(1): 24-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
104. Prefrontal set activity predicts rule-specific neural processing during subsequent cognitive performance.
     J Neurosci, 26(4): 1211-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
105. Goal representation in human anterior intraparietal sulcus.
     J Neurosci, 26(4): 1133-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
106. Same/different abstract-concept learning by pigeons.
     J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 32(1): 80-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
107. Moral awareness and ethical predispositions: investigating the role of individual differences in the recognition of moral issues.
     J Appl Psychol, 91(1): 233-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
108. Toward a better understanding of psychological contract breach: a study of customer service employees.
     J Appl Psychol, 91(1): 166-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
109. Neurocognitive function in adults with growth hormone deficiency.
     Horm Res, 64: 109-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
110. Cognitive function in growth hormone deficiency and growth hormone replacement.
     Horm Res, 64: 100-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
111. Effects of growth hormone treatment on cognitive function and head circumference in children born small for gestational age.
     Horm Res, 64: 95-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
112. Effects of growth hormone on cognitive function.
     Horm Res, 64: 89-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
113. Neurocognitive development in children experiencing intrauterine growth retardation and born small for gestational age: pathological, constitutional and therapeutic pathways.
     Horm Res, 64: 83-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
114. Measuring social-cognitive functions in children with somatotropic axis dysfunction.
     Horm Res, 64: 73-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
115. The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health.
     J Psychosom Res, 60(2): 113-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
116. Stability, reliability and consistency of the compositions of brain oscillations.
     Int J Psychophysiol, 59(2): 116-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
117. The Stroop color-word test: influence of age, sex, and education; and normative data for a large sample across the adult age range.
     Assessment, 13(1): 62-79. [Abstract] [Full-text]
118. Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness.
     Assessment, 13(1): 27-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
119. Increasing honest responding on cognitive distortions in child molesters: the bogus pipeline procedure.
     J Interpers Violence, 21(3): 358-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
120. Comprehension: an overlooked component in augmented language development.
     Disabil Rehabil, 28(3): 159-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
121. Principled and statistical connections in common sense conception.
     Cognition, 99(1): 73-112. [Abstract] [Full-text]
122. Covariation and quantifier polarity: what determines causal attribution in vignettes?
     Cognition, 99(1): 35-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
123. The search for new ways to change implicit alcohol-related cognitions in heavy drinkers.
     Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 30(2): 320-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
124. Neural correlates of human wayfinding in stroke patients.
     Brain Res, 1067(1): 229-38. [Abstract] [Full-text]
125. Evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment with erythropoietin on anemia, cognitive functioning and functions studied by comprehensive geriatric assessment in elderly cancer patients with anemia related to cancer chemotherapy.
     Crit Rev Oncol Hematol, 57(2): 175-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
126. What does an intermediate success rate mean? An analysis of a Piagetian liquid conservation task in the great apes.
     Cognition, 99(1): 53-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
127. Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading.
     J Med Ethics, 32(2): 84-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
128. The development of landmark and beacon use in young children: evidence from a touchscreen search task.
     Dev Sci, 9(1): 108-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
129. Germs and angels: the role of testimony in young children's ontology.
     Dev Sci, 9(1): 76-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
130. How fantasy benefits young children's understanding of pretense.
     Dev Sci, 9(1): 63-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
131. Toddler subtraction with large sets: further evidence for an analog-magnitude representation of number.
     Dev Sci, 9(1): 33-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
132. Why girls say 'holded' more than boys.
     Dev Sci, 9(1): 21-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
133. A shift from diffuse to focal cortical activity with development.
     Dev Sci, 9(1): 1-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
134. Anxiety and cognition in female histidine decarboxylase knockout (Hdc(-/-)) mice.
     Behav Brain Res, 168(1): 92-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
135. Does threatening imagery sensitize distress during contaminant exposure?
     Behav Res Ther, 44(3): 395-413. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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