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 8 (August)

1. Cognitive reserve as a resilience factor against depression after moderate/severe head injury.
   J Neurotrauma, 23(7): 1049-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Importance of adult literacy in understanding health disparities.
   J Gen Intern Med, 21(8): 862-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Low literacy impairs comprehension of prescription drug warning labels.
   J Gen Intern Med, 21(8): 847-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Anatomical differences in the mirror neuron system and social cognition network in autism.
   Cereb Cortex, 16(9): 1276-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Dysfunctional long-range coordination of neural activity during Gestalt perception in schizophrenia.
   J Neurosci, 26(31): 8168-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Neural basis of embodiment: distinct contributions of temporoparietal junction and extrastriate body area.
   J Neurosci, 26(31): 8074-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Will Julia Roberts harm Nicole Kidman? Semantic priming effects during face naming.
   Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester), 59(6): 1134-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Lateralized repetition priming for familiar faces: Evidence for asymmetric interhemispheric cooperation.
   Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester), 59(6): 1117-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Automatic-heuristic and executive-analytic processing during reasoning: Chronometric and dual-task considerations.
   Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester), 59(6): 1070-100. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Exogenous influences on task set activation in task switching.
    Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester), 59(6): 1033-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. What do we know about psycholinguistic effects?
    Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester), 59(6): 977-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Cognitive function and social abilities in patients with schizophrenia: relationship with atypical antipsychotics.
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 60(4): 473-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Accounting for cognitive aging: context processing, inhibition or processing speed?
    Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 13(3): 588-610. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Sex differences in cognition are stable over a 10-year period in adulthood and old age.
    Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 13(3): 574-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The relation of lifetime cognitive activity and lifetime access to resources to late-life cognitive function in older African Americans.
    Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 13(3): 516-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Aging, encoding fluency, and metacognitive monitoring.
    Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 13(3): 458-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Age-related differences in working memory and force control under dual-task conditions.
    Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 13(3): 366-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. The relation of white matter hyperintensities to cognitive performance in the normal old: education matters.
    Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 13(3): 326-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Divergent thinking in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia.
    Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 13(3): 281-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. The effect of the new antiepileptic drug rufinamide on cognitive functions.
    Epilepsia, 47(7): 1153-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Comparison of the cognitive effects of tiagabine and carbamazepine as monotherapy in newly diagnosed adult patients with partial epilepsy: pooled analysis of two long-term, randomized, follow-up studies.
    Epilepsia, 47(7): 1121-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Pharmacotherapeutic treatment of nightmares and insomnia in posttraumatic stress disorder: an overview of the literature.
    Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 502-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Cognitive effects of intravenous hydrocortisone in subjects with PTSD and healthy control subjects.
    Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 410-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. The relationship between cognitive and brain changes in posttraumatic stress disorder.
    Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 80-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Animal memory: episodic-like memory in rats.
    Curr Biol, 16(15): R601-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. A 3-day estrogen treatment improves prefrontal cortex-dependent cognitive function in postmenopausal women.
    Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31(8): 965-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Discriminating imagined from perceived information engages brain areas implicated in schizophrenia.
    Neuroimage, 32(2): 696-703. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Dissociation of neural responses and skin conductance reactions during fear conditioning with and without awareness of stimulus contingencies.
    Neuroimage, 32(2): 761-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Condition-related knowledge among children with spina bifida: longitudinal changes and predictors.
    J Pediatr Psychol, 31(8): 828-39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Cognitive effects of lamotrigine compared with topiramate in patients with epilepsy.
    Neurology, 67(3): 400-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. The amygdala and development of social cognition: theoretical comment on Bauman, Toscano, Mason, Lavenex, and Amaral (2006).
    Behav Neurosci, 120(4): 989-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Comprehensive computerized assessment of cognitive sequelae of a complete 12-16 hour fast.
    Behav Neurosci, 120(4): 804-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Preserved sensitivity to beta2-adrenergic receptor agonists in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and hypoglycemia unawareness.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 91(8): 2878-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Deviant strategy on The Modified Six Elements Test in patients with schizophrenia.
    Clin Neuropsychol, 20(3): 469-79. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Cognitive functioning and everyday problem solving in older adults.
    Clin Neuropsychol, 20(3): 432-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Clinical validation of the General Ability Index--Estimate (GAI-E): estimating premorbid GAI.
    Clin Neuropsychol, 20(3): 365-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Dietary genistein intake and cognitive performance in a multiethnic cohort of midlife women.
    Menopause, 13(4): 621-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Testosterone aromatization and cognition in women: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
    Menopause, 13(4): 600-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Cognitive and clinical predictors of work outcomes in clients with schizophrenia receiving supported employment services: 4-year follow-up.
    Adm Policy Ment Health, 33(5): 598-606. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in abstract state-based inference during decision making in humans.
    J Neurosci, 26(32): 8360-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. An investigation of whether factors associated with short-term attrition change or persist over ten years: data from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS).
    BMC Public Health, 6: 185. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Efficacy of very high dose steroid treatment in a case of Landau-Kleffner syndrome.
    Dev Med Child Neurol, 48(9): 766-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Limb (hand vs. foot) and response conflict have similar effects on event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded during motor imagery and overt execution.
    Eur J Neurosci, 24(2): 635-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Cognitive control of attention in the human brain: insights from orienting attention to mental representations.
    Brain Res, 1105(1): 20-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. The control of attention and actions: current research and future developments.
    Brain Res, 1105(1): 1-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Using advance information in dynamic cognitive control: an ERP study of task-switching.
    Brain Res, 1105(1): 61-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Theory of mind and central coherence in adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome.
    Autism, 10(4): 365-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Investigating the relationship between FMR1 allele length and cognitive ability in children: a subtle effect of the normal allele range on the normal ability range?
    Ann Hum Genet, 70: 555-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Images, frames, and connectionist hierarchies.
    Neural Comput, 18(10): 2293-319. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. A metacognitive approach to "implicit" and "explicit" evaluations: comment on Gawronski and Bodenhausen (2006).
    Psychol Bull, 132(5): 740-4; discussion 745-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Are absences truly generalized seizures or partial seizures originating from or predominantly involving the pre-motor areas? Some clinical and theoretical observations and their implications for seizure classification.
    Epilepsy Res, 70: S141-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Cognitive status, body mass index, and hip fracture in older Hispanic adults.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(8): 1251-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Cognitive and mobility profile of older social dancers.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(8): 1241-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. An 8-year prospective study of the relationship between cognitive performance and falling in very old adults.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 54(8): 1169-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Hypnotic suggestion modulates cognitive conflict: the case of the flanker compatibility effect.
    Psychol Sci, 17(8): 721-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. When memory fails, intuition reigns: midazolam enhances implicit inference in humans.
    Psychol Sci, 17(8): 700-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. It's the thought that counts: specific brain regions for one component of theory of mind.
    Psychol Sci, 17(8): 692-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Learning words and rules: abstract knowledge of word order in early sentence comprehension.
    Psychol Sci, 17(8): 684-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Individual differences in second-language proficiency: does musical ability matter?
    Psychol Sci, 17(8): 675-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Naps promote abstraction in language-learning infants.
    Psychol Sci, 17(8): 670-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. A presentation of attentional semantics.
    Cogn Process, 7(3): 163-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Timing in cognition and EEG brain dynamics: discreteness versus continuity.
    Cogn Process, 7(3): 135-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Estrogen, cognitive function and negative symptoms in female schizophrenia.
    Neuropsychobiology, 53(4): 169-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Neural correlates of crossmodal visual-tactile extinction and of tactile awareness revealed by fMRI in a right-hemisphere stroke patient.
    Neuropsychologia, 44(12): 2398-410. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Comparison of long-term neurocognitive outcomes in young children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with cranial radiation or high-dose or very high-dose intravenous methotrexate.
    J Clin Oncol, 24(24): 3858-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Parental awareness of adolescent risk involvement: implications of overestimates and underestimates.
    J Adolesc Health, 39(3): 353-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Motion perception in migraineurs: abnormalities are not related to attention.
    Cephalalgia, 26(9): 1131-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. An insular view of anxiety.
    Biol Psychiatry, 60(4): 383-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Regional cerebral blood flow changes associated with interoceptive awareness in the recovery process of anorexia nervosa.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 30(7): 1265-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Comparison of potential adjustment variables representing primary intellectual level in epidemiological studies on neurotoxicity.
    Am J Ind Med, 49(8): 642-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Estrogen therapy and cognition: a 6-year single-blind follow-up study in postmenopausal women.
    Neurology, 67(4): 706-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Effects of oxcarbazepine on cognitive function in children and adolescents with partial seizures.
    Neurology, 67(4): 679-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Awareness of self and expanding consciousness: using nursing theories to prepare nurse-therapists.
    Issues Ment Health Nurs, 27(6): 605-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Concurrent validity of the general ability measure for adults (gama) with sudden-onset neurological impairment.
    Int J Neurosci, 116(10): 1215-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Sentence comprehension in autism: thinking in pictures with decreased functional connectivity.
    Brain, 129: 2484-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Cognitive architecture and descent with modification.
    Cognition, 101(2): 443-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Genes, brain, and cognition: a roadmap for the cognitive scientist.
    Cognition, 101(2): 247-69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. Validity of index of learning styles scores: multitrait-multimethod comparison with three cognitive/learning style instruments.
    Med Educ, 40(9): 900-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. A comparison of analysis of variance and correlation methods for investigating cognitive development with functional magnetic resonance imaging.
    Dev Neuropsychol, 30(1): 531-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Role of parenting and maltreatment histories in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders: mediation by cognitive vulnerability to depression.
    Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev, 9(1): 23-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. Cognitive function in candidates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
    Ann Thorac Surg, 82(3): 812-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. Delayed, post-injury treatment with aniracetam improves cognitive performance after traumatic brain injury in rats.
    J Neurotrauma, 23(8): 1233-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. Effect of short daily home haemodialysis on quality of life, cognitive functioning and the electroencephalogram.
    Nephrol Dial Transplant, 21(9): 2529-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
84. Is depth of anesthesia, as assessed by the Bispectral Index, related to postoperative cognitive dysfunction and recovery?
    Anesth Analg, 103(3): 633-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
85. Cognitive performance in long-term abstinent alcoholic individuals.
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 30(9): 1538-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
86. Attentional modulation of emotional stimulus processing: an fMRI study using emotional expectancy.
    Hum Brain Mapp, 27(8): 662-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
87. Amygdala-prefrontal dissociation of subliminal and supraliminal fear.
    Hum Brain Mapp, 27(8): 652-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
88. Standardized assessment of cognitive functioning during development and aging using an automated touchscreen battery.
    Arch Clin Neuropsychol, 21(5): 449-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
89. Volumetric correlates of memory and executive function in normal elderly, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.
    Neurosci Lett, 406(1): 60-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
90. Cognitive correlates of HVOT performance differ between individuals with mild cognitive impairment and normal controls.
    Arch Clin Neuropsychol, 21(5): 405-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
91. The relationship between perceived and objective cognitive functioning in multiple sclerosis.
    Arch Clin Neuropsychol, 21(5): 487-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
92. Motor imagery of walking following training in locomotor attention. The effect of "the tango lesson".
    Neuroimage, 32(3): 1441-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
93. Context-sensitive neural responses to conflict resolution: electrophysiological evidence from subject-object ambiguities in language comprehension.
    Brain Res, 1098(1): 139-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
94. Telomere length predicts poststroke mortality, dementia, and cognitive decline.
    Ann Neurol, 60(2): 174-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
95. Age-related functional recruitment for famous name recognition: an event-related fMRI study.
    Neurobiol Aging, 27(10): 1494-504. [Abstract] [Full-text]
96. A comparison of neurocognitive function in nonsmoking and chronically smoking short-term abstinent alcoholics.
    Alcohol, 39(1): 1-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
97. Linking hearts and minds in couple interactions: intentions, attributions, and overriding sentiments.
    J Fam Psychol, 20(3): 494-504. [Abstract] [Full-text]
98. Distinct roles of the anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex in the acquisition and performance of a cognitive skill.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103(34): 12941-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
99. Revenge of the "sit": how lifestyle impacts neuronal and cognitive health through molecular systems that interface energy metabolism with neuronal plasticity.
    J Neurosci Res, 84(4): 699-715. [Abstract] [Full-text]
100. The effect of psychotherapy on self-awareness in incarcerated and nonincarcerated alcoholics: a pilot study.
     Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol, 50(5): 559-69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
101. Mental reinstatement of context and return of fear in spider-fearful participants.
     Behav Ther, 37(1): 49-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
102. Lack of awareness of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis among HIV-infected and uninfected men attending an inner London clinic.
     Int J STD AIDS, 17(9): 629-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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