Few studies have investigated predictors of response to cognitive remediation interventions in patients with schizophrenia. Predictor studies to date have selected treatment outcome measures that were either part of the remediation intervention itself or closely linked to the intervention with few studies investigating factors that predict generalization to measures of everyday life-skills as a...

Performing musicians invest thousands of hours becoming experts in a range of perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills. The duration and intensity of musicians’ training – far greater than that of most educational or rehabilitation programs – provides a useful model to test the extent to which skills acquired in one particular context (music) generalize to different domains. Here, we asked...

Objectives: In this research study, the effect of training phonological awareness skills on the improvement of auditory memory in students with spelling problems in third grade at primary schools in Sari City, Iran, was investigated.  Methods: The research method used in the study was quasi-experimental with pre-tests, post-tests, and a control group. The statistical population consisted ...

BACKGROUND There is need for a cognitive test battery that can be easily used in clinical practice to detect or monitor cognitive performance in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). In order to conduct, in this patient group, a preliminary investigation of the validity and utility of a brief computerized battery, the Cognitive Drug Research (CDR) battery, we longitudinally assessed cognition ...

We analyzed the relationship between several measures of attention (e.g., sustained and divided attention) and measures of verbal memory (e.g., immediate and delayed memory) in children aged 8-17 years. The attentional measures were derived from several tests of attention: Trail-Making, Digit Cancellation, Digit-Symbol, and Digit-Span. The verbal memory measures were derived from the Rey Audito...

Working memory (WM) capacity is the ability to maintain attention and store information briefly in mind. However, each individual has a limited WM that varies from one person another. An can be categorized as having either normal or low capacity. This study aimed evaluate compare brain activations of healthy individuals with auditory-verbal A total 39 male young adults were recruited local univ...

Auditory attention has been examined extensively over the years, primarily by means of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Sustained attention to specific targets embedded in a series of non-targets (e.g. the ‘oddball’ paradigm) causes an increase in the amplitudes of various components of the auditory ERP after about 80 ms and results in the appearance of new waveforms, such as the N2B and ...

background and aim: auditory processing disorders may have detrimental consequences on a child’s life, if undiagnosed and untreated. the multiple auditory processing assessment (mapa), as a valid model, has been introduced for central auditory processing assessment and diagnosis in school children. the purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the persian version of mapa for auditory pro...