Can a person with a damaged medial-temporal lobe learn a category implicitly? To address this question, we compared the performance of participants with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to that of age-matched controls in a standard implicit learning task. In this task, participants were first presented a series of objects, then told the objects formed a category, and then had to categorize a long ...

The study seeks to investigate the impact of intellectual human capital and knowledge acquisition capabilities on firm’s financial performance, particularly in indigenous craft industries Sri Lanka. quantitative data were collected from 355 owners located traditional handicrafts villages Lanka analyzed with help a Partial Least Squire Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM). empirical results show ...

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Editor's Note: These short, critical reviews of recent papers in the Journal, written exclusively by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, are intended to summarize the important findings of the paper and provide additional insight and commentary. For more information on the format and purpose of the Journal Club, please see Review of Kirwan et al. Everyday experience informs us that there...

The question of whether the hippocampus plays a selective role in episodic memory or a more general role in both episodic and semantic memory (together termed declarative memory) is an unresolved and much-debated topic in the current literature. In two back-to-back articles in this issue of Neuron, Squire and his colleagues describe findings from a group of six patients with damage thought to b...

A lthough this book reflects the combined efforts of many people, it is a comprehensive text describing treatment approaches for the head-injured patient. This text is easy to read and provides excellent resources, including protocols, photographs, clinical examples of standards of care, charts listing short-term and long-term goals and treatment ideas, evaluation tools, references, and reading...

The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of farmer field schools on adoption of technical packages of wheat production in Gezira Scheme, Sudan. Field survey was used to collect data from 50 FFS-participants of two schools (25 from each school), and also equal number from Non-FFS participants were selected for comparison. Close ended questionnaire was used in data collection. Th...

T he Journal of Graduate Medical Education often receives submissions from trainees and educators highlighting work they do in quality improvement (QI). This is remarkably encouraging given the emphasis that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Next Accreditation System has placed on integrating QI into the clinical learning environment. A major challenge for editors...

Three important developments have occurred in the area of memory during the past decade. The first was the recognition that there is more than one kind of memory (Cohen 1984; Schacter 1987; Squire 1982; Tulving 1985). Declarative memory (or, explicit memory) affords the capacity for conscious recollections about facts and events. This is the kind of memory that is usually referred to when the t...