The extent to which social relationships influence cognitive aging is unclear. In this study, we investigated the association of midlife quality of close relationships with subsequent cognitive decline. Participants in the Whitehall II Study (n = 5,873; ages 45-69 years at first cognitive assessment) underwent executive function and memory tests 3 times over a period of 10 years (1997-1999 to 2...

purpose: web sites are considered as an important tool on the internet and it has an important role in the utilization of students from the internet. in this study, we tried to evaluate iranian schools web sites. method: research population consists of 122 school websites. we used a check list for evaluation of school websites. findings: we found that all aspects of iranian school websites (aut...

The human brain undergoes significant changes in both its structural architecture and functional organization across the life span. Advances in neuroimaging techniques over the past decade have allowed us to track these changes safely in the human in vivo. We review the imaging literature on the neurobiology of cognitive development, focusing specifically on cognitive task-dependent changes obs...

Brain imaging genetic research involves a multitude of methods and spans many traditional levels of analysis. Given the vast permutations among several million common genetic variants with thousands of brain tissue voxels and a wide array of cognitive tasks that activate specific brain systems, we are prompted to develop specific hypotheses that synthesize converging evidence and state clear pr...

Numerous theoreti cal app roach es implicate a role for altered cogn it ive processing in th e develop ment, maintenance, and treatment of a wide range of clinically relevan t beh aviors. Clinical scient ists have been slow, however , to capitalize on the wealth of contemporary theoretical, measurement, and analytical models of cognitive processing when constructing, evalu ating, and ex tending...

We report a high-level architecture, CoJACK, that provides insights on behavior variability, situation awareness, and behavioral moderators. CoJACK combines Beliefs/Desires/Intentions (BDI) agents’ high-level knowledge representation and usability with several aspects of low level cognitive architectures, including processing time predictions, errors, and traceability. CoJACK explores new areas...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship of mindfulness and cognitive emotion regulation strategies and mediating role of alexithymia in this relationship. Method: In this descriptive-correlational study, 355 students (192 femalesand 163 males) were recruited from ShahidBahonar university of Kerman through randomclustered ...