Hippocampus is a part of the brain that has an essential role in memory and learning. It is involved in many cognitive and behavioral phenomena, including the pattern separation process: the ability to distinguish patterns with very high similarity. The present study compared the models of pattern separation in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and aimed to investigate the significant cel...

Objective: To evaluate the association between dietary patterns and mental disorders among pregnant women in southern Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional study with 712 pregnant women recruited from the Study of Food Intake and Eating Behaviors in Pregnancy (ECCAGe). Food intake assessment was performed using the Food Frequency Questionnaire. Dietary patterns were identified by cluster analysis....

Visual mental images can be conceived of as mental models (in their Johnson-Lairdian sense, 1983) which involve both spatial and visual information (Kosslyn, 1980; 1994; Finke, 1989). Mental images are working memory constructions which are closely related to visual perception. The term is used to designate either imagery phenomena in the presence of actual visual perception, or those that are ...

John Bowlby's goal in developing modern attachment theory was to preserve what he considered some of Freud's most valuable insights about human development and close relationships. First among these were insights into the importance of early experience and the notion that infant-mother and adult-adult relationships are similar in kind. Focussing on prospective and observational methods, Bowlby ...

Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources, and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resourcesömaterial resourc...

Knowledge about eating disorders influences lay people's ability to recognize individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) and refer them to professional treatment. We assessed mental models (stored knowledge) of AN and BN in 106 college students. Results indicated that most students have general, but not specific, information about AN and BN's symptoms, consequences, causes,...