duction to the study and criticism of epidemiological research in Psychiatry. This is particularly valuable at the present time when great interest is being aroused in the subject, not only in the public hut also in other branches of medicine : for pressure is likely to be Put on the research worker to provide more results than he can reliably do : and it is also probable that any results produ...

Langston, Elizabeth A. M.S., Purdue University, August 2014. Perceptual Compensation in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Major Professor: Amanda Seidl. Compensation for coarticulation is the extent in which an individual perceives the contextual variations of speech. When presented with an ambiguous consonant-vowel segment (e.g., a consonant halfway between /sa/ and /ʃa/) research il...

The Somatic Signal Detection Task (SSDT) is a recent paradigm serving to examine perceptual processes likely relevant for somatoform disorders. We tested whether touch illusions are more easily induced in individuals suffering from somatoform disorders (SFD) and whether their perceptual threshold for tactile stimuli is lower compared to healthy controls. Thirty-three participants with SFD and 3...

OBJECTIVES To identify the chronic health conditions associated with multidimensional poverty. DESIGN Cross-sectional study of the nationally representative Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers, conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. SETTING Australian population in 2003. PARTICIPANTS 35 704 individuals randomly selected from the Australian population by the Australian Burea...

PURPOSE We respond to Bellis, Chermak, Weihing, and Musiek's (2012) criticisms of the evidence-based systematic review of Fey et al. (2011) on the effects of auditory training on auditory, spoken, and written language performance of children with auditory processing disorder or language impairment. In general, we argue that the conceptualizations and methods on which our review was based were w...

Previous dual-task research pairing complex visual tasks involving non-spatial cognitive processes during dichotic listening have shown effects on the late component (Ndl) of the negative difference selective attention waveform but no effects on the early (Nde) response suggesting that the Ndl, but not the Nde, is affected by non-spatial processing in a dual-task. Thus to further explore the na...

That experience was one of the crucial factors that lead us to focus our medical careers on helping children especially gifted children with learning difficulties. In the years since we have had many more encounters with CAPDs, and we are constantly surprised both by their prevalence and by the many difficulties they create in children's lives. Published reports suggest CAPDs affect roughly 2-3...

The accuracy and speed in an enumeration task were investigated in adolescents with typical and atypically poor development of arithmetic skills. The number naming performances on small and large non-symbolic numerosities of 18 adolescents with mathematical learning disorders (MLD) and 28 typically achieving age-matched (TA) adolescents were compared. A mixed logistic regression model showed th...

Visual perceptual learning (PL) and perceptual expertise (PE) traditionally lead to different training effects and recruit different brain areas, but reasons for these differences are largely unknown. Here, we tested how the learning history influences visual object representations. Two groups were trained with tasks typically used in PL or PE studies, with the same novel objects, training dura...