Hypofrontality in schizophrenia has been a frequent but not consistent finding in regional cerebral blood flow studies. However, the contributions of subject and state variables such as age, education, task activation, and anxiety, some of which are known to influence blood flow profiles, have not been thoroughly examined in this population. Here, in a sample including 24 normal, 18 schizophren...

The author summarizes his evolving interests from conditioning studies within a behaviorist orientation, thence to human memory, knowledge representation, and narrative understanding and memory. Arguing that the study of skilled reading provides a microcosm for revealing cognitive processes, he illustrates this by reviewing his research on the use of spatial priming to investigate readers' on-l...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition among hospitalized patients increases length of stay (LOS) and carries extra hospitalization costs. OBJECTIVE To review the impact of malnutrition on hospital LOS and costs in Europe. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar search. All articles from January 2004 until November 2014 were identified. Reference lists of relevant articles were also manually searched. RESULTS...

This paper reports the results of a study examining links between maternal representations of attachment, child attachment security, and mother and child narrative styles assessed in the context of reminiscences about shared experiences. Participants were 90 mother - child dyads. Child attachment security was assessed using the attachment Q-set and maternal attachment representations were measu...

Previous approaches to computational models of narrative have successfully considered the internal coherence of the narrative’s structure. However, narratives are also externally focused and authors often design their stories to affect users in specific ways. In order to better characterize the audience in the process of modeling narrative, we introduce Indexter: a computational model of the Ev...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that narrative and expository texts differ in the extent to which they prompt students to integrate to-be-learned content with relevant prior knowledge during comprehension. AIMS We expand on previous research by examining on-line processing and representation in memory of to-be-learned content that is embedded in narrative or expository texts. We are par...

In order to summarize a story it is necessary to access a high level analysis that highlights the story's central concepts. A technique of memory representation based on affect units appears to provide the necessary foundation for such an analysis. Affect units are conceptual structures that overlap with each other when a narrative is cohesive. When overlapping intersections are interpreted as ...

Bu çalışma, İstanbul’da faaliyetlerini sürdüren bir Cerrahi Tekkesi örneğinden yola çıkarak, tekke mensuplarının toplumsal hafızasının anlatı üzerinden inşasını ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. kapsamda tarikatın ritüelleri derinlemesine incelenerek içerisinde sohbetler, hikâyeler ve ilahiler aracılığıyla hafızanın nasıl inşa edildiği ele alınmıştır. Alan araştırmasında nitel yöntem uygulanmış, b...