Objective: Working memory executive deficits have a role in maintaining Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms including flashbacks and reexperiencing. Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to compare the visual and verbal Proactive Interference in trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD.  Method: In this retrospective study, we recruited subjects through the purposiv...

Some of theories which try to explain the mechanisms underlying false memory phenomenon postulate that false memories are due to existence of semantic relations between studied items which increase memory's vulnerability to this kind of distortion. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of shifting attention away from semantic relations among words in associative lists...

Many studies suggest that the relatives of patients with schizophernia exhibit neuropsychological impairments that are similar to those seen among these patients. In this study some neuropsychological functioning of 10 patients with continuous schizophernia, and 19 of their healthy siblings (7 females and 12 males) were compared with the functioning of 24 normal control subjects (10 females and...

Background: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of working memory training on decreasing reading problems and increase of working memory of dyslexic children. This is a quasi- experimental study with a pretest/post-test experimental and without control group. The sample consisted of 15 girl students with dyslexia that selected based on research recognition criteria among...

Objective: Cerebral palsy is one of the most common causes of physical disability in childhood that lead to various difficulties for children. These children may have abnormalities in visual perception. Visual perception plays an important role in learning of basic childhood’s skills. This research was designed to study the relation between each of subtests of visual perception with accur...