There are major discrepancies between the skills required in the media industries, and those BTEC (Business and Technology Education Council) Level 3 students develop during their course. While a ade i s ha e des i ed these ou ses as p eo atio al , the e is a e pe tatio f o stude ts, parents and now the Government that BTECs, which are more practical than A Levels, will offer young people prepa...

Personal identity has many facets, as it involves race, language, personal interests, religion, and ethnicity, among other attributes. Yet all over the world individuals and groups seek to define themselves in exclusive terms. This paper develops a simple model of individual incentives and group interests to explain this puzzle. ∗Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. †Faculty of Econom...

Although there is evidence for age-related changes in both cognition and motor control, very little is known about the effect of age on learning of new motor skills. The present experiment addressed the interaction between aging and the role of knowledge of results (KR) on a motor learning task. Using a three-segment task on which each segment had specific timing goals, three different manipula...

Three experiments were conducted to determine if the intention to perform motor sequences in the future results in similar patterns of activation and inhibition as observed for verbal scripts. In Experiments 1 and 2, intention was induced by informing one group that they would be tested on the tasks following acquisition; the other group was not informed of the retention test. Recognition tests...

The present experiment was designed to test the predictions of the constrained-action hypothesis. This hypothesis proposes that when performers utilize an internal focus of attention (focus on their movements) they may actually constrain or interfere with automatic control processes that would normally regulate the movement, whereas an external focus of attention (focus on the movement effect) ...

AIMS This study investigated the association between literacy skills and self-reported health among Danish ( n = 7284), Finnish ( n = 5454), Norwegian ( n = 4942) and Swedish ( n = 4555) participants aged 16-65 years. METHODS Logistic regression models were used to assess the association between literacy skills and self-reported health after adjusting for sex, age and educational level. RES...

As a result of increasing complexity in mechanisms of control, attention has been directed towards certain aspects of motor skill which are found to be of particular importance in the design of machines for human operation. A typical function is that of tracking, in which the operator is required to maintain alignment continuously between an indicator and some moving object or point, as in trai...

A recent study has provided surprising new insights into the neural mechanisms underlying our ability to transfer a learned motor skill from one hand to the other.

This study aimed to determine the effect of the SNAPPS (summarize, narrow, analyze, probe, plan, and select) method versus teacher-centered education on the clinical skills of midwifery students in Iran. In this clinical trial, 36 midwifery students in their 4th year of education in 2015 were enrolled and divided into 6 groups, 3 groups for teacher-centered education and 3 groups for the SNAPPS...