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Psychiatry
Isabel Ruiz-Delgado, Berta Moreno-Kuestner, Monica Garcia-Medina, Maria Luisa Barrigon, Fermin Gonzalez-Higueras, Raguel Lopez-Carrilero, Irene Barrios-Mellado, Ana Barajas, Esther Pousa, Esther Lorente-Rovira, Eva Grasa, Jordi Cid, Paula Barrau-Sastre, Steffen Moritz, Susana Ochoa, Spanish Metacognition Group
Summary: This multicenter randomized clinical trial found that Metacognitive Training (MCT) is an effective psychological intervention for improving memory, attention, and executive function in first-episode psychosis patients.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
David M. Spalding, Kerry MacAngus, Martine K. Moen, Louise A. Brown Nicholls
Summary: The study aimed to investigate the impact of trait anxiety on subjective cognitive difficulties across different dimensions, revealing that trait cognitive anxiety has a more significant effect on cognition, which increases with age.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Brian Hack, Eduardo Macedo Penna, Tyler Talik, Rohan Chandrashekhar, Mindy Millard-Stafford
Summary: A systematic review and meta-analysis found that acute ingestion of Guarana has a small positive effect on human cognitive performance, improving response time but not accuracy. Whether the changes in cognitive performance are related to the caffeine content or other bioactive substances in Guarana remains unknown and requires further research.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Natalya Marie Leistiko, Louay Madanat, Wing Kwan Antonia Yeung, James M. Stone
Summary: Binaural beats (BB) are an auditory phenomenon produced by combining two sine waves with slightly different frequencies presented to each ear. Previous research has suggested that BBs may have benefits such as enhanced memory and attention, and reduced anxiety and stress. However, this study found that gamma BBs did not have a significant effect on attention.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Peter A. Kirk, Oliver J. Robinson, Sam J. Gilbert
Summary: Setting external reminders reduces cognitive demand and individuals tend to use more reminders than optimal, which is correlated with metacognitive judgments. However, there is no significant relationship between trait anxiety and metacognitive belief or reminder usage.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Prathima A. A. Raghavendra, Shantala Hegde, Mariamma Philip, Muralidharan Kesavan
Summary: This study explored musical and neuro-cognitive deficits in patients with mild-moderate major depressive disorder (MDD). The results showed that these patients had significant deficits in working memory, verbal learning, and memory, but no differences in music cognition. The study also found a significant relationship between music cognition and attention.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Tiffany R. Lago, Karina S. Blair, Gabriella Alvarez, Amanda Thongdarong, James R. Blair, Monique Ernst, Christian Grillon
Summary: Patients with anxiety disorders experience impaired concentration due to stronger emotional interference. This study investigates the impact of experimentally induced state anxiety on attention interference by emotional stimuli.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Ning Mei, Dobromir Rahnev, David Soto
Summary: Our perceptual system is naturally inclined to exploit regularities in input features across space and time, resulting in serial dependence effects where recent perceptual representations bias current perception. We investigated whether temporal patterns in confidence judgments generalize across observers and cognitive domains. By reanalyzing data from the Confidence Database, we found that a model trained to predict confidence in the perceptual domain generalized to predict confidence in different cognitive domains. The history of confidence was the most critical factor, while the history of accuracy or reaction time alone did not improve confidence prediction.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Maria Balaet
Summary: Psychedelic compounds have the potential to revolutionize neuroscience and psychiatry. Current studies are limited in assessing the acute effects of psychedelics on cognition, and further research is needed to understand the impact of dosage on cognitive function.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Gerontology
Shawn T. Schwartz, Alexander L. M. Siegel, Teal S. Eich, Alan D. Castel
Summary: People are generally able to selectively attend and remember high-value over low-value information. This study investigated whether young and older adults would display value-based memory selectivity effects for item-value associations when goal-directed information about the meaning of associated values was presented before and after encoding. The results showed that older adults were more selective in the preencoding condition, whereas younger adults did not show selectivity. Furthermore, both young and older adults prioritized high-value words on preencoding trials but not on postencoding trials.
PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ronald B. Gillam, Sarfaraz Serang, James W. Montgomery, Julia L. Evans
Summary: This study investigated the dimensionality of cognitive processes related to memory capacity and language ability in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder. The results showed that cognitive abilities accounted for a significant amount of the variance in linguistic abilities, and the relationship between working memory and language ability was significantly stronger in the typically developing group than in the language disorder group.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Bernice J. A. Gulpers, Frans R. J. Verhey, Simone J. P. M. Eussen, Miranda T. Schram, Bastiaan E. de Galan, Martin P. J. van Boxtel, Coen D. A. Stehouwer, S. Kohler
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between individual anxiety disorders, generalized anxiety symptoms, and multiple cognitive domains. The results show that agoraphobia is associated with worse scores on all cognitive domains and higher odds of cognitive impairment. High scores on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) are associated with worse scores on processing speed and higher odds of cognitive impairment. Panic disorder is significantly associated with worse scores on memory tasks. These associations are stronger in younger participants and in those with type 2 diabetes.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Review
Neurosciences
Iiro P. Jaaskelainena, Mikko Sams, Enrico Glerean, Jyrki Ahveninen
Summary: The use of naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging studies has advanced understanding of cognitive and emotional functions, revealing insights into human memory, attention, language, emotions, and social cognition.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Angel M. Dzhambov, Peter Lercher, Natalia Vincens, Kerstin Persson Waye, Maria Klatte, Larisa Leist, Thomas Lachmann, Dirk Schreckenberg, Christin Belke, Gordana Ristovska, Katja M. Kanninen, Dick Botteldooren, Timothy Van Renterghem, Sonja Jeram, Jenny Selander, Arzu Arat, Kim White, Jordi Julvez, Charlotte Clark, Maria Foraster, Irene van Kamp
Summary: The EU-funded project Equal-Life conducted a scoping review and conceptual model to explore the potential mediators linking the exposome to mental health and cognition in children/adolescents. The scarcity of empirical evidence in this research area was found, with only a few cross-sectional studies indicating a tentative association between perceived restorative quality and mental health. Physical activity emerged as a mediator leading to better psychological outcomes in restorative environments.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tania Llana, Marta Mendez, Sara Garces-Arilla, Vanesa Hidalgo, Magdalena Mendez-Lopez, M. -Carmen Juan
Summary: This study aimed to explore the association between reported olfactory dysfunction and subjective and objective cognitive performance in long-COVID patients, as well as the relationship between emotional symptoms and cognition. The results showed that acute olfactory dysfunction was related to cognitive deficits in objective tests, and mood disturbances were associated with self-reported and objective memory. These findings contribute to understanding the neuropsychological and emotional aspects of long-COVID.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)