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View article: The Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs) database in Italian younger and middle-aged adults: Descriptive statistics and rule-based machine learning
The Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs) database in Italian younger and middle-aged adults: Descriptive statistics and rule-based machine learning Open
Epistemic emotions, and in particular curiosity, seem to enhance memory for both the specific information that stimulates the individual’s curiosity and information presented in close temporal proximity. Most studies on memory and curiosit…
View article: Collaborative encoding with a new categorization task: a contribution to collaborative memory research
Collaborative encoding with a new categorization task: a contribution to collaborative memory research Open
Collaborative memory research has focused primarily on the effects of collaboration at recall with collaboration during encoding receiving less attention. In the present study, collaboration was investigated both at encoding and at retriev…
View article: Atrophy of hippocampal subfields and amygdala nuclei in subjects with mild cognitive impairment progressing to Alzheimer's disease
Atrophy of hippocampal subfields and amygdala nuclei in subjects with mild cognitive impairment progressing to Alzheimer's disease Open
The hippocampus and amygdala are the first brain regions to show early signs of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) pathology. AD is preceded by a prodromal stage known as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a crucial crossroad in the clinical progressi…
View article: Colored valence in a lexical decision task
Colored valence in a lexical decision task Open
Color influences behavior, from the simplest to the most complex, through controlled and more automatic information elaboration processes. Nonetheless, little is known about how and when these highly interconnected processes interact. This…
View article: Atrophy of specific amygdala subfields in subjects converting to mild cognitive impairment
Atrophy of specific amygdala subfields in subjects converting to mild cognitive impairment Open
Introduction Accumulating evidence indicates that the amygdala exhibits early signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. However, it is still unknown whether the atrophy of distinct subfields of the amygdala also participates in the tran…
View article: Metacognition in working memory: Confidence judgments during an n-back task
Metacognition in working memory: Confidence judgments during an n-back task Open
Metacognition in working memory (WM) has received less attention than episodic memory, and few studies have investigated confidence judgements while carrying out a verbal WM task. The present study investigated whether individuals are awar…
View article: Novel Approaches to Memory and Aging: The Editorial
Novel Approaches to Memory and Aging: The Editorial Open
Heightened average life expectancy, which is increasing the number of older adults destined to live alone in the future, is forcing society to acknowledge the strong positive correlation between health costs and age [...]
View article: Motor Imagery as a Key Factor for Healthy Ageing: A Review of New Insights and Techniques
Motor Imagery as a Key Factor for Healthy Ageing: A Review of New Insights and Techniques Open
Motor imagery (MI) describes a dynamic cognitive process where a movement is mentally simulated without taking place and holds potential as a means of stimulating motor learning and regaining motor skills. There is growing evidence that im…
View article: Development and Validation of a Short Form of the Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS-12) among Italian Older Adults
Development and Validation of a Short Form of the Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS-12) among Italian Older Adults Open
Anxiety imposes significant impairment thus making imperative the screening and assessment of anxiety symptoms. The GAS-12 is particularly indicated with limited time and many scales in a clinical assessment or research protocols.
View article: Curiosity Killed the Cat but Not Memory: Enhanced Performance in High-Curiosity States
Curiosity Killed the Cat but Not Memory: Enhanced Performance in High-Curiosity States Open
Curiosity benefits memory for target information and may also benefit memory for incidental information presented during curiosity states. However, it is not known whether incidental curiosity-enhanced memory depends on or is affected by t…
View article: Do Older and Younger Adults Prefer the Positive or Avoid the Negative?
Do Older and Younger Adults Prefer the Positive or Avoid the Negative? Open
Affective information is processed in different ways across one’s lifespan. Explanations for this pattern of performance are multiple and range from top-down motivational shifts and cognitive control to faster bottom-up and implicit proces…
View article: Hemifield-Specific Rotational Biases during the Observation of Ambiguous Human Silhouettes
Hemifield-Specific Rotational Biases during the Observation of Ambiguous Human Silhouettes Open
Both static and dynamic ambiguous stimuli representing human bodies that perform unimanual or unipedal movements are usually interpreted as right-limbed rather than left-limbed, suggesting that human observers attend to the right side of o…
View article: Influence of body shape primes on food liking (Raw data)
Influence of body shape primes on food liking (Raw data) Open
Here we have deposited the raw data of each participant (N=42) teasted with an affective priming experiment, in which we evaluate wheter the shape fo a body used as prime, influenced food liking evaluation. In the column "Prime" there are…
View article: A Bottom-Up Validation of the IAPS, GAPED, and NAPS Affective Picture Databases: Differential Effects on Behavioral Performance
A Bottom-Up Validation of the IAPS, GAPED, and NAPS Affective Picture Databases: Differential Effects on Behavioral Performance Open
The concept of emotion is a complex neural and psychological phenomenon, central to the organization of human social behavior. As the result of subjective experience, emotions involve bottom-up cognitive styles responsible for efficient ad…
View article: Emotional Prosody Effects on Verbal Memory in Euthymic Patients With Bipolar Disorder
Emotional Prosody Effects on Verbal Memory in Euthymic Patients With Bipolar Disorder Open
A growing body of evidence suggests that emotional prosody influences the ability to remember verbal information. Although bipolar disorder (BD) has been shown to be associated with deficits in verbal memory and emotional processing, the r…
View article: Lateralized embodiment of ambiguous human silhouettes: Data on sex differences
Lateralized embodiment of ambiguous human silhouettes: Data on sex differences Open
Whereas the role of observers' sex has already been addressed in research on embodied cognition, so far it has been neglected as regards laterality effects in embodied cognition. Here, we report further analyses of the data used in our pap…
View article: Maladaptive coping strategies and neuroticism mediate the relationship between 5HTT-LPR polymorphisms and symptoms of anxiety in elite athletes.
Maladaptive coping strategies and neuroticism mediate the relationship between 5HTT-LPR polymorphisms and symptoms of anxiety in elite athletes. Open
Previous studies have suggested that genetic factors, personality traits and coping strategies might play independent and interacting roles in influencing stress-related anxiety symptoms. The aim of this study was to examine whether Neurot…
View article: Assessment of late-life depression via self-report measures: a review
Assessment of late-life depression via self-report measures: a review Open
Depression in later life is a significant and growing problem. Age-related differences in the type and severity of depressive disorders continue to be questioned and necessarily question differential methods of assessment and treatment str…
View article: Gender Differences in Food Choice: Effects of Superior Temporal Sulcus Stimulation
Gender Differences in Food Choice: Effects of Superior Temporal Sulcus Stimulation Open
The easy availability of food has caused a shift from eating for survival to hedonic eating. Women, compared to men, have shown to respond differently to food cues in the environment on a behavioral and a neural level, in particular to ene…
View article: Inversion Reveals Perceptual Asymmetries in the Configural Processing of Human Body
Inversion Reveals Perceptual Asymmetries in the Configural Processing of Human Body Open
Ambiguous human bodies performing unimanual/unipedal actions are perceived more frequently as right-handed/footed rather than left-handed/footed, which suggests a perceptual and attentional bias toward the right side of others' body. A bia…