Search for dissertations about: "Visuospatial memory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words Visuospatial memory.

2. 1. Sex Differences in Memory and Other Cognitive Abilities

   Author : Catharina Lewin; Lars-Göran Nilsson; Diane F Halpern; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cognition; memory; sex differences; gender; verbal abilities; visuospatial; face recognition; brain aging; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : The aim of the present thesis was to study sex differences in memory and other cognitive bilities in healthy adults. In Study I, participants performed a number of episodic memory tasks that were more or less verbal in nature. READ MORE

4. 2. Neural Mechanisms Determining Visuospatial Working Memory Tasks : Biophysical Modeling, Functional MRI and EEG

   Author : Fredrik Edin; Jesper Tegnér; Klaas Stephan; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datalogi;

   Abstract : Visuospatial working memory (vsWM) is the ability to temporarily retain goal-relevant visuospatial information in memory. It is a key cognitive function related to general intelligence, and it improves throughout childhood and through WM training. READ MORE

5. 3. Hormones and cognition : testosterone and visuospatial ability, estrogen and episodic memory

   Author : Julie E. Yonker; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kognitiv psykologi; Hormoner;

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6. 4. A longitudinal study of cognitive changes after surgical treatment for epilepsy

   Author : Elisabeth Engman; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : Epilepsy surgery; general neurocognitive status; memory; group change; individual heterogeneity;

   Abstract : Epilepsy surgery is a valuable therapeutic option for some patients with pharmaco-resistant partial epilepsy, but resection of cortical tissue carries a risk of creating or worsening a dysfunction. Therefore pre-and postoperative levels of cognitive function are systematically monitored in epilepsy surgery programs. READ MORE

7. 5. Long-term cognitive outcome of childhood traumatic brain injury

   Author : Catherine Aaro Jonsson; Ann-Charlotte Smedler; Ingrid Emanuelson; Erland Hjelmquist; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; traumatic brain injury; childhood; adolescence; neurosurgical care; cognitive development; executive functions; memory; verbal functions; long-term outcome; recovery; rehabilitation; follow-up; cluster analysis; Psychology; Psykologi; psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : There is limited knowledge of cognitive outcome extending beyond 5 years after childhood traumatic brain injury, CTBI. The main objectives of this thesis were to investigate cognitive outcome at 6-14 years after CTBI, and to evaluate if advancements in the neurosurgical care, starting 1992, did influence long-term outcome and early epidemiology. READ MORE