Search for dissertations about: "action memory"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 69 swedish dissertations containing the words action memory.
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1. Helping Hands : Motion and integration in action memory
Abstract : Verbal information has predominantly been the to-be-remembered materials in human memory research for more than a century. In recent years some interesting deviations from the established rules of verbal memory have been observed in subjects who have been asked to motorically self-perform (enact) action sentences at the encoding phase of the memory task, instead of only hearing or reading them as in a traditional verbal task (VT). READ MORE
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2. The power of action and knowledge in episodic memory for school-aged children
Abstract : Developmental and cognitive research suggests that there are age-related differ-ences in children’s episodic memory across school ages due to the development of knowledge, which in turn affects memory strategy use and information pro-cessing over time. However, there are controversial findings related to devel-opmental patterns and factors involved in children’s episodic memory function. READ MORE
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3. Memory for Problem Solving: Comparative Studies in Attention, Working and Long-term Memory
Abstract : Living in a complex and dynamically changing environment requires accurate and timely behavioural responses that allow for adapting to such changes. Well-developed perceptual systems provide a continuous flow of abundant and up-to-date information on the changes in the environment, and, thereby, allow for tailoring behavioural responses accordingly. READ MORE
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4. Infants in Control : Prospective Motor Control and Executive Functions in Action Development
Abstract : This thesis assesses the link between action and cognition early in development. Thus the notion of an embodied cognition is investigated by tying together two levels of action control in the context of reaching in infancy: prospective motor control and executive functions. READ MORE
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5. Cues, Beliefs, and Memory
Abstract : This doctoral thesis contains four self-contained chapters. “Not so irrelevant alternatives: How cue informativeness results in cue effects” studies when and why decoys and defaults affect choice behavior. READ MORE