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Everyday Physical Activity and Mobility Affect Executive Function Performance and Change in Older Adults: Evaluating Independent and Moderating Effects of Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
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Objective: Among older adults, everyday physical activity (EPA) and mobility (MOB) are important contributors to age-related variability and change in executive functioning (EF). However, the role of these health and lifestyle influences may be moderated by genetic factors, especially those known...
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Fall 2014
Research on cultural products suggest that there are substantial cultural variations between East Asian and Western landscape masterpieces from the 15th to 19th centuries and contemporary members’ landscape artwork (Masuda, Gonzalez, Kwan, & Nisbett, 2008), and that these cultural differences in...
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Examining Relations Between Parental Behaviour, Children’s Characteristics, and Children's Executive Function in Early and Middle Childhood
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Parental behaviour is an important predictor of executive function (EF) in early childhood and the transition to middle childhood. Yet, not all children are equally impacted by parental behaviour. This dissertation examined interactions and bidirectional relations between parental behaviours and...
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Fall 2019
Mind wandering refers to a reallocation of attentional resources away from what has been explicitly identified as the primary task towards some other point of focus. Experimental work investigating mind wandering relies extensively on self-report as the primary means of measuring mental state...
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Spring 2023
As we listen to spoken language, the brain performs multiple levels of computation, from understanding individual words to comprehending the arc of a story. Recently, computational models have been developed that also process text on multiple levels. These models, called multi-timescale long...