Psychology research publications
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Ageing and feature binding in visual working memory: The role of presentation time. Supplementary Material
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Edinburgh Motor Assessment (EMAS)
(University of Edinburgh, 2013-12-01)Edinburgh Motor Assessment (EMAS) is a brief motor screening test, specifically designed for assessment of patients with dementia, aphasia and other cognitive disorders. It focuses, therefore, on those motor symptoms, ... -
Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen - ECAS English version 2013
(2013-03-19)ECAS is a brief, 15–20 minute, assessment of a range of cognitive and behavioural changes, designed specifically for people with MND. It makes cognitive assessment faster and more accessible as it can be used in the clinic ... -
Whole genome association scan for genetic polymorphisms influencing information processing speed.
(Elsevier, 2011)Processing speed is an important cognitive function that is compromised in psychiatric illness (e.g., schizophrenia, depression) and old age; it shares genetic background with complex cognition (e.g., working memory, ... -
Thousands of Voices for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis-Analysis and Application of TTS Systems Built on Various ASR Corpora
(IEEE, 2010-05)In conventional speech synthesis, large amounts of phonetically balanced speech data recorded in highly controlled recording studio environments are typically required to build a voice. Although using such data is a ... -
Synthesis of Child Speech With HMM Adaptation and Voice Conversion
(IEEE, 2010-05)The synthesis of child speech presents challenges both in the collection of data and in the building of a synthesizer from that data. We chose to build a statistical parametric synthesizer using the hidden Markov model ... -
Age and binding within-dimension features in visual short term memory : Supplementary data
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Longitudinal cohort study of childhood IQ and survival up to age 76
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2001)Objectives: To test the association between childhood IQ and mortality over the normal human lifespan. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Aberdeen. Subjects: All 2792 children in Aberdeen born in 1921 and ... -
Childhood mental ability and smoking cessation in adulthood: prospective observational study linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2003)Education, childhood IQ, and occupational social class are associated with mortality and morbidity. One possible cause of these associations is via their impact on health behaviours such as smoking. Less educated people ... -
Vitamin B-12, serum folate, and cognitive change between 11 and 79 years
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2005)A recent Cochrane review reported that although vitamin B-12 deficiency is known to be associated with cognitive impairment in old age, benefits of supplementation on mental ability are unclear. The situation is similar ... -
Birth weight and cognitive function at age 11years: the Scottish Mental Survey 1932
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2001)AIMS---To examine the relation between birth weight and cognitive function at age 11 years, and to examine whether this relation is independent of social class. METHODS---Retrospective cohort study based on birth records ... -
The NART as an index of prior intellectual functioning: a retrospective validity study covering a 66-year interval
(Cambridge University Press, 2001)Background. The National Adult Reading Test (NART) is widely used in research and clinical practice as an estimate of pre-morbid or prior ability. However, most of the evidence on the NART's validity as a measure of prior ... -
Smoking and cognitive change from age 11 to age 80
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2003)Age related cognitive decline affects people’s quality of life and their ability to live independently. A recent review stated, "[we] are aware of no studies on the relationship between smoking and cognitive decline ... -
Brain white matter lesions detected by magnetic resosnance imaging are associated with balance and gait speed
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2003)Objective: To investigate the relations between premorbid and current mental ability, mood, and white matter signal abnormalities detected by T2 weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and impairment of balance and ... -
Childhood IQ of parents related to characteristics of their offspring: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 to the Midspan Family Study
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between childhood IQ of parents and characteristics of their adult offspring. It was a prospective family cohort study linked to a mental ability survey of the ... -
Lifetime intellectual function and satisfaction with life in old age: longitudinal cohort study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2005)What is successful ageing? Current opinion is that “cognitive vitality is essential to quality of life . . . in old age.” This depends substantially on people’s cognitive ability from early life, and on how much they ... -
Guiding the swing in golf putting
(Nature Publishing Group, 2000-05-18)Actions that involve making contact with surfaces often demand perceptual regulation of the impact — for example, of feet with ground when walking or of bat with ball when hitting. Here we investigate how this control ... -
Ageing: Cognitive change and the APOEe4 allele
(Nature Publishing Group, 2002-08-29)There is a marked variation in whether people retain sufficient cognitive function to maintain their quality of life and independence in old age, even among those without dementia, so it would be valuable to identify ...
