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Neuropsychologia 2021 Apr 12:107849. Epub 2021 Apr 12.

Educational Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria.

Single-digit multiplications are thought to be associated with different levels of interference because they show different degrees of feature overlap (i.e., digits) with previously learnt problems. Read More

J Integr Neurosci 2021 Mar;20(1):87-93

Department of Anatomical Sciences & Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, 19395-1495 Tehran, Iran.

Sleep deprivation has deteriorating effects on cognitive functions and activation of brain inflammation mechanisms has been reported by some studies following total sleep deprivation. Some studies have reported the health benefits of punicalagin, a main abstract from L., including those for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Read More

Arch Public Health 2021 Apr 3;79(1):43. Epub 2021 Apr 3.

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil.

Background: Systematic reviews, considered the gold standard for the assessment of scientific evidence, may present conflicting findings for the same clinical issue, and such dissent may be justified by the forms of elaboration of the electronic search strategy. This paper aims to validate a search strategy to identify randomized clinical trials related to periodontitis. A gold standard reference set was developed to validate the identified clinical trials using the relative recall method. Read More

Mem Cognit 2021 Mar 29. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università di Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131, Padova, Italy.

Accessing semantic information has negative consequences for successive recovering attempts of similar information. For instance, in the course of picture-naming tasks, the time required to name an object is determined by the total number of items from the same category that have already been named; naming latencies increase proportionally to the total number of semantically related words named previously. This phenomenon is called cumulative semantic cost (or interference). Read More

Sci Eng Ethics 2021 03 29;27(2):23. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

Leibniz Universität Hannover (Institut für Philosophie), Hannover, Germany.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, high hopes were placed on digital contact tracing. Digital contact tracing apps can now be downloaded in many countries, but as further waves of COVID-19 tear through much of the northern hemisphere, these apps are playing a less important role in interrupting chains of infection than anticipated. We argue that one of the reasons for this is that most countries have opted for decentralised apps, which cannot provide a means of rapidly informing users of likely infections while avoiding too many false positive reports. Read More