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Front Behav Neurosci 2021 30;15:601698. Epub 2021 Mar 30.

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China.

Memory efficiency is influenced by the modalities of acquisition and retrieval. The recall accuracy of read or voiced material differs depending on whether the recall is given verbally or in writing. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is critical for both attentional allocation and short-term memory, suggesting that different short-term memory recall modalities are associated with distinct mPFC processes and activation patterns. Read More

Int J Neurosci 2021 Apr 13:1-18. Epub 2021 Apr 13.

Student Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

Diabetes can impair cognitive performance and lead to dementia. Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) are reported with different levels of cognitive dysfunctions in various cognitive domains ranging from general intellectual testing to specific deficits with visuospatial abilities, motor speed, writing, attention, reading, and psychomotor efficiency. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of cognitive functions. Read More

Laterality 2021 Apr 6:1-54. Epub 2021 Apr 6.

Department of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Increased rates of atypical handedness are observed in neurotypical individuals who are low-performing in mathematical tasks as well as in individuals with special educational needs, such as dyslexia. This is the first investigation of handedness in individuals with Mathematical Learning Difficulties (MLD). We report three new studies ( = 134;  = 1,893;  = 153) and two sets of meta-analyses (22 studies;  = 3,667). Read More

Internet Interv 2021 Apr 24;24:100377. Epub 2021 Feb 24.

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Lise Meitner Straße 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany.

Background: Software agents are computer-programs that conduct conversations with a human. The present study evaluates the feasibility of the software agent "SISU" aiming to uplift psychological wellbeing. Methods: Within a one-group pretest-posttest trial,  = 30 German-speaking participants were recruited. Read More

Front Psychol 2021 19;12:655601. Epub 2021 Mar 19.

Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.

Reading-to-write is an essential skill in academic writing, and reading-writing tasks have been widely adopted in standardized English tests. Much more recent literature on integrated reading-writing tasks has focused on writers' use of source texts or the validity of integrated writing assessment, while little is known about whether the nature of the types of reading texts has any bearing on integrated reading-writing tasks. This study examines whether the types of reading texts (i. Read More