Daniel J. Simons, Ronald A. Rensink
Change blindness is the striking failure to see large changes that normally would be noticed easily. Over the past decade this phenomenon has greatly contributed to our understanding of attention, perception, and even consciousness. The surprising extent of change blindness explains its broad appeal...
Jonathan Smallwood, Boris C. Bernhardt, Robert Leech, Danilo Bzdok et al.
The default mode network (DMN) is a set of widely distributed brain regions in the parietal, temporal and frontal cortex. These regions often show reductions in activity during attention-demanding tasks but increase their activity across multiple forms of complex cognition, many of which are linked ...
A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Samuli Laato, Md. Shamim Talukder, Erkki Sutinen
Highlights • We study social media use, fake news sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19.• Self-promotion and entertainment increase the sharing of unverified information.• Exploration and religiosity correlate negatively with the sharing of unverified information.• Deficient self-regulati...
Christine Jost, Florence Birungi Kyazze, Jesse B. Naab, Sharmind Neelormi et al.
In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. Policy and programme-relevant results were obtained. Smallholders are changing a...
Zapan Barua, Sajib Barua, Salma Aktar, Najma Kabir et al.
The proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms is faster than the spread of Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19) and it can generate hefty deleterious consequences on health amid a disaster like COVID-19. Drawing upon research on the stimulus-response theory (hypodermic needle theory) and...
Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Varuni Kumari, Masuma Hoque, Rasa Ruseckaite et al.
BACKGROUND: Clinical quality registries (CQRs) are playing an increasingly important role in improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs. CQRs are established with the purpose of monitoring quality of care, providing feedback, benchmarking performance, describing pattern of treatment, r...
Graham Caithness, Rieko Osu, Paul M. Bays, Henry W. Chase et al.
An influential idea in human motor learning is that there is a consolidation period during which motor memories are transformed from a fragile to a permanent state, no longer susceptible to interference from new learning. The evidence supporting this idea comes from studies showing that the motor me...
Itamar Simonson, P. H. Nye
Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Faruque Parvez, Pam Factor‐Litvak et al.
Recently, epidemiologic studies of developmental neurotoxicology have been challenged to increase focus on co-exposure to multiple toxicants. Earlier reports, including our own work in Bangladesh, have demonstrated independent associations between neurobehavioral function and exposure to both arseni...
Sarah J. Wallace, Linda Worrall, Tanya Rose, Guylaine Le Dorze et al.
PURPOSE: To identify important treatment outcomes from the perspective of people with aphasia and their families using the ICF as a frame of reference. METHODS: The nominal group technique was used with people with aphasia and their family members in seven countries to identify and rank important tr...
Nilda Cosco, Robin C. Moore, Mohammed Zakiul Islam
UNLABELLED: The preschool that children attend has been shown to be a significant but variable predictor of physical activity of 3- to 5-yr-olds, whereas the time outdoors has been found to be a strong correlate of physical activity. Researchers speculate that variations in preschool physical activi...
Murray Sidman, Constance K. Wynne, Russell W. Maguire, Thomas R. E. Barnes
Three adult subjects were taught a set of two-choice simultaneous discriminations, with three positive and three negative stimuli; all possible combinations of positive and negative stimuli yielded nine different pairs. The discriminations were repeatedly reversed and rereversed, the former positive...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
Purpose – This study aims to purport to investigate the relationship between firm size, profitability, board diversity (namely, director gender and nationality) and the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures within a developing nation context. Design/methodology/approach – The d...
Parves Sultan, Ho Yin Wong, Md. Shah Azam
This study aims to examine how marketing communication channels for organic food (MCOF) and perceived organic food values (OFV) stimulate organic food consumers’ behavioural intentions (BI) within the stimulus-organism-response (S–O-R) framework. The online survey resulted in 1011 responses, and dat...
Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Ajay Krishno Sarkar, Md. Amzad Hossain, Md. Selim Hossain et al.
Assessment of the cognitive functions and state of clinical subjects is an important aspect of e-health care delivery, and in the development of novel human-machine interfaces. A subject can display a range of emotions that significantly influence cognition, and emotion classification through the an...