Situated cognition

Previous works have established that RA functions in the patterning of the anterior-posterior positional identities of central nervous system (Holland and Holland, 1996, Escriva et al., 2002, Schubert, 2004, 2005, 2006 and Koop et al., 2010). It can be depicted from the results that the p-test indicates a significant difference between the experimental and control subjects. This means that the retinoic acid, which was added to the experimental group only , have adversely affected the…

Be positive in everything that happens to you in your life. Even if very terrible things happen to you, you should keep a good mind. Don’t let evil people bring you down until they destroy you. Don’t bring people down when you have a horrible time. People in this world will be negative towards you, no matter what you do. If you get knocked down, then get right back up! I prefer being positive than being negative. I also feel like other people should be positive. The negative people give…

• Reference: Nyberg, J., Westberg, L. R., Neovius, E., Larson, O., & Henningsson, G. (2010). Speech results after one-stage palatoplasty with or without muscle reconstruction for isolated cleft palate. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 47(1), 92-103. doi:10.1597/08-222.1 − Summary of findings from above reference: Children with cleft of the hard and soft palate (CHSP) had significantly poorer speech outcomes compared to the reference group and to children with cleft of the soft palate only…

In the article by (multiple authors) wanted to test whether memory and imagination where independent functions. Similarly it is believed that imagining the future depends on the ability to retrieve episodic details from past experiences in order to build a novel experience. Both memory and imaging functions are known to be carried out in the hippocampus so the researchers wanted to know whether the hippocampus could distinguish between remembering the past and imaging the future. To address…

Romeo, D.M., Guzzardi, S., Ricci, D., Cilauro, S., Brogna, B., Cowan, F., Romeo, M.G.,…Mercuri, E. (2012). Longitudinal cognitive assessment in healthy late preterm (LP) infants. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 16, 243-247. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2011.07.012 ___________________________________________________________________ The purpose of this study was to assess the cognitive development in healthy late preterm (LP) infants born between 33 and 36 weeks gestation. A longitudinal study…

The ever advancing field of technology is an amazing feat that the human race has developed. With any strive forward, there is always negatives that come with it. Throughout history mankind has always been curious and wanted to find out way to circumvent the systems that they use. Mankind does it out of curiosity and malicious intent though. Technology has quickly attempted to block these malicious attacks through new security measures and proper training, but malicious users will always find a…

The topic that involves the topic that if music can effect a score on a test hasn’t showed up on many sites. The scientific question is: Can music affect a score on a test if music is playing in the background? There has been some websites that has provided information about different individuals also trying the experiment. These experiments will be different from this experiment because of multiple reasons. Most of them have been tested before the 21st century. This experiment will also be for…

Task 2 Evaluation of the Multi Store Model of Memory The multi-store model by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) states that memory consists of three stores; the sensory store, short- term store and the long-term store. Information from the environment initially goes into sensory memory which we do take much not take much notice of, but the moment we pay attention to it, the information gets encoded and passed down into the short- term memory. Since the short-term memory has a finite duration and…

Humans’ amazing ability to recognize faces has one limitation; we cannot recognize upside-down faces. Studies have shown that while we can recognize inverted objects, we can’t tell “which of two inverted faces is the original when one has been slightly altered.” Dubbed the Thatcher Illusion, it is a result of our brain evolving a specialized facial recognition area separate from the area used for all other objects. The reason why is very simple; faces are always upright. There’s no need to take…

Descartes starts off by saying that all the old opinions and beliefs that he had accepted as true were actually false. They were highly doubtful and he took time out of his retirement to reexamine them. He said that there was no need in proving al his old opinions wrong, but it was not necessarily wrong to believe in them either. Descartes says that beliefs are received from your sense and sometimes these senses mislead us, and because of this deception, it is hard to put total confidence in…