MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'fluency'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:28:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174665&cid=t_105285_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F29%2Fbeliefs-about-memory-interview-with-dan-simons%2F In a recent survey of the U.S. population, researchers Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris assessed common beliefs about memory.  They found that common beliefs are often incongruent with scientific findings.  Recently I had an opportunity to ask Simons about some of the implications of the survey. What motivated this survey on understanding memory? Our goal in conducting the study was to supplement the research we had done for our book, The Invisible Gorilla. The book focuses on everyday illusions, cases in which people’s intuitive beliefs about how the mind works are faulty. In writing the book, we realized that nobody had ever conducted a national survey to measure how pervasive those beliefs are. Our PLoS One paper reports the results from a subset of the items in the survey,... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174665 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:53:28 +0100 5174665 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3794914&cid=t_105285_122_f&fid=37835&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iqscorner.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fresearch-bytes-7-27-10-working-memory.html Conclusions: In the past 10 years, important new theoretical insights into the range and nature of WM deficits and relation between these limitations and the language difficulties in SLI have occurred. New, robust diagnostic assessment tools and computerized treatment methods designed to enhance children’s WM functioning have also been developed. The assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the language difficulties in SLI should consider the potential influence of WM.Meisinger, E. B., Bloom, J. S., & Hynd, G. W. (2010). Reading fluency: implications for the assessment of children with reading disabilities. Annals of Dyslexia, 60(1), 1-17.The current investigation explored the diagnostic utility of reading fluency measures in the identification of children with reading disabilities. P... Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3794914 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:22:00 +0100 3794914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3490690&cid=t_105285_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F8399938%2F1b4eag%2Fneuromarketing%7EWhen-Fancy-Fonts-Work.htm Now that you followed my advice in Convince With Simple Fonts and eliminated complicated fonts from your websites and printed material, I’m going to tell you that there is one situation where fancy, hard to read fonts can actually work better than simple ones. If you are selling a costly product, describing it [...] CommentsComments (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3490690 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:16:45 +0100 3490690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3460225&cid=t_105285_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F7591319%2F1a1671%2Fneuromarketing%7EConvince-with-Simple-Fonts.htm Do you need to convince a customer to complete an application form? Or, for a non-profit, do you need volunteers for a charity event? In both cases, you will be more successful if you describe the task in a simple, easy to read typeface. Research by Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz [...] CommentsGreat study: Arial it is! Best, Ana Hoffman by Ana YourNetBiz MentorI wish I had realizes it earlier____ nevertheless its never too ... by RukhsanaPlus 7 more... (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3460225 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:53:02 +0100 3460225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2943864&cid=t_105285_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F30%2Fdesign-can-encourage-greater-self-disclosure%2F Every day, our behavior is directly influenced by a number of factors, some of which we may not even be consciously aware of. How things are designed is one of those factors. Psychology researchers call it fluency while web developers call it usability, but they’re both basically talking about the same thing — how well something is designed can directly impact how much people use it. And not only the degree to which they use it, but also the amount of self-disclosure a person makes while using it. Online researchers have repeatedly referred to the disinhibition effect of online behavior — people tend to disclose more about themselves or their personal details online than they do in similar face-to-face interactions. But why do people — especially teens — over... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2943864 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:23:25 +0100 2943864 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1615953&cid=t_105285_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day-verbal.html We examined verbal fluency performance in 107 older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI, n=37), cognitive complaints (CC, n=37) despite intact neuropsychological functioning, and demographically matched healthy controls (HC, n=33). Participants completed fluency tasks with letter, semantic category, and semantic switching constraints. Both phonemic and semantic fluency were statistically (but not clinically) reduced in amnestic MCI relative to cognitively intact older adults, indicating subtle changes in the quality of the semantic store and retrieval slowing. Investigation of the underlying constructs of verbal fluency yielded two factors: Switching (including switching and shifting tasks) and Production (including letter, category, and action naming tasks), and both facto... BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1615953 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:19:00 +0100 1615953 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487403&cid=t_105285_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Ffluent-reading.html How about these correlations between fMRI brain activation and reading fluency? Poor (red) and fluent (green) readers were compared in the 3rd and 5th grades, and their performance correlated quite well with activation in the left middle temporal gyrus (well-known to be affected in dyslexia) and the right parietal lobe. The ages of students were well chosen because 4th grade tends to be around the time when big jumps in reading fluency can be seen; it's also when the brain is very active establishing connections to multisensory areas.The parietotemporal activation is particularly important to note here, because of it is distinct from pure sound processing. It may be more noticeable, too when individuals are sentences instead of single words. Reading fluency is often what well-compensated d... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487403 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:15:00 +0100 487403