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2020-02-11ZeitschriftenartikelMeasuring Characteristics of Explanations with Element Maps What are the structural characteristics of written scientific explanations that make them good? This is often difficult to measure. One approach to describing and analyzing structures is to employ network theory. With this ...
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2014-10-02ZeitschriftenartikelSelf-organization in psychotherapy: testing the synergetic model of change processes In recent years, models have been developed that conceive psychotherapy as a self-organizing process of bio-psycho-social systems. These models originate from the theory of self-organization (Synergetics), from the theory ...
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2014-05-13ZeitschriftenartikelTest battery for measuring the perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotion Despite the importance of perceiving and recognizing facial expressions in everyday life, there is no comprehensive test battery for the multivariate assessment of these abilities. As a first step toward such a compilation, ...
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2014-02-04ZeitschriftenartikelFacial age affects emotional expression decoding Facial expressions convey important information on emotional states of our interaction partners. However, in interactions between younger and older adults, there is evidence for a reduced ability to accurately decode ...
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2013-02-12ZeitschriftenartikelAnticipatory Regulation of Action Control in a Simon Task: Behavioral, Electrophysiological, and fMRI Correlates With the present study we investigated cue-induced preparation in a Simon task and measured electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in two within-subjects sessions. Cues informed either ...
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2014-07-03ZeitschriftenartikelDynamical systems analysis applied to working memory data In the present paper we investigate weekly fluctuations in the working memory capacity (WMC) assessed over a period of 2 years. We use dynamical system analysis, specifically a second order linear differential equation, ...
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2014-05-19ZeitschriftenartikelNeural processing of visual information under interocular suppression: a critical review When dissimilar stimuli are presented to the two eyes, only one stimulus dominates at a time while the other stimulus is invisible due to interocular suppression. When both stimuli are equally potent in competing for ...
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2014-08-22ZeitschriftenartikelPlaying off the curve - testing quantitative predictions of skill acquisition theories in development of chess performance Learning curves have been proposed as an adequate description of learning processes, no matter whether the processes manifest within minutes or across years. Different mechanisms underlying skill acquisition can lead to ...
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2014-06-10ZeitschriftenartikelSpontaneously spotting and applying shortcuts in arithmetic—a primary school perspective on expertise One crucial feature of expertise is the ability to spontaneously recognize where and when knowledge can be applied to simplify task processing. Mental arithmetic is one domain in which people should start to develop such ...
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2012-12-31ZeitschriftenartikelThe Activation of Effect Codes in Response Preparation: New Evidence from an Indirect Priming Paradigm Evidence for the anticipation of environmental effects as an integral part of response planning comes mainly from experiments in which the effects were physically presented. Thus, in these studies it cannot be excluded ...
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2012-12-28ZeitschriftenartikelInstructed Task Demands and Utilization of Action Effect Anticipation Automatic acquisition of action effect associations may serve as a parsimonious account of how people acquire the basis for intentionally controlled action. However, recent research suggests that learning or the expression ...
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2013-06-03ZeitschriftenartikelFace Adaptation Effects: Reviewing the Impact of Adapting Information, Time, and Transfer The ability to adapt is essential to live and survive in an ever-changing environment such as the human ecosystem. Here we review the literature on adaptation effects of face stimuli to give an overview of existing findings ...
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2011-07-12ZeitschriftenartikelSocial Performance Cues Induce Behavioral Flexibility in Humans Behavioral flexibility allows individuals to react to environmental changes, but changing established behavior carries costs, with unknown benefits. Individuals may thus modify their behavioral flexibility according to the ...
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2019Berichte und sonstige TexteGrün im Klimawandel Marzahn-Hellersdorf 2020 (Kalender)Der mittlerweile 20. Umweltkalender des Bezirks Marzahn-Hellersdorf vermittelt neben schönen fotografischen Eindrücken viel Wissenswertes zum Klimawandel, zur Stadtnatur und zu engagierten Gärtner*innen und Umweltbildner*innen. ...
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2013-07-24ZeitschriftenartikelWhat is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it? A latent variable study examined whether different classes of working-memory tasks measure the same general construct of working-memory capacity (WMC). Data from 270 subjects were used to examine the relationship between ...
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2013-04-08ZeitschriftenartikelIndependence of Valence and Reward in Emotional Word Processing: Electrophysiological Evidence Both emotion and reward are primary modulators of cognition: emotional word content enhances word processing, and reward expectancy similarly amplifies cognitive processing from the perceptual up to the executive control ...
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2012-10-01ZeitschriftenartikelDoes Explicit Expectation Really Affect Preparation? Expectation enables preparation for an upcoming event and supports performance if the anticipated situation occurs, as manifested in behavioral effects (e.g., decreased RT). However, demonstrating coincidence between ...
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2011-11-16ZeitschriftenartikelReward and Punishment Effects on Error Processing and Conflict Control Recently, positive affect has been reported to reduce cognitive conflicts and adaptations related to conflict control. van Steenbergen et al. (2009) proposed that the aversive quality of conflicts drives short-term adaptations ...
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2012-02-17ZeitschriftenartikelPicture-Induced Semantic Interference Reflects Lexical Competition during Object Naming With a picture–picture experiment, we contrasted competitive and non-competitive models of lexical selection during language production. Participants produced novel noun–noun compounds in response to two adjacently displayed ...
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2012-06-07ZeitschriftenartikelBrain Oscillations and Functional Connectivity during Overt Language Production In the present study we investigate the communication of different large scale brain sites during an overt language production task with state of the art methods for the estimation of EEG functional connectivity. Participants ...
