Browsing Psychology & Neuroscience Faculty Research, Publications and Presentations by Title
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Hopelessness and Excessive Drinking among Aboriginal Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking to Cope
Canadian Aboriginal youth show high rates of excessive drinking, hopelessness, and depressive symptoms. We propose that Aboriginal adolescents with higher levels of hopelessness are more susceptible to depressive symptoms, ... -
Impact of threat level, task instruction, and individual characteristics on cold pressor pain and fear among children and their parents
The cold pressor task (CPT) is increasingly used to induce experimental pain in children, but the specific methodology of the CPT is quite variable across pediatric studies. This study examined how subtle variations in CPT ... -
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Mechanisms underlying the production effect for singing.
The production effect is defined as better memory for items that were read aloud compared to items that were read silently. Quinlan and Taylor (2013) expanded the findings of the production effect by demonstrating that ... -
The metabolism of histamine in the Drosophila optic lobe involves an ommatidial pathway: beta-alanine recycles through the retina
Flies recycle the photoreceptor neurotransmitter histamine by conjugating it to beta-alanine to form beta-alanyl-histamine (carcinine). The conjugation is regulated by Ebony, while Tan hydrolyses carcinine, releasing ... -
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Ortho-semantic learning of novel words: An event-related potential study of grade 3 children
Introduction: As children become independent readers, they regularly encounter new words whose meanings they must infer from context, and whose spellings must be learned for future recognition. The self-teaching hypothesis ... -
“Pain is not over when the needle ends”: A review and preliminary model of acute pain memory development in childhood
Over the past several decades, the field of pediatric pain has made impressive advances in our understanding of the pain experience of the developing child, as well as the devastating impact of inadequately managed pain ...