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The Coffee Challenge: A new method for the study of everyday action errors.

by Tania Giovannetti, Myrna F. Schwartz, PhD, Laurel J. Buxbaum, PsyD. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Errors in everyday activities pose significant consequences for individuals with mild cognitive deficits. However, there are few performance-based methods available to study action in these populations; the Coffee Challenge (CC) was designed for this purpose. Experiment 1 examined CC [...]

Oct 1, 2007 Attention
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Continuous ASL perfusion fMRI investigation of higher cognition: quantification of tonic CBF changes during sustained attention and working memory tasks.

by Junghoon Kim, PhD, John Whyte, MD, PhD, Jiongjiong Wang, Hengyi Rao, Kathy Z. Tang, John A. Detre, MD. Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion fMRI is an emerging method in clinical neuroimaging. Its non-invasiveness, absence of low frequency noise, and ability to quantify the [...]

May 1, 2006 Attention
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