Psychology

DETECTING A VISUAL OBJECT IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER OBJECTS: THE FLANKER FACILITATION EFFECT IN CONTOUR INTEGRATION

AbstractWhen an observer views a complex visual scene and tries to identify an object, hisor her visual system must decide what regions of the visual field correspond to theobject of interest and which do not. One aspect of this process involves the group-ing of the local contrast informati...

Psychology Type: PROJECT

📄 247 pages | 🧠 66552 words | 📚 12 chapters

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A NEUROECONOMIC INVESTIGATION OF RISKY DECISION-MAKING AND LOSS IN THE RAT

AbstractHumans exhibit a number of suboptimal behaviours in the wake of a loss. Forexample, gamblers often 'chase' their losses in an attempt to break even.Similarly, investors tend to hold on to losing stocks too long in the hope that thedeclining share price might make a recovery....

Psychology Type: PROJECT

📄 233 pages | 🧠 59536 words | 📚 5 chapters

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AN EVALUATION OF COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN A RAT - MODEL OF HUNTINTONS'S DISEASE

AbstractThe purpose of this thesis was to develop methodology by which treatments for thecognitive impairments in Huntington's disease (HD) could be tested. As such, the thesis focusedmainly on evaluating rats with quinolinic acid (QA) lesions of the striatum, as this manipulationmimics so...

Psychology Type: PROJECT

📄 293 pages | 🧠 71751 words | 📚 9 chapters

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ATTENTION REGULATION AND BEHAVIOURAL FLEXIBILITY IN RATS WITH RELEVANCE TO SCHIZOPHRENIA

AbstractSchizophrenia is a neuropsychological disorder in which the neural systems which regulate attention allocation, primarily the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, aredysfunctional, resulting in deficient gating of attention to irrelevant inputs from the environment. This sensory processing dys...

Psychology Type: PROJECT

📄 192 pages | 🧠 53137 words | 📚 6 chapters

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DEMOGRAPHICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING ATTITUDES TO WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AMONG ACADEMIC WORKERS IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OYE-EKITI AND EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY

CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OYE-EKITI AND EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY

ABSTRACT Issue of occupational commitment and attitude to work among workers is a thing ofconcern to all management of organization including the academic workers of Federal University Oye- Ekiti and Ekiti State University in Ekiti State.The present study investigated the influence of perceived d...

Psychology Type: PROJECT

📄 87 pages | 🧠 19462 words | 📚 5 chapters

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