Edited by Jackie Guendouzi, Filip Loncke and Mandy J. Williams. This handbook includes an overview of those areas of cognition and language processing that are relevant to the field of communication disorders, and provides examples of theoretical approaches to problems and issues in communication disorders.The first section includes a collection of chapters…ISBN: 9781848729100Publi
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July 14, 2009
Truthfulness Requires No Act Of Will For Honest People, Neuroimaging Suggests
A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation. Using neuroimaging, psychologists looked at the brain activity of people given the chance to gain money dishonestly by lying and found that honest people showed no additional neural activity when telling the truth, implying that ext
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May 31, 2009
Griffiths: Cognitive Bias and Skill in Gambling
"… Rational choice theory predicts that people will not gamble, thus it is theorised that regular gamblers gamble because they make the wrong decisions - that cognitive bias (irrational thinking) distorts their reasoning. The aim of this study was to increase understanding of the cognitive processes and behaviour of persistent fruit machine gamblers."Almost 18 months [...]
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