Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació: Recent submissions
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Illusions of causality: How they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced
Illusions of causality occur when people develop the belief that there is a causal connection between two events that are actually unrelated. Such illusions have been proposed to underlie pseudoscience and superstitious ...
La competencia comunicativa y lingüística en la formación inicial de maestros: un estudio piloto
La creación de contextos comunicativos ricos que favorezcan el desarrollo de habilidades de lengua oral de los alumnos supone un reto en la práctica educativa de maestros. Con este objetivo, se diseña y construye el Sistema ...
Human Visual Field and Navigational Strategies
In this study we use a particular virtual reality environment to investigate spatial navigation in human adults in two viewing conditions. In the first, participants could simultaneously see both landmarks of the virtual ...
Argument structure and the representation of abstract semantics
According to the dual coding theory, differences in the ease of retrieval between concrete and abstract words are related to the exclusive dependence of abstract semantics on linguistic information. Argument structure can ...
Neural Circuits Subserving the Retrieval of Stems and Grammatical Features in Regular and Irregular Verbs
Many languages, including English and Spanish, feature regular (dance 3 danced) and irregular (catch 3 caught) inflectional systems. According to psycholinguistic theories, regular and irregular inflections are instantiated ...
School projects with the community: Educational practices that promote connection between learning contexts and experiences
This study explores educational practices that connect schools and community institutions to foster meaningful learning and students' engagement with social change. Recently there has been a growing interest in connecting ...
Phonological representation of words in the first lexicon: consonants, vowels and levels of specification
A review of the main studies on the format of lexical representation in the initial stages of language development is presented. Current investigations reveal a significant level of phonological specificity in the ...
Procesos de lexicalización en la LSC: Procedimientos de combinación
En este trabajo se describen los diferentes procedimientos formales de combinación para la creación léxica en la lengua de signos catalana (LSC), así como el papel fundamental de la metáfora y la metonimia conceptuales en ...
La selección para el ingreso en la Universidad de Barcelona
1. EL INTERÉS POR LA SELECCIÓN: El crecimiento vertiginoso del alumnado universitario no es un fenómeno exclusivamente español, sino que en mayor o menor proporción ocurre en todo el mundo. Se ha calculado que en los ...
Las 400 palabras: La interacción léxico-sintáctica en la adquisición del lenguaje
This paper explores the relations between the lexicon and the initial stage of the syntactic component. The main goal is tofind out ifthere is a covariation between the changes in the lexicon (when it reaches 400 words) ...
¿No le pesan los años? Entonces está en plena gerontolescencia
Frases cotidianas como “¿Ya han pasado 15 años desde que fuimos a Nueva York?” o “¡Madre mía, tu hija ya cumplió 10 años!” nos dan muestran de lo poco conscientes que somos del paso del tiempo y sus consecuencias. Además, ...
La incidència de l'Estrès en el cos docent.
Aquest article ofereix una visió actualitzada de l'alarmant incidència de l'estrès en el col·lectiu docent, aprofundint en el seu diagnòstic, multicausalitat i diversificada repercussió. Així, doncs, es posa de manifest ...
Quality of life in people aged 65+ in Europe: associated factors and models of social welfare analysis of data from the SHARE project (Wave 5)
Purpose To analyse the clinical, sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors that influence perceived quality of life (QoL) in a community sample of 33,241 people aged 65+, and to examine the relationship with models of ...
Cognitive-Behavioral and Personal Construct Therapies for Depression in Women with Fibromyalgia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Background/Objective: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that depressive symptoms can aggravate. The aim of the present study was to test the efficacy of Personal Construct Therapy (PCT), an approach that emphasizes ...
Onset time of binocular rivalry and duration of inter-dominance periods as psychophysical markers of ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the main neurobiological disorders in young children. Despite its prevalence current diagnosis is debated. In this study we tested whether measures of binocular ...
Early response competition over the motor cortex underlies proactive control of error correction
Response inhibition is a fundamental brain function that must be flexible enough to incorporate proactive goal-directed demands, along with reactive, automatic and well consolidated behaviors. However, whether proactive ...
First- and second-language phonological representations in the mental lexicon
Performance-based studies on the psychological nature of linguistic competence can conceal significant differences in the brain processes that underlie native versus nonnative knowledge of language. Here we report results ...
Generalization transitions in Hidden-Layer neural networks for third-order feature discrimination
Stochastic learning processes for a specific feature detector are studied. This technique is applied to nonsmooth multilayer neural networks requested to perform a discrimination task of order 3 based on the ssT-block¿ssC-block ...
Perceiving a moral identity: When storybook illustrations express a moral duality
Perceiving a moral identity in a visual image of a fictional character is a recurrent experience in childhood. “This man is evil” or “that woman is good” are common responses of children to certain physical characteristics ...
Ayer y hoy: William James (1842-1910)
El deseo de los maestros de completar su intrucción y de crear una superior orientación profesional, les ha acercado más y más a nosotros los psicólogos en busca de abono para sus enseñanzas. Creo sinceramente que es tan ...
