Search
Now showing items 221-230 of 495
High perceived stress is associated with unfavorable eating behavior in overweight and obese Finns of working age
(Elsevier BV, 2016)
Stress-related eating may be a potential factor in the obesity epidemic. Rather little is known about how stress associates with eating behavior and food intake in overweight individuals in a free-living situation. Thus, ...
The auditory N1 suppression rebounds as prediction persists over time
(Elsevier Ltd., 2016)
The predictive coding model of perception proposes that neuronal responses reflect prediction errors. Repeated as well as predicted stimuli trigger suppressed neuronal responses because they are associated with reduced ...
Visual Mismatch Negativity (vMMN): A review and meta-analysis of studies in psychiatric and neurological disorders
(Elsevier Masson, 2016)
The visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) response is an event-related potential (ERP) component, which is automatically elicited by events that violate predictions based on prior events. VMMN experiments use visual stimulus ...
Phase matters: responding to and learning about peripheral stimuli depends on hippocampal θ phase at stimulus onset
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2015)
Hippocampal θ (3–12 Hz) oscillations are implicated in learning and memory, but their functional role remains unclear. We studied the effect of the phase of local θ oscillation on hippocampal responses to a neutral conditioned ...
Examining the double-deficit hypothesis in an orthographically consistent language
(Routledge, 2012)
We examined the double-deficit hypothesis in Finnish. One hundred five Finnish children with high familial risk for dyslexia and 90 children with low family risk were followed from the age of 3½ years until Grade 3. ...
Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter-speech sound correspondences
(National Academy of Sciences, 2010)
The acquisition of reading skills is a major landmark process in a
human’s cognitive development. On the neural level, a new functional
network develops during this time, as children typically learn
to associate the ...
Changing definitions of Asia
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
The meaning of Asia has changed drastically during the millennia the concept has been in use. Its usage was established in Greek literature 2,500 years ago as a geographic reference to lands inhabited by the Greeks at the ...
Job Resources and Work Engagement: Optimism as Moderator Among Finnish Managers
(Ubiquity Press, 2014)
The aim of the present study was to investigate the moderating role of optimism in the relationship between job resources (organizational climate, job control) and work engagement among Finnish young managers (N = 747). ...
The Right Not to Have Rights: Posted Worker Acquiescence and the European Union Labor Rights Framework
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016)
The emergence of the European Union citizenship agenda has mainly taken place along the evolution of mobility rights, with the goal of creating a pan-European labor market. Mobility undermines the nationally embedded notion ...
Tentative lessons of experience: Arendt, essayism, and "the social" reconsidered
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
The article addresses the role of the essay in Hannah Arendt’s theorizing. By paying attention to Arendt’s style, we are better able to draw the full conclusions from the well-known fact that she was not a system-builder ...