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The role of letters and syllables in typical and dysfluent reading in a transparent orthography
(Springer, 2013)
The role of letters and syllables in typical and dysfluent 2nd grade reading in Finnish, a transparent orthography, was assessed by lexical decision and naming tasks. Typical readers did not show reliable word length effects ...
Towards a physically more active lifestyle based on one’s own values: the results of a randomized controlled trial among physically inactive adults
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
Background: The high prevalence of physical inactivity has led to a search for novel and feasible interventions that
will enhance physical activity, especially among the least physically active individuals. This randomized ...
Paternal masculinities in early fatherhood: dominant and counter narratives by Finnish first-time fathers
(SAGE Publications, Inc.; National Council on Family Relations, 2015)
In this article, we seek to extend understanding of the role of gender in early fatherhood by examining narratives of paternal masculinities, that is, the social and cultural constructions of gendered practices and conventions ...
Mobilities in Finland's Information Society Strategies from 1995 to 2010
(Routledge, 2013)
The article explores Finland’s national information society strategies and uses the Finnish case as an example to identify the limitation of the so-called ‘methodological nationalism’ and to explicate the advantages of the ...
Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic Asymmetry
(De Gruyter, 2013)
In this article, I identify three ways in which Wittgenstein opposed an
idea of epistemic asymmetry between the first person and the secondor-
third person. Examining the questions of 1) absence of doubt
about my own ...
Back to Basics: The Relative Importance of Transformational and Fair Leadership for Employee Work Engagement and Exhaustion
(Stockholm University Press, 2016)
This study contributes to the literature on the supervisors’ role in employee well-being by drawing on
two separate lines of research: transformational leadership and organizational justice. The purpose of the
study was ...
Trajectories of reading development: A follow-up from birth to school age of children with and without risk for dyslexia
(Wayne State University Press, 2006)
In order to understand why some children are vulnerable to difficulties in their
language development and their acquisition of reading skill, the Jyväskylä Longitudinal
Study of Dyslexia followed 200 Finnish children ...
Hippocampal theta (3-8 Hz) activity during classical eyeblink conditioning in rabbits
(Elsevier, 2008)
In 1978, Berry and Thompson showed that the amount of theta (3–8 Hz) activity in the spontaneous hippocampal EEG predicted learning rate in subsequent eyeblink conditioning in rabbits. More recently, the absence of theta ...
Synchronicity matters: defining the characteristics of digital generations
(Routledge, 2016)
This paper investigates whether or not the proposition that the second digital generation (or so-called digital natives) is more engaged in social use of the Internet than older generations is tenable. By analysing nationally ...
Self-regulation and Beyond : Affect Regulation and the Infant–Caregiver Dyad
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016)
In the available psychological literature, affect regulation is fundamentally considered
in terms of self-regulation, and according to this standard picture, the contribution of
other people in our affect regulation has ...