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Upright Imaging of Drosophila Embryos
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Executive Function and the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville Infants are born with amazing cognitive resources at their disposal, but they don’t know how to use them effectively. In order to harness the power of their brains, humans must develop high-level cognitive processes that manage basic brain functions. These processes make up what psychologists refer to as executive function. Executive function is a key factor in many self-regulatory behaviors, including forming...
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Upright Imaging of Drosophila Egg Chambers
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The upright imaging method described in this protocol allows for the detailed visualization of the poles of a developing Drosophila melanogaster egg. This end-on view provides a new perspective into the arrangements and morphologies of multiple cell types in the follicular epithelium.
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Piaget's Conservation Task and the Influence of Task Demands
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Jean Piaget was a pioneer in the field of developmental psychology, and his theory of cognitive development is one of the most well-known psychological theories. At the heart of Piaget’s theory is the idea that children’s ways of thinking change over the course of childhood. Piaget provided evidence for these changes by comparing how children of different ages responded to questions and problems that he...
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Performance depends on keeping the body’s center of mass controlled as the person moves through an action. Trunk and limb coordination allows posture to be adjusted while the task continues, rather than treating balance as a separate event. Sensory information helps guide these ongoing corrections, so observed behavior reflects the interaction of movement control and task demands.
Information from the senses helps the individual detect changes relevant to posture and movement, while the environment determines what adjustments the task requires. A reaching action, for example, may challenge control differently from standing or transferring. Examining these influences helps behavioral researchers distinguish general postural stability from performance that depends on a particular movement context.
They can reveal how a person coordinates the trunk and limbs, maintains postural stability, and adapts movement while pursuing a goal. These features provide more than a simple success or failure result: they characterize the motor strategies and functional performance used during action. Such observations are useful when behavior changes across development, aging, injury, or neurological conditions.
A basic observation begins with a goal-directed action, such as standing, reaching, or transferring, performed in an upright posture. The researcher then considers how the participant coordinates the trunk and limbs, uses sensory information, and adjusts the center of mass as the action unfolds. This approach links task performance to specific movement and balance demands.
These tasks are useful when the research question concerns movement behavior in a functional setting rather than posture alone. They can characterize motor strategies, postural stability, coordination, and overall functional performance during actions with practical goals. Their relevance extends to examining differences or changes associated with development, aging, injury, and neurological conditions.
Results can describe how movement and balance performance changes under conditions relevant to the behavior being studied. Patterns in coordination, stability, and functional performance may help identify altered strategies or reduced control. The findings therefore contribute behavioral evidence about movement changes and support evaluations involving development, aging, injury, or neurological conditions.