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Motor Learning in Mirror Drawing
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Colloquially, the terms learning and memory encompass a broad range of behaviors and mental systems, everything from learning to tie a shoe to mastering calculus (and a lot in between). Experimental psychologists have divided up learning mechanisms into groups that seem to have different properties, and that seem to rely on different brain systems. A major division is between declarative and non-declarative memory, roughly, the...
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Fabricating Metamaterials Using the Fiber Drawing Method
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2012
Metamaterials at terahertz frequencies offer unique opportunities, but are challenging to fabricate in bulk. We adapt the fabrication procedure for microstructured polymer optical fibers to inexpensively fabricate metamaterials potentially on an industrial scale. We produce polymethylmethacrylate fibers containing ~10 μm diameter indium wires separated by ~100 μm, which exhibit a terahertz plasmonic response.
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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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Decision-making and the Iowa Gambling Task
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California Decision-making is an important component of human executive function, in which a choice about a course of action or cognition is made from many possibilities. Damage to the inferior parts of the frontal lobes can affect a person's ability to make good decisions. However, while decision-making deficits can have a large impact on one's life, these deficits can be difficult to quantify in the laboratory.
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Drawing Free-body Diagrams: Rules
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2023
The first step in describing and analyzing most phenomena in physics involves the careful drawing of a free-body diagram. Free-body diagrams are useful in analyzing forces acting on an object or system, and are employed extensively in the study and application of Newton's laws of motion. The steps to draw a free-body diagram are listed below: • Draw the object under consideration. If treating the object as a particle, represent the object as a point. Place this point at the origin of a...
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The central mechanism is the conversion of an internal representation into observable performance. Accuracy and spatial organization indicate how closely the produced image matches the relevant visual structure, while omissions can identify information that was not reproduced. Completion time and strategy add process-level evidence, helping researchers distinguish the outcome from the way it was achieved.
Sequence and drawing strategy provide information that a final image alone may miss. The order of actions can show how a participant organizes the task, whereas strategy describes the approach used to construct the drawing. Examining both alongside accuracy and time supports a broader analysis of planning, attention, and executive function.
Standardization is important because drawing performance depends on the instructions and recording conditions. Keeping these features consistent makes differences in accuracy, omissions, timing, or organization more meaningfully comparable across participants or conditions. Without that consistency, an apparent cognitive or motor difference could instead reflect variation in how the task was presented or documented.
Fine-motor coordination can affect the visible product independently of the mental process being studied. For that reason, researchers can examine motor-control indicators together with cognitive measures such as spatial organization, omissions, sequence, and completion time. This combined view helps place drawing performance in the context of perception, planning, and action.
A basic workflow begins with standardized instructions and consistent recording conditions. The participant then produces or reproduces the specified visual material. Researchers examine the resulting record for accuracy, spatial organization, omissions, sequence, completion time, and drawing strategy. These observations convert the performance into structured information for psychological or cognitive analysis.
Applications extend across cognitive and developmental research, psychological assessment, and investigations of neurological or psychiatric conditions. In each setting, the same observable features can be used to study different questions, including visuospatial memory, attention, planning, executive function, perception, behavior, or fine-motor coordination within the selected population.