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Gareth Furber

Use this category to introduce yourself and how you are involved in Psychology - 38 views

Hi everyone My name is Dr Gareth Furber. I run the website www.psychsplash.com and this diigo group is for anyone who has a knack for locating useful Psychology resources. I currently work in Chil...

Introduce Yourself

started by Gareth Furber on 29 Apr 07 no follow-up yet
MrGhaz .

Too Little Stress is Bad for You - 0 views

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    When we are anxious or frightened we may feel sick or get diarrhea. If we are angry or frustrated we can end up with a headache, indigestion or tense, aching muscles. These are fairly common complaints which most people suffer at some time. But how can stress play a part in illness such as heart attack, ulcers or depression?
dr sullivan

Ultimate Diet Resource Or Myth - Water and Weight Loss - 0 views

Water assists the body in such a lot of ways in which. The predominant faculty of thought has invariably been that water is associate amazing weight loss tool, one that delivers as few alternative ...

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started by dr sullivan on 31 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
lina001

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    Best Health Tips and guideline for men and women....
Tero Toivanen

Cognitive Daily: A quick eye-exercise can improve your performance on memory tests (but... - 1 views

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  • If you're taking a test of rote memorization, like words from a list, move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds before you start.
  • It may be that this quick activity helps facilitate interaction between the brain hemispheres.
  • any activity that encourages communication between the hemispheres is likely to increase recall.
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  • people who have poorer interactions between the hemispheres should benefit more than others. Who has less interactions between hemispheres? People who are strongly right-handed.
  • Strongly right-handed students remembered significantly more words if they moved their eyes compared to keeping their eyes still. Non-strongly-right-handed students (including left-handers) remembered the same number of words regardless of whether they moved their eyes before the test.
  • strongly right-handed students had significantly fewer false alarms after they moved their eyes back and forth. But for non-strongly-right-handed people, the reverse occurred; moving their eyes caused them to falsely remember more words. So overall, while the eye-saccade exercise helped right-handers, for lefties and for those who didn't have a strongly dominant hand, the exercise actually harmed their performance.
  • You might think that only side-to-side movement would improve performance, but Lyle's team found that moving your eyes up and down caused the same effect.
  • researchers say that other studies have shown that any eye movements increase bilateral activity in the frontal eye field, so it's still possible that hemispheric connectivity can explain the improved performance after eye movements.
  • So why doesn't the exercise work the same way for left-handers? Left handers (and ambidextrous individuals) already have a high level of hemispheric connectivity. Lyle's team speculates that there might be such a thing as too much connectivity, which results in a decrease in performance.
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