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Zhang, Qi; Deng, Jing; Li, Ya-Nan; Gou, Yue; Yan, Xiao-Xin; Li, Fang; Pan, Ai-Hua – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2020
Postmortem human brain donation is crucial to both anatomy education and research. The China Human Brain Banking Consortium was established recently to foster brain donation in China. The purpose of this study was to gain information about the public perception of and attitudes toward brain donation and to identify factors that may impact the…
Descriptors: Asians, Brain, Donors, Anatomy
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Wiese, Holger; Komes, Jessica; Tüttenberg, Simone; Leidinger, Jana; Schweinberger, Stefan R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Difficulties in person recognition are among the common complaints associated with cognitive ageing. The present series of experiments therefore investigated face and person recognition in young and older adults. The authors examined how within-domain and cross-domain repetition as well as semantic priming affect familiar face recognition and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Young Adults, Older Adults, Cognitive Ability
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Egan, Marcia; Neely-Barnes, Susan L.; Combs-Orme, Terri – Journal of Social Work Education, 2011
New knowledge from the rapidly growing field of neuroscience has important implications for our understanding of human behavior in the social environment, yet little of this knowledge has made its way into social work education. This article presents a model for integrating neuroscience into instruction on human development, the bio psychosocial…
Descriptors: Social Work, Brain, Biological Sciences, Cognitive Development
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Toner, Chelsea K.; Pirogovsky, Eva; Kirwan, C. Brock; Gilbert, Paul E. – Learning & Memory, 2009
Young and nondemented older adults were tested on a continuous recognition memory task requiring visual pattern separation. During the task, some objects were repeated across trials and some objects, referred to as lures, were presented that were similar to previously presented objects. The lures resulted in increased interference and an increased…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Recognition (Psychology), Memorization
Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr., Ed. – APA Books, 2008
The most popular activities from APA's successful "Activities Handbooks for the Teaching of Psychology" are gathered together and updated in this book of teachers' favorites. The lesson plans, which encourage active learning and involve the whole class, have stood the test of time and proven themselves to be entertaining, effective, and easy to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans