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- Andersson, Gerhard, et al.
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Anxiety in elderly hearing impaired persons
- 1995
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In: Perceptual and Motor Skills. - 0031-5125 .- 1558-688X. ; 81, s. 552-554
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Abstract The association between experiences of hearing impairment and signs of anxiety in 42 elderly hearing impaired patients at a hearing aid centre was investigated. Subjects completed the Hearing Coping Assessment, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, and an audiometric test of hearing. Analysis showed low scores on anxiety and hearing problems compared with other studies. Moreover, scores on anxiety did not correlate with pure tone thresholds for hearing but with self-reported hearing problems (r = .31). Anxiety is important, but it is possible that signs of depression are more strongly related to self-perceived hearing handicap.
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- Andersson, Gerhard
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Decreased use of hearing aids following training in hearing tactics
- 1998
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In: PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS. - : PERCEPTUAL MOTOR SKILLS. - 0031-5125. ; 87:2, s. 703-706
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this report data on hearing aid use were combined from three randomized controlled studies on behavioural hearing tactics. Daily average hearing aid use at pretreatment and posttreatment were analysed for 63 older hearing-impaired persons who had eith
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- Axelsson, Östen
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Towards a psychology of photography : Dimensions underlying aesthetic appeal of photographs
- 2007
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In: Perceptual and Motor Skills. - 0031-5125 .- 1558-688X. ; 105:2, s. 411-434
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- With the aim to contribute to the development of a psychology of photography, this study examined what attributes are the major determinants of aesthetic appeal of photographs. Two interlinked experiments were conducted with 564 photographs having a wide range of motifs. Exp. 1 consisted of sorting by aesthetic appeal and adjective generation. In Exp. 2, attribute scaling was collected. Multidimensional scaling analysis of the photographs yielded three dimensions identified with the aid of attribute scales combined with measures of the manifest content of the photographs. The three dimensions were Hedonic Tone-Familiarity, Absence of color, and Expressiveness-Dynamics. The present results suggested that participants' familiarity with the photographs, the types of photographs (Color or Black & White), and the photographs' dynamics all affected participants' judgments of aesthetic appeal. Hedonic Tone and Expressiveness apparently mediated the participants' judgments.
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- Baird, John C., et al.
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Stimulus Sequence and the Exponent of the Power Function for Loudness
- 1991
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In: Perceptual and Motor Skills. - : SAGE Publications. - 0031-5125 .- 1558-688X. ; 73:1, s. 3-17
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In two experiments, 15 and 13 subjects estimated the loudness of 12 sound-pressure levels (38–104 dB; 6-dB intervals) of a 1000-Hz tone by the method of magnitude estimation with a modulus assigned to the first stimulus presented. The tone duration was 1 sec. and the interstimulus interval was 6 sec. The presentation order was systematically ascending-descending in one experiment and balanced-irregular in the other. The results indicate that (1) loudness is a power function of sound pressure with an exponent of 0.60 for the systematic order and 0.29 for the irregular order. (2) For both the irregular and systematic orders, a large step-size (12 or 18 dB) between the stimulus on Trial n and on Trial n-1 (or n-3) results in a slight assimilation effect. This also occurs for the small step-size (6 dB) in the irregular order. (3) The size of momentary exponents (based on two points, Trials n and n-l or n-3) depends on the sound pressures of successive stimuli, whether the steps are positive or negative, and whether the stimuli have been presented in systematic or irregular order. For positive steps, the momentary exponent is lower for a soft tone (Trial n) than for a loud tone, whereas for negative steps the momentary exponent is lower for a loud tone than for a soft tone. These effects are more pronounced when these stimuli are presented in an irregular order. A relative judgment model is offered for magnitude estimation. It assumes that subjects judge the loudness of a stimulus in terms of three reference markers: the minimum and maximum sound pressures as well as the sound pressure of the previous stimulus.
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- Bierschenk, Bernhard
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An ecological model for the processing of symbolic information
- 1982
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In: Perceptual and Motor Skills. - 0031-5125. ; 54, s. 663-674
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article attempts to prove that an adequate cognition oriented approach to the processing of symbolic information abstracted from verbal expressions must consider a running text instead of scattered sentences. It is argued that the dominant cognition models do not give due consideration to the fact that a valid abstraction of in-formation structures has to be based on an explicit encoding of intentionality and valuation. Following a critical discussion of the foundations of the existing models, it is stated that a model is required that can cope with empirical context and novelty instead of truth-values in semantic-logical contexts. The proposed theory has been validated on empirical text materials. It is shown that its underlying key relations can be extracted by means of discriminant functions and given a meaning¬ful interpretation.
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- Birgegard, A, et al.
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Methodology in subliminal psychodynamic activation: The next step in the debate
- 2001
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In: PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS. - : PERCEPTUAL MOTOR SKILLS. - 0031-5125. ; 92:2, s. 504-506
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Subliminal psychodynamic activation methodology has recently been the subject of an exchange of views between Birgegard and Sohlberg (1999) and Fudin (2000). The agreements and some remaining points of contention are summarized here. The main difference o
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- Birgegård, Andreas, et al.
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New methodological advice for research in subliminal psychodynamic activation
- 1999
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In: Perceptual and Motor Skills. - 0031-5125 .- 1558-688X. ; 88:3, s. 747-755
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent integration among approaches to perception without awareness has brought the usefulness of Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation into renewed locus. Several authors have discussed the possible detrimental impact on interpretation when control phrase
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