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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by jeremy in houseofdixon general
You might ask yourself, what do those two things have in common, and no it’s not a study recently done on my brain and its poor functioning. Some know that Tiff was a Psychology major in college, and she will tell you it’s not a particularly helpful degree if you’re only planning on getting a bachelors. There is a silver lining to this story though, we just found out that her undergraduate thesis (done as part of her honors program) was partly used in an article that was published in…you guessed it the Neuropsychology journal alongside her advisor and another person. The title of this article has lots of words in it, which I guess has a direct relationship to how important it is. So long is the title that I’ll leave it as it’s own paragraph in this post to make sure it is fully understood…See Dictionary.com for any words you don’t know….here goes…
Increased Interhemispheric Interaction is Associated with Earlier Offset of Childhood Amnesia
by Stephen D. Christman (University of Toledo), Ruth E. Propper (Merrimack College), and Tiffany J. Brown (University of Toledo).
Abstract
Experiment 1 found that mixed-handedness, which is associated with increased interaction between the left and right cerebral hemispheres relative to strong right-handedness, was associated with an earlier offset of childhood amnesia. In Experiment 2, bilateral saccadic eye movements, which have been shown to enhance interhemispheric interaction, were also associated with an earlier offset of childhood amnesia. These results build upon a growing body of research indicating an interhemispheric basis for the retrieval of episodic memories. Moreover, the results of Experiment 2 suggest that interhemispheric interaction has its effect on the retrieval, not encoding, of episodic memories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
I’m not totally up on the proper citing procedure, so if you noticed anything I did wrong, feel free to make your own comments and send them to
(idon’tcare@getalife.com, just kidding). But hey, they used the word “Moreover” in the abstract, so it has to be interesting…right.
Here is a link to the full Abstract and links to purchase if you are so inclined. We do have a copy of the article in PDF form, but I’m not sure of the legality of making it available for free (who am I kidding, they are selling it on their website, I know the legality…It isn’t, so if you want it…come over and read it or buy your own)
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You might ask yourself, what do those two things have in common, and no it’s not a study recently done on my brain and its poor functioning. Some know that Tiff was a Psychology major in college, and she will tell you it’s not a particularly helpful degree if you’re only planning on getting a bachelors. There is a silver lining to this story though, we just found out that her undergraduate thesis (done as part of her honors program) was partly used in an article that was published in…you guessed it the Neuropsychology journal alongside her advisor and another person. The title of this article has lots of words in it, which I guess has a direct relationship to how important it is. So long is the title that I’ll leave it as it’s own paragraph in this post to make sure it is fully understood…See Dictionary.com for any words you don’t know….here goes…
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