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Are evolutionarily threatening animals attentionally prioritized under restricted visual awareness? : Two visual probing experiments
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-03-21)
The present study investigated whether the perception of evolutionarily threatening animals is prioritized under restricted awareness. The study examined whether snake and spider pictures have attentional priority when ...
Behavioral Responses in Mice Selectively Bred for High and Low Levels of Open-Field Thigmotaxis
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-12-05)
In animal psychology, the open-field (OF) test is a traditional method for studying different aspects of rodent behavior, with thigmotaxis (i.e., wallseeking behavior) being one of the best validated OF parameters employed ...
Central auditory processing and the acquisition of phonology in 2-year-old children with recurrent acute otitis media
(Turun yliopisto, 2016-05-20)
Middle ear infections (acute otitis media, AOM) are among the most common infectious diseases in childhood, their incidence being greatest at the age of 6–12 months. Approximately 10–30% of ...
Implementing The KiVa Antibullying Program: What Does It Take?
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis B 420Turun yliopisto, 2016-08-12)
There is variation in how teachers and schools implement bullying prevention programs. Although this variation has been discussed, there has been little empirical research concerning the relationship between ...
Threat Simulation- The Function of Dreaming?
(Turun yliopisto, 2008-10-31)
Dreaming is a pure form of phenomenality, created by the brain untouched by external stimulation or behavioral activity, yet including a full range of phenomenal contents. Thus, it has been suggested that the dreaming brain ...
The Importance of Semantics: Visual World Studies on Drawing Inferences and Resolving Anaphors
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-12-12)
The present thesis investigated the importance of semantics in generating inferences during discourse processing. Three aspects of semantics, gender stereotypes, implicit causality information and proto-role properties, ...
Expertise and decision making among clinicians in investigations of alleged child sexual abuse
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-04-25)
The purpose of the present thesis was to explore different aspects of decision making and expertise in investigations of child sexual abuse (CSA) and subsequently shed some light on the reasons for shortcomings in the ...
Bully-victims: Prevalence, psychosocial adjustment, and responsiveness to intervention
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-10-02)
In this thesis, a unique subgroup involved in the bullying phenomenon, the bully-victims, are identified and examined. Despite the increasing attention on the bully-victims in recent years, their prevalence, psychosocial ...
Neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious vision. Evidence from event-related potentials and transcranial magnetic stimulation
(Turun yliopisto, 2013-05-22)
Vision affords us with the ability to consciously see, and use this information in our behavior. While research has produced a detailed account of the function of the visual system, the neural processes that underlie ...
Defending behavior in bullying situations
(Turun yliopisto, 2013-08-16)
In order to encourage children and adolescents to defend and support their victimized peers, it is
important to identify factors that either maximize or minimize the probability that students will
engage in such behaviors. ...