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The Effect of Vascular Brain Changes on Cognitive Function in Normal Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease
(Åbo Akademi University, 17.09.2021)Aging is associated with an increased risk for developing vascular pathology in cerebral white matter (WM). These brain changes can have a variety of cognitive repercussions, ranging from insignificant to mild cognitive ... -
The family school : the impact of a group training programme on overactive hard-to-manage preschool children and their parents
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The Interplay between Maternal Executive Functioning and Psychological Risk Factors in the Context of Early Caregiving Behavior : Findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 21.05.2022)Recent studies have indicated executive functioning (EF) to be one of the parental variables that shape caregiving behavior. Besides being directly associated with caregiving, EF has joint effects with other parenting ... -
Therapeutic jurisprudence in investigative interviews : the effects of a humanitarian rapport-orientated and a dominant non-rapport orientated approach on adult’s memory performance and psychological well-being
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 25.08.2017)Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) sees the law as a social force with the underlying idea that legal procedures should promote the psychological well-being (PWB) of individuals involved in juridical actions; for example, ... -
Training executive functions in the laboratory and in real life : cognitive consequences of computer-based exercises and bilingualism
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 06.06.2013)The question of the trainability of executive functions and the impact of such training on related cognitive skills has stirred considerable research interest. Despite a number of studies investigating this, the question ... -
Training in Investigative Interviews of Children : Serious Gaming Paired with Feedback Improves Interview Quality
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 27.03.2018)Interview quality (i.e., adherence to best practice) in alleged child sexual abuse (CSA) cases remains low. Training programs have been developed in order to tackle this problem. However, these programs are usually not ... -
Verbal and Non-verbal Communication as Evolutionary Restraint Mechanisms for Nonkilling Conflict Management
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 15.03.2019)Across species, unrestrained aggression among con-specifics has been strongly selected against due to increased fitness costs, making intraspecific lethality relatively rare or atypical. Evolutionary selection has instead ... -
Verbal learning in mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer's disease : behavioural and neural approaches
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 17.04.2009)The main focus of the present thesis was at verbal episodic memory processes that are particularly vulnerable to preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here these processes were studied by a word learning ... -
Verbal Working Memory Training in Health and Disease : Outcomes and Underlying Mechanisms
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Victimisation of Women in Public Places : Sexual Harassment in Pakistan, Ghana, and Finland
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 13.06.2022)The overall aim of the thesis was to investigate the prevalence rate of victimisation of women from sexual harassment in public places in countries with different cultural norms: Pakistan, Ghana, and Finland. The study ... -
Witnessing an Unfamiliar Person : The Effects of Distance, Lighting, Age, Line-up Type, and Line-up Position on Eyewitness Accuracy
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 03.06.2020)In criminal cases, DNA evidence is considered circumstantial evidence, whereas an identification by an eyewitness, after having observed a perpetrator commit a criminal act, is considered direct evidence of a suspect’s ... -
Work-related crisis exposure : psychological trauma and PTSD in news journalists
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 17.11.2012)