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Comparison of cardiac rehabilitation outcome measures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)
The aim of the present study was to investigate the responsiveness of psychosocial instruments to cardiac rehabilitation intervention. Responsiveness refers to the ability of an instrument to detect change over time and ...
Investigating the IFN-alpha-induced neurobehavioural syndrome in Hepatitis C patients : a qualitative and quantitative comparative study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2010)
The aim of this thesis was to characterise the neurobehavioural change that
accompanies treatment with the pro-inflammatory cytokine Interferon-alpha (IFN-a) in
Hepatitis C patients (HCV) by using both qualitative and ...
The role of body information in the perception of social attention
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)
The computation of where another person is attending constitutes a crucial
part of our daily lives and is necessary for adequately interacting with other
human beings in our social environment. The focus of the present ...
The mental representation of "If Only thoughts" : undoing the exceptionality effect
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the mental representations and cognitive processes that underlie counterfactual 'if only' thoughts. We examine the exceptionality effect, the tendency to undo exceptional antecedents ...
Mother-infant interaction : the case of infant siblings of children with ASD at 9, 12 and 18 months
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)
This dissertation is a longitudinal, observational study of the interactive behaviours of mother-infant dyads where the infant is more likely to receive an autism diagnosis (SibsA), as they have an older sibling who has ...
The development and validation of the EAMI as an assessment of episodic autobiographical recall
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Institute of Neuroscience, 2008)
This thesis focuses on the development and validation of a new measure of episodic autobiographical memory, in line with current conceptual revisions to the concept of episodic memory (Tulving, 2002), which see episodic ...
An investigation of visual, spatial and visual-spatial working memory, attention and learning in dyslexic children
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2007)
This dissertation investigated dyslexic children's functioning on a range of
visual, spatial and visuospatial (VS), working memory (WM), attentional and
learning tasks. Within the existing research which has touched upon ...
Methodological considerations and functional correlates in structural MR image analysis of the brain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)
Structural magnetic resonance imaging is a complex and extremely powerful high
resolution imaging mechanism that yields excellent soft tissue contrast. Recent times
have seen the development numerous structural image ...
An exploration of how potential early school leavers and teachers in disadvantaged post primary schools perceive their relationships
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)
This research unfolds in disadvantaged secondary school settings and it explores how students at risk for early school leaving and teachers experience their relationships. A model of investigation capable to reach a ...
The role of cognitive and reward processes in substance use : a cognitive neuroscience approach to understanding drugs of addiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)
Drugs of addiction are widely considered to induce a pathological state which involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behaviour, the decreased and slowed ability to respond to naturally ...