Perceptual and motor skills
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This study compared touching behaviors of swimmers who were winners and losers. The number and location of interpersonal touches given and received by winners and losers of swimming races were recorded. Winners gave and received significantly more touches than losers. Most touches were hands, back, or shoulders, confirming earlier findings for college men and women.
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Letter-stimuli as targets were presented to the right or left visual fields and followed either by a flash of light or by a flash of light plus a patterned mask. The patterned mask always appeared in the opposite visual field of the letter targets. ⋯ A pattern mask, when presented to the opposite visual field of a target stimulus, interferes with target processing at short target-mask intervals. These findings suggest that central backward masking may involve target-mask interactions beyond the visual cortex (Area 17).
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The relations of curiosity measured separately by teachers' rating and a revised object-curiosity task to verbal fluency and originality, measured by a work fluency test, and to perceptual fluency, obtained from the "Visual Closure" test of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, were examined in 60 5- to 6-year-old boys. Although teachers' ratings of curiosity were contaminated by MA, they were significantly related to fluency in verbal recall and less strongly to fluency in visual exploration and verbal originality even when wht effect of MA was held constant. Object curiosity, which was negatively correlated with MA, showed at best negligible covariation with these three measures.
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The expression of cold pressor pain was measured by recording simultaneously verbal magnitude estimates, heart rates, and facial displays of 16 recently hospitalized depressed patients, and 16 nondepressed adults. Independence of the two groups for the depression factor was verified using the Hamilton Scale for Depression and the 100-mm line self-rating scale. ⋯ Reasons for this discrepancy are discussed. Nondepressed subjects, although clearly able to verbalize intensity of pain, were much less reactive to the pain along all dimensions.