Mounting evidence indicates that regular engagement in aerobic exercise improves executive functioning and cerebrovascular health in older adulthood. Recent evidence also points toward some similar benefits in young adults, ...

In New Zealand, University completion rates do not compare well with those in other OECD countries. For example, the New Zealand completion rate for tertiary students in 2008 was 58% in comparison to Australia whose rate ...

The developmental periods of adolescence (13- to 18-years), and emerging-adulthood (18- to 25-years) are important stages for an individual’s emotional and psychological development. For most, adolescence and emerging-adulthood ...

Schizophrenia is a chronic neurological disorder that causes significant impairment for ~1% of the population. Epidemiological studies have suggested that there is a link between prenatal exposure to infection and the ...

The phenomenon of childhood amnesia has been well-documented over the last century; in general, adults are unable to recall events that occurred during their infancy and early childhood. Although researchers have proposed ...

Infants remember some experimental tasks longer than others; however, previous research has shown that, if two tasks are presented within the same session, infants remember the shorter-lived task for as long as they remember ...

The present body of research explores some of the key conditions that influence the contribution of distractor inhibition to selective attention. In particular, the present experiments addressed three questions: (1) whether ...

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a well defined metabolic disorder arising from a point mutation on a single gene. This mutation disrupts the metabolism of phenylalanine, which indirectly reduces the synthesis of dopamine. Severe ...