Prevalence and prediction of chemotherapy-related anxiety, nausea and vomiting in cancer patients

Anxiety, nausea and vomiting before, during and after chemotherapy administration were studied in 50 cancer patients. In addition, patient responses to the Autonomic Perception Questionnaire (APQ) and their relation to the anxiety, nausea and vomiting scores was studied. Anticipatory anxiety occurred in 66% and anticipatory nausea in 40% of the patients; 14% showed anticipatory vomiting. The number of patients reporting anxiety decreased to 38% after chemotherapy, whereas nausea and vomiting increased to 47 and 49%, respectively. APQ scores correlated significantly with anxiety and nausea reports during all time periods, but not with the frequency of vomiting.     

PROBABILITY DISCORDANCE AND CHOICE REACTION TIME: I. Effects of discordant probability on choice reaction time during prolonged training

Successive development of disinhibitory action over long monotonous training periods was studied with choice RT stimuli possessing discordant properties related to their relative frequency and the direction of movement. The results indicate that stimuli with strong initial proactive interference on ensuing reaction to the critical probe-stimulus become, with prolonged training, the least interfering.     

Value ascriptions: rethinking cognitivism

Philosophical Studies - This paper focuses on value as ascribed to what can be desired, enjoyed, cherished, admired, loved, and so on: value that putatively serves as ground for evaluating such...     

The Embodied Penman: Effector‐Specific Motor–Language Integration During Handwriting

Several studies have illuminated how processing manual action verbs (MaVs) affects the programming or execution of concurrent hand movements. Here, to circumvent key confounds in extant designs, we conducted the first assessment of motor–language integration during handwriting—a task in which linguistic and motoric processes are co‐substantiated. Participants copied MaVs, non‐manual action verbs, and non‐action verbs as we collected measures of motor programming and motor execution. Programming latencies were similar across conditions, but execution was faster for MaVs than for the other categories, regardless of whether word meanings were accessed implicitly or explicitly. In line with the Hand‐Action‐Network Dynamic Language Embodiment (HANDLE) model, such findings suggest that effector‐congruent verbs can prime manual movements even during highly automatized tasks in which motoric and verbal processes are naturally intertwined. Our paradigm opens new avenues for fine‐grained explorations of embodied language processes.