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So for example, people who detect changing contingencies more readily are better negotiators.
We've got similar work we published last year where we looked at people's ability to detect changing contingencies.
Our results suggest that heightened levels of hippocampal neurogenesis might allow animals to react more rapidly to changing contingencies in otherwise stable environments.
Participants completed laboratory tasks designed to measure response perseveration (Wisconsin Card Sort Task, WCST) and response adaptation (concurrent variable-ratio reinforcement schedule with changing contingencies).
Cognitive control requires a fine balance between stability, the protection of an on-going task-set, and flexibility, the ability to update a task-set in line with changing contingencies.
Given an environment with changing contingencies, the lack of adult-generated granule cells in the DG would not only impair the animal's ability to encode novel aspects of the cue configurations encountered.
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How does a postcolonial poet address changing contingencies--personal, social and political while continuing to hold the attention of a global readership?
The IED assesses cognitive flexibility by examining an individual's ability to change a learned behavior with changing response contingencies.
Relative to healthy controls (HC), individuals with BD often show impaired attention, working memory, executive function, and cognitive flexibility (the ability to adapt to changing reward/punishment contingencies).
After controlling for these compared to controls marijuana-using participants made significantly more perseverative and total errors on the WCST and showed significantly impaired (e.g., less adaptive) response allocation to the changing reinforcement contingencies on the concurrent-reinforcement task.
Children with autism show a slightly different profile with deficits in adjusting to changing task contingencies, while often maintaining the ability to respond in the face of competing responses.
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