POSITIVE SCHIZOTYPY INCREASES THE ACCEPTANCE OF UNPRESENTED MATERIALS IN FALSE MEMORY TASKS IN NON-CLINICAL INDIVIDUALS

Positive Schizotypy Increases the Acceptance of Unpresented Materials in False Memory Tasks in Non-clinical Individuals

Enhanced spreading of semantic activation has been hypothesized to underlie some of the most significant symptoms of schizotypal personality, like thought disorder, odd speech, delusion, or magical thinking.We applied the Deese/Roediger-McDermott false memory task White Goods Parts to the study of semantic activation in a group of 123 non-clinical

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Recurrent fever of unknown origin and unexplained bacteremia in a patient with a novel 4.5 Mb microdeletion in Xp11.23-p11.22

Abstract Fever of unknown origin (FUO) remains a formidable diagnostic challenge in the field of medicine.Numerous studies suggest an association between FUO and genetic factors, including chromosomal abnormalities.Here, we report a female patient with a 4.5 Mb Xp microdeletion, who presented with recurrent FUO, bacteremia, colitis, and hematochezi

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Conceptualizing intercultural communicative competence in higher education in the Japanese context: Insights from language learners, practitioners, and public arena

Intercultural competence has primarily been conceptualized from a theoretical standpoint mainly by scholars in the U.S.and Europe in academic discourse.Moreover, there is a paucity of attempts to define and model intercultural communicative competence, through inductively collecting data.The current study aims to provide the definitions of intercul

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