Jack W Silcox

Apr 18, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jack W Silcox |Bruce Brown |Brigham Young

Keywordsgender differences, cognitive processes, event related potentialsCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesAbstractMany have recognized the importance of identifying biomarkers for cognitive disorders (Casey, Craddock, Cuthbert, Hyman, Lee and Ressler, 2013). This is due to the amount of subjectivity that exists in current diagnostic methods.

Mar 5, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jack W Silcox |Bruce Brown |Brigham Young

KeywordsAlzheimer's disease, neurodegerative disease, diagnostic capacityCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesAbstractAlzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that always results in death. Unfortunately, the death that eventually comes is preceded by vicious symptoms. A patient with the disease slowly begins to lose memory and other cognitive abilities, robbing a person of their mind and life.

May 18, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Brian J Mickey |Brennan R. Payne |Jack W Silcox

Abstract Readers use prior context to predict features of upcoming words. When predictions are accurate, this increases the efficiency of comprehension. However, little is known about the fate of predictable and unpredictable words in memory or the neural systems governing these processes. Several theories suggest that the speech production system, including the left inferior frontal cortex (LIFC), is recruited for prediction but evidence that LIFC plays a causal role is lacking.