Publications by authors named "G L Viviani"
Background: This meta-analysis investigates the role of specific brain regions in semantic control processes using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). According to the Controlled Semantic Cognition framework, control processes help manage the contextually appropriate retrieval of semantic information by activating a distributed neural network, including the inferior frontal gyrus, the posterior middle temporal gyrus, and inferior parietal lobule. Lesions in these areas can lead to difficulties in manipulating weakly activated or competing semantic information.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the association between burden of disease and multimorbidity and absenteeism in Brazil.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study using data from the National Survey of Health 2019. The assessed outcome was absenteeism from work.
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- Drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) are challenged by worsening raw water quality and new EU regulations demanding stricter turbidity limits for compliance.
- The study introduces a Turbidity Robustness Index (TRI) that acts as a warning tool for detecting water quality deviations, validated using a three-year dataset from a DWTP.
- TRI offers improvements over existing indices by using the 95th percentile for assessment and a threshold alert system, showing superior accuracy in identifying both significant and minor turbidity failures.
Cognitive control has been theorized operating through two distinct mechanisms, proactive and reactive control, as posited by the dual mechanism of control model. Despite its potential to explain cognitive control variability, the supporting evidence for this model remains inconclusive. Prior studies frequently employed the Stroop task to assess this model, manipulating the proportion congruency (PC) at the list-wide and/or item-specific levels to target proactive and reactive control, respectively.
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