Caroline R Mahoney

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Affiliation: Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Effect of breakfast composition on cognitive processes in elementary school children
    Caroline R Mahoney
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Physiol Behav 85:635-45. 2005
  2. ncbi Effect of an afternoon confectionery snack on cognitive processes critical to learning
    Caroline R Mahoney
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Physiol Behav 90:344-52. 2007
  3. ncbi The effects of movement and physical exertion on soldier vigilance
    Caroline R Mahoney
    U S Army Soldier Center, AMSRD NSC SS P, Natick, MA 01760 5020, USA
    Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B51-7. 2007
  4. ncbi Tyrosine supplementation mitigates working memory decrements during cold exposure
    Caroline R Mahoney
    US Army Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760 5020, USA
    Physiol Behav 92:575-82. 2007
  5. ncbi Moving through imagined space: Mentally simulating locomotion during spatial description reading
    Tad T Brunye
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford, MA, United States
    Acta Psychol (Amst) 134:110-24. 2010
  6. ncbi Simulating an enactment effect: Pronouns guide action simulation during narrative comprehension
    Tali Ditman
    Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
    Cognition 115:172-8. 2010
  7. ncbi Caffeine-induced physiological arousal accentuates global processing biases
    Caroline R Mahoney
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, USA
    Pharmacol Biochem Behav 99:59-65. 2011
  8. ncbi You heard it here first: readers mentally simulate described sounds
    Tad T Brunye
    U S Army NSRDEC, Cognitive Science, Natick, MA, USA
    Acta Psychol (Amst) 135:209-15. 2010
  9. ncbi Acute caffeine consumption enhances the executive control of visual attention in habitual consumers
    Tad T Brunye
    US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Kansas St, Natick, MA 01760, USA
    Brain Cogn 74:186-92. 2010
  10. ncbi Emotional state and local versus global spatial memory
    Tad T Brunye
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Acta Psychol (Amst) 130:138-46. 2009

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Publications18

  1. ncbi Effect of breakfast composition on cognitive processes in elementary school children
    Caroline R Mahoney
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Physiol Behav 85:635-45. 2005
    ..These results have important practical implications, suggesting the importance of what children consume for breakfast before school...
  2. ncbi Effect of an afternoon confectionery snack on cognitive processes critical to learning
    Caroline R Mahoney
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Physiol Behav 90:344-52. 2007
    ..Overall results indicate that a confectionery snack, ingested in the afternoon, generally improves spatial memory, but has a mixed effect on attention performance...
  3. ncbi The effects of movement and physical exertion on soldier vigilance
    Caroline R Mahoney
    U S Army Soldier Center, AMSRD NSC SS P, Natick, MA 01760 5020, USA
    Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B51-7. 2007
    ..To address relationships between movement, physical exertion, and cognitive performance, vigilance performance while soldiers walked with a heavy (40 kg) load was examined...
  4. ncbi Tyrosine supplementation mitigates working memory decrements during cold exposure
    Caroline R Mahoney
    US Army Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760 5020, USA
    Physiol Behav 92:575-82. 2007
    ..05). This study demonstrates cold exposure degrades cognitive performance and supplementation with TYR alleviates working memory decrements...
  5. ncbi Moving through imagined space: Mentally simulating locomotion during spatial description reading
    Tad T Brunye
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford, MA, United States
    Acta Psychol (Amst) 134:110-24. 2010
    ..Taken together these results demonstrate that route description readers mentally simulate a journey through a described world, and these simulations and the resulting spatial memories can be guided by auditory information...
  6. ncbi Simulating an enactment effect: Pronouns guide action simulation during narrative comprehension
    Tali Ditman
    Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
    Cognition 115:172-8. 2010
    ..Results demonstrate that readers spontaneously mentally simulate actions during language comprehension and take different mental perspectives, even when doing so is not necessary to perform the task...
  7. ncbi Caffeine-induced physiological arousal accentuates global processing biases
    Caroline R Mahoney
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, USA
    Pharmacol Biochem Behav 99:59-65. 2011
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  8. ncbi You heard it here first: readers mentally simulate described sounds
    Tad T Brunye
    U S Army NSRDEC, Cognitive Science, Natick, MA, USA
    Acta Psychol (Amst) 135:209-15. 2010
    ..Mentally simulating described events is not limited to visual and action-based modalities, further demonstrating the multimodal nature of the perceptual symbols spontaneously activated during reading...
  9. ncbi Acute caffeine consumption enhances the executive control of visual attention in habitual consumers
    Tad T Brunye
    US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Kansas St, Natick, MA 01760, USA
    Brain Cogn 74:186-92. 2010
    ..These results carry implications for the theorized interactions between caffeine, adenosine and dopamine in brain regions mediating visual attention...
  10. ncbi Emotional state and local versus global spatial memory
    Tad T Brunye
    Tufts University, Department of Psychology, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Acta Psychol (Amst) 130:138-46. 2009
    ..The present study is the first investigation of emotional effects on spatial memory, and has implications for theories of emotion and spatial cognition...
  11. ncbi Keeping your eyes on the prize: anger and visual attention to threats and rewards
    Brett Q Ford
    Department of Psychology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
    Psychol Sci 21:1098-105. 2010
    ..These findings demonstrate that anger increases attention to potential rewards and suggest that the effects of emotions on visual attention are motivationally driven...
  12. ncbi Voluntary dehydration and cognitive performance in trained college athletes
    Kristen E D'Anci
    Tufts University Department of Psychology, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Percept Mot Skills 109:251-69. 2009
    ..Results for negative mood and thirst ratings were similar, but for cognitive performance the results were mixed. Effects of glucose on cognition were independent of dehydration...
  13. ncbi North is up(hill): route planning heuristics in real-world environments
    Tad T Brunye
    U S Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts, USA
    Mem Cognit 38:700-12. 2010
    ..S. cities. Results are discussed with regard to predicting wayfinding behavior, the mental simulation of action, and theories of spatial cognition and navigation...
  14. ncbi When you and I share perspectives: pronouns modulate perspective taking during narrative comprehension
    Tad T Brunye
    U S Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, MA 01760, USA
    Psychol Sci 20:27-32. 2009
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  15. ncbi Caffeine enhances real-world language processing: evidence from a proofreading task
    Tad T Brunye
    Cognitive Science Team, U S Army NSRDEC, 15 Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760, USA
    J Exp Psychol Appl 18:95-108. 2012
    ..Implications for understanding the relationships between caffeine consumption and real-world cognitive functioning are discussed...
  16. ncbi Horizontal saccadic eye movements enhance the retrieval of landmark shape and location information
    Tad T Brunye
    US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Kansas St, Natick, MA 01760, USA
    Brain Cogn 70:279-88. 2009
    ..These results support recent work suggesting increased interhemispheric brain activity induced by bilateral horizontal eye movements, and extend this literature to the encoding and retrieval of landmark shape and location information...
  17. ncbi Body-specific representations of spatial location
    Tad T Brunye
    US Army NSRDEC, Cognitive Science, Natick, MA, United States
    Cognition 123:229-39. 2012
    ..e., zoomed in); they did not. Overall we support the hypothesis that handedness affects the coding of affective information, and better specify the scope and nature of body-specific effects on spatial memory...
  18. ncbi High and Mighty: Implicit Associations between Space and Social Status
    Stephanie A Gagnon
    Department of Psychology, Tufts University Medford, MA, USA
    Front Psychol 2:259. 2011
    ..These associations may prove influential in guiding daily judgments and actions...