Perinatal factors related to negative or positive recall of birth experience in women 3 years postpartum in the Netherlands

Background: Little research has been conducted to date on women's postnatal emotional well-being and satisfaction with the care received in the Netherlands. The aim of this study was to investigate Dutch women's views of their birth experience 3 years after the event. Methods: A questionnaire was mailed to all women who had given birth in 2001...

Stimuli fixation and manual response as a function of expectancies

Two experiments investigated effects of expectations on eye fixations and responses to expected and unexpected information in a laboratory setting. Stimulus fixation and manual responses to predefined targets among distractors were measured in a dynamic environment shown on a monitor. Participants were part of either a predictable condition ...

Selection of methodology to assess food intake

Objective: The aim of the EFCOSUM project was to develop a method to estimate both acute and usual consumption levels in European countries and for the sake of comparison, a common basic method for dietary assessment was needed. The method should allow a reliable comparison of the intake of relevant dietary indicators among large population...

Evaluation of context effects in sentence recognition

It was investigated whether the model for context effects, developed earlier by Bronkhorst et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 499-509 (1993)], can be applied to results of sentence tests, used for the evaluation of speech recognition. Data for two German sentence tests, that differed with respect to their semantic content, were analyzed. They had...

Assessment of dietary intake among Moroccan women and Surinam men

Objective. To establish a method for food consumption data collection in ethnic groups in the Netherlands. Methods. Two pilot studies have been carried out, one among Moroccan women and one among Surinam men. First, focus group discussions were held to obtain background information from members of the target population. For food consumption...

Voedingsgewoonten van Turkse en Marokkaanse kinderen in Nederland [Dietary habits of Turkish and Moroccan children in the Netherlands]

Migration might have considerable implications for nutrition and consequently for health. Because of the higher demands of growth, children are especially vulnerable to changes in nutrition. In order to get an insight into the need for a special nutrition policy for Turkish ad Moroccan children, the dietary habits and food consumption of 8-year...

Models for recall and recognition

Enkele recente mathematische modellen voor het geheugen worden besproken en geevalueerd. Aan de orde komen o.a. associatieve netwerk modellen, modellen gebaseerd op zoekprocessen en modellen met een geditribueerde representatie (o.a. neurale netwerken). Het artikel gaat voorts in op de voor- en nadelen van dit type modellen in vergelijking met...

Context effects in short-term memory: Confirmatory evidence from recall of visually presented lists

Thirty-two subjects had tests of serial recall of visually presented nine-digit lists which were either presented in a single block of trials (constant context) or in between lists of much longer length (variable context). Other variables were vocalization-during-presentation versus silent memorization (within subject) and order of recall ...