Thesis
Exploring the relationship between HIV and executive function in adolescents, and testing the feasibility of a music intervention aiming to improve executive function in HIV-positive adolescents in rural South Africa
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Executive function (EF) is an umbrella term for a group of related yet distinguishable cognitive functions responsible for flexibly controlling and directing attention and behaviour. EF is important in the top-down control of decision-making and the ability to direct attention towards the fulfilment of long-term goals. EF, particularly in emotive contexts, is still developing during adolescence. EF may also be affected negatively by various threats to optimal EF development, including depr...
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+ Wagner, RG
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Scerif, G
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Stein, A
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Kringelbach, M
- Role:
- Examiner
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-3908-6898
+ Abas, M
- Role:
- Examiner
+ Rhodes Scholarships
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- Funder identifier:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100014693
- Grant:
- South African College School 2016
- Programme:
- Rhodes Scholarships
+ Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research
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- Programme:
- Gerry Farrell Travelling Scholarship
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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2020-12-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Rowe, K
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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