A5064478754- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Mind wandering and attention
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Radiology practices and education
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Media Influence and Health
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Health, psychology, and well-being
University of Sheffield
2017-2025
University of Geneva
2021
Cardiff University
2021
Federal Medical Centre
2020
Centrum voor Landbouw en Milieu
2020
University of Colorado Boulder
2015-2020
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
2020
Universidad de Navarra
2020
University of Colorado System
2017-2020
Leiden University
2020
The question whether being bilingual yields cognitive benefits is highly controversial with prior studies providing inconsistent results. Failures to replicate the advantage have been attributed methodological factors such as comparing dichotomous groups and measuring abilities separately single tasks. Therefore, authors evaluated 4 most prominent hypotheses of advantages for inhibitory control, conflict monitoring, shifting, general performance by assessing bilingualism on 3 continuous...
Ego-depletion, a psychological phenomenon in which participants are less able to engage self-control after prior exertion of self-control, has become widely popular the scientific community as well media. However, considerable debate exists among researchers nature ego-depletion effect, and growing evidence suggests effect may not be strong or robust extant literature suggests. We examined robustness aimed maximize likelihood detecting by using one most used depletion tasks (video-viewing...
In the last two decades, individual differences research put forward three cognitive psychometric constructs: executive control (i.e., ability to monitor and ongoing thoughts actions), working memory capacity (WMC, i.e., retain access a limited amount of information in service complex tasks) fluid intelligence (gF, reason with novel information).These constructs have been proposed be closely related, but previous failed substantiate strong correlation between other constructs.This might...
Attentional control as an ability to regulate information processing during goal-directed behavior is critical many theories of human cognition and thought predict a large range everyday behaviors. However, in recent years, failures reliably assess individual differences attentional have sparked debate concerning whether control, currently conceptualized assessed, can be regarded valid psychometric construct. In this consensus paper, we summarize the current from theoretical, methodological,...
As working memory (WM) predicts a wide range of other abilities, it has become popular target for training interventions. However, its effectiveness to elicit generalized cognitive benefits is still under debate. Previous research yielded inconsistent findings and focused only little on the mechanisms underlying transfer effects. To disentangle effects WM capacity efficiency, we evaluated near untrained, structurally different tasks far closely related abilities (i.e., reasoning, processing...
In conflict tasks, congruency effects are thought to reflect attentional control mechanisms needed counteract response elicited by incongruent stimuli. Although well-replicable experimentally, recent studies have evidenced low correlations between measured across different paradigms, leading a heated debate over whether these indicate lack of construct validity or rather attributable high measurement error, as indicated the poor reliability typically displayed effects. present study, we...
A combined experimental-correlational study with a diverse sample (N = 182) from 2 research sites tested set of 5 priori hypotheses about mind wandering and learning, using realistic video lecture on introductory statistics. Specifically, the examined whether students' vulnerability to during would predict learning from, situational interest in, also longhand note-taking help reduce wandering, at least for some students. One half participants took notes video, all were subsequently content...
The question of whether working memory training leads to generalized improvements in untrained cognitive abilities is a longstanding and heatedly debated one.Previous research provides mostly ambiguous evidence regarding the presence or absence transfer effects older adults.Thus, draw decisive conclusions effectiveness interventions, methodologically sound studies with larger sample sizes are needed.In this study, we investigated not computer-based intervention induced near far large 142...
Abstract Background In recent years, cognitive training has gained popularity as a cost-effective and accessible intervention aiming at compensating for or even counteracting age-related declines during adulthood. Whereas the evidence effectiveness of in general is inconsistent, processing speed been notable successful exception, showing promising generalized benefits untrained tasks everyday functioning. The goal this study to investigate why when can lead transfer across adult lifespan....
Abstract Non-invasive brain stimulation has been highlighted as a possible intervention to induce cognitive benefits, including on visual working memory (VWM). However, findings are inconsistent, possibly due methodological issues. A recent high-profile study by Wang et al. 1 reported that anodal transcranial direct current (tDCS) over posterior parietal cortex (PPC), but not dorsolateral prefrontal (DLPFC), selectively improved VWM capacity precision, especially at high load. Thus, in the...
In conflict tasks, congruency effects are thought to reflect attentional control mechanisms needed counteract response elicited by incongruent stimuli. Although well-replicable experimentally, recent studies have evidenced low correlations between measured across different paradigms, leading a heated debate over whether these indicate lack of construct validity or rather attributable high measurement error, as indicated the poor reliability typically displayed effects. present study, we...
The notion of bilingual advantages in executive functions (EF) is based on the assumption that demands posed by cross-language interference serve as EF training. These training effects should be more pronounced bilinguals have to overcome when managing their two languages. In present study, we investigated proposed link between linguistic and performance using similarity languages spoken since childhood a proxy for different levels interference. We assessed effect linearly increasing...
Previous research assumes that executive functions such as inhibition, shifting, and updating explain individual differences in cognitive abilities. Of these three functions, was previously found to relate most strongly fluid intelligence. However, this relationship could be a methodological artifact: Measures of inhibition shifting usually isolate the contribution function performance by contrasting conditions with high low demands on processes, whereas is measured overall accuracy working...
Switching between mental sets has been extensively investigated in both experimental and individual differences research using a wide range of task-switch paradigms. However, it is yet unclear whether these different tasks measure unitary shifting ability or reflect facets thereof. In this study, 20 task pairs were administered to 119 young adults assess 5 proposed components set shifting: switching judgments, stimulus dimensions, stimulus-response mappings, response sets, sets. Modeling...
A substantial part of age-related episodic memory decline has been attributed to the decreasing ability older adults encode and retrieve associations among simultaneously processed information units from long-term memory. In addition, this seems share unique variance with reasoning. study, we therefore examined whether process-based training learn remember potential induce transfer effects untrained reasoning tasks in healthy (60-75 years). For purpose, experimental group (n = 36) completed...