Cognitive Capacity and Working Memory
Limitations of working memory capacity : the cognitive and social consequences
... 6.4. Bene fits of dual coding Complex problems may become less complex after change of their mental representation. In particular, the switch from verbal code to the imaginary form of representation usually makes a dif- ...
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WORKING MEMORY AND COGNITIVE CONTROL
... processing capacity of working memory is ...long-term memory. The involvement of long-term memory in the storage of task rules could indeed reduce working memory ...
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The Effects of Working Memory Training and Encoding Strategy on Working Memory Capacity
... of cognitive tasks including reading comprehension tasks, mathematical problem solving tasks, and fluid intelligence tasks (Engle et ...term memory tasks only shared 40% of their variance, suggesting that ...
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What limits working memory capacity?
... how working memory capacity is ...that capacity limitations arise from temporal decay; we examine whether they might reflect a limitation in cognitive resources; and we ask whether ...
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The Role of Working Memory Resources in Mind Wandering: The Difference Between Working Memory Capacity and Working Memory Load
... CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The experience of having one’s mind drift from a task into daydreaming, rumination, or planning is a common experience most are familiar with, and can be referred to as mind wandering. It is ...
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The effects of active worrying on working memory capacity
... in working memory. Since worry is described as a cognitive component of anxiety (Mathews, 1990), it is not surprising that increased level of worry led to elevated anxiety and similar results were ...
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The effects of active worrying on working memory capacity
... in working memory. Since worry is described as a cognitive component of anxiety (Mathews, 1990), it is not surprising that increased level of worry led to elevated anxiety and similar results were ...
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Radio Dispatch Cognitive Abilities and Working Memory
... underlying cognitive abilities necessitated for performing such tasks have not been thoroughly ...the cognitive faculties that underlie dispatching tasks, we gauged cognitive ability measures ...
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Using dimensional overlap theory as a framework to explain the relationship between working memory capacity and cognitive control
... of cognitive control, goal maintenance and conflict resolution processes are intimately connected with bi-directional communication between the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC; primarily associated with conflict ...
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Running head: STRESS & WORKING MEMORY IN L2 INFERENCES. The Effects of Stress and Working Memory Capacity
... on cognitive tasks, such as mathematics, or we would argue, drawing inferences during comprehension, that put heavy demands on the executive functions of WM, when anxious thoughts distract a person’s attention ...
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The Impact of Object Complexity on Visual Working Memory Capacity
... The capacity of visual working memory (VWM) is regarded as one of the central themes in working ...studies-on cognitive psychology and neuroscience level focused on the flexibility of ...
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Electrophysiological and neuroanatomical correlates of precision and capacity of working memory
... to cognitive neuroscience, I searched for a role model who I could look up ...ultimate cognitive neuroscientist, the late Prof Jon Driver, my former primary ...and cognitive science gave me the ...
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Working Memory Capacity and Redundant Information Processing Efficiency
... personality, cognitive, and decision making correlates of substance use and antisocial behavior problems in young ...on cognitive tasks assessing intelligence, associative ...
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Working Memory Capacity and Attention Network Test Performance
... SUMMARY Complex span tasks are predictive of many aspects of behavior, in both experimental and applied areas of cognitive psychology. Our view is that these tasks measure primarily working memory ...
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Individual differences in prospective memory aftereffects: The role of working memory capacity and inhibition.
... same cognitive resources used in identifying strings of letters as words or nonwords, thus does require attentional control in order to be successful in the ...
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Working memory capacity as a determinant of proactive interference and auditory distraction
... in working memory capacity are related to performance on a range of elemental and higher order cognitive ...to working memory capacity: working memory as ...
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High Visual Working Memory Capacity in Trait Social Anxiety
... Abstract Working memory capacity is one of the most important cognitive functions influencing individual traits, such as attentional control, fluid intelligence, and also psychopathological ...
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Working memory capacity and arithmetic achievement in kindergarten and primary school
... 2. Working memory impact on children’s arithmetic skills – a usage-deficit hypothesis Abstract We conducted a cross-sectional study regarding the relation between working memory ...
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Is executive control related to working memory capacity and fluid intelligence?
... Abstract In the last two decades, individual differences research put forward three cognitive psychometric constructs: executive control (i.e., the ability to monitor and control ongoing thoughts and actions), ...
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How working memory capacity constrains the learning of relational concepts
... relational thinking. Understanding those constraints by developing computational models of thinking within WM is one of the crucial current focuses in cognitive science. This study seems to contribute to those ...
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