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Extracurricular arts: Effects on creativity and academics

Journal of Creativity
In this correlational study, an examination of the relationship between experiences in some artistic extracurricular activities (music, dance, painting/drawing, and literature/poetry), creativity levels, and academic achievement was conducted.
Claudia Soledad Moreno Cortez, Julián Nevárez Montes   +1 more
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Why Does Dual-Tasking Hamper Implicit Sequence Learning?

Journal of Cognition, 2021
Research on the limitations of dual-tasking might profit from using setups with a predictable sequence of stimuli and responses and assessing the acquisition of this sequence.
Eva Röttger, Fang Zhao, Robert Gaschler, Hilde Haider   +3 more
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Why axis inversion? Optimizing interactions between users, interfaces, and visual displays in 3D environments

Cognitive Research
From video games to laparoscopic surgeries, differences in users’ abilities to adapt to new control schemes can have significant, even deadly impacts on performance.
Jennifer E. Corbett, Jaap Munneke
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Do All Switches Cost the Same? Reliability of Language Switching and Mixing Costs

Journal of Cognition, 2021
The current study examined the reliability and consistency of switching and mixing costs in the language and the color-shape tasks in three pre-existing data sets, to assess whether they are equally well suited for the study of individual differences ...
Dorit Segal, Anat Prior, Tamar H. Gollan
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Does text generation improve learning from expository text? A conceptual replication attempt

Cognitive Research
The aim of the present study was to test the replicability of the text generation effect for learning with expository texts while systematically varying contextual factors that—based on extant literature—can be assumed to affect the occurrence and ...
Julia Schindler, Tobias Richter
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PEP Does Not Dispense with but Implements Task-Set Reconfiguration. Can It Handle Phenomena More Diagnostic of Endogenous Control?

Journal of Cognition, 2020
Invited commentary on Schmidt, Liefooghe, and De Houwer (2020) An episodic model of task switching effects: erasing the homunculus from memory. 'Journal of Cognition'.
Stephen Monsell, Ian McLaren
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Group decisions based on confidence weighted majority voting

Cognitive Research, 2021
Background It has repeatedly been reported that, when making decisions under uncertainty, groups outperform individuals. Real groups are often replaced by simulated groups: Instead of performing an actual group discussion, individual responses are ...
Sascha Meyen, Dorothee M. B. Sigg, Ulrike von Luxburg, Volker H. Franz   +3 more
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Wisdom of crowds and collective decision-making in a survival situation with complex information integration

Cognitive Research, 2020
Background The wisdom of crowds and collective decision-making are important tools for integrating information between individuals, which can exceed the capacity of individual judgments. They are based on different forms of information integration.
Daisuke Hamada, Masataka Nakayama, Jun Saiki   +2 more
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Item-Specificity and Intention in Episodic Memory

Journal of Cognition, 2020
Schmidt et al.’s (2020) PEP model accurately reflects the complexity of task switching based on bottom-up assumptions and episodic memory, re-evaluating the contribution of commonly presumed top-down processes.
Christina Pfeuffer
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Does expressive writing or an instructional intervention reduce the impacts of test anxiety in a college classroom?

Cognitive Research, 2021
Test anxiety is a major concern in education because it causes uncomfortable feelings in test-anxious students and may reduce the validity of exam scores as a measure of learning.
Sarah J. Myers, Sara D. Davis, Jason C. K. Chan   +2 more
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