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The Role of General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Predicting Performance of Three Occupations: Evidence from Bifactor Models

open access: yesJournal of Intelligence, 2021
Cognitive abilities are related to job performance. However, there is less agreement about the relative contribution of general versus specific cognitive abilities to job performance.
Khalid ALMamari, Anne Traynor
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Relationship between cognitive abilities and mental health as represented by cognitive abilities at the neural and genetic levels of analysis [PDF]

open access: yeseLife
Cognitive abilities are closely tied to mental health from early childhood. This study explores how neurobiological units of analysis of cognitive abilities—multimodal neuroimaging and polygenic scores (PGS)—represent this connection.
Yue Wang, Richard Anney, Narun Pat
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Cognitive abilities in a sample of young Swedish children [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Cognitive abilities are closely related to social emotional competences (SEC). These abilities are important foundations in order to adapt to school, interact with peers and adults, as well as to navigate the wider socio-cultural context in which one ...
Ingela Clausén Gull   +4 more
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Perceptual cognitive abilities in young athletes: A gender comparison.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
To achieve optimal performance in sports, it is essential to have strong perceptual cognitive abilities. Evidence suggests that athletes have superior perceptual abilities compared to nonathletes.
Isabelle Legault   +2 more
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Towards a Model of Valued Human Cognitive Abilities: An African Perspective Based on a Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Studies that investigate cognitive ability in African children and estimate the general cognitive abilities of African adults tend to work with existing models of intelligence.
Seth Oppong
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Cognitive abilities and portfolio choice [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Economic Review, 2008
We study the relation between cognitive abilities and stockholding using the recent Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which has detailed data on wealth and portfolio composition of individuals aged 50 in 11 European countries and three indicators of cognitive abilities: mathematical, verbal fluency, and recall skills.
JAPPELLI, TULLIO   +2 more
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Ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Economic Review, 2010
We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries using nationally representative samples of the population aged 50þ.
MAZZONNA, FABRIZIO, PERACCHI, FRANCO
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Knowledge and the value of cognitive ability [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2012
We challenge a line of thinking at the fore of recent work on epistemic value: the line (suggested by Kvanvig in The value of knowledge and the pursuit of understanding, 2003 and others) that if the value of knowledge is “swamped” by the value of mere true belief, then we have good reason to doubt its theoretical importance in epistemology.
J. Adam Carter   +2 more
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THE EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON COGNITIVE ABILITY [PDF]

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, 2010
This paper analyzes whether schooling increases intelligence measured by intelligence quotient (IQ). We use a longitudinal dataset where the individuals have conducted IQ tests both at ages 10 and 20. We estimate the effect of schooling on IQ at age 20 conditional on IQ at age 10 and other measures of early cognitive ability to account for selection ...
Torberg Falch, Sofia Sandgren
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Reading Minds, Reading Stories: Social-Cognitive Abilities Affect the Linguistic Processing of Narrative Viewpoint

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Although various studies have shown that narrative reading draws on social-cognitive abilities, not much is known about the precise aspects of narrative processing that engage these abilities.
Lynn S. Eekhof   +5 more
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