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Socioeconomic Differences in Cognitive Ability Across Childhood and Adolescence: An Investigation of Genetic, Individual, and Environmental Factors [PDF]
Journal of IntelligenceThe level and development of cognitive ability are associated with parental socioeconomic status (SES). Some of these cognitive differences are presumably due to individual differences in genetic predispositions, but the potential mechanisms and ...
Lena Paulus +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Since China adopted a policy to eliminate rural learning centers, boarding has become an important feature of the current rural student community.
Fang Chang +4 more
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Task switching involves working memory: Evidence from neural representation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 It is generally assumed that task switching involves working memory, yet some behavioral studies question the relationship between working memory and task switching ability.
Yanqing Wang +5 more
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A New Insight on the Role of the Cerebellum for Executive Functions and Emotion Processing in Adults
Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 Objective: We investigated whether the cerebellum plays a critical or supportive role in in executive and emotion processes in adults. Many investigators now espouse the hypothesis that participants with cerebellar lesions experience executive functions ...
Pierre-Aurélien Beuriat +11 more
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Creativity Studies, 2020 The present study explores the interplay among bilingualism, executive functions and creativity in problem solving among adult male university students. In this context, the associations between two factors critical for understanding the topic, i.e. type
Mark Leikin, Esther Tovli, Anna Woldo
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Cognitive abilities and portfolio choice [PDF]
European 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]
European 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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THE EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON COGNITIVE ABILITY [PDF]
Economic 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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Interplay of Cognitive Efficiency, Cognitive Ability and Motivation [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2014 The current body of research often focuses on the problem of cognitive decline through ageing. People adapt to these changes of cognitive resources by using brain reserve.
Bruna Piks
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Knowledge and the value of cognitive ability [PDF]
Synthese, 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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