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No evidence for reduced Simon cost in elderly bilinguals and bidialectals [PDF]
, 2014 We explored whether a bilingual advantage in executive control is associated with differences in cultural and ethnic background associated with the bilinguals’ immigrant status, and whether dialect use in monolinguals can also incur such an advantage ...
Fiala, Linda +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 BackgroundThe current study set out to improve our understanding of the characteristics of individuals who are motivated to restrict their food intake yet who nevertheless fail to do so.
Nienke C. Jonker +2 more
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An architecturally constrained model of random number generation and its application to modeling the effect of generation rate [PDF]
, 2014 Random number generation (RNG) is a complex cognitive task for human subjects, requiring deliberative control to avoid production of habitual, stereotyped sequences. Under various manipulations (e.g., speeded responding, transcranial magnetic stimulation,
Anderson +42 more
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Executive Functions in Children with ADHD and/or Reading Difficulty [PDF]
Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2020 The objective of this study was to compare the Executive Functions performance (EFs: inhibitory control, auditory and visuospatial working memory, cognitive flexibility and verbal fluency) between children with ADHD, reading difficulties (RD ...
Estephane Enadir Lucena Duarte Pereira +4 more
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Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2008 Although obesity is associated with important hemodynamic disturbances, little data exists on population-wide cardiovascular risk factors in obese adolescent girls in Taiwan.
John Jenn-Yenn Lu +5 more
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Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk [PDF]
, 2015 This paper proposes a managerial control tool that integrates risk in efficiency measures. Building on existing efficiency specifications, our proposal reflects the real banking technology and accurately models the relationship between desirable and ...
Epure, Mircea +1 more
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019 Uganda, hosting over 1.3 million refugees, is a salient context for exploring HIV testing with urban refugee and displaced youth. We examined associations between stigma (HIV-related and adolescent sexual and reproductive health [SRH]-related) and HIV ...
Carmen H. Logie +8 more
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Attention Networks in ADHD Adults after Working Memory Training with a Dual n-Back Task
Brain Sciences, 2020 Patients affected by Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are characterized by impaired executive functioning and/or attention deficits. Our study aim is to determine whether the outcomes measured by the Attention Network Task (ANT), i.e., the
Masashi Dotare +5 more
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Executive control influences linguistic representations [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2013 Although it is known that words acquire their meanings partly from the contexts in which they are used, we proposed that the way in which words are processed can also influence their representation. We further propose that individual differences in the way that words are processed can consequently lead to individual differences in the way that they are
Lev-Ari, S., Keysar, B.
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Domain-general Stroop Performance and Hemispheric Asymmetries: A Resting-state EEG Study [PDF]
, 2017 The ability to suppress irrelevant information while executing a task or interference resistance is a function of pFC that is critical for successful goal-directed human behavior.
Ambrosini, Ettore, Vallesi, Antonino
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