Transformative Decisions and Their Discontents
In this commentary we engage with Paul’s Transformative Experience as it relates to decision making. We consider why deciding whether to undergo a transformative experiences can feel so agonizing yet also be so fun, whether people have any preferences to
John P. McCoy, Tomer D. Ullman
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Overlapping neural systems represent cognitive effort and reward anticipation [PDF]
Anticipating a potential benefit and how difficult it will be to obtain it are valuable skills in a constantly changing environment. In the human brain, the anticipation of reward is encoded by the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) and Striatum. Naturally,
Achten, Eric +5 more
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Learning with worked-out problems in Manufacturing Technology: The effects of instructional explanations and self-explanation prompts on acquired knowledge acquisition, near and far transfer performance [PDF]
In the present research, two different explanatory approaches – namely, instructional explanation and self-explanation prompts – were applied in worked-out-problem-based learning (learning with worked-out problems) in a computer-assisted instructional ...
Lai, Chee Sern +2 more
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Measuring Respondents’ Cognitive Load Related to Making Factual and Normative Judgments
The use of various methods for measuring cognitive load and mental effort in recent years has become increasingly popular in various fields of social and affective neuroscience, in applied research on the comparative effectiveness of teaching methods and
Инна Феликсовна Девятко +1 more
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Women are still underrepresented in engineering courses although some German universities offer separate women’s engineering courses which include virtual STEM learning environments.
Eva Christophel, Wolfgang Schnotz
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Role of the EEG Theta Network During Software Production: A Connectivity Study
Software programming is an acquired evolutionary skill originating from consolidated cognitive functions (i.e., attentive, logical, coordination, mathematic calculation, and language comprehension), but the underlying neurophysiological processes are ...
A. Calcagno +8 more
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Age-Related Differences in Pro-active Driving Behavior Revealed by EEG Measures
Healthy aging is associated with a decline in cognitive functions. This may become an issue when complex tasks have to be performed like driving a car in a demanding traffic situation.
Stephan Getzmann +4 more
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The physical activity experiences of men with serious mental illness: Three short stories [PDF]
Objectives: Although a considerable amount of research has explored the effects of physical activity on mental health, the voices of people with mental illness have been largely excluded from published reports.
Agar +52 more
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The Association between Motivation, Affect, and Self-regulated Learning When Solving Problems
Self-regulated learning (SRL) skills are essential for learning during school years, particularly in complex problem-solving domains, such as biology and math. Although a lot of studies have focused on the cognitive resources that are needed for learning
Martine Baars +4 more
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There is an ongoing debate in the scientific community regarding whether a state of mental fatigue may have a negative effect upon a range of objective and subjective measures of human performance.
Darías Holgado +3 more
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