Cognitive effort and memory.

Cognitive effort and memory

The Effectiveness of Computerized Cognitive Empowerment on Attentional Functions, Concentration and Cognitive Effort in the elderly

The main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of computer cognitive empowerment on the attentional functions, concentration and cognitive effort of the elderly. Metods This study was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. Participants were 30 elderly people who were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to the experim...

Hearing loss and cognitive effort.

O ne of the most important contributions that psychologists have made to audiology is the concept that, in any behavioral task, successful completion of the task requires the allocation of cognitive resources, and that these resources must be drawn from a limited pool. In the case of listening tasks involving linguistic stimuli, either isolated words or sentences, the processes of phonological,...

Cognitive Effort and Motor Learning

Recent research on the role of practice variables during the acquisition of motor skills is reviewed. These practice variables include (a) the effects of a model's skill level during observation, (b) how augmented feedback is provided two a learner and (c) how practice conditions are arranged when learning multiple tasks. The results of research in these areas suggest that cognitive processes p...

Emotion, working memory task demands and individual differences predict behavior, cognitive effort and negative affect.

We examined whether positive and negative affect motivates verbal and spatial working memory processes, respectively, which have implications for the expenditure of mental effort. We argue that when emotion promotes cognitive tendencies that are goal incompatible with task demands, greater cognitive effort is required to perform well. We sought to investigate whether this increase in cognitive ...