When compared with younger adults, older adults typically manifest poorer episodic memory. One hypothesis for the episodic memory deficit is that older adults may not encode contextual information as well as younger adults. Alternatively, older adults may use contextual information at retrieval less effectively when compared with younger adults. If older adults encode context less well than you...

It is increasingly recognised that spatial contextual long-term memory (LTM) prepares neural activity for guiding visuo-spatial attention in a proactive manner. In the current study, we investigated whether the decline in explicit memory observed in healthy ageing would compromise this mechanism. We compared the behavioural performance of younger and older participants on learning new contextua...

this study aimed at investigating the effect of blocked, incremental systematic and random contextual interferences on acquisition, retention and transfer of volleyball skills based on changes in a generalized motor program. in fact, this study was conducted to answer this question that whether regular increment of contextual interference level is more effective on learning volleyball service s...

The present study aims at exploring predictors influencing mathematics performance. More in particular, the study focuses on internal students‟ characteristics (gender, age, metacognitive experience, mathematics self-efficacy) and external contextual factors (GDP of school location, parents‟ educational level, teachers‟ educational level, and teacher beliefs). A sample of 1 749 students and 91 ...

We investigated contextual organizational ambidexterity, defined as the capacity to simultaneously achieve alignment and adaptability at a business-unit level. Building on the leadership and organization context literatures, we argue that a context characterized by a combination of stretch, discipline, support, and trust facilitates contextual ambidexterity. Further, ambidexterity mediates the ...

In this paper we propose and describe a framework for evaluating and diagnosing the understanding component of a spoken dialog system which can be applied to both literal and contextual understanding. We have observed in a previous experiment that contextual understanding performance is strongly correlated to the user satisfaction. The framework uses a glassbox approach to diagnose the interpre...

Sedentary behavior is a modifiable determinant of health. Little is known about the ways in which contextual factors may influence this behavior. The objectives of this study were to: (1) examine the association between community belonging and adult sedentary behavior during leisure; (2) determine if this association was explained by perceived health. Data were derived from the 2010 Canadian Co...