This article investigates the cognitive strategies that people use to search computer displays. Several different visual layouts are examined: unlabeled layouts that contain multiple groups of items but no group headings, labeled layouts in which items are grouped and each group has a useful heading, and a target-only layout that contains just one item. A number of plausible strategies were pro...

in order to confirm the effectiveness of language learning strategies in theiranian context in junior high schools, this study was designed to examine thepatterns of strategy use, the effects of strategy instruction on the students’ strategyuse, and the relationship between the participants’ strategy use and their englishachievement. to achieve this objective, 57 junior high school participants...

UNLABELLED As mnemonic utilization deficit in older adults associates with age-related decline in executive function, we hypothesized that memory strategy training combined with executive function training might induce larger training effect in memory and broader training effects in non-memory outcomes than pure memory training. The present study compared the effects of combined cognitive train...

the conceptualization of resilience as a general or multidimensional construct and recognizing the inhibitors and facilitators of it are the main issues in the resilience literature. therefore, the present study investigated the discriminant variables of educational resilient and emotional resilient groups in person-focused approach, to examine the general or multidimensional construct of resil...

The demands of the changing world impose on learners the need to become autonomous readers. This places a responsibility on the shoulders of the teachers to develop an approach to teaching reading which will help readers become independent strategic ones. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of teaching reading strategies on the development of reading comprehension of Iranian ...

within the neuroscience and computational neuroscience communities, applications such as evaluating different cognitive responses of the brain, brain-computer interface (bci) systems and brain connectivity studies have increasingly been using eeg phase information during the past few decades. the utility of eeg phase can be directly linked to the neural propagation and synchronized firing of ne...

background and purpose : cancer is considered as one of the most radical hygienic issues in children. it threats the health and active lives of children and their parents causing numerous personal, familiar and social damages in physical, mental and social dimensions. this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of stress management with cognitive-behavioral approach on the anxiety sensiti...

there are different strategies for selecting stocks, and different investors use different strategies according to their risk tolerance or their expected rate of return. in this study, the profitability of a broad range of stock se-lection strategies in tehran stock exchange over the period 1370-1383, has been examined, and it has been investigated whether the successful strategies in other cou...