The current study investigates whether long-term music training and practice are associated with enhancement of general cognitive abilities in late middle-aged to older adults. Professional musicians and non-musicians who were matched on age, education, vocabulary, and general health were compared on a near-transfer task involving auditory processing and on far-transfer tasks that measured spat...

Relating aspects of motivation to facets of mathematical competence varying in cognitive demand Melissa C. Gilbert To cite this article: Melissa C. Gilbert (2016) Relating aspects of motivation to facets of mathematical competence varying in cognitive demand, The Journal of Educational Research, 109:6, 647-657, DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2015.1020912 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.108...

background: physical activity regularly is one of the important aspects of healthy lifestyle, which has an essential role in reducing the burden of disease and death. diabetes is a typical general health problem. the aim of this study to determine the effect of education based on social cognitive theory on promoting physical activity among women with diabetes ii in iran. methods: in this random...

conclusions the results of this research have important implications regarding the attention of students’ counselors to meta-cognitive dimensions in order to prevent students’ tendency for addiction. results the rate of students’ addiction potential tendency can be predicted by having characteristics of their meta-cognition. it also appeared that among the five parameters of meta-cognition, the...

This study examined the validity of "weak" central coherence (CC) in the context of multiple cognitive capabilities/deficits in autism. Children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and matched typically developing children were administered tasks tapping visuospatial coherence, false-belief understanding and aspects of executive control. Significant group differences were found in all three ...

In this document, we will describe selected game aspects of a cognitive trainer game product. The cognitive trainer, developed by ACE, is targeted on basketball and hockey players. It enables them to improve their cognitive skills using an electronic game.

The purpose of this paper is to argue for an integration of cognitive and socio-technical approaches to assessing the impact of health information systems. Historically, health informatics research has examined the cognitive and socio-technical aspects of health information systems separately. In this paper we argue that evaluations of health information systems should consider aspects related ...