The present study adopted a mixed-methods research design and explored the role of a set of cognitive (i.e., aptitude and working memory) and motivational (i.e., self-regulatory capacity and self-efficacy beliefs) individual difference variables in the writing quality and composing behavior of 78 Iranian undergraduate EFL learners. The necessary data were collected through a series of instrumen...

Studies over the past two decades have provided relevant data on relationship between music and reading abilities although they fundamentally refer to aspects of first language process young children. The foreign acquisition adult learners has, in this sense, been less explored. Research area refers working memory as a “common cognitive marker” for musical aptitude ability, but little is known ...

Web-based aptitude tests which are a particular category of aptitude tests can be used for a large number of users to test their competence, knowledge and aptitude with standardised testing methods. The webbased solution is getting more and more important, because of the recent technological advances and low cost, high effectiveness, overall availability, and an easy distribution. We analysed a...

Multisensory integration was assessed using two audiovisual illusions. In the McGurk effect, auditory speech perception is altered by incongruent visual speech. In the Shams illusion, the number of seen flashes is altered by an incongruent number of heard beeps. The illusions were tested in 10-year-old children, whose musical aptitude was also assessed. The strength of the McGurk effect was not...

Article history: Received 24 April 2016 Received in revised form 26 February 2017 Accepted 3 March 2017 Available online 15 March 2017 We examined whether the link between intelligence and musical expertise is better explained by formal music lessons or music aptitude. Musically trained and untrained adults completed tests of nonverbal intelligence (Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices) andmus...