First Click: The benefits of brain-training games? They're all in your head
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Visit the website of brain-training software NeuroNation and you're greeted with a reassuring message. "Your potential is…
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Research byte: Formal Models of the Network Co-occurrence Underlying Mental Operations
Formal Models of the Network Co-occurrence Underlying Mental Operations
1. Biswal BB, Mennes M, Zuo XN, Gohel S, Kelly C, Smith SM, et al. Toward discovery science of human brain function. Proceedings…
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Research byte: Examining the role of emotional valence of mind wandering: All mind wandering is not equal
Examining the role of emotional valence of mind wandering: All mind wandering is not equal
Highlights • We examined the impact of emotional valence of task unrelated thoughts (TUTs). • Reanalysis of…
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Friday, June 17, 2016
Research byte: Shadowing the wandering mind: how understanding the mind-wandering state can inform our appreciation of conscious experience via BrowZine
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Shadowing the wandering mind: how understanding the mind-wandering state can inform our appreciation of conscious experience
Konishi, Mahiko; Smallwood, Jonathan
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol. 7 Issue 4 – 2016: 233 - 246
10.1002/wcs.1392
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Research byte: The role of attentional control (AC) and working memory in sports performance: A review of recent literature
The ever growing body of research re the importance of the construct of attentional control (AC) in all kinds of human performance is, IMHO, one of the most important findings in cognitive psychology during the past few years. In my opinion, improving AC may be one of the key's to effective brain training/fitness programs. Also, differences in the AC of individuals has important implications for understanding differences in cognitive functioning.
Available online 10 June 2016
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Working Memory, Attentional Control, and Expertise in Sports: A Review of Current Literature and Directions for Future Research
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aim of the present review was to investigate the theoretical framework
of working memory as it relates to the control of attention in sport and
thereby apply cognitive psychological theory to sports, but also use
the sports domain to advance cognitive theory. We first introduce
dual-process theories as an overarching framework for attention-related
research in sports. Then a central mechanism is highlighted how working
memory is involved in the control of attention in sports by reviewing
research demonstrating that the activated contents in working memory
control the focus of attention. The second part of the paper reviews
literature showing that working memory capacity is an important
individual difference variable that is predictive of controlling
attention in a goal-directed manner and avoiding distraction and
interference in sports. Finally, we address the question whether
differences in working memory capacity contribute to sport expertise.
Keywords
- Dual-process;
- Working memory;
- Attention;
- Sport;
- Individual differences
Research byte: Multi-domain training may improve attentional control (AC) in older adults
Multi-domain training enhances attentional control.
Binder, Julia C.;
Martin, Mike;
Zöllig, Jacqueline;
Röcke, Christina;
Mérillat, Susan;
Eschen, Anne;
Jäncke, Lutz;
Shing, Yee Lee
Psychology and Aging, Vol 31(4), Jun 2016, 390-408.
http://dx.doi.org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/10.1037/pag0000081
Abstract
Multi-domain
training potentially increases the likelihood of overlap in processing
components with transfer tasks and everyday life, and hence is a
promising training approach for older adults. To empirically test this,
84 healthy older adults aged 64 to 75 years were randomly assigned to
one of three single-domain training conditions (inhibition, visuomotor
function, spatial navigation) or to the simultaneous training of all
three cognitive functions (multi-domain training condition). All
participants trained on an iPad at home for 50 training sessions. Before
and after the training, and at a 6-month follow-up measurement,
cognitive functioning and training transfer were assessed with a
neuropsychological test battery including tests targeting the trained
functions (near transfer) and transfer to executive functions (far
transfer: attentional control, working memory, speed). Participants in
all four training groups showed a linear increase in training
performance over the 50 training sessions. Using a latent difference
score model, the multi-domain training group, compared with the
single-domain training groups, showed more improvement on the far
transfer attentional control composite. Individuals with initially lower
baseline performance showed higher training-related improvements,
indicating that training compensated for lower initial cognitive
performance. At the 6-month follow-up, performance on the cognitive test
battery remained stable. This is one of the first studies to
investigate systematically multi-domain training including comparable
single-domain training conditions. Our findings suggest that
multi-domain training enhances attentional control involved in handling
several different tasks at the same time, an aspect in everyday life
that is particularly challenging for older people. (PsycINFO Database
Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Monday, June 13, 2016
Psychology's Credibility Crisis: the Bad, the Good and the Ugly
Psychology's Credibility Crisis: the Bad, the Good and the Ugly
Times are tough for young psychologists. This thought has been rattling around in my head lately because we just finished searching for…
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Thursday, June 09, 2016
Meta-Analytic Comparison of Brain Abnormalities in ADHD and OCD
Meta-Analytic Comparison of Brain Abnormalities in ADHD and OCD
Importance Patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) share impaired…
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Next phase in the brain health revolution: Objective, physiological, and widespread measures of brain function
Next phase in the brain health revolution: Objective, physiological, and widespread measures of brain function
— Credit: Marianne Meadahl, SFU "Simon Fraser University researchers hope that a brain…
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
CHC theory ability defintions (v2.3)--update of definitions
I recently developed a slightly revised set of CHC definitions (v2.3), which are briefer and fit on one page of paper (printed on both sides). I am now making this CHC brief definition document available to readers (click here)
Joel and I have agreed to revise our 2012 book chapter and we will be making some recommended changes. We have not yet started, so the above brief document can serve as an interim CHC definition update.
Enjoy.
Research byte: Validation of the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale and the Relationship of Mind Wandering to Impairment in Adult ADHD
Validation of the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale and the Relationship of Mind Wandering to Impairment in Adult ADHD
• Florence D. Mowlem1 • Caroline Skirrow1 • Peter Reid1 • Stefanos Maltezos1 •…
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Texas Courts Rely on “Of Mice and Men” to Define Intellectual Disability and Sentence People to Death
Texas Courts Rely on "Of Mice and Men" to Define Intellectual Disability and Sentence People to Death
This piece originally appeared at Salon. Bobby James Moore has a lifelong intellectual disability,…
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Monday, June 06, 2016
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Saturday, June 04, 2016
PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU) [feedly]
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Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): There's No Such Thing as Free Will, The Atlantic In The Popular Press: My Brain Made Me Do It: Will Neuroscience Change the Way We Punish Criminals? The Conversation US Scientists Can Figure Out What...
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Friday, June 03, 2016
Research byte: Profoundly gifted and accomplished tend to focus on their ability strengths
Nice article, I particularly love the three spatial figures that summarize the findings. They belong in the Gv Galllery Hall of Fame.
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Research byte: Sharing Full- Versus Part-Day Kindergarten for Children With Disabilities: Effects on Academic and Social-Emotional Outcomes via BrowZine
Gottfried, M. A.; Le, V.-N.
American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 53 Issue 3 – 2016: 708 - 744
10.3102/0002831216645903
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Research byte: People mind wander more during massed than spaced inductive learning.
People mind wander more during massed than spaced inductive learning.
• This article investigates the relation between mind wandering and the spacing effect in inductive learning. Participants studied…
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