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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Simon Task"”.
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Exploring Social Influences on Executive Function in Preschool Children
… completed a series of executive function tasks. The first task was a motor contagion task in which children moved a stylus on a graphics tablet while viewing a background video of another person producing congruent or incongruent movements. Children also completed a go/no-go task, a …
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Is there a bilingual advantage: testing the role of language mode
… issues. For instance, simple cognitive tasks like the Simon task are commonly used in bilingualism research, but they may not best capture bilinguals’ daily experience using the two languages. Bilinguals are constantly suppressing one language while engaged in other tasks, which is …
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Examining the boundary conditions between cognitive control and interference derived from stimulus-based and response-based conflict
… a set of processes involved in maintaining task goals in response to interference. Working memory capacity (WMC) is a similarly defined construct that shares many overlapping functions with cognitive control. The studies presented used controlled forms of interference to identify limits, or …
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Conflict and adaptation: Identifying the markers of cognitive control in the transition from wakefulness to sleep
… We revealed an interaction between the task requirement to monitor conflict (Go/NoGo) and the level of alertness. Crucially, the difference between both tasks was only observed in the later stage of drowsiness. This suggests that conflict monitoring is more susceptible to reductions in …
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The Role of Working Memory Resources in Mind Wandering: The Difference Between Working Memory Capacity and Working Memory Load
… with thought probes while they performed a Simon task in single and dual task conditions. From the resource-demanding view, individuals with high WMC should experience more Task unrelated thought (TUT) in single and dual task conditions compared to those with low WMC. From the resource-free …
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The effect of monolingualism, bilingualism and trilingualism on executive functioning in young and older adults
… field of trilingualism and cognitive control, task complexity, the age of second and third language acquisition, language use, and physical and cognitive activity were also, importantly, assessed, as these are possible influencing factors in test performance. The participants completed several …
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Understanding the mechanism for response selection in compatibility tasks: Referential coding contrasted with biological properties of the hands
… resources and performance in response-selection tasks. This <em>hand-specific processing</em> hypothesis – that biological properties of the hands/palms uniquely affect visual attention and response selection – can be compared to a <em>referential object coding</em> hypothesis – that objects are …
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How does Task Sharing Influence Individual's Performance? An Investigation with Interference Paradigms
… whether and to what extent performing a task with another person may change individual cognitive performance. Interference paradigms are particularly suitable for addressing this issue. The rationale behind the use of these paradigms is that most of them can be split in two complementary …
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Indirect measures of associations and psychopathology: applications to Spider Phobia
… et al., 1998) or the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST, De Houwer, 2003) may be helpful, as they promise to assess the structure of specific associations using a performance based approach without having to ask the participant for a verbal report. Three studies investigated the …
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Bilingualism and cognitive development: a study on the acquisition of number skills
… , compared to their monolingual peers in tasks requiring control of attention: they are more accurate in judging the grammaticality of sentences (Bialystok et al.1986); faster in the Attentional Network Test and in the Simon task (Costa et al 2007; Bialystok et al.2005).On the other hand …
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Factors Related to Self-Identification of Candidacy, Device Selection, and Self-Fitting of Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
… Also, participants completed three cognitive tasks and were given a hearing test and administered three cognitive measures: the Reading-SPAN, Digit Symbol Substitution Task, and the Simon task. During the second test session participants were asked to browse three different OTC hearing aids …
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Making decisions under conflict with a continuous mind: from micro to macro time scales
Making decisions is a dynamic process. Especially when we face a decision between conflicting options, different forces seem to drag our mind from one option to the other one (James, 1890), again and again. This process may last for a long time, sometimes only coming to a decision when we are …