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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"cognitive flexibility"”.
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Stress, Monoamines, and Cognitive Flexibility
… CRF actions on these systems may underlie cognitive symptoms of stress-related disorders. The age at which stress occurs can determine its impact, and adolescent stress has been linked to adult psychopathology. This dissertation explores the role of CRF in stress-induced modulation of the …
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Brain network modularity predicts cognitive flexibility
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Representational redescription and the development of cognitive flexibility
… (e.g. 1986, 1992) has suggested that 'cognitive flexibility' is the result of a series of three representational redescriptions. These redescriptions are carried out by endogenous metaprocesses operating directly on the representations. Representational redescription accounts only for …
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Empathy and Cognitive Flexibility as Correlates of Forgiveness
… that empathy, consisting of both emotional and cognitive aspects, plays an integral role in the process of forgiveness is widely supported in the literature, although there is limited empirical evidence for this claim. Beyond interest in examining the relationship between forgiveness and …
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Cognitive flexibility and fronto-parietal control dynamics in aging
… interventions that promote and engage the neurocognitive dynamics that are important for performance in real-world tasks.
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Cognitive flexibility training with severely and moderately mentally handicapped persons
… is made in this thesis to measure the effects of Cognitive Flexibility Training with moderately and severely handicapped individuals.The first chapter starts by introducing various criteria adopted to classify mentally retarded people. This leads to discussion on the objectives, strategies and …
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Neuromodulation and neural circuits underlying cognitive flexibility in the rat
Cognitive flexibility refers to how individuals adapt their behaviour to changes in the environment. Although important for survival and wellbeing, cognitive flexibility is impaired in a wide range of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and …
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The Relationship Between Cognitive Flexibility and Rumination: From Laboratory to Daily Life
<p>Cognitive flexibility has been considered one of the risk factors for anxiety. People with high levels of anxiety tend to stick to more maladaptive strategies such as rumination. The interaction between cognitive flexibility and rumination may help explain the contribution of cognitive …
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The Role Of Contextual Variables In Intra- And Inter-individual Cognitive Flexibility
… to match the context of the situation. While flexibility has long been discussed as a hallmark of effective adaption, assessing coping response as adaptive or maladaptive by the degree of flexibility in responding is relatively new and has largely been studied by asking participants to …
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A Cognitive Flexibility Culture Assimilator: Complexity and Metacognition in Cross-Cultural Attribution Training
Future research should be directed toward enabling trainees to produce attributions that are isomorphic to those of experts, involve members of the target population of managers, and further examine the role of individual differences in the learning and application of complex and abstract material …
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The Contribution of Cognitive Flexibility and Socioeconomic Status to Arithmetic Skills in Chinese Children
Cognitive flexibility, a key component of executive function, is essential for effective mathematical performance as it enables children to switch between operations and notations, transfer knowledge to novel situation, and shift between solution strategies to select the most optimal one. Despite …
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Individual Differences in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Effects on Cognitive Flexibility and Structure Learning
The effects of bilingualism on cognitive control have been significantly debated, with studies reporting both positive and null/negative findings. The lack of consensus is due to inconsistent experimental instantiation of key constructs. Researchers usually employ binary approaches, reducing …
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NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL AND DEFICITS IN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY: POSSIBLE TIES TO ABERRATIONS IN FRONTOSTRIATAL BDNF SIGNALING
… remains high. It is possible that impairments in cognitive flexibility and underlying neurochemical circuits in nicotine addicts may foster maladaptive behaviors that affect individuals’ ability to refrain from taking drugs. Here we characterized the effects of spontaneous nicotine withdrawal on …
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A Proposed Paradigm of Personality as Explored Through the Relationship Between Moral Reasoning and Cognitive Flexibility
… of personality through the relationship between cognitive flexibility and moral reasoning. Researchers had not looked at the relationship between cognitive flexibility, as measured by the Stroop Color and Word Test, and moral reasoning, as measured by the Defining Issues Test (DIT). This study …
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Education for a Changing World: A Mixed-Methods Study of Cognitive Flexibility in Rwandan Primary Schools
… focus on the development of Rwandan children’s cognitive flexibility, which Diamond (2014) describes as “creatively ‘thinking outside the box’, seeing anything from different perspectives, and quickly and flexibly adapting to changed circumstances” (p. 206). The empirical study also drew on …
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DEVELOPING COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUDGMENT: USING ONLINE PROGRESSIVE CASES TO INTRODUCE REALISTIC AND UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES
… by tracking participants’ flexible thinking (cognitive flexibility [CF]) and PM judgment in thought and action dimensions over a semester. </p> <p>In general, the selected teams approached the zingers differently. In most cases, teams made optimistic assumptions, did not balance constraints, …
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Spatial Learning and Memory, Cognitive Flexibility, and Rule-Learning in Food-Caching Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli) Across an Elevational Gradient
How and why individuals differ in their cognitive abilities within and across species remain important and unresolved questions in behavioral and evolutionary ecology. Cognitive traits are involved in many critical behaviors, enabling individuals to use past experiences to inform future decisions …
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Knowledge acquisition, cognitive flexibility, and the instructional applications of hypertext: A comparison of contrasting designs for computer-enhanced learning environments
This study explored the use of contrasting computer-based designs for providing instruction at an advanced stage of learning in a complex and ill-structured domain. The program consisted of two parts: an instructional hypertext program containing the content on the social impact of technology and …
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A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Trait Impulsivity, Cognitive Flexibility, and Risk-Seeking: Associations with Co-Occurring Alcohol Use and Social Anxiety in Young Adulthood
… current study investigated trait impulsivity, cognitive flexibility, and risk-seeking during adolescence and associations with alcohol use and social anxiety in young adulthood. Participants included 167 adolescents (Mage = 14.07 years, SD = 0.54; 52.7% male) followed to young adulthood (Mage = …
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Pharmacological fMRI on the effects of Fluoxetine on functions of Working Memory, Impulsiveness and Cognitive Flexibility in boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… deficits in working memory, motor inhibition and cognitive flexibility. Serotonin modulates these functions and Fluoxetine has positive clinical effects in these disorders. <br/>Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to scan 22 ADHD and 22 ASD boys, under placebo or an acute dose of …
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