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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"cognitive resource"”.
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Cognitive resource manager framework for optimal resource allocation
… in order to more efficiently use the resources and deliver good quality services. High spectral efficiency, environmental adaptivity, user-awareness and energy efficiency are highly desired features in the future networks. It has also become important to support these goals at all …
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Impact of food proximity on intake in individuals with high and low cognitive resource
… interventions, possibly due to lower cognitive resource for self-control. Conversely, altering environmental cues appears to change behaviour with less conscious deliberation. This thesis aims to investigate whether interventions targeting the “proximity effect” i.e. the farther away …
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SURPRISE-INDUCED DEAFNESS -- TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A STIMULUS-DRIVEN LIMITATION IN AUDITORY SELECTIVE ATTENTION
… of such sound depletes the capacity limited cognitive resource and makes one susceptible to miss processing the task-relevant sound. This thesis focused on the temporal characteristics of such phenomenon and established a new paradigm named surprise-induced deafness (SiD). Series of …
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Getting more out of working memory: Stacking verbal relational role-bindings
Working memory (WM) is a finite-capacity cognitive resource that maintains and manipulates the contents of one’s current thoughts. It determines the complexity both of problems one can solve and thoughts one can have. Of central concern is the currency of WM: what kind of information takes up …
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Management attention in performance measurement and management
… Management attention (MA) is a limited cognitive resource that fuels managers’ minds. It can also be understood as the cognitive process that chooses what information is passed on to higher-level processes such as judgment and learning. This research postulates the thesis that certain …
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Working memory availability and quality control in children's production of passive sentences as novices
… memory (WM) is widely accepted as a necessary cognitive resource for a vast amount of cognitive abilities. Developmental work has shown that as WM capacities increase, so too does the ability to successfully perform other cognitive tasks including language comprehension and production. The …
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COMMUNAL RESILIENCE AND EMBODIED COGNITION IN PROCESSING SELF-DISCLOSURE OF SEXUAL TRAUMA
… individuals displayed more emotional arousal and cognitive resource allocation when the relational identity as a friend is made salient. Implications and directions for future research are discussed in relation to a growing line of communication research that studies the dynamic co-construction of …
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Embedding formative assessment in the writing curriculum
… in writing. Teachers were presented with a cognitive resource comprising formative assessment principles, strategies and techniques. They were asked to integrate this with existing practice in teaching and assessing writing and to reflect on the process. A mentored action research approach …
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The Cluster Hypothesis: A Visual/Statistical Analysis
… attractive possibility for reducing the cognitive resource demands on human users of information retrieval systems. However, clustered presentation of search results is sensible only to the extent that naturally occurring similarity relationships among documents correspond to topically …
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The Effects of Task Criticality and Target Modality on a Simulated Battlefield Search Task
… Military participants experienced higher cognitive workload in the high criticality condition. These results lend credence to the Pictorial Superiority Effect, Dual-Coding Theory, and the Critical Decision Method. As pictorial information may lower cognitive resource demand, these results …
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Technology as a Leadership Context: An Examination of Technostress and Group Performance
… between technostress and group performance, the cognitive resource (CR) theory of leadership was used as the guiding theoretical framework. CR theory posits stress as a moderator between leader attributes – such as directive behavior, intellectual abilities, experience, alongside task …
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White matter connectivity, cognition, symptoms and genetic risk factors in Schizophrenia
… Schizophrenia is characterised by persistent cognitive impairments that predate the occurrence of symptoms and have been shown to have a neural foundation reflecting aberrant brain connectivity. So far, 179 independent genome-wide significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been …
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Age differences in the underlying mechanisms of product placement influence
… may shift in terms of the much-debated age cognitive decline. I consider how such changes might mediate placement impact. By way of example, the theory of ego depletion is evaluated and discussed in relation to ageing effects and product placement research. Finally, I consider how cognitive …