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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"cognitive switching"”.
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Multilingualism and Diglossia in Hong-Kong Secondary Schools: Switching effects in cognition and language processing
The bilingual advantage in cognitive switching has been extensively documented in the literature (e.g., Bialystok, 2011; Bialystok, 2015). This thesis focuses on the cognitive gains of bilinguals in task-switching, specifically. If we assume that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in non-verbal …
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Assessing executive function as it relates to self-regulation
Slips of action are cognitive errors that occur during routine tasks in everyday life (Clark, Parakh, Smilek, & Roy, 2012). Minimizing these everyday errors involves executive function, a system of complementary cognitive processes that enable control over thoughts and actions, including attention, …
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Your Attention Please: Neural Networks, Individual Differences, and Clinical Implications of Attentional Control in the Human Brain
… abilities rely on similar or identical neurocognitive mechanisms, while fractionated models propose that these are dissociable processes. Here, we investigated the relationship between sustained attention and task switching both behaviourally and at the level of the brain. We conducted a …
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Factors Affecting Resting-State Functional Connectivity Across Three Intrinsically Connected Networks in Traumatic Brain Injury
… for each network, based off a combination of cognitive performance, brain volumetric factors, aging/demographic factors, and TBI-related factors. A secondary aim was to examine the relationship between the SN and the anticorrelation (i.e., between-network BOLD signal correlation) between the …
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A systematic review on the neurological and psychopathological correlates of pica
… Sensory and Wernicke's) as well as cognitive difficulties following left temporal (verbal learning, memory, and reasoning) and right frontal (cognitive switching) damage. The most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders associated with pica were Intellectual Disability and …
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A systematic review on the neurological and psychopathological correlates of pica
… Sensory and Wernicke's) as well as cognitive difficulties following left temporal (verbal learning, memory, and reasoning) and right frontal (cognitive switching) damage. The most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders associated with pica were Intellectual Disability and …