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Bejjani, Christina; Egner, Tobias – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Cognitive control describes the ability to use internal goals to strategically guide how we process and respond to our environment. Changes in the environment lead to adaptation in control strategies. This type of control learning can be observed in performance adjustments in response to varying proportions of easy to hard trials over blocks of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Attention, Motivation
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Akin, Sinan; Kilinc, Fatih; Soyleyici, Z. Senem; Gocmen, Nermin – Online Submission, 2017
Background: The most common problems in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders are eye contact, being able to follow objects for a long time and lack of attention. Sports activities are known to prevent the negative symptoms of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The Badminton sports branch has a positive effect on the individual's object control,…
Descriptors: Racquet Sports, Exercise, Children, Autism
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Unsworth, Nash; Robison, Matthew K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
A great deal of prior research has examined the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and attention control. The current study explored the role of arousal in individual differences in WMC and attention control. Participants performed multiple WMC and attention control tasks. During the attention control tasks participants were…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Short Term Memory, Attention Control, Correlation