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Zhihao Zhang; Qian Yu; Yanxia Chen; Liye Zou; Sebastian Ludyga; Myrto Mavilidi; David Lubans; Jinming Li; Charles H. Hillman; Jiahui Wang; Linjing Zhou; Ziquan Cai; Matthew Heath; Rong-Huan Jiang; Fabian Herold; Fred Paas – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Physical activity (PA) is well-documented to benefit students' executive function (EF) and academic performance. However, prevailing research has predominantly focused on domain-general EF (across academic domains) while overlooking domain-specific EF (within specific subjects). To address this gap, this opinion article proposes an integrative…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Executive Function, Educational Benefits
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DeCaro, Marci S.; Van Stockum, Charles A., Jr.; Wieth, Mareike B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Chuderski and Jastrzêbski (2017) found a positive relationship between working memory capacity and insight problem solving, and concluded that "people with less effective cognition" are therefore "less creative" (p. 2003). This interpretation discounts substantial evidence that devoting less executive control facilitates…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Problem Solving, Attention, Individual Differences