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Can Humanoid Robots Be Used as a Cognitive Offloading Tool?
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Shari Cavicchi; Abdulaziz Abubshait; Giulia Siri; Magda Mustile; Francesca Ciardo – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
Cognitive load occurs when the demands of a task surpass the available processing capacity, straining mental resources and potentially impairing performance efficiency, such as increasing the number of errors in a task. Owing to its ubiquity in real-world scenarios, the existence of offloading strategies to reduce cognitive load is not new to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Computer Software
Time Perception in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: A Study Comparing Different Methodologies
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Mioni, G.; Mattalia, G.; Stablum, F. – Brain and Cognition, 2013
In this study, we investigated time perception in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Fifteen TBI patients and 15 matched healthy controls participated in the study. Participants were tested with durations above and below 1s on three different temporal tasks that involved time reproduction, production, and discrimination tasks. Data…
Descriptors: Brain, Executive Function, Head Injuries, Short Term Memory
Departure from Normality in Multivariate Normative Comparison: The Cramer Alternative for Hotelling's "T[squared]"
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Grasman, Raoul P. P. P.; Huizenga, Hilde M.; Geurts, Hilde M. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
Crawford and Howell (1998) have pointed out that the common practice of z-score inference on cognitive disability is inappropriate if a patient's performance on a task is compared with relatively few typical control individuals. Appropriate univariate and multivariate statistical tests have been proposed for these studies, but these are only valid…
Descriptors: Patients, Cognitive Ability, Control Groups, Error Patterns
Brief Report: Error Pattern in an Autistic Savant Calendar Calculator
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Iavarone, Alessandro; Patruno, Maria; Galeone, Filomena; Chieffi, Sergio; Carlomagno, Sergio – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Special ability in computing the day of the week from given dates was observed in a 18 years old male, L.E., suffering from autism. Neuropsychological testing revealed severe deficits in all cognitive domains and poor explicit knowledge of calendar structure. The subject scored well above the chance level on dates of the past and future decades.…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Autism, Cognitive Ability, Computation
Using Subjective Measures to Detect Variations of Intrinsic Cognitive Load within Problems
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Ayres, Paul – Learning and Instruction, 2006
Cognitive load theorists have frequently used subjective measures of cognitive load to test the effectiveness of instructional procedures. This study sought to broaden the applications of subjective measures by testing their ability to detect variations in intrinsic cognitive load within tasks. In two experiments students were asked to complete…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Computation
A Temporal-Contextual Retrieval Account of Complex Span: An Analysis of Errors
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Unsworth, Nash; Engle, Randall W. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Complex working memory span tasks have been shown to predict performance on a number of measures of higher-order cognition including fluid abilities. However, exactly why performance on these tasks is related to higher-order cognition is still not known. The present study examined the patterns of errors made on two common complex span tasks. The…
Descriptors: Scoring, Memory, Cues, Error Analysis (Language)