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van Dijk, Marloes; Blom, Elma; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Journal of Intelligence, 2020
Taking a perception-action perspective, we investigated how the presence of different real objects in children's immediate situation affected their creativity and whether this effect was moderated by their selective attention. Seventy children between ages 9 and 12 years old participated. Verbal responses on a visual Alternative Uses Task with a…
Descriptors: Cues, Attention, Attention Control, Children
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Araújo, Susana; Huettig, Falk; Meyer, Antje S. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This eye-tracking study explored how phonological encoding and speech production planning for successive words are coordinated in adult readers with dyslexia (N = 22) and control readers (N = 25) during "rapid automatized naming" (RAN). Using an object-RAN task, we orthogonally manipulated the word-form frequency and phonological…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Naming, Phonology, Reading Processes
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Verhagen, Josje; de Bree, Elise; Unsworth, Sharon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
Although a bilingual advantage has been reported for various measures of cognitive control, most previous studies have looked at a limited range of cognitive control measures. Furthermore, they typically leave unaddressed whether positive effects of bilingualism hold for all bilinguals or whether these are modulated by differences in bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Language Proficiency, Cognitive Ability
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Baumgartner, Susanne E.; Weeda, Wouter D.; van der Heijden, Lisa L.; Huizinga, Mariëtte – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
The increasing prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents is concerning because it may be negatively related to goal-directed behavior. This study investigated the relationship between media multitasking and executive function in 523 early adolescents (aged 11-15; 48% girls). The three central components of executive functions (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Executive Function, Attention Control, Early Adolescents