Cognitive resources and retrieval interference effects in normal people: The role of the frontal lobes and hippocampus

Chess playing has a significant role in participants’ resources allocation, both at a psychological level, but mostly concerning the cognitive resources. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of chess playing on the intellectual development of primary-class students. 67 children were tested using the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices and were distributed in three different groups according to their experience with chess, namely: the control group (formed by students with no experience with chess playing), the beginners group (students with less than one year in chess playing training) and the advanced group (children with more than two years experience with chess). Results indicated that chess playing had a significant effect on the SPM performance, indicating that those in the advanced group performed significantly better than those in the control or in the beginners group. Conclusions of this study tap into the benefits of playing chess with a focus on the children’s’ cognitive development.

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Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in Citizen-State Interactions

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3481440 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Julian Christensen ◽

Lene Aarøe ◽

Martin Bækgaard ◽

Pamela Herd ◽

Donald P. Moynihan

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Cognitive Resources ◽

Administrative Burden

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Heart and Mind: Essential Components in Sound Decision-Making

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1171 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 364-364

Author(s):

Michaela Clark ◽

Julie Hicks Patrick ◽

Michaela Reardon

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Decision Quality ◽

Cluster Solution ◽

Cognitive Resources ◽

Cluster Membership ◽

Essential Components ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Affective Components ◽

Heart And Mind

Abstract Consumer tasks permit an ecologically-valid context in which to examine the contributions of affective and cognitive resources to decision-making processes and outcomes. Although previous work shows that cognitive factors are important when individuals make decisions (Patrick et al., 2013; Queen et al.), the role of affective components is less clear. We examine these issues in two studies. Study 1 used data from 1000+ adults to inform a cluster analysis examining affective aspects (importance, meaningfulness) of making different types of decisions. A 4-cluster solution resulted. In Study 2, we used affective cluster membership and cognitive performance as predictors of experimental decision-making outcomes among a subset of participants (N = 60). Results of the regression (F(2, 40) = 6.51, p < .01, R2 = .25.) revealed that both the affective clusters (b = .37, p = .01) and cognitive ability (b = -.30, p = .04) uniquely contributed to the variance explained in decision quality. Age did not uniquely contribute. Results are discussed in the context of developing measures that enable us to move the field forward.

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Few Body Effects in the Electron and Positron Impact Ionization of Atoms

Atoms ◽

10.3390/atoms9020033 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 33

Author(s):

R.I. Campeanu ◽

Colm T. Whelan

Keyword(s):

Electron Impact ◽

Cross Sections ◽

Differential Cross ◽

Impact Ionization ◽

Inert Gas ◽

Interference Effects ◽

Positron Impact ◽

Competing Interactions ◽

Energy Sharing

Triple differential cross sections (TDCS) are presented for the electron and positron impact ionization of inert gas atoms in a range of energy sharing geometries where a number of significant few body effects compete to define the shape of the TDCS. Using both positrons and electrons as projectiles has opened up the possibility of performing complementary studies which could effectively isolate competing interactions that cannot be separately detected in an experiment with a single projectile. Results will be presented in kinematics where the electron impact ionization appears to be well understood and using the same kinematics positron cross sections will be presented. The kinematics are then varied in order to focus on the role of distortion, post collision interaction (pci), and interference effects.

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Role of current oscillations in ac-dc interference effects inNbSe3

Physical Review B ◽

10.1103/physrevb.30.2279 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 2279-2281 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

R. P. Hall ◽

A. Zettl

Keyword(s):

Interference Effects ◽

Current Oscillations

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Role of the frontal lobes in integrative activity of the brain inMacaca mulatta

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology ◽

10.1007/bf01182223 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 265-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. S. Batuev ◽

A. A. Pirogov ◽

A. A. Orlov

Keyword(s):

Frontal Lobes ◽

Integrative Activity ◽

The Brain

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I think, therefore I forgive: The role of reasoning in forgiving accidental harms

10.31234/osf.io/8gjth ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Indrajeet Patil ◽

Bastien Trémolière

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Cognitive Style ◽

Time Pressure ◽

Moral Judgments ◽

Third Party ◽

Cognitive Resources ◽

Reasoning Ability ◽

Total N ◽

Moral Condemnation

People experience a strong conflict while condemning someone who brought about an accidental harm, her innocent intention exonerating her, but the harmful outcome incriminating her. In the present research (total N = 4879), we explore how reasoning ability and cognitive style relate to how people choose to resolve this conflict and judge the accidental harms. A first set of studies (1a-c) showed that individual differences in cognitive style predicted severity of judgments in fictitious accidental harms scenarios, with more able (or willing) reasoners being less harsh in their judgments. A second set of studies (2a-c) relied on experimental manipulations of cognitive load (Dot matrix, Time pressure, Mortality Salience manipulations), aiming to tax available cognitive resources to participants while evaluating third-party harmful behaviors. These manipulations, however, failed to modulate people’s moral judgments for accidental harms. We discuss the importance of individual differences in reasoning ability in the assessment of accidental harms, and we also propose potential explanations for the failure of our experimental manipulations to affect severity of moral condemnation.

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