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Working Memory Capacity as Executive Attention.»
Not exact matches
Factors other than practice believed to influence athletic performance include genetic attributes, such
as fast - twitch muscles and maximum blood oxygenation level; cognitive and psychological traits and behaviors — including confidence, performance anxiety, intelligence and
working memory capacity — play roles
as well, though researchers don't yet know the significance of each.
The researchers made use of functional MRI for analysing brain activity during the n - back task, to evaluate basic
capacities for improvement of everyday cognitive tasks, such
as working memory and sustained attention.
First, everyone has a different aptitude — or what cognitive scientists refer to
as «
working memory»
capacity, meaning the ability to absorb and
work actively with a given amount of information from a variety of sources, including visual and auditory.
It extended the
work into the realm of a performative act, in which the process of making it is
as important
as the finished piece.Understanding that the advent of the written word arrived
as the
capacity of human
memory deteriorated situates the portraits
as a kind of documentation that might extend the reach of collective
memory and historical consciousness.
He added that the research establishes with greater certainty that some cognitive abilities often seen
as immutable, such
as working memory capacity, can be improved through mindfulness training.
The present study aims to build a model of second language (L2) reading, taking into account
working memory capacity and first language (L1) literacy
as variables within structural equation modeling (SEM).