The authors suggest that it is more about people's attitude towards the digital media than the actual reading experience: «The present findings thereby suggest that the scepticism towards digital reading media... may reflect a general cultural attitude towards reading in this manner rather than measurable
cognitive effort during reading.»
Not exact matches
«When you initially learn mindfulness meditation practices, you have to cognitively work at it — especially
during a stressful task — and, these active
cognitive efforts may result in the task feeling less stressful, but they may also have physiological costs with higher cortisol production,» Creswell explained.
As part of a collaborative
effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and
cognitive deficits
during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.
«We had speculated
during the design of the study that the choices not to drink at all might require the most
cognitive effort, but that didn't seem to be the case.
Improving social and emotional skills, which are more malleable
during these years, have proven to be more effective than
efforts to increase
cognitive skills alone.
During conflict, depressed mothers tend to use controlling, low -
effort messages compared to communication strategies that require more
cognitive work such as collaboration (Downey & Coyne, 1990).