«Most consumers, materialists and nonmaterialists alike, just passively take in this information; they don't waste a lot of
cognitive energy on what it means.
One reason this is true is because images are static, which means that students don't need to invest a lot of
cognitive energy in recalling previous information, the information they need stays right in front of them.
When children read more fluently, they can devote
more cognitive energy to comprehension and thus they enjoy reading more.
«We think this may be due to the fact that it takes a lot
of cognitive energy to lie,» Van Swol says.
Using emotional and
cognitive energy to push thoughts away will not stop them from continuing to intrude over time.
The cognitive energy it takes to come up with words is more intense.
The researchers discuss that this may be because multiple - choice questions are less cognitively demanding, and research suggests that less demanding retrieval practice activities promote stronger retention because they allow students to focus all of
their cognitive energy on a simple task.
That results in a greater ability to more accurately read their content - level text, and to learn from that text, instead of it being so laborious to get words off the page that there's
no cognitive energy left over for comprehension and critical thinking.
Light as means of verbal information and flow of
cognitive energy, for years at the heart of the artist's creative thinking, is interpreted in these recent works with new coordinates that point to unfamiliar directions of investigation.