BACKGROUND Few epidemiologic studies have investigated associations of air pollution with cognition in older adults, and none has specifically compared associations across particle sources. We investigated whether exposure to particulate air pollution, characterized by size and source, was associated with cognitive function and decline in cognitive function. METHODS We included participants o...

21 Training in action video games can increase the speed of perceptual processing. However, it is 22 unknown whether video-game training can lead to broad-based changes in higher-level 23 competencies such as cognitive flexibility, a core and neurally distributed component of 24 cognition. To determine whether video gaming can enhance cognitive flexibility and, if so, why 25 these changes occur...

abstractthis study aimed at investigating the relationship between iranian efl learners’ reading strategy use and emotional intelligence (ei) as well as exploring the most frequently-used reading strategies which can facilitate the process of reading comprehension. to this end, a group of 60 was selected out of 274 university learners majoring in tefl and english translation. based on english p...

This article presents the problem of knowledge conflicts identification in the architecture of cognitive agents. The agents operate at the decision support systems. The types and the sample of cognitive agents architecture was characterized in the first part of article. Next, the causes of knowledge conflicts was indicated. The final part of article contains the analysis of sources of knowledge...

Although emotions elicited by the fictional world or the artefact play a part in story-driven video games, they are certainly not the focus of the experience. From a cognitive psychological perspective, this paper studies the appraisal and action dimensions of emotions arising from gameplay. As it relies on cognitive film theories about popular narrative movies, it also revisits their conceptua...

School learning and performance is arguably the critical centerpiece of child and adolescent development, and there can be significant temporary upset in cognitive processing after a mild traumatic brain injury, also called a concussion. This injury results in a cascade of neurochemical abnormalities, and, in the wake of this dysfunction, both physical and cognitive activities become sources of...

Neuropsychological diagnosis first requires estimation of patients' premorbid cognitive ability. Although a number of methods have been proposed for this purpose, in practice there is little standardization. Often, clinical judgment and expert synthesis of multiple sources of information are prescribed to derive a premorbid estimate. There are, however, a number of systematic biases in human co...