Emotional thoughts are often accompanied by a host of additional or second order thoughts relevant for perceiving and regulating emotion and emotion-management processes. These meta-cognitive thoughts can play an important role in understanding psychological processes relevant to Emotional Intelligence. In the present article, we first provide a general meta-cognitive framework useful for class...

Cognitive impairment is prevalent among older adults population. It brings restriction to older adults’ lives and bring huge burden to the society. Mind-body exercise has characteristics from both physical exercise and intellectual experience. Moreover, it has potential cognitive benefits to reduce the incidence even reverse cognitive impairment. Using meta-analysis to analyze findings form pub...

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has emerged as a possible new risk factor of cognitive impairment and dementia, but results of studies remain conflicting. METHODS A systematic literature research of electronic databases (MEDLINE, Cochrane Library and Goggle Scholar covering the period from 1980 to January 2012) and meta-analysis of relevant cross-sectional and longitudinal studies wer...

patients and methods the study was performed on 40 tbi patients referred to the shahid beheshti hospital of kashan city and 40 normal controls in kashan. traumatic brain injured patients and normal controls were selected by convenience sampling. two groups filled out the demographic sheet, cognitive failures questionnaire (cfq) and meta-cognitions questionnaire 30 (mcq-30). the data were analyz...

objective: the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy (mct) and cognitive-behavior therapy (cbt) in treating iranian patients with major depressive disorder (mdd). methods: thirty three outpatients meeting dsm-iv-tr criteria for mdd without any other axis i and ii disorders were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions, i.e. mct, cbt and pharmaco...

As a result of considerable potential scientific and societal implications, the possibility of enhancing cognitive ability by training has been one of the most influential topics of cognitive psychology in the last two decades. However, substantial research into the psychology of expertise and a recent series of meta-analytic reviews have suggested that various types of cognitive training (e.g....

The current paper studies possible neuronal mechanisms for meta-level cognition of rule switching. In contrast to the conventional approach of hand-designing the cognitive functions, our study employs evolutional processes to search for neuronal mechanisms accounting for meta-level cognitive functions required in the investigated robotic tasks. Our repeated simulation experiments showed that th...

BACKGROUND Observational epidemiological studies such as cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding the association between caffeine intake from coffee or tea and the risk of cognitive disorders such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, and cognitive decline. METHODS We searched PubMed and EMBASE in September 2014. Three ...