Event-related potentials and behavioral measures were obtained from young and elderly subjects while they performed two different auditory delayed match-to-sample tasks. In each experiment, subjects had to indicate whether an initial and a subsequent test sound were identical in two different conditions: one filled with distracting tone pips and one with no distractors. Electrophysiologically, ...

Objectives: Rehabilitation strategies play a pivotal role in reliving the inappropriate behaviors and improving children's performance during school. Concentration and visual and auditory comprehension in children are crucial to effective learning and have drawn interest from researchers and clinicians. Vestibular function deficits usually cause high level of alertness and vigilance, and proble...

OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between motor skills, exercise capacity and cognitive functions, and evaluate how they correlate to academic performance in mathematics and reading comprehension using standardised, objective tests. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 423 Danish children (age: 9.29±0.35 years, 209 girls). Fine and gross motor skills were evaluated in a visuomotor ...

Abstract This study investigated the role of lexical skills and executive functioning on L1 Dutch L2 English phonological awareness in children enrolled bilingual Dutch/English kindergarten The Netherlands (n = 95) monolingual (n = 83). Participants had an average age 5 years 10 months completed tasks awareness, (vocabulary specificity), (sustained visual auditory attention, behavioural self-re...

Background: Chess is a game that involves many aspects of high level cognition such as memory, attention, focus and problem solving. Long term practice of chess can improve cognition performances and behavioral skills. Auditory memory, as a kind of memory, can be influenced by strengthening processes following long term chess playing like other behavioral skills because of common processing pat...

aim and background: the purpose of this study was to compare executive function and sustained attention in students with obsessive–compulsive, high schizotypal and overlapping symptoms and a control group. methods and materials: the present study assessed undergraduate students of tabriz university by ex post facto method. randomized multi-stage cluster sampling was used to select 1570 students...

  Background :Older adults with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) show evidence of auditory and speech perception problems. In present study, it was examined whether these problems are due to impairments of concurrent auditory segregation procedure which is the basic level of auditory scene analysis and auditory organization in auditory scenes with competing sounds.   Methods : Concurrent auditory...

The relationship between sustained attention, attentional selectivity, and capacity Laura P. McAvinue a , Signe Vangkilde b , Katherine A. Johnson a , Thomas Habekost b , Søren Kyllingsbæk b , Ian H. Robertson a & Claus Bundesen b a Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland b Centre for Visual Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, De...