This article provides a review of the human intervention literature that has examined the influence of fitness training on cognition, well-being, brain structure, and brain function. Meta-analyses of this literature, which are reviewed here, suggest robust effects of fitness training on cognition and well-being. Although there are currently few human intervention studies that have examined fitn...

Lawrence Shapiro’s Embodied Cognition is one of the first detailed book length attempts to introduce and develop the central themes of embodied cognition, an important trend in cognitive science. Embodied cognition is increasingly influential, but it would be a mistake to characterize it as a rigidly defined and unified theory. It emerged from a variety of fields (e.g., the phenomenological mov...

Introduction: Metacognitive strategies play an essential role instudents’ learning and achievement; therefore, identifying theirantecedents should be considered. This study indicated howself-efficacy, as motivational beliefs, affects the meta-cognitivestrategies of medical students using a SEM approach.Method: The present study was a quantitative cross-sectional<br...

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Aim: To evaluate and compare the social cognition in patients with schizophrenia, healthy first-degree relatives and controls, by studying the relationship between social cognition and nonsocial cognition, psychopathology, and other clinical and sociodemographic variables. Method: The total sample was comprised of patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia (n = 29), healthy first-degree rel...