Development and plasticity of cognitive flexibility in early and middle childhood

F Buttelmann, J Karbach - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cognitive flexibility, the ability to flexibly switch between tasks, is a core dimension of
executive functions (EFs) allowing to control actions and to adapt flexibly to changing …

In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning

JSBT Evans - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2003 - cell.com
Researchers in thinking and reasoning have proposed recently that there are two distinct
cognitive systems underlying reasoning. System 1 is old in evolutionary terms and shared …

Does leadership need emotional intelligence?

J Antonakis, NM Ashkanasy, MT Dasborough - The leadership quarterly, 2009 - Elsevier
Interest in emotional intelligence has bloomed over the last few years. That it has become a
standard concept in general and applied psychology, as well as in applied business …

How Would You Feel versus How Do You Think She Would Feel? A Neuroimaging Study of Perspective-Taking with Social Emotions

P Ruby, J Decety - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2004 - direct.mit.edu
Perspective-taking is a complex cognitive process involved in social cognition. This positron
emission tomography (PET) study investigated by means of a factorial design the interaction …

An evaluation of dual-process theories of reasoning

M Osman - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2004 - Springer
Current theories propose that reasoning comprises two underlying systems (Evans & Over,
1996; Sloman, 1996; Stanovich & West, 2000). The systems are identified as having …

Anatomy of deductive reasoning

V Goel - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2007 - cell.com
Much of cognitive research on deductive reasoning has been preoccupied with advocating
for or against visuospatial (mental model theory) or linguistic/syntactic (mental logic theory) …

Neural correlates of feeling sympathy

J Decety, T Chaminade - Neuropsychologia, 2003 - Elsevier
Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to investigate the neural correlates of feeling
sympathy for someone else (ie the affinity, association, or relationship between persons …

Asymmetric functional roles of right and left ventromedial prefrontal cortices in social conduct, decision-making, and emotional processing

D Tranel, A Bechara, NL Denburg - Cortex, 2002 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to begin to parse the relative contributions of the right and left
ventromedial prefrontal cortices (VMPC) in regard to social conduct, decision-making, and …

Differences in brain activation between novices and experts in science during a task involving a common misconception in electricity

S Masson, P Potvin, M Riopel… - Mind, Brain, and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Science education studies have revealed that students often have misconceptions about
how nature works, but what happens to misconceptions after a conceptual change remains …

The impact of type of examples on originality: Explaining fixation and stimulation effects

M Agogué, A Kazakçi, A Hatchuel… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There are obstacles to creativity: one of them is called fixation effect, the fact that some
knowledge about existing or obvious solutions is spontaneously activated and constrains …