People can learn about the probabilistic consequences of their actions in two ways: One is
by consulting descriptions of an action's consequences and probabilities (eg, reading up on …

Through the practice of Mindfulness Meditation (MM), meditators become familiar with the
observation of ongoing spontaneous thoughts, while maintaining an attitude of openness …

Executive functions demonstrate variable developmental and aging profiles, with protracted
development into early adulthood and declines in older age. However, relatively few studies …

Our smartphones enable—and encourage—constant connection to information,
entertainment, and each other. They put the world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our …

This study investigated the impact of nature experience on affect and cognition. We
randomly assigned sixty participants to a 50-min walk in either a natural or an urban …

Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is increasingly common. Many researchers
have suggested that laptop note taking is less effective than longhand note taking for …

Given that the ability to attend to a task without distraction underlies performance in a wide
variety of contexts, training one's ability to stay on task should result in a similarly broad …

Cognitive tasks that produce reliable and robust effects at the group level often fail to yield
reliable and valid individual differences. An ongoing debate among attention researchers is …

Research aims This study was designed to explore the interplay among English as a foreign
language learners' cognitive abilities and grit in predicting writing performance along …

Several theories have been put forth to explain the relation between working memory (WM)
and gF. Unfortunately, no single factor has been shown to fully account for the relation …