Neuroscientific studies revealed first insights into neural mechanisms underlying creativity,
but existing findings are highly variegated and often inconsistent. Despite the disappointing …

Application of physiological methods, in particular electroencephalography (EEG), offers
new and promising approaches to educational psychology research. EEG is identified as a …

Although peaks and troughs in cognitive performance characterize our daily functioning,
time-of-day fluctuations remain marginally considered in the domain of cognitive psychology …

Mu suppression has been proposed as a signature of the activity of the human mirror neuron
system (MNS). However the mu frequency band (8–13 Hz) overlaps with the alpha …

Converging evidence from humans and nonhuman primates is obliging us to abandon
conventional models in favor of a radically different, distributed-network paradigm of cortical …

According to theoretical accounts, both, N-back and complex span tasks mainly require
working memory (WM) processing. In contrast, simple span tasks conceptually mainly …

Memory performance has been reported to be associated with electroencephalogram (EEG)
alpha activity. This study aimed to improve short term memory performance by individual …

Attentional control and working memory capacity are important cognitive abilities that
substantially vary between individuals. Although much is known about how attentional …

Task-related power changes in the EEG alpha band were analyzed in 31 participants (17
males and 14 females) during performance of two verbal creativity tasks. Participants were …

Superior cognitive performance can be viewed from an intelligence perspective,
emphasising general properties of the human information processing system (such as …