Executive functions

Relationship between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents Georgian Court University Relationship between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents The recent development of media technologies has made great changes to the way individuals consume media content. With convenient access to the media, individuals are more likely to overuse these technological services, resulting in increased media saturation. Having access to so many different forms of material, programs, and other internet services has inevitably increased the amount of information processed within a limited length of time. This has led to the use of media multitasking as a type of information management…

uses evidence from research and studies to do with different dialects and different cultures and languages. “Some neuroscientists, such as Franco Fabbro at the University of Udine in Italy, have even explicitly included bidialectalism as a form of bilingualism,” (Erard) this proves the close relationship of dialect and language. Including dialect as a form of language shows that dialect is not only about how things are said, but how they sound and form different meanings. To back up his…

this finding, a study done in 2008 by Emmory and colleagues identified a bilingual executive processing advantage but no inhibitory control advantage in middle-aged samples. Bialystok conducted another study in which she identified a bilingual advantage in inhibitory control but no bilingual advantage in executive processing in old-aged samples. It turns out that her results were due to a monolingual advantage in certain trials, and there was no evidence of a bilingual advantage. Clearly,…

It is important in children’s cognitive development and with their success in school. Executive functions are used to organize and act on information. Working memory is one executive function. This skill is the ability to carry information in mind for the purpose of completing a task. Working memory is like your mental sticky note. When I was in fifth grade my classmates and I were learning how to round decimals. My teacher at the time came up with a catchy poem to remember every time we had to…

Executive function is defined as “cognitive control abilities depending on the prefrontal cortex that organize, sequence, and regulate behaviors” and self-regulation is defined as “the ability to regulate resources in the service of achieving goals” (Schonert-Reichl et al., 2015, p. 3). Schonert-Reichl et al. (2015) performed a study to examine whether a SEL intervention with a mindfulness component could improve fourth and fifth-grade students' cognitive control, stress levels, well-being,…

new simulation. El Haj, Antoine and Kapogiannis (2015) had two aims: the first was to support the ESH and the second was to examine whether EM and EFT shared common properties. Overall, the El Haj et al. paper falls short in its aims through lack of careful design and consideration of all possible explanations for their results. This essay will critically review the El Haj et al. study, first describing the experiment before considering its limitations, such as lack of consideration for scene…

results in an individual 's inability to suppress distracting stimuli while attending to desired stimuli. Directed attention is a primary component of executive function, thus the consequence of impaired directional attention is impaired executive function. Research has established a relationship between executive functioning and important life outcomes, such as relationships, problematic behaviour, and academic achievement (Ogilvie, Stewart, Chan, & Shum, 2011). Further research has shown that…

the percentage of bilingualism in the United States has tremendously increased. Whereas it was reported to be eleven percent back in the 80’s; the bilingual population, now, is twenty percent of the whole population (Grosjean, 2012). Due to the increase in the percentage of bilingual populations, linguistic scholars and researchers have constantly dealt with the controversies about bilingualism. Some scholars have argued that bilingualism has disadvantages in terms of lexical retrieval, a.k.a.…

WCPA searching for Executive Functioning By Robin Dobrusin and Christopher Shedyak Literature: Weekly Calendar Planning Activity (WCPA) Author: By Joan Toglia, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Theory Model: Cognitive Rehabilitation Objective: A performance-based measure of executive function (EF), and cognitive ability. Materials Needed: A weekly calendar broken into hourly increments with sub divisions into 15 min increments, scrap paper, pen or pencils, a score chart (provided in the book WCPA)…

participants instructed with a forget cue often utilise this to distinctively separate remember and forget items. As a result, selective rehearsal of remember items actively takes place; which is deemed as ‘strengthening the differentiation between forget or remember words’. From a theoretically differentiated explanation, Levy and Anderson (2002) placed significant emphasis on inhibitory mechanisms involved in Active Suppression and reasoned that internal cognitive executive functions;…