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Direct linkGinns, Paul; Muscat, Katherine; Naylor, Ryan – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Objective: When students learn or solve problems, attentional resources are depleted; rest breaks may restore cognitive functioning in support of learning. Research framed by attention restoration theory holds that exposure to natural environments may be another means to restore attentional resources. The study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Intervals, Attention, Learning Processes, Problem Solving
Charron, Camilo; Fischer, Jean-Paul; Meljac, Claire – Research in the Schools, 2008
To date, few studies have investigated the evolution of problem solving and general numeracy abilities during adulthood: skills that have obvious social importance. In this research, evolutions in adults' mental arithmetic skills were investigated using data from the IVQ 2004 French national survey, which tested 9,185 adults aged between 18 and…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Grade 1, Arithmetic, Aging (Individuals)
Furnham, Adrian; Stephenson, Rebecca – Psychology of Music, 2007
The aim of this study was to ascertain the nature of the interaction between the affective value of musical distraction, personality type and performance on the cognitive tasks of reading comprehension, free recall, mental arithmetic and verbal reasoning in children aged 11-12 years. It was hypothesized that the cognitive performance of extraverts…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Music, Personality, Correlation
