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Ishanti Gangopadhyay; Daniel Fulford; Kathleen Corriveau; Jessica Mow; Pearl Han Li; Sudha Arunachalam – Cognitive Science, 2024
Understanding cognitive effort expended during assessments is essential to improving efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility within these assessments. Pupil dilation is commonly used as a psychophysiological measure of cognitive effort, yet research on its relationship with effort expended specifically during language processing is limited. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Difficulty Level, Motor Reactions, Cognitive Ability
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Anna McGuiness; Lara Travethan; Kylie Irvin; Yvette Black; Jessica Apps; Kathleen Corinth; Jessica Kennedy; Verenna Zenay Brown; Carla Morgan; Greg Quartly-Scott; Pieter Van Rensburg; Kim Rusten; Chloe Gott; Julia Lappin; Nicole Sugden; Julaine Allan; Frances Dark; Heidi Gray; Grace Thomas; Ashley Hollow; Matt Thomas – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Impairment in aspects of communication is a core diagnostic feature of schizophrenia and other psychotic spectrum disorders. These communication difficulties inhibit participation in a range of daily activities and affect relationships and quality of life. There has been little research focussed on communication outcomes in relation to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schizophrenia, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills
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Kelsie McGowan; Daniel Berends; Kristelle Hudry; Giacomo Vivanti; Cheryl Dissanayake; Catherine A. Bent – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
We explored associations among the core behavioural features and developmental/cognitive abilities of 155 autistic children, assessed between ages 13-67 months and again around 1-year later to understand predictive directionality. Bidirectional, cross-domain association was apparent, albeit with stronger direction of effect from earlier cognition…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Cognitive Ability, Young Children
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Catharina Tibken; Tobias Richter; Wienke Wannagat – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: To understand complex expository text, readers often engage in metacognitive comprehension monitoring. Metacognitive monitoring is assumed to rely on basic cognitive abilities (working memory updating, short-term memory, verbal intelligence). These abilities decrease in later adulthood. We thus compared younger and older adults in their…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Ability, Performance, Age Differences
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Mathangi Selvamenan; Angelina Paolozza; Joanna Solomon; Jack A. Naglieri – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study was conducted to examine the relationships between general intelligence test scores and race, ethnicity, gender, and parental education using the Naglieri General Ability Tests: Verbal, Nonverbal and Quantitative (Naglieri & Brulles, & Lansdowne, 2021) for three samples that closely match the U.S. population. Few differences…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Scores, Race, Ethnicity
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Irene Polo-Blanco; Paula Suárez-Pinilla; Juncal Goñi-Cervera; Marta Suárez-Pinilla; Beatriz Payá – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study examines relationships between mathematical problem-solving performance (in terms of strategies used and accuracy) and the main cognitive domains associated with mathematical learning (i.e. executive functions, verbal comprehension and social perception) of children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD and non-ASD resp.). The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Problem Solving, Executive Function, Verbal Ability
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Shi-huan Wang; Qing Zhou; Kai-yun Chen; Chao-qun Ceng; Guo-dong Zhan; Cong You; Yu Xing; Yuan-yuan Zou; Hong-zhu Deng – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the gap between adaptive functioning and cognitive functioning, especially verbal and nonverbal intelligence quotient (IQ) in Chinese children with ASD. We systematically explored cognitive functioning, ASD severity, early signs of developmental abnormalities, and socioeconomic factors as mediating factors of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Quotient
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Penny Levickis; Dan Cloney; Maude Roy-Vallières; Patricia Eadie – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study aims to extend our knowledge regarding contributions of educator--child interactions to child language outcomes by examining the extent to which specific dimensions of the CLASS observational tool of educator-child interactions are associated with child language abilities, utilizing data from an Australian…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Verbal Ability, Foreign Countries