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Isabelle C. de Vink; Lisette Hornstra; Evelyn H. Kroesbergen – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Creative thinking is an important aspect of education. However, students differ widely in their ability to think creatively. Working memory might explain these differences. Therefore, this study focuses on how different aspects of WM can explain differences in divergent thinking, both separately and conjointly. To do so, latent profile analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Creative Thinking
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Klaus Oberauer; Hsuan-Yu Lin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Research on working memory (WM) has followed two largely independent traditions: One concerned with memory for sequentially presented lists of discrete items, and the other with short-term maintenance of simultaneously presented arrays of objects with simple, continuously varying features. Here we present a formal model of WM, the interference…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Short Term Memory, Visual Learning
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Patdanai Puvacharoonkul; Pornapit Darasawang; Tanagrit Phangwiwat; Praewpiraya Wiwatphonthana; Sirawaj Itthipuripat – rEFLections, 2024
Cognitive control is a mental construct thought to be important in most cognitive tasks, including second language learning. Its functions are believed by many scholars to be mainly domain-general, with some transferability across linguistic and non-linguistic domains. Our study aims to investigate to what extent the domain-generality claim of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Bilingualism, Executive Function, Second Language Learning