Sökning: "Effortful control"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Effortful control.
1. Attention and Self-regulation in Infancy and Toddlerhood : The Early Development of Executive Functions and Effortful Control
Sammanfattning : Executive functions are higher-order cognitive functions underlying self-regulation of behavior. That is, executive functions make it possible to resolve internal conflicts and behave according to future goals rather than acting on sudden impulses or going on automatic. LÄS MER
2. Speech masking speech in everyday communication : The role of inhibitory control and working memory capacity
Sammanfattning : Age affects hearing and cognitive abilities. Older people, with and without hearing impairment (HI), exhibit difficulties in hearing speech in noise. LÄS MER
3. The diversity of mind wandering : The role of individual differences and cognitive factors
Sammanfattning : Many individuals spend a substantial portion of their waking time thinking about topics unrelated to current activities and surroundings (mind wandering). This dissertation sought to contribute to our knowledge of why some people mind wander more than others. LÄS MER
4. How the past becomes present : neural mechanisms governing retrieval from episodic memory
Sammanfattning : Remembering previously experienced events can happen as a result of an effortful retrieval attempt. At other occasions, a memory can enter our minds without any apparent effort – or, indeed, intention - to retrieve. LÄS MER
5. Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates of Inhibition in Episodic Memory
Sammanfattning : Forgetting can be highly functional when unwanted or irrelevant memory representations interfere with cognitive or motivational goals. Current theory assumes that forgetting can be brought about by the intentional or unintentional inhibition of interfering memory representations. LÄS MER