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Vikesh Amin; Jere R. Behrman; Jason M. Fletcher; Carlos A. Flores; Alfonso Flores-Lagunes; Iliana Kohler; Hans-Peter Kohler; Shana D. Stites – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2025
Higher schooling attainment is associated with better cognitive function at older ages, but it remains unclear whether the relationship is causal. We estimate causal effects of schooling on performances on the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) word-recall (memory) test at older ages in China, Ghana, India, Mexico,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Memory, Older Adults, Cognitive Processes
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Jena, Ananta Kumar; Das, Joy; Bhattacharjee, Satarupa; Gupta, Somnath; Barman, Munmi; Devi, Jaishree; Debnath, Rajib – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2019
The study assessed the relationship among the factors of inhibition control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility in relation to cognitive development of children. A total of 30 children (17 male and 13 female) age group 6-7 years old (Mean=6.5; SD = 0.34) participated in the study. In this study, the authors have used Stroop Task, Saccadic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Child Development, Inhibition, Self Control
Kumar, Dinesh – Online Submission, 2009
The study investigated the newspaper reading among college students in development of their analytical ability. Newspapers are one of the few sources of information that are comprehensive, interconnected and offered in one format. The main objective of the study was to find out the development of the analytical ability among college students by…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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Bialystok, Ellen; Viswanathan, Mythili – Cognition, 2009
The present study used a behavioral version of an anti-saccade task, called the "faces task", developed by [Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I. M., & Ryan, J. (2006). Executive control in a modified anti-saccade task: Effects of aging and bilingualism. "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition," 32,…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Experimental Psychology, Bilingualism
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Sinha, Preeti; Sagar, Rajesh; Mehta, Manju – Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2008
Aim: To assess executive functions in medication naive children with attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD). Method: Group matched (age and gender) children with ADHD (N=30) and healthy children (N=30) in the age range of 6-14 years were compared on measures of executive functions (response inhibition, working memory, cognitive flexibility,…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inhibition, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes