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Mohamed, Ahmed Dahir – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
Modafinil is a drug licensed for the treatment of narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Recently, modafinil has been reported to be used as a pharmacological cognitive enhancer by healthy individuals with no psychiatric disorders. This paper reports on a study that investigated the effects of modafinil on divergent and convergent thinking tasks of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Convergent Thinking, Creativity, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Leppink, Jimmie; van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G. – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
An increasing part of cognitive load research in technology-based learning includes a component of repeated measurements, that is: participants are measured two or more times on the same performance, mental effort or other variable of interest. In many cases, researchers aggregate scores obtained from repeated measurements to one single sum or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Measures (Individuals), Statistical Analysis
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Houssa, Marine; Nader-Grosbois, Nathalie – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
In an experimental design, we examined the effects of middle-term training in social information processing (SIP) and in Theory of Mind (ToM) on preschoolers' social cognition and social adjustment. 48 preschoolers took part in a pre-test and post-test session involving cognitive, socio-cognitive and social adjustment (direct and indirect)…
Descriptors: Social Development, Cognitive Processes, Theory of Mind, Preschool Children