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Chess Training for Improving Executive Functions and Invasion Game Tactical Behavior of College Student Athletes: A Preliminary Investigation
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Dania, Aspasia; Kaltsonoudi, Kalliope; Ktistakis, Ioannis; Trampa, Konstantina; Boti, Niki; Pesce, Caterina – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: Within team sports, players' ability to inhibit inappropriate behavioral responses and flexibly adapt to upcoming challenges relates significantly to their game performance. As such, there have been calls for cognitively fostering programs to form the basis of game teaching and coaching practice. However, only few studies have tested…
Descriptors: Games, Executive Function, Student Athletes, Program Effectiveness
Morphosyntactic Production and Verbal Working Memory: Evidence from Greek Aphasia and Healthy Aging
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Fyndanis, Valantis; Arcara, Giorgio; Christidou, Paraskevi; Caplan, David – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The present work investigated whether verbal working memory (WM) affects morphosyntactic production in configurations that do not involve or favor similarity-based interference and whether WM interacts with verb-related morphosyntactic categories and/or cue-target distance (locality). It also explored whether the findings related to the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory
Executive Function Variation in Children with Conduct Problems: Influences of Coexisting Reading Difficulties
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Kallitsoglou, Angeliki – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
It is unknown whether children with conduct problems (CP) and poor reading (PR) skills exhibit more profound executive function impairments than children with CP only and whether such impairments are explained by coexisting PR. Executive functions were compared in four groups of 7- to 8-year-old children: 26 CP only, 35 PR only, 27 CP-PR, and 31…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Behavior Problems, Reading Difficulties, Children
Cognitive and Academic Abilities Associated with Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Comparison between Subtypes in a Greek Non-Clinical Sample
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Papaioannou, Sophia; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Sideridis, Georgios D.; Antoniou, Foteini; Padeliadu, Suzanna; Simos, Panagiotis G. – Educational Psychology, 2016
The study assessed cognitive and academic performance of children demonstrating teacher-rated ADHD-related symptoms (Inattention [IA] and/or Hyperactivity/Impulsivity [H/I]) in a representative sample of, largely untreated, Greek elementary school students (N?=?923). A battery of tests assessing short-term memory (STM), sustained attention,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Short Term Memory, Reading Skills