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Can Creativity Predict Cognitive Reserve?
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Palmiero, Massimiliano; Di Giacomo, Dina; Passafiume, Domenico – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
Cognitive reserve relies on the ability to effectively cope with aging and brain damage by using alternate processes to approach tasks when standard approaches are no longer available. In this study, the issue if creativity can predict cognitive reserve has been explored. Forty participants (mean age: 61 years) filled out: the Cognitive Reserve…
Descriptors: Creativity, Correlation, Predictor Variables, Cognitive Processes
The Role of Comparison Activity in the Development of Referential Communication.
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Camaioni, Luigia; Ercolani, Anna Paola – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Studied 150 Italian children aged five to eight years to determine whether a significant relation existed between referential communication and comparison performance. Results indicated that the ability to compare in noncommunicative tasks was significantly related to communication effectiveness in referential tasks. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communicative Competence (Languages), Performance Factors, Verbal Ability
Acquiring Regular and Irregular Inflection in a Language with Verb Classes.
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Orsolini, Margherita; Fanari, Rachele; Bowles, Hugo – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Tested the cross-linguistic applicability of the dual mechanism model, investigating children's spontaneous performance with past definite and elicited performance with past definite and past participle. Performance profiles with productive and unproductive inflections could not be categorically distinguished. Phonologically transparent…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
A Cross-Linguistic Study of Early Lexical Development.
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Caselli, Maria Cristina; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Examines children's variation in rate, style, and sequence of grammatical development, within and across natural languages. Using a sample of English and Italian infants, concludes that while there are structural differences between English and Italian that could affect the order in which nouns and verbs are acquired, no differences were observed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies