Various conceptualizations support the Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis’s claim that multisensory integration abilities play a critical role in scaffolding the development of a wide range of higher-order processes (e.g., “cognitive cascade”; Ayres, 1972; Rose et al., 2008). Correspondingly, mul...
This suggested that those patients might also be less adept at using analytical areas of the brain while performing decision-making tasks. Sure enough, brain scans showed that there were reduced levels of activation in the prefrontal cortex, where rational thought can override impulsive behavior. It...
Despite recent research on the building blocks of language processing, the nature of the units involved in the production of written texts remains elusive: intonation units, which are evidenced by empirical results across a growing body of work, are not suitable for writing, where the sentence rem...
Although (cognitive) flexibility is often mentioned as one of the cornerstones of creativity such as in the dual pathway model of creativity (Nijstad et al. 2010; Stein 1953; Torrance 1974), only one empirical study supports this claim (Pan and Yu 2018). This study by Pan and Yu (2018)...