Essays about: "executive attention"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 55 essays containing the words executive attention.
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21. The Subjective Experience of Anxiety and Its Relation to Performance
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : There have been many attempts to explain the experience of anxiety during different types of performance situations. There are several different views on the brain mechanisms of anxiety. The traditional view has its focus on amygdala but recent research questions this view. READ MORE
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22. The Effects of Mindfulness-based Interventions on Functioning of Children and Youth with ADHD : A Systematic Literature Review
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationAbstract : Background: Given the incomplete benefits of the pharmacological therapy for ADHD and its over-prescription in children over the last decades, there is an explicit need for alternative treatments. Mindfulness-based Interventions (MBIs) are a family of emergent self-regulation practices including meditation, yoga and body-awareness exercises, found to be an effective therapy for ADHD. READ MORE
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23. Catalan uprising: a matter of inclusion? : An in-depth case study of decentralization and secessionism in Spain and Catalonia
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The scholarly field on decentralization and its relationship with secessionism is divided. Two camps can be distinguished, with opposite conclusions concerning the merits of autonomy concessions. A lack of systematic attention given to the varying capacity of decentralization to produce contrary outcomes has been identified. READ MORE
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24. The effects of multilingualism on executive processing.
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : In the first decades of the 20th century, research on bilingualism was just beginning. The first studies on bilingual children proposed a substantial disadvantage with respect to intelligence and learning abilities. READ MORE
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25. Pension Reform in Continental Europe : A comparative study of pension reform in Germany and France during the years ofausterity 1990-2010.
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : As demographic and economic contexts have shifted, the need for pension systems to reform has increased. Often, however, these systems have proved difficult to change – especially in continental Europe. READ MORE