Current discussions about educational policy and practice are often embedded in a mind-set
that considers students who were born in an age of omnipresent digital media to be …

The assessment and prediction of cognitive performance is a key issue for any discipline
concerned with human operators in the context of safety-critical behavior. Most of the …

The most replicated result in the field of intelligence is the positive manifold, which refers to
an all-positive pattern of correlations among diverse cognitive tests. The positive manifold is …

Unlike brain regions that respond selectively to specific kinds of information content, a
number of frontal and parietal regions are thought to be domain-and process-general: that …

This article takes a critical look at three pervasive urban legends in education about the
nature of learners, learning, and teaching and looks at what educational and psychological …

The proliferation and ease of access to information and communication technologies (ICTs)
such as Facebook, text messaging, and instant messaging has resulted in ICT users being …

Although some research has shown a negative relation between Facebook use and
academic performance, more recent research suggests that this relation is likely mitigated by …

The omnipresence of student-owned information and communication technologies (ICTs) in
today's college classrooms presents educational opportunities but can also create learning …

Highlights•Most of the brain's early computations can be performed in a non-conscious
mode.•Conscious perception results in an amplification, propagation and integration of brain …

In the context of performance optimizations in multitasking, a central debate has unfolded in
multitasking research around whether cognitive processes related to different tasks proceed …