Previous studies have shown that emotions evoked through music can have transient effects on cognitive performance. Considering the importance of working memory (WM) in the processing of new information, in this study, we investigated the impact of positive and negative emotions evoked through music on visuospatial WM performance using a within-subjects design. Moreover, we concomitantly recorded the participan...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:06:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-06-01; The successful acquirement of mathematical skills during the school years depends on the development of numerical cognition, which can impact future personal and professional development. The present study investigated the function of numerical cognition systems in children with numeracy deficits (ND). ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:26:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-01-01; The aim of this study was to investigate the development of specific domains of Numerical Cognition (Number Sense - NS, Number Comprehension - NC, Number Production - NP, and Calculation - CA) in Brazilian children with Specific Learning Disorders. The study included 72 children (36 boys), from 9- to 10...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:26:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-01-01; The Numerical Cognition is influenced by biological, cognitive, educational and cultural factors. It consists of a primary system, called Number Sense that would be innate and universal, also of secondary systems: the Calculation, implied to perform mathematical operations by means of symbols or words a...
Motivation is a crucial aspect of learning, particularly in the field of music. For decades, motivation for learning music has been a much-discussed subject, and yet its influence still remains a convoluted issue. This study systematically analyses peer-reviewed English language studies, according to PRISMA guidelines, in order to understand how children’s and adolescents’ motivation to learn a musical instrume...
Motivation is a crucial aspect of learning, particularly in the field of music. For decades, motivation for learning music has been a much-discussed subject, and yet its influence still remains a convoluted issue. This study systematically analyses peer-reviewed English language studies, according to PRISMA guidelines, in order to understand how children’s and adolescents’ motivation to learn a musical instrume...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:28:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-01-01; Baddeley (2007) proposed the Hedonic Detection to explain the connection between emotion and working memory (WM). This review aimed to systematize evidence of the influence of emotion on performance of WM tasks and its association with the Hedonic system on current studies. We carried out a database res...
Musical training (MT) is perceived as a multi-sensory program that simultaneously integrates visual, aural, oral, and kinesthetic senses. Furthermore, MT stimulates cognitive functions in a ludic way instead of tapping straight into the traditional context of school learning, including mathematics. Nevertheless, the efficacy of MT over mathematics remains understudied, especially concerning longstanding effects...
Several studies have shown the negative impact of mood disorders in cognitive performance, especially in working memory (WM) tasks. However, evidence of the impact of mood inductions applied in experimental settings on healthy participants is less consistent. While some studies have shown that induced mood states decrease WM tasks performance, others verify a better WM performance. In fact, these contradictory ...
In this review, we investigated the influence of happy/pleasurable and sad/unpleasant emotional stimuli on working memory (WM) performance. Twenty-eight out of 356 articles were reviewed. We observed that emotional stimuli were used as mood inductors or as targets comprising the WM task. Results showed that WM modalities were influenced differently when updating, interference resolution, span, and complex tasks...