Toku science topic
The mental control skills involved in holding information, resisting distraction, switching strategy and staying with a hard problem.
Explore working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control, and how these abilities relate to learning across reading, mathematics and science.
Paul L. Morgan et al. · Child Development
The ability to hold a goal, switch perspective and resist distractions is connected with learning across more than one school subject.
Working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control in kindergarten predicted later reading, mathematics and science achievement in a large longitudinal sample.
Rebecca Bull, Kimberly A. Espy & Sandra A. Wiebe · Developmental Neuropsychology
Holding information in mind, inhibiting distractions and controlling attention are relevant to the development of academic problem solving.
Preschool working-memory and executive-function measures predicted later mathematics performance in the longitudinal sample.
John Sweller · Cognitive Science
If too much mental effort is spent on basic steps, less capacity may remain for the part of the problem that is new.
The importance of working-memory demands and schema acquisition when designing learning tasks.
Mark H. Ashcraft & Jeremy A. Krause · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Harder maths places demands on working memory, which is one reason accessible foundational knowledge can matter.
Mathematical performance beyond simple fact retrieval depends strongly on working memory, and mathematics anxiety can consume cognitive resources.