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  2. Cognitive flexibility - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive flexibility [note 1] is an intrinsic property of a cognitive system often associated with the mental ability to adjust its activity and content, switch between different task rules and corresponding behavioral responses, maintain multiple concepts simultaneously and shift internal attention between them. [1]

  3. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test - Wikipedia

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    Psychological tests such as the WCST, administered alone, cannot be used to measure the effects of a frontal lobe injury, or the aspects of cognitive function it may affect, such as working memory; a variety of tests must be used. [17] [30] [31] A participant may be good at one task but show dysfunction in executive function overall. Similarly ...

  4. Eriksen flanker task - Wikipedia

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    In cognitive psychology, the Eriksen flanker task is a set of response inhibition tests used to assess the ability to suppress responses that are inappropriate in a particular context. The target is flanked by non-target stimuli which correspond either to the same directional response as the target ( congruent flankers), to the opposite ...

  5. Trail Making Test - Wikipedia

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    The task requires the subject to connect 25 consecutive targets on a sheet of paper or a computer screen, in a manner to like that employed in connect-the-dots exercises. There are two parts to the test. In the first, the targets are all the whole numbers from 1 to 25, and the subject must connect them in numerical order.

  6. Spatial visualization ability - Wikipedia

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    The cognitive tests used to measure spatial visualization ability including mental rotation tasks like the Mental Rotations Test or mental cutting tasks like the Mental Cutting Test; and cognitive tests like the VZ-1 (Form Board), VZ-2 (Paper Folding), and VZ-3 (Surface Development) tests from the Kit of Factor-Reference cognitive tests produced by Educational Testing Service.

  7. Task switching (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, cognitive shifting is a very similar executive function, but it involves conscious (not unconscious) change in attention. Together, these two functions are subcategories of the broader cognitive flexibility concept. Task switching allows a person to rapidly and efficiently adapt to different situations.

  8. Can being more flexible help people live longer? - AOL

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    The scientists analyzed records from thousands of participants to measure their levels of flexibility. Their findings showed that women generally had a higher Flexindex score than men.

  9. Neurobiological effects of physical exercise - Wikipedia

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    [1] [7] [12] People who regularly perform an aerobic exercise (e.g., running, jogging, brisk walking, swimming, and cycling) have greater scores on neuropsychological function and performance tests that measure certain cognitive functions, such as attentional control, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, working memory updating and ...