Publications

On the Psychometric Evaluation of Cognitive Control Tasks: An Investigation with the Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control (DMCC) Battery.

The domain of cognitive control has been a major focus of experimental, neuroscience, and individual differences research. Currently, …
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Prospective memories in the wild: Predicting memory for intentions in natural environments.

Prospective memory, the ability to remember an intention at the appropriate future moment, is often investigated in the laboratory to …
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The Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control (DMCC) project: Validation of an on-line behavioral task battery.

Cognitive control serves a crucial role in human higher mental functions. The Dual Mechanisms of Control (DMC) account provides a …
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Working Memory Capacity and Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control: An Experimental-Correlational Approach.

Working memory is thought to be strongly related to cognitive control. Recent studies have sought to understand this relationship under …
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Individual Differences in Attention and Intelligence: A United Cognitive/Psychometric Approach.

Process overlap theory (POT) is a new theoretical framework designed to account for the general factor of intelligence (g). According …
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The Effect of Working Memory Training on Cognitive Control and Reading Comprehension.

Master’s Thesis - That Working Memory (WM) Training improves WM is nothing novel. Claims that WM training transfer to improved cognitive skills such as fluid intelligence is. Our results indicate that WM Training does show some near-transfer to cognitive control, but not far-transfer to reading comprehension.
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A Triangulated and Exploratory Study of the Relationships Between Secularization, Religiosity, and Social Wellbeing

Exploratory research does not reveal an association between religion or secularity and social well-being as claimed by some.
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Priming bicultural bilingual Latino-Americans as Latino or American modulates access to the Spanish and English meaning of interlingual homographs.

Using Spanish-English bilingual Latino-Americans, this study tested whether priming Latino or American cultural representations …
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