Effective motor performance is important for surviving and thriving, and skilled movement is
critical in many activities. Much theorizing over the past few decades has focused on how …

Persistence in and timely disengagement from personal goals are core components of
successful self-regulation and therefore relevant to well-being and performance. In the …

Abstract The Advanced Mathematical Thinking (AMT) ability is one of the prioritized
mathematical abilities needed to be developed in learning mathematics during tertiary …

The amount of mental effort we invest in a task is influenced by the reward we can expect if
we perform that task well. However, some of the rewards that have the greatest potential for …

Depression is linked to deficits in cognitive control and a host of other cognitive impairments
arise as a consequence of these deficits. Despite of their important role in depression, there …

Motivation is fundamental to human agency and volitional behavior, and several influential
theories have been proposed to explain why individuals choose or persist in a course of …

Understanding language teachers' mental lives (Walberg, 1972), and how these shape and
are shaped by the activity of language teaching in diverse sociocultural contexts, has been …

Recent technological and analytical progress in brain imaging has enabled the examination
of brain organization and connectivity at unprecedented levels of detail. The Human …

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain
and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …