cognitive demand

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The tasks assessed different aspects of phonological awareness and recruited different cognitive demands for their solutions.
The only task for which group differences emerged in the present studies, phonemic segmentation, involves moderate cognitive demands.
We reduced the cognitive demands of the task by leaving the original event on screen and asking only for first-level similarity judgments.
For example, without the social and cognitive demands created by and through talk, access to one's vocabulary may deteriorate.
In contrast, research on reducing cognitive demands has been limited.
Common regions of the human frontal lobe recruited by diverse cognitive demands.
This drop in performance can be explained by higher cognitive demands and limitations of visuospatial working memory in blindfolded conditions.
In order to optimize the likelihood of uncovering infants' true learning potential, every attempt was made to reduce the unnecessary cognitive demands of the task.
The cognitive demands of preference-elicitation interviews exceed the demands of providing self-assessment information on health status; thus, the direct approach is not suitable for all types of respondents.
Writers with low verbal ability did not profit from the relaxed demands, suggesting that positive effects on quality depend not only on cognitive demands but also on verbal ability.
The sentence enactment task does place greater cognitive demands on the child in that they have to remember what was said, identify the appropriate objects, and then perform the activity.
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