INFLUENCE OF THE THERMAL AND LIGHTING PERFORMANCE IN CLASSROOMS ON THE COGNITIVE PRODUCTIVITY OF STUDENTS IN COLOMBIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-164
Author(s):  
Lucas Arango-Díaz ◽  
Olga Lucía Montoya Flórez ◽  
Laura Rendón Gaviria ◽  
Luz Magnolia Tilano Vega ◽  
Carla Maria Zapata Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Performance Tests ◽  
Climatic Parameters ◽  
Operative Temperature

ABSTRACT This paper examines the influence of the thermal and lighting performance in classrooms on the cognitive productivity of students attending public schools in the principal three cities of Colombia: Bogota, Medellin and Cali. The methodology used involves the application of cognitive performance tests and thermal and visual perception surveys, along with measurements of climatic parameters in 34 classrooms of 14 schools in 2017 and 2018. The results were analyzed using transversal correlational regressions. Among the conclusions, this study found that the operative temperature turned out to be the most conclusive variable explaining cognitive performance relationships.

Exposure to music and cognitive performance: tests of children and adults

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Glenn Schellenberg ◽  
Takayuki Nakata ◽  
Patrick G. Hunter ◽  
Sachiko Tamoto
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Performance Tests

scholarly journals Reverse translated and gold standard continuous performance tests predict global cognitive performance in schizophrenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Bismark ◽  
Michael L. Thomas ◽  
Melissa Tarasenko ◽  
Alexandra L. Shiluk ◽  
Sonia Y. Rackelmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Performance Tests ◽  
Continuous Performance ◽  
Continuous Performance Tests

scholarly journals Visual-Motor Perception and Handwriting Performance of Students with Mixed Subtype Dyslexia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Aparecida Capellini ◽  
Larissa Sellin ◽  
Ilaria D’Angelo ◽  
Noemi Del Bianco ◽  
Catia Giaconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Group I ◽  
Junction Points ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Motor Perception

This studyaimed to characterize and compare the visual-motor perception and handwriting performance of students with mixed dyslexia and students with good academic performance. Twenty-six schoolchildren of both sexes participated in this study, aged 9 to 11 years and 11 months old, from fourth and fifth grades of an elementary school in municipal public schools, from an average socioeconomic level, divided into two groups: Group I (GI) composed of 13 students with a multidisciplinary diagnosis of mixed developmental dyslexia and Group II (GII) composed of 13 students with good academic performance from a municipal school and matched according to gender, education, and age to GI. All students in this study were subjected to the application of the following procedures: Developmental Test of Visual Perception III—DTVP-III, Dysgraphia Scale and writing analysis by NeuroScript MovAlyzeR 6.1 software. The results were analyzed statistically using the following tests: Mann-Whitney test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and Friedman test, aiming to verify intragroup and intergroup differences for the variables of interest in the DTVP-III, the Dysgraphia Scale, and the measures of handwriting speed and pressure by the MovAlyzeR software. The results were analyzed statistically at a significance level of 5% (0.050). The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between GI and GII in the parameters of the Dysgraphia Scale, floating lines, irregular spaces between words, junction points, sudden movements, and dimension irregularities. GII showed a superior performance in relation to GI in the variables analyzed with the DTVP-III in visual-motor integration, reduced motricity perception, and general visual perception. There was no statistically significant difference between GI and GII in the variables analyzed by the MovAlyzeR software. The results of this study allowed us to conclude that students with mixed dyslexia present a lower performance profile than the students with good academic performance in general visual perception, reduced motricity visual perception, and visual-motor perception skills, which may be the cause of the quality of dysgraphic writing characterized by floating lines, irregular spaces, junction points, sudden movements, and dimension irregularities.

scholarly journals Visual Perception and Visuomotor Reaction Speed Are Independent of the Individual Alpha Frequency

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorben Hülsdünker ◽  
Andreas Mierau
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Resting State ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Tennis Players ◽  
Alpha Frequency ◽  
Individual Alpha Frequency ◽  
Reaction Speed

While the resting-state individual alpha frequency (IAF) is related to the cognitive performance and temporal resolution of visual perception, it remains unclear how it affects the neural correlates of visual perception and reaction processes. This study aimed to unravel the relation between IAF, visual perception, and visuomotor reaction time. One hundred forty-eight (148) participants (28 non-athletes, 39 table tennis players, and 81 badminton players) investigated in three previous studies were considered. During a visuomotor reaction task, the visuomotor reaction time (VMRT) and EMG onset were determined. In addition, a 64-channel EEG system identified the N2, N2-r, and BA6 negativity potentials representing the visual and motor processes related to visuomotor reactions. Resting-state individual alpha frequency (IAF) in visual and motor regions was compared based on sport experience (athletes vs. non-athletes), discipline (badminton vs. table tennis), and reaction performance (fast vs. medium vs. slow reaction time). Further, the differences in the IAF were determined in relation to the speed of neural visual (high vs. medium vs. low N2/N2-r latency) and motor (high vs. medium vs. low BA6 negativity latency). Group comparisons did not reveal any difference in the IAF between athletes and non-athletes (p = 0.352, ηp2 = 0.02) or badminton and table tennis players (p = 0.221, ηp2 = 0.02). Similarly, classification based on the behavioral or neural performance indicators did not reveal any effects on the IAF (p ≥ 0.158, ηp2 ≤ 0.027). IAF was not correlated to any of the behavioral or neural parameters (r ≤ 0.10, p ≥ 0.221). In contrast to behavioral results on cognitive performance and visual temporal resolution, the resting state IAF seemed unrelated to the visual perception and visuomotor reaction speed in simple reaction tasks. Considering the previous results on the correlations between the IAF, cognitive abilities, and temporal sampling of visual information, the results suggest that a higher IAF may facilitate the amount and frequency but not the speed of information transfer.

Visual perception and cognitive performance

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose E. Capo-Aponte ◽  
Leonard A. Temme ◽  
H. Lee Task ◽  
Alan R. Pinkus ◽  
Melvyn E. Kalich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Cognitive Performance

scholarly journals Birth cohort differences in cognitive performance in 75- and 80-year-olds: a comparison of two cohorts over 28 years

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Munukka ◽  
Kaisa Koivunen ◽  
Mikaela von Bonsdorff ◽  
Sarianna Sipilä ◽  
Erja Portegijs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Digit Span ◽  
Finger Movement ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
Performance Tests ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Digit Span Test ◽  
Span Test ◽  
Cohort Differences

Abstract Objective To evaluate cohort differences in cognitive performance in older men and women born and assessed 28 years apart. Methods Data in this study were drawn from two age-homogeneous cohorts measured in the same laboratory using the same standardized cognitive performance tests. Participants in the first cohort were born in 1910 and 1914 and assessed in 1989–1990 (Evergreen project, n = 500). Participants in the second cohort were born in 1938 or 1939 and 1942 or 1943 and assessed in 2017–2018 (Evergreen II, n = 726). Participants in both cohorts were assessed at age 75 and 80 years and were recruited from the population register. Cognitive performance was measured using the Digit Span test from the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS), Digit Symbol test from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and phonemic Verbal Fluency test from the Schaie-Thurstone Adult Mental Abilities Test. Reaction time assessing motor and mental responses was measured with a simple finger movement task, followed by a complex finger movement task. T-tests were used to study cohort differences and linear regression models to study possible factors underlying differences. Results We found statistically significant cohort differences in all the cognitive performance tests, except for the digit span test and simple movement task in men, the later-born cohort performing better in all the measured outcomes. Conclusions The results of this study provide strong evidence that cognitive performance is better in more recent cohorts of older people compared to their counterparts measured 28 years earlier.

scholarly journals A Field Study of the Impact of Indoor Lighting on Visual Perception and Cognitive Performance in Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7436
Author(s):  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Zheng Huang ◽  
Zhijiang Li ◽  
Michael R. Pointer ◽  
Geng Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Visual Fatigue ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Text Reading ◽  
Lighting Environment ◽  
Indoor Lighting ◽  
The Impact

In this field study, a series of psychophysical tests were conducted to investigate the impact of indoor lighting on students’ visual perception and cognitive performance. A typical classroom of Wuhan University (China) was fitted with tubular light-emitting diode (LED) sources and LED panel sources in two experiments, respectively. Under the two lighting environments, seventy-nine college students were invited to complete a group of visual tests, which included colour preference evaluations of fruit and vegetables and skin tone, perceptual judgement on the atmosphere of the lighting environment, a reading comfort assessment concerning different paper colours, a Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS) test quantifying alertness, and the Anfimov test of attention (also concerning paper colours). These tests were conducted twice, before and after a two-hour self-study under each lighting environment, with the aim of investigating the impact of visual fatigue on visual perception and cognitive performance. It was found that the influence of indoor lighting was significant on skin preference and atmosphere perception, while no measured effects of lighting were observed on participant’s alertness and attention. Meanwhile, the impact of visual fatigue was also found to be insignificant in this case. Interestingly, paper colour, rather than indoor lighting, was found to have a significant impact on the visual comfort of text reading. In addition, degree of proficiency significantly influenced the proofreading speed and accuracy of the subjects the in Anfimov test, which we believe should be taken into consideration when implementing similar tests in follow-up studies. The preliminary findings of this field study should provide a deeper understanding of how changes in classroom lighting contribute to visual perception and cognitive performance of occupants.

scholarly journals A NOS1 variant implicated in cognitive performance influences evoked neural responses during a high density EEG study of early visual perception

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1202-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese O'Donoghue ◽  
Derek W. Morris ◽  
Ciara Fahey ◽  
Andreia Da Costa ◽  
John J. Foxe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
High Density ◽  
Neural Responses
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