Although we used different tests to assess attention and executive function, the basic cognitive processes of these two domains cannot be clearly divided, and often overlap.
The creative cognition approach views creativity as the generation of novel and appropriate products through the application of basic cognitive processes to existing knowledge structures.
That is to say how emotional valence can interfere with the efficiency of the underlying basic cognitive process related to attention.
In many cases, it is unclear if learning difficulties are primarily the result of a learning disability (i.e., a disorder of basic cognitive processes), anxiety (which is known to also affect learning processes), or the co-occurrence of both disorders.
Their results suggested that the basic cognitive processes are the building blocks of intelligence.
Like any other decision-making task in which participants have to choose quickly between alternative responses, AAT performance recruits basic cognitive processes such as the speed of information accumulation, bias, motor execution time and response caution.
However, there has been little investigation of the impact of being a victim of maltreatment on the more basic cognitive processes, such as the ability to properly identify the causes of events.
We have previously suggested that basic cognitive processes may be implicated in this uncontrollability of problematic worry (Hirsch, Hayes, & Mathews, 2009).
Chronic protein energy malnutrition does not seem to affect basic cognitive processes like motor speed which is affected in case of other nutritional deficiencies.
This study was designed to explore the relationships between sex, personality, and basic cognitive processes.
