• The Influence of Situational Cues on Children’s Creativity in an Alternative Uses Task and the Moderating Effect of Selective Attention 

      van Dijk, Marloes; Blom, Wilhelmina Bernardina T.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn; Leseman, Paul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-19)
      Taking a perception-action perspective, we investigated how the presence of different real objects in children’s immediate situation affected their creativity and whether this effect was moderated by their selective attention. Seventy children between ages 9 and 12 years old participated. Verbal responses on a visual Alternative Uses Task with a low stimulus and high stimulus condition were coded ...
    • No Bilingual Benefits Despite Relations Between Language Switching and Task Switching 

      Timmermeister, Mona; Leseman, Paul; Wijnen, Frank; Blom, Wilhelmina Bernardina T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-24)
      Previous research has shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing cognitive control. Bilinguals’ enhanced cognitive control is thought to be caused by the necessity to exert more language control in bilingual compared to monolingual settings. Surprisingly, between-group research of cognitive effects of bilingualism is hardly ever combined with within-group research that ...