Sentences with phrase «allow cognitive control»

«In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury.»

In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

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Breastfeeding enhances a baby's cognitive development, partially because it allows the baby more control in feeding — the ability to control one's own actions appears to be essential in human development.

He thinks this is because education permanently improves a person's cognitive abilities, allowing better planning and self - control throughout the rest of their life.

As the use of neural implants moves toward treating cognitive disorders, one advantage of including microstimulation is the precise spatial targeting it affords, allowing for highly - controlled manipulation of neural circuits.

Since this interference - rich environment is constantly pushing a patient to better manage his / her incoming information, the hypothesis is that this should allow an individual to better manage attention, short - term memory, impulsivity, and a number of other domains that depend upon cognitive control.

Unlike technologies that are designed to address top - level cognitive domains like attention or working memory or executive function or planning, our technology targets the more basic ability of an individual to perceive and prioritize conflicting streams of information (or «interference») which should allow an individual to control his or her goals in sensory rich environments, like everyday life.

While a state of agitation and distraction impairs students» cognitive learning and memory processes, scientists have found the opposite to also be true; calm, stress - free classroom environments improve cognitive function and allow students greater ability for rational thoughts, creativity, and self - control (McCraty, 2005).

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

Recent expert consensus recommendations for interventions following mass violence suggest that structured cognitive - behavioural interventions not be implemented until secondary stressors in the environment are under sufficient control to allow the individual to focus on the intervention (usually not sooner than three weeks after incident).2 Bisson's use of this intervention suggests that it can have an impact within the 5 — 10 week window.