Sentences with phrase «at higher cognitive»

The goals of all this observing and questioning are clear: As a year of walk - throughs progresses, principals should see more student engagement, students working at higher cognitive levels, and teachers questioning their own practices and making appropriate adjustments.

When you get a good, restful night's sleep you operate at a higher cognitive function, reduce cravings for unhealthy food, and are in a better mood overall.

«We do want to test at these higher cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps between male and female students, as well as between lower and higher socioeconomic status students.»

«While rodents are essential for understanding mechanisms at a cellular or molecular level, at a higher cognitive level, the best you could do was a sort of rough analogy.

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Online quizzes are what I call Cognitive Catnip; people engage with them at remarkably high rates, often spending several minutes in each quiz, then sharing with colleagues and friends.

«When you initially learn mindfulness meditation practices, you have to cognitively work at it — especially during a stressful task — and, these active cognitive efforts may result in the task feeling less stressful, but they may also have physiological costs with higher cortisol production,» Creswell explained.

It is, Whitehead maintains, at a higher level of experience that the object disengages itself from emotional associations and appears to us simply as an object, i.e., as a cognitive object.

Soon even these are passed, as the very young child begins to demonstrate the higher cognitive functions that are found only at the top of the continuum.

Children that don't get the nutrients their bodies need will often have decreased cognitive abilities and performance in the classroom.These children are also at a higher risk for disease, which means they will miss classes.

What they found is that the more parents talked with baby, the higher the child's cognitive and language skills at 18 months of age.

Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores, and demonstrate a sharper memory and faster speeds on cognitive tests.

Studies show that infants who have received mothers milk have higher scores measuring visual acuity and cognitive development, including IQ, said Paula Meier, director for clinical research and lactation at Rush - Presbyterian - St.

Another study tracking 108 French - Canadian children found that kids who were securely - attached at age 6 scored higher on communication, cognitive engagement, and motivation to master new skills at age 8 (Moss et al 1998).

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

During the follow - up visit (3 years old), kids with moms who had encouraged their children's autonomy showed better levels of cognitive functioning — specifically, the kids were more adept at processing «higher» thinking like delayed gratification and juggling multiple concepts.

Mothers who breast feed tend to be older, have a better education, and a higher socioeconomic status, than mothers who breast feed their children for a limited time or not at all.3 15 In some studies the association between breast feeding and cognitive development is not statistically significant after adjustment for such confounders.16 - 20

Jamie is also committed to promoting higher education in this field by teaching Cognitive Development, Adolescent Development and other courses related to pediatric health at Concordia University in Montreal.

Analyses of brain activity also revealed that we are more likely to use this type of shallow processing under conditions of higher cognitive load - that is, when the task we are faced with is more difficult or when we are dealing with more than one task at a time.

Extra napping time «may go some way to offset the disturbed nighttime sleep, but the total sleep time of high users is still less than low users,» says study coauthor Tim Smith, a cognitive psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London.

This drive for academic achievement leads to high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.

Researchers used accelerometers to measure the daily physical activity of participants, all of whom are in late middle - age and at high genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease, but presently show no cognitive impairment.

Such babies have increased rates of illness and death, but they are also at higher risk for cognitive and neurobehavioral disorders as they grow older.

People with mild cognitive impairment are at one - in - 10 risk of developing dementia within a year — and the risk is markedly higher among those with depression.

«Our research shows that brain training can maintain or even improve cognitive skills among older people at very high risk of cognitive decline — and it's an inexpensive and safe treatment,» Dr Lampit said.

Higher cognitive functions, such as an awareness of our place in the world, do not spring from a specific area, says Fani Deligianni at University College London.

«It was the quality of sleep that predicted future cognitive decline in this study, not the quantity,» said lead author Terri Blackwell, MA, senior statistician at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI) in San Francisco, Calif. «With the rate of cognitive impairment increasing and the high prevalence of sleep problems in the elderly, it is important to determine prospective associations with sleep and cognitive decline.»

«For over 10 years, language scientists and neuroscientists have been guided by a high impact study published in Nature Neuroscience showing that these predictions by the brain are very detailed and can even include the first sound of an upcoming word,» explains Mante Nieuwland, cognitive neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the University of Edinburgh.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

«If you are on constant high alert because you have been harassed or you are at a site where you know it happens regularly, it drains your cognitive reserves and makes you less effective at your job.

This work expands upon previous research which has shown that after being hospitalized, older adults are at high risk for memory and other cognitive problems, including both transient (temporary) delirium and long - term changes in cognition, including dementia.

«It will be valuable to learn whether improvements in earnings by families with pregnant women, improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all factors associated with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

Researchers also contend that transplant outcomes can be further improved by identifying patients who are at high risk for certain complications, such as cognitive decline, or by employing post-transplant treatments to reduce their risk of relapse.

In the study, 138 junior and senior high school cheerleaders with concussions underwent pre-season baseline neurocognitive testing and completed at least one follow - up evaluation within 7 days of injury using Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT).

As expected, teens who reported higher levels of interpersonal dependent stress showed higher levels of negative cognitive style and rumination at later assessments, even after the researchers took initial levels of the cognitive vulnerabilities, depressive symptoms, and sex into account.

Higher cognitive skills are found in the children of mothers who are consistently able to support the development of their baby's sense of autonomy, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Montreal.

While some research suggests that a diet high in omega - 3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega - 3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons.

New research published online in The FASEB Journal shows that in rats, a substance called a ketone ester significantly increase exercise endurance, cognitive function and energy levels in the heart at high workloads.

«Early detection of individuals at high risk of developing memory and thinking problems that we call mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial because people with MCI are at a greater risk of developing dementia.

A study at Oregon State University indicates that both a high - fat and a high - sugar diet, compared to a normal diet, cause changes in gut bacteria that appear related to a significant loss of «cognitive flexibility,» or the power to adapt and adjust to changing situations.

«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bruno van Swinderen, a researcher at the Neurosciences Institute (NSI) in San Diego, finds hints of higher cognitive functions in insects — clues to what one scientific journal called «the remote roots of consciousness.»

However, at 36 months of age, those who received the intervention caught up with children from high - resource families, while those who did not receive the intervention remained behind in their cognitive development.

Exposing infants and children to higher amounts of sugar during growth and development can produce problems with cognitive development and learning as well as create lifelong risk for obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease and heart disease, said Goran, founding director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the Keck School of Medicine.

«Although cognitive status was worse in the TBI group,» said Dr. Sumowski, senior research scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, «higher education attenuated the negative effect of TBI on cognitive status, such that persons with higher education were protected against TBI - related cognitive impairment.»

This might account for the fact that the gap in higher cognitive ability has closed by the time both groups of children had reached the age of 11 with only slightly better scores for artificially conceived children at this later stage.»

Excessive sleepiness can cause cognitive impairments and put individuals at a higher risk of motor vehicle crash.

SuperAgers — who are 80 years of age and older who have cognitive ability at least as good as people in their 50s or 60s — reported having more satisfying, high - quality relationships compared to their cognitively average, same - age peers, the study reports.

What's more, a follow - up study found that more typical brain responses correlated «with near perfect accuracy» with higher scores on a range of cognitive tests at age 4, and even higher scores at age 6, Kuhl says.

We found that the neural reaction to pain in children of depressed mothers stops earlier than in controls, in an area related to socio - cognitive processing, so that children of depressed mothers seem to reduce mentalizing - related processing of others» pain, perhaps because of difficulty in regulating the high arousal associated with observing distress in others,» said Prof. Ruth Feldman, director of the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab and the Irving B. Harris Early Childhood Community Clinic at Bar - Ilan University and lead author of the study.