Sentences with phrase «better verbal memory»

Compared with those who received no hormone treatment, athletes in the two estrogen treatment groups taken together had significantly better verbal memory and cognitive flexibility scores at the end of six months than their pre-treatment scores, the investigators reported.

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Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

Recently, this article reminded me of these memories and confirmed that reading to our children — especially at bedtime — is one of the very best ways to encourage verbal and cognitive development.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

The woman, a 59 - year - old former hotel manager from Italy, fared about average on verbal IQ tests and had a good memory, but when Butterworth's Italian colleagues asked her to count, she would start, «uno, due, tre, quattro,» and then stall.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

«The results of our research confirm the importance of motor sensory experiences in memory retention and help to better define sensory episodes associated with verbal expression,» Boucher concluded.

Other hormone levels were unrelated to verbal memory, executive function or overall cognition, or to mood, the researchers found, with one exception: Higher progesterone levels in younger postmenopausal women were positively associated with better memory and global cognition.

Verbal memory improved in those who'd stuck with their lessons and improved even more dramatically in those who'd recently taken up an instrument, but the quitters» memory got neither better nor worse, the researchers report in the July issue of Neuropsychology.

These cognitive deficits were most noted in non-verbal abilities to solve problems and verbal memory, as well as decreased intelligence.

The brain - boosting benefits of growth hormone therapy included better executive function and verbal memory.10 This is strong evidence suggesting that IGF - 1 both enhances performance and prevent atrophy of skeletal muscle and the brain.

Specifically, they are in charge of improving your fluid intelligence which covers the person's problem - solving aptitude, verbal fluency, abstract reasoning skills, as well as their memory recall and storage.

In addition, cognitive function was assessed through a variety of tests that included working memory, verbal episodic memory and visual - spatial memory as well as scanning and tracking.

In the early stages of dementia women's verbal memory skills are better than men's, even when they have similar brain shrinkage.

Sight gags and verbal quips all hit their marks, helped by Carrell's dorky deadpan, Buscemi enjoys the chance to display his natural comic timing, while Carrey steals scenes with some of his best stuff in recent memory — being able to make a David Blaine spoof funny 10 years out of date is no mean feat.

The rest of the supporting cast is more than welcome to hog the funniest and most scrumptiously tart lines, including Stephen Merchant as Danny, Josh's obnoxious best man and friend who suffers from a bad case of verbal diarrhea, causing one of the most cringe - inducing reception toasts in recent memory and Minnie Driver as Naomi, Nat's blunt, bitter sister who has a love - hate relationship with her punching - bag doctor husband (Jason Flemyng).

Expressive Sensitivity: skill in the use of words for expressive and practical purposes Rhetorical Skill: to use language effectively for interpersonal negotiation and persuasion Written - academic: to use words well in writing reports, letters, stories, verbal memory, reading / writing.

These four groups were compared on measures of nonverbal reasoning, working memory, verbal knowledge, listening comprehension, phonological awareness, and rapid naming, as well as on teacher ratings of attention problems and self - reported efficacy.

Even after a delay of up to fifty - five minutes, listeners were better able to remember words preceded by a verbal filler.86 Jean E. Fox Tree, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, obtained similar results with uh, which helped listeners recognize words in upcoming speech.87 Fox Tree asked listeners to press a buzzer when they heard a specific «target» word, which they had committed to memory.