Sentences with phrase «capacity for those cognitive functions»

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Fish exposed to higher carbon dioxide levels — which are expected to increase in the oceans for several decades — showed impaired cognitive function, learning difficulties, slowed visual capacity and altered sense of smell and sound.

This offers an unprecedented opportunity for research concerning individual variation and relationships between brain structure and function relative to development and cognitive capacity in a nonhuman primate.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

From a socio - cultural viewpoint, cognitively responsive behaviours (e.g. maintaining versus redirecting interests, rich verbal input) are thought to facilitate higher levels of learning because they provide a structure or scaffold for the young child's immature skills, such as developing attentional and cognitive capacities.9 Responsive behaviours in this framework promote joint engagement and reciprocity in the parent - child interaction and help a child learn to assume a more active and ultimately independent role in the learning process.10 Responsive support for the child to become actively engaged in solving problems is often referred to as parental scaffolding, and is also thought to be key for facilitating children's development of self - regulation and executive function skills, behaviours that allow the child to ultimately assume responsibility for their well - being.11, 12

Examples of health assets that emerge at the level of an individual include motor function (capacity for movement), emotional regulation (capacity to manage emotions during challenges or stressful events), and cognitive function (capacity to perceive, process, and act on information leading to the acquisition of knowledge).