Sentences with phrase «cognitive abilities of»

This study found that a steep SES gradient defines the cognitive abilities of US children at school entry.

In Seen and heard, HREOC cautioned against discriminating against children simply because they are not adults.12 Seen and heard also referred to studies regarding cognitive abilities of children and that variations in capacity do not depend solely on age.13

Influence of perinatal, developmental and environmental factors on cognitive abilities of preterm children without major impairments at 5 years.

Hence such a resume template must have proper lineation to highlight the cognitive abilities of a candidate pertaining to the field of dentistry.

SJTs have become a popular tool used by assessment companies, employers, and organizations to evaluate the behavioral and cognitive abilities of candidates when introduced to daily work - related situations.

We also recognize the importance of emotional and social developmental factors and the importance of assessing the physical and cognitive abilities of children.

This is the response of the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey on this year's «Edge» question: «What scientific concept would improve the cognitive abilities of all people?»

Our research has focused on the cognitive abilities of pigs and their potential applications to their care and management.

A recent study shows that aging impacts the cognitive abilities of dogs.

Everyone... EVERYONE wants to push evolution, evolution, evolution, science, science, science... then they want to ingore it and say that there is no difference in the cognitive abilities of the poor and the rest of society.

Their cognitive ability mirrors their language ability and therefore, the cognitive abilities of gifted readers vary from the norm.

It complements the previous day's program by providing all sorts of useful items (e.g., Exit Slips) that can be used to improve the cognitive abilities of the special education students that I teach.

Effective instruction requires understanding the varying cognitive abilities of students and finding ways to impart knowledge in light of that variation.

Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student working in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»

In this study, iv the researchers tracked the intake of anticholinergic drugs and monitored the cognitive abilities of 1,652 African - American seniors, aged 70 and older, for six years.

They analyze the genes, cultures and cognitive abilities of people living today and compare them with those of apes and extinct peoples.

These data on their neuron count and size lend new insight into the intelligence and cognitive abilities of birds.

Ironically, although the autism - linked genes may be improving cognitive abilities of the population as a whole, when the genes combine in one person to result in autism, that person may have cognitive difficulties.

He currently works as a research assistant on the HOPE study, which tracks the cognitive abilities of elderly adults to stimulate research into understanding both normal cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Hauser is well - known for his research on the cognitive abilities of nonhuman animals and has been an admired teacher and mentor, as well as the author of several popular books on animal behavior.

Plotnik has now moved to Clayton's lab to conduct detailed comparisons of the cognitive abilities of elephants and members of the crow family — which are remarkably adept at learning how to use tools.

So what should you do if you've noticed a decline in your own memory or the cognitive abilities of a relative or friend?

The aim would be to thereby improve the impaired cognitive abilities of patients.

Evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano studies the cognitive abilities of a variety of plants, including the humble pea in her lab at the University of Western Australia.

Dawson's field of research is the cognitive abilities of people with autism — people such as herself.

Now a new study has identified how specific patterns of cortisol activity may relate to the cognitive abilities of children in poverty.

«However, our research suggests that declines in the cognitive abilities of hybrids may also play an important role in maintaining species.»

«I think the cognitive abilities of reptiles will receive a lot more attention in the future.»

This study follows up on previous work by the same group of researchers at the University of California, Davis in 2011, which assessed the cognitive abilities of 30 people who regularly meditated before and after they went on a three - month - long retreat at the Shambhala Mountain meditation center in the US.

He cautions there is a huge gap between the simple response of single - celled animals and the cognitive abilities of developed species, but adds there is no doubt that a combined set of simple circuit models will have more complex behaviour.

The conundrum was created by a series of studies beginning in the previous decade that directly compared the cognitive abilities of parrots and crows with those of primates.

Mr Addo Dankwa Akuffo, the Western Regional Director of Education pointed out that investing more in STEM education was to help develop the cognitive abilities of children, make them critical thinkers and enable them to contribute more meaningfully to their respective economies.

Finally, neurodevelopmental research has suggested that the factors in breast milk that may be responsible for the improved cognitive abilities of breastfed children may involve long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and, particularly, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), 10 with some clinical studies in which infant formula was supplemented with DHA suggesting possible improvements in visual acuity and cognitive ability in preterm infants given the DHA - supplemented formula.13

He was a child with the cognitive ability of a 3 - month - old, and yet still he was able to communicate, if you bothered to listen long enough.

That communication, or signaling, is what archaeologists and anthropologists call symbolic behavior, and it's why ochre use is often cited as a proxy for the cognitive ability of the people who used it.

But, how much it differs could depend on the cognitive ability of the person whose brain is being studied.

This condition is known to impair the cognitive ability of patients to make sound judgments and to correctly perceive the life - threatening condition that they are in.

The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.

We think that pesticides may be affecting the memory and cognitive ability of bumblebees, which may be very important when conducting complex behaviours.»

Therefore, while treatment with J147 enhanced the cognitive ability of the huAPP / PS1 mice, it had no significant effect on plaque load but produced a significant reduction of soluble Aβ levels.

The relative roles of genes and rearing environment on the spatial cognitive ability of two sympatric species of threespine stickleback.

He concluded that, other than the raw cognitive ability of the child herself, only one variable really counts: «What teachers do, know and care about.»

The first is that ignoring the mean cognitive ability of school admission cohorts makes it impossible to judge the effectiveness of the educational experience provided by schools.

Not exact matches

According to research conducted by University of California Santa Barbara economist Catherine Weinberger, the most successful business people excel in both cognitive ability and social skills, something that hasn't always been true.

Princeton scientists found that height predicted success even among three - year - olds taking tests of cognitive ability.

People who had healthier diets as kids, they say, demonstrate higher cognitive ability as well as better social skills — both of which are useful among adults in the workplace.

There are many benefits of practicing meditation, such as concentration, higher cognitive abilities, and an overall sense of well - being.

For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

«They are designed with a primary goal of engendering high levels of immersion, engagement, and enjoyment for the players, -LSB-...] They do not tend to focus on one specific cognitive skill, as exercises usually do, but rather expose players to multiple demands that challenge a broad range of abilities.»

Doing a dot - to - dot that includes letters as well as numbers (1 - A-2-B-3...), a component of the commonly used Montreal Cognitive Assessment, demonstrates the ability to keep two different categories in mind simultaneously.