Sentences with phrase «cognitive areas»

There is a startling lack of assessments that give meaningful information to students about their growth in cognitive areas beyond the core content named in standards.

The college / university and state tests are designed to test specific cognitive areas of knowledge needed by school leaders and do not test personal leadership traits.

Leatherhead Food Research is also working with a number of clients to test the effects of specific foods, beverages and supplements on cognitive areas such as sustained attention, reaction time, alertness and working memory and has developed unique methodology to accurately track these reactions.

«Replacing music programs with reading or math instruction in our nation's school curricula in order to boost standardized test scores,» they write, «may actually lead to deficient skills in other cognitive areas.»

Now, a new study suggests that a distinct ripple of brain waves measured while toddlers listen to words can reliably predict how they will fare in a range of cognitive areas up to age 6 — the longest - term forecast yet achieved.

In regard to intelligence, it is generally accepted that grandiose manipulative (narcissism) domain is linked to better performances in several cognitive areas, whereas CU traits were negatively associated with verbal intelligence, creativity, practicality and analytic thinking; finally, the daring - impulsive dimension was positively associated with measures of creativity, practicality, and analytic thinking, but not with verbal abilities [28, 29].

Two third (64 %)[15], [23]--[37] of 25 studies showed that acupuncture treatments were associated with more activation, mainly in the somatosensory areas, motor areas, basal ganglia, cerebellum, limbic system and higher cognitive areas (e.g. prefrontal cortex).

Andersen and his colleagues wanted to improve the versatility of movement that a neuroprosthetic can offer to patients by recording signals from a different brain region other than the motor cortex, i.e., the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a high - level cognitive area.

It is connected to cognitive areas such as the cortex and the hippocampus, but also to distinct areas in the brainstem like the locus coeruleus, which is the main noradrenergic nucleus in the brain and regulates stress and panic responses.

Modules for two other cognitive areas — logical reasoning and auditory imaging (the ability to process and analyze sounds)-- will soon follow.

Nor could anyone be sure that their unusual strengths in some cognitive areas weren't balanced by unusual weaknesses elsewhere; in animals that can't speak, such tradeoffs are hard to gauge.

«In other words, a larger, more positive effect is obtained when both motor and cognitive areas are targeted,» Prof. Hausdorff concludes.

Earlier on that pathway is the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a high - level cognitive area that encodes the intention to move.

Wu et al. [78] found deactivation in primary motor cortex (M1), parahippocampal gyrus, and higher cognitive areas and more activation in the cuneus and the insula in children with spastic cerebral palsy but not in healthy children.

Overall the data showed that acupuncture stimulation mainly influenced the brain activity of the somatosensory areas, motor areas, auditory areas, visual areas, cerebellum, the limbic system and higher cognitive areas.

For motor areas and higher cognitive areas, five studies [15], [16], [55], [57], [58] showed that acupuncture was associated with more activation.

In patients with Parkinson's disease Chae et al. [18] showed that acupuncture was associated with more activation than covert cutaneous stimulation in the motor area, basal ganglia, visual and higher cognitive area; and more activation in the motor, visual, higher cognitive areas and limbic system, compared to overt cutaneous stimulation.

Eventually, all five cognitive areas will be integrated into a single suite of brain - building software.

In fact, young gifted children frequently show peaks of extraordinary performance rather than equally high skill levels in all cognitive areas.

When a child feels calm and focused, the cognitive areas of their brain are open and ready to learn.

Technologies make it possible to augment human performance in physical, emotional and cognitive areas.

It does not produce the same level of improvement in all cognitive areas.