The authors concluded from a research study that adolescents exhibit adult levels of
cognitive capability much earlier than they do for emotional or social capability.
Not exact matches
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these
capabilities are embedded in a
much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music.
The authors distinguish two aspects of
cognitive ability: crystallized knowledge, which comprises acquired knowledge such as vocabulary and arithmetic; and fluid
cognitive skills, the abstract - reasoning
capabilities such as the ability to recognize patterns and make extrapolations needed to solve novel problems independent of how
much factual knowledge has been acquired.