Sentences with phrase «cognitive capacities of»

«Texts can be redesigned to offer engaging content, as well as critical information without overloading the cognitive capacities of those young children who acquire literacy in school,» Hiebert said.

Academic outcomes, of course, but IDEA addresses more than the cognitive capacities of students.

«The present study demonstrated that regular resistance exercises could provide significant gains on the upper and lower body strength concomitant to positive improvements on cognitive capacities of elderly women, bringing enhanced life quality.»

The former strongly suggests that those same genes are tied to intelligence, and «could be involved in the amazing cognitive capacity of dolphins,» McGowen said.

The driver of the camper turns out to be a young man (Paul Dano) with the cognitive capacity of a 10 - year - old, and the detective in charge of the investigation (Jake Gyllenhaal) quickly rules him out as a suspect.

Not exact matches

Essentially, it gives that professional permission to call specific trusted individuals (usually, your powers of attorney and / or a family member), if they have noticed some diminishment in your physical, cognitive, mental or psychological capacity.

Memory is a key component of cognitive capacity, required for comparing options (alternatives need to be kept in mind simultaneously), making judgments (you have to remember pros and cons in order to weigh them), and plotting and executing strategy (you have to remember the steps to form them into an overall plan).

In short, it is the prescription for medical oppression in which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corps.

Recently, Singer repeated this assertion in an interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and cognitive disabilities have less value than animals with higher capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):

Indeed, they advocate treating people as no more than the sum of their carbon molecules, of no inherent value beyond cognitive capacity (bioethics) or ability to suffer (animal rights) at the moment of measurement.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

The interpreter's cognitive presuppositions and his or her spiritual capacity for understanding the truth of God are fundamental in the formation of doctrine.

Additionally, there's no way that individuals who don't possess the cognitive capacity to conceive of God just get ignored by Him.

The capacity we have for maintaining cognitive dissonance can explain why some of the most intelligent people can believe in a higher being.

I recognize that the unconscious which is the abysmal source of our earthly demons is also the dynamic ground of love and creativity which, together with our cognitive capacities, produces the truths and beauties and goodnesses of human life.

At the core of the view of Human being underlying paideia and the «Athens» model is the view that the characteristic defining human being is the capacity of reason in intuitive, cognitive judgment to apprehend the ultimate principle of being and of value — that is, God.

Where Callahan focuses on «potential for development,» others speak of capacity for «cognitive - affective» behavior.

Very few people in the West grasp the reality, much less the magnitude, of this threat to what might be called «cognitive security»: the capacity of Western populations to see things as they are, including things going on in our own societies.

Moreover, it is his argument that any truly integrated system — a brain, a computer, the Internet, but also a barometer, a photodiode, a geranium, a sheet of paper — has some calculable Phi value; consciousness is qualitatively the same in all things, but in terms of intensity and capacity it increases along with the complexity, «synergy,» and ordering of cognitive information in organized wholes, and along with the richness of the information it integrates in «holographic» or «crystallized» conceptual structures.

The focus generally has been on the individual as the basic unit of analysis, with human activity explained in terms of motives, personality, and social and cognitive traits and capacities.

Contemporary research at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience and genetics demonstrates that children develop the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and overall mental health when caregivers respond to the meaning of behavior rather than the behavior itself.

Surely when social relationships in the child's nexus is strong during the day and involves a lot of engagement and contact by reassuring parents, and this positive engagement is extended throughout the night, the child is getting more of that which is already good, therein further reinforcing such personality qualities as self comforting skills, confidence, self - worth, and social - cognitive engagement skills along with more positive emotional - empathic capacities altogether.

The Health Belief Model guided the formative research and supported information delivery, while Social Cognitive Theory was predominately used in shaping the intervention and in facilitating understanding of the potential interaction between overestimation of new parents capacity to cope and underestimation of potential problems.

When deciding when and what to tell a child, parents consider the age of the child, his or her cognitive capacity to understand, and his or her emotional development or maturity.

We have over 40 years of longitudinal research in developmental psychology showing that safe, secure relationships support development of the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and social adaptation.

Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard staff photographer Understanding similarities in the cognitive and moral capacities of humans with animals can make humans...

Human enhancement is the concept of applying science and technologies to expand cognitive and physical human capacities.

Recently, advanced cognitive researchers have been especially focused on the capacities of abstraction, generalization, concretization / specialization and meta - reasoning which descriptions involve such concepts as beliefs, knowledge, desires, preferences and intentions of intelligent individuals / objects / agents / systems.

Understanding similarities in the cognitive and moral capacities of humans with animals can make humans better conservationists, speakers told journalists at an event organized by AAAS» program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.

This beneficial effect was accompanied by the preservation of motor capacities, without any alteration to cognitive performance, and a reduction in the incidence of pathologies usually associated with aging, such as cancer or diabetes.

That would be getting close to the number of cells in a mouse brain,» raising the distant prospect of a human brain organoid with cognitive and even emotional capacities, all while sitting in a lab dish.

«This new evidence illuminates the central role of early experience as infants specify which signals, from an initially broad set, they will continue to link to core cognitive capacities,» said Danielle R. Perszyk, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

Thus, increasing neurogenesis is a potential treatment for a variety of disorders that would benefit from improving cognitive capacity.

I lay out what science tells us: rattlesnakes have what we have in terms of emotional and cognitive capacities, and then look at rattlesnake natural history through that lens.

It's also possible that it's beyond their cognitive capacity — although anyone who has tried to squirrel - proof a bird feeder knows that squirrels have a lot of cognitive capacity.

Just as individual computers are networked to create concentrated processing and storage capacity in the field of Cloud Computing, links in the complex cognitive processes that take place in the prefrontal cortex play a key role.

Factors other than practice believed to influence athletic performance include genetic attributes, such as fast - twitch muscles and maximum blood oxygenation level; cognitive and psychological traits and behaviors — including confidence, performance anxiety, intelligence and working memory capacity — play roles as well, though researchers don't yet know the significance of each.

But Laurie Santos, a cognitive psychologist at Yale University who has shown that rhesus macaques lack an understanding of false belief, thinks the «paper raises more questions than it provides answers,» especially because there have been «so many past results showing that chimpanzees and other primates lack this capacity.»

Cognitive symptoms, including deficits in long - term memory, are known to affect approximately half of individuals with MS.. This study was conducted in 70 patients with MS, who were evaluated for intellectual enrichment, verbal long - term memory, and working memory capacity.

The acquisition of language and the capacity for symbolic art may lie at the very heart of the extraordinary cognitive abilities that set us apart from the rest of creation

On page 976 of this issue, Mani et al. (1) provide a possible reason: Poverty - related concerns impair cognitive capacity.

I work faster, am more efficient and — perhaps the greatest single test of cognitive capacity — I forget where I left my keys less often.

We show that both capacities become functional between the ages of 3 and 5 years, which provides empirical support for the contention that deep conceptual structures play an important role in cognitive development.

«The question becomes how do they maintain these relationships,» because what the elephants are doing «requires a high level of cognitive capacity,» as any social networking maven well knows.

«The craft of popular moviemaking is based on hard - won, practice - forged, psychological principles that have evolved over a long time, fitting stories and their presentation to our cognitive and perceptual capacities,» adds Armstrong, who suggests that professional psychologists can learn much from studying the structure of filmmakers» products.

The use of the touchscreen presents a controlled setting to test cognitive capacities in animals and has already successfully been used in a number of species.

The cognitive control capacities of the subject get somewhat redirected — we don't quite understand how — toward goals and activities that are violent in a very specific way.

Writing in the June 2017 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with otherCognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with othercognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.

The survey examines public attitudes about the potential use of three emerging technologies that could fundamentally improve people's health, cognitive abilities or physical capacities.

Researchers have long suspected that some people may be protected from the disease because of their greater cognitive capacity, or reserve.