Sentences with phrase «cognitive capacity»

The right hemisphere does not speak, as a rule, and has very limited cognitive capacities.

Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity.

You can include capacities like content mastery, critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, civic literacy, and other cognitive capacities necessary for success in the 21st century.

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 high school student is ready to meet abstract concepts with heightened cognitive capacities.

Some expectant parents play classical music for their unborn babies, hoping to boost their children's cognitive capacity later in life.

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

The Internet can also be beneficial, Storm points out, for older adults whose own cognitive capacities have begun to decline.

The link with intelligence is obvious, as better cognitive capacity allows for more «intelligent» performance.

So the idea of a number of relatively independent cognitive capacities is not in itself daunting.

As the child develops higher cognitive capacities, the information that influences the child's «model» increasingly becomes language - based rather than the attached parent's behavior.

of course, as we all know, there is also a huge variation in cognitive capacities of human drivers; so there's that.

«And so the idea is that the ability to establish social relationships and to navigate the social world is not secondary to a more general cognitive capacity for intellectual function, but that it may be the other way around.

July 2011 by Charles Rotblut Declines in cognitive capacities can hurt your ability to effectively manage your finances.

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.

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.

Collaborating with Tony Dickinson, a comparative psychologist at Cambridge, Clayton showed in 1998 that the remarkable cognitive capacities of scrub - jays extend beyond the social realm to include the ability to negotiate the passage of time.

If you're a nativist about basic core cognitive capacities, as I am, does that also lead you to be a nativist about, say, differences among the sexes?

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

The eight chapters include Changing Your Student's Brains, Begin with Attitude Building and Build Cognitive Capacity.

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.

At age 6, babies who bedshared had increased cognitive capacities.

«We have huge cognitive capacity to invest, and the desire to recover is stronger than a rat, so the recovery may be more extensive.

«It's hard to imagine how human - like cognitive capacities, like consciousness, could emerge under such circumstances,» Kimmelman said, referring to implants into an adult rodent brain.

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

He now plans to investigate how declining TIMP2 affects cognitive capacity and Alzheimer's disease.

This all makes them a good place to look for social cognition, because similar social pressures might have driven the evolution of similarly advanced cognitive capacities in very different species.»

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 brain can relax and enter a contemplative state in nature settings which helps to refresh or restore cognitive capacities.

And if you take a closer look at the two conditions, you can see how they could be related — mostly because of the effect ADD has on central cognitive capacity.

What are the most important cognitive capacities that should underpin your students» learning across their classes and through their school experience?

Do schools that succeed in raising test scores do so by improving their students» underlying cognitive capacities?

One recent US study reported that the presence of smartphones damages cognitive capacity.

Rather the researchers believe that study data suggest that there are a number of relationships characterized by different cognitive capacities and ways of thinking in the arts that have impact on learning in the arts and other subjects.

Biddy's limited cognitive capacities spring from oxygen deprivation during birth as well as lifelong deprivation of nurturing.

The survival advantage, she adds, persisted after adjustment for baseline cognition — meaning that it was the benefits of reading, rather than the readers» previous cognitive capacity, that helped lengthen life spans.

«Often I find the physical and mental condition of these dogs mirrors the condition of the elderly owner, who might be suffering from reduced cognitive capacity.

Public intellectuals like Princeton University's Peter Singer even argue that being human is morally irrelevant; what matters is possessing sufficient cognitive capacities to qualify as a «person.»

Goffin cockatoos are a highly curious Indonesian parrot species that have already proven to possess remarkable cognitive capacities.

«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.

As a result, undernourished children become more apathetic and have impaired cognitive capacity.

I used consistent and variable forms of 1) ongoing formative assessment, 2) extreme high expectations, 3) built cognitive capacity and 4) engagement using interactive, reciprocal teaching.

Like sharks, it was thought, stingrays were «reflex machines having very acute senses but limited cognitive capacities.»

Their similarities to humans in cognitive capacity, social complexity and neuroanatomy make them essential models for understanding the brain — yet these same attributes also single them out for special protection.

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).

While the numbers may vary a bit, research from University College, London tells us that our cognitive capacity is limited to handle no more than 150 to 250 relationships.

So the next time you're writing your boss an email during a meeting, remember that your cognitive capacity is being diminished to the point that you might as well let an 8 - year - old write it for you.

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