Sentences with phrase «cognitive capacity later»

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

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She points to the work of the cognitive neuroscientist Daphne Bavelier as an exception: Bavelier found that playing an action game such as Call of Duty for 10 hours will improve a person's detail vision and multitasking skills, and almost double their capacity for tracking moving objects even five months later.

As research across neuroscience, developmental psychology, and economics demonstrates, early social - emotional, physical, and cognitive skills beget later skill acquisition, setting the groundwork for success in school and the workplace.15 However, an analysis of nationally representative data shows that 65 percent of child care centers do not serve children age 1 or younger and that 44 percent do not serve children under age 3 at all.16 Consequently, child care centers only have the capacity to serve 10 percent of all children under age 1 and 25 percent of all children under age 3.17 High - quality child care during this critical period can support children's physical, cognitive, and social - emotional development.18 Attending a high - quality early childhood program such as preschool or Head Start is particularly important for children in poverty or from other disadvantaged backgrounds and can help reduce the large income - based disparities in achievement and development.19

To promote and support nurturing relationships for all children birth through five, and to provide the essential formative context in which every child acquires basic emotional, cognitive and social capacities and attitudes which, in turn influences all later development;

The sequence in which tantrums, oppositional behavior, and physical aggression develop early; proactive aggression, the use of obscenities and vindictive behavior appear later, and blaming others, verbal aggression and insults, and homicidal threats are last to appear; reflects the children's increasing cognitive and verbal capacity.