Sentences with phrase «cognitive control capacities»

Maternal emotion and cognitive control capacities and parenting: A conceptual framework.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

And grit is actually one of the many abilities based on cognitive control, or the capacity for keeping your attention where you want it to be.

A randomised control trial of 144 families evaluated by researchers at the University of Oxford found the EasyPeasy app boosted children's «cognitive self - regulation» — the capacity to persist with difficult tasks and make independent decisions — as rated by their parents.

There was, however, a significant question as to his mental capacity based on the fact that the client was a victim of Huntington's Disease, noted by the court as «a genetic brain disorder that results in the progressive loss of both cognitive functions and physical control.»

That, in turn, reduces our cognitive capacity («the psychological mechanisms that underlie our ability to solve problems, retain information, engage in logical reasoning, and so on») and our executive control («our ability to manage our cognitive activities, including planning, attention, initiating, and inhibiting actions, and controlling impulses».

Several major sociobehavioural and cognitive shifts occur in children during this period, including the development of self - control and the capacity to tolerate frustration.

The act of suppressing potentially threatening information and keeping it out of awareness requires the allocation and maintenance of cognitive resources (Ochsner & Gross, 2005), which can be disrupted and depleted under conditions of elevated cognitive load or intense emotion (Caldwell, Krug, Carter, & Minzenberg, in press; Edelstein & Gillath, 2008; Mikulincer, Dolev, & Shaver, 2004), resulting in the breakdown of attentional control and diminished capacity for self - reflection and mindful awareness.

Computer - based training programs targeting attention focusing and control has proven to enhance efficiency of the brain attention system in young children as well as reasoning capacities.14 It has also been shown that classroom curricula that emphasize regulation and executive functions skills, such as Tools of the Mind, 17 improves children's cognitive control.18 But home environment is also important.