Sentences with phrase «cognitive gains»

Based on previous studies, this might be due to the more immediate benefits of jogging compared to the more gradual accumulation of cognitive gains of weight lifting.

Cognitive gains from forest bathing include a better mood to increased mental performance and creative problem solving.

According to a study from 2013 published in Scientific Reports, daily exercise increases grey matter in the brain, produces cognitive gains, and fights dementia.

Compared to those who practiced less, these participants maintained cognitive gains and did not show typical patterns of age - related decline in sustained attention.

«The mere presence of socially distinct newcomers... motivates behaviour that can convert affective pains into cognitive gains,» the researchers wrote.

Compared to those who practiced less, they maintained cognitive gains and did not show typical patterns of age - related decline in sustained attention.

The fade - out effect for cognitive gains raises the important question of continuity in educational experience.

Given that these schools are designed to help low - income students achieve success, it is extremely problematic if the schools use policies that seek short - term cognitive gains at the expense of long - term social - emotional health and development.

Too many measure only half the child, focusing on IQ and cognitive gains at the expense of social and emotional skills that are often stronger determinants of adult success.

We're slowing getting to the point of recognizing the vital importance of parents in the early childhood years, that social - emotional development affects cognitive gain, too, that spanking and physical punishments are archaic and unneeded.

«Seven - year follow - up shows lasting cognitive gains from meditation.»

Consistent with this work, the authors found that combined strength and aerobic training programs yielded the largest cognitive gains.

The ability to achieve cognitive gains through a brain training treatment regimen at chronic stages of brain injury (6 months or longer) supports the need to monitor brain recovery annually and offer treatment when deficits persist or emerge later.

The authors of the study also refer frequently to the prevalence of fade - out of cognitive gains in other research on the impact of preschool programs.

Whatever limited cognitive gains its participants show after their year in the program vanish soon after (or even before) they enter school.

Research has previously shown that differences in cultural and social capital can have repercussions in areas as diverse as use of language by the time children enter school, preferential access to grammar and faith schools, the type of characteristics parents value when choosing schools, the kind of studies children undertake and their access to more prestigious universities, or even the adoption of cultural practices linked to substantial cognitive gains like reading for pleasure.

[3] The new movement had its drawbacks, as Sullivan et al, points out in the 2007 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education Report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law stating: «The new and reinvented disciplines of the sciences and social sciences produced great cognitive gains.

Yes, we can blame elementary schools for failing to capture those gains, but as Russ Whitehurst of the Brookings Institution points out, the main culprit is Head Start itself, which doesn't try very hard for cognitive gains and which has defenders who stoutly resist even viewing it as an education program.

While HSIS lacks long - term follow - up data, other studies have found Head Start to be effective when judged on multiple outcomes rather than just short - term cognitive gains.

«Virtual Week» brain game has potential to help older adults remain independent longer: Cognitive gains from playing the game transferred to real - world performance on instrumental activities of daily living; correlated to some neuroplasticity in the brain.»

These kinds of interventions typically produce cognitive gains that last a few years and then fade — but, more important, also produce better life outcomes, such as less crime, fewer teenage pregnancies, higher high school graduation rates, and higher incomes.

This must not discredit focused and rigorous inquiry or cancel specialty fields, since to lose these would rob theological schools of the cognitive gains of two centuries of humanistic scholarship, gains which were very dearly won.

It's only one element, and much data indicate that the cognitive gains of a pre-K program are transient, and dissipate in future years.

These cognitive gains helped some participants to be much more employable.

Although these did not improve, the cognitive gains accrued after the 2011 training and assessment were partially maintained many years later.

What makes this study unique is that it's the first to incorporate a «train for transfer» approach — essentially a training intervention designed to have participants practice performing real - world prospective memory tasks in simulated everyday settings and assess whether the cognitive gains transfer to successful performance at home.

If a child's ability to learn is so heavily influenced by what happens at home — and if the kids who came in with low non-cognitive scores at age three or four didn't make cognitive gains — well, maybe the key here isn't just what happens at home for a kid, but what happens at home well before a kid is even old enough to go to pre-school.

Styles suggests that class meetings also can promote personal growth, leadership, organizational and public - speaking skills, thinking skills and cognitive gains, problem - solving skills, and interpersonal skills — creating a community of learners.

The study the article featured purportedly proved that frequent, direct instruction of «academic» content in preschool yielded more «cognitive gains» than play - based preschool.

The benefits of small test gains are coming at much larger social - emotional costs and the cognitive gains made are not nearly large enough to let the students truly succeed.

Many studies show that cognitive gains for children who attended high - quality preschool last into early elementary school and adolescence, while others have identified a convergence of achievement scores between children who attended high - quality pre-K and those who did not by third grade.

A new study, Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions, was featured in a Washington Post analysis on February 17, 2017, making the claim that the cognitive gains of early childhood education programs fadeout over time.