Sentences with phrase «cognitive research tasks»

In a new video article published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments, Burwell's research group demonstrates in full detail how the maze can be used to perform automated visual cognitive research tasks with great efficiency.

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Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

Jim Monti (right) a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Illinois psychology professor Neal Cohen (left), developed a cognitive task that helps differentiate older adults with very early Alzheimer's disease from those experiencing normal aging.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

Cognitive conflict processing is important because it controls attention — one of the most basic executive functions needed to complete a task or make a decision, notes Haley, who runs U of T's Parent - Infant Research Lab.

«We observed that the more a child had these waves throughout the night, the better the child was at cognitive tasks, particularly the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,» explained Sophie Tessier, a doctoral student in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the Hôpital Rivière - des - Prairies and first author of the paper.

Now, new research suggests the loss of certain types of cognitive skills with age may stem from problems with basic sensory tasks, such as making quick judgments based on visual information.

Research shows that time of day explains 20 percent of the variance on human performance on cognitive tasks.

A large body of research suggests that controlling your position can be a task like any other, drawing on cognitive resources: simple tasks such as counting backward get harder when you must also hold a particular pose, and vice versa.

Lead author Christopher Flynn Martin of Indianapolis Zoo said: «We think our apparatus has much potential to advance primate social cognitive research by enabling, for the first time, computerised touchscreen tasks that multiple apes must work on together to solve.»

Earlier this year, the research team reported that in more intelligent persons two brain regions involved in the cognitive processing of task - relevant information (i.e., the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex) are connected more efficiently to the rest of the brain (2017, Intelligence).

Mike Kuhar, a neuroscientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, introduced the topic of cognitive enhancers or â $ œsmart drugs.â $ He described one particular class of proposed cognitive enhancers, called ampakines, which appear to improve functioning on certain tasks without stimulating signals throughout the brain. Kuhar questioned whether â $ œsmart drugsâ $ pose unique challenges, compared to other types of drugs.

With her first research grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dr. Genova is studying cognitive fatigue in individuals with MS. With cognitive fatigue, individuals tire easily when performing tasks that involve thinking and learning, which can adversely affect their ability to work and perform the usual activities of daily life.

Some research shows that having a smartphone impairs our memory because of a phenomenon known as «cognitive offloading,» or outsourcing the task of remembering to technology.

«Given past research on texting while driving and mentally demanding tasks, I can see how «texting while parenting» would lead to some cognitive and emotional conflict,» said Bayer, who wasn't involved in the new study.

The NCTM standards were a brew of progressivism — a nod to the 1920s when math was supposed to be practical — and constructivism, which was progressivism that adapted research from cognitive psychology to the task of teaching and called it discovery learning.

Students who are highly intelligent and skilled in all varieties of cognitive domains who struggle with research and writing should not be ashamed — they should make the decision to find professionals to whom they can delegate such tasks.

In his book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, Harvard University professor John Ratey, M.D. describes research showing that physical activity sparks biological changes that increase the brain's ability to learn, adapt, and perform other cognitive tasks.

The research from the University of Central Florida found that the squirming associated with ADHD is actually essential to remembering information and working out complex cognitive tasks, showing that longstanding approaches to helping kids with ADHD may be misconceived.

The study, at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, put smart people with similar IQs (average 126) in a group and had them perform «cognitive tasks,» while simultaneously giving each member feedback about how she or he was doing compared to the rest of the group.

71 Cognitive load could further be reduced by separating the research and writing tasks in a Standalone E-memo assignment or by giving students the substance of the email and asking them to re-format the email to be more effective.

Research also implicates a distributed network within the prefrontal cortex through which attention is deployed to closely monitor performance, incorporating feedback, as individuals then call on more specialized cognitive control mechanisms to modify subsequent behaviour.30 - 32 Anxiety related perturbations in this pattern are evident in both children33 and adults.34 Imaging studies have implicated the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in this process, as it appears to be hyperactive in anxious individuals during tasks requiring cognitive or «top down» control.35