Sentences with phrase «cognitive structure of»

Let's say that the cognitive structure of my painting approach is close to linguistics structures - how language works.

Thus, this tool prepares the cognitive structure of learners for the learning session which is about to occur, through schemas and conceptual patterns, so that new information can be seamlessly subsumed into the existing cognitive structures.

«The purpose of the study has been to discover the underlying cognitive structure of religious beliefs — to find out what cognitive processes take place when religious and nonreligious people think about religion,» Kapogiannis tells me.

This intransigently held, fixed and false belief (i.e., a delusion) is created by the collapse of the organized cognitive structures of the narcissistic / borderline personality into delusional beliefs, as specifically described by Millon (2011), in response to the psychological stresses triggered by the «unrelieved adversity and failure» surrounding the divorce experience (i.e., the public rejection and abandonment of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent by the attachment figure of the other spouse).

Not exact matches

«Once we build machines that help us pass our antiquated cognitive limitations, we're going to free ourselves up to see more of the structure that exists in the world,» Gourley says.

The cognitive view, on the other hand, sees semantics (structures of meaning) as being more important than syntax (structures of grammar).

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

We must not confuse the «cognitive primacy of narrated memory ’18 with a purely linear structure of memory.

In their investigation of churches in a Midwestern county, for example, W. Widick Schroeder and Victor Obenhaus describe as a major finding the absence in each of «informing cognitive structures.

Both offer large scale systematic accounts of the nature of reality in general, largely dismissing the suggestion that the only world we can know is one whose main structure is determined by the human cognitive system and which, therefore, only exists for us.

To the contrary, he accepts it as a basic structure of experience beyond and below the purely cognitive level, and ultimately beyond the level of consciousness altogether.

In order to evade cognitive relativism, one can not but resort to an answer that takes into consideration more than only the transcendental structures of our thought.

Equally important are the implications for understanding the relation between cognitive beliefs and the several structures of existence.

The important point to notice is that the mode of presentational immediacy is not the mere enjoyment of sensations, but has a cognitive structure.

Formulated another way, Gestalt psychology does not give sufficient consideration to the structuring activity of the subject, which continues to produce, in addition to the forms of perception (which themselves undergo a development), new cognitive structures and especially thought structures, which in the end have little in common with perceptive figurations.

What Whitehead called the «genetic» and the «morphological» manner of thinking, Piaget summarized in the idea of the general method and interpretation of «genetic structuralism» (ESH 7); both explicitly assert that structure and genesis are interdependent: each structure, from the biological to the cognitive, is to be understood as the result of a process of formation, which conversely can only be understood as the continuous development of potential structures (BC 193; S 121).

Rather Piaget dealt here primarily with the uncovering of structures as holistic forms of organization, which underlie the behavior and more especially the cognitive capabilities of the subject in question.

So to fundamentalist structures as we've seen rise in post-war America, science is actually a threat to those kinds of systems because it gives people the cognitive tools to question the assumptions of the collective fundamentalist ideology.

Moreover, it is his argument that any truly integrated system — a brain, a computer, the Internet, but also a barometer, a photodiode, a geranium, a sheet of paper — has some calculable Phi value; consciousness is qualitatively the same in all things, but in terms of intensity and capacity it increases along with the complexity, «synergy,» and ordering of cognitive information in organized wholes, and along with the richness of the information it integrates in «holographic» or «crystallized» conceptual structures.

Omega 3 fatty acids make up a large proportion of the structure of our brains and are essential for cognitive health, but not all can be synthesised or created by the body.

There is also mounting evidence that the very structure of the human brain is altered by the cognitive challenges inherent in learning how to parent (Rilling, 2013).

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DHA is a fatty acid needed for the proper structuring of the brain and its cognitive function such as memory and learning.

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

Studying mice, investigators from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that a specific energy source called NAD is important in cells responsible for maintaining the overall structure of the brain and for performing complex cognitive functions.

Dr. Cameron Carter, Editor of Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, noted the study is «an elegant synthesis of task fMRI and structural MRI» that shows a unique relationship between structure and function in bipolar disorder.

The results suggest that practicing yoga in the long - term can change the structure of your brain and could protect against cognitive decline in old age.

Cognitive psychologists coined the term in 1960 as they tried to explain the fundamental structure of the human thought process.

The basal ganglia are structures deep within the brain, thought to be responsible for control of movements and responses to rewards as well as cognitive functions.

«These ideas are likely to have profound consequences when you start to talk about how the structure of society influences cognitive development,» Meaney says.

AF is known to be associated with cognitive decline and increased risk of dementia, but little is known about the impact of AF on brain structure in people with AF who are cognitively intact.

Now, an international team of scientists has made inroads to understanding how genes influence brain structure and cognitive abilities and how neural circuits produce language.

aims to increase our collective ability to anticipate the complex consequences of change; gain a better understanding of the dynamics of human and social behavior as well as the cognitive and social structures that create and define change; and help people and organizations better manage profound or rapid change.

A number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

Dart argued that a brain structure called the lunate sulcus had been thrust back into a human position and that parts of the brain linked with higher cognitive functions had expanded.

The preamble read as follows: «This symposium demonstrates that many avian species, despite brain architectures that lack much cortical structure and evolutionary histories and that differ so greatly from those of humans, equal and sometimes surpass humans with respect to various cognitive tasks.»

A new article published in the inaugural issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that individuals with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) have significantly lower gray matter volume in these frontolimbic brain structures.

«There is still a chasm between neuro - cognitive explanations of autistic symptoms and mechanisms in terms of cell structure,» she says.

The programme is delivered via a series of weekly group sessions, facilitated by two health professionals who have experience of cognitive behavioural approaches and of working with people with MS.. The sessions are highly structured and incorporate a combination of learning techniques, including presentations, group discussions, flipchart exercises and tasks to do at home.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

Two new studies link patterns of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the blood to the integrity of brain structures and cognitive abilities that are known to decline early in aging.

Particularly interesting was the discovery that the thickness of the gray matter in the brain's temporal and prefrontal regions — the structures that are critical for language and for higher - order cognitive functions like self - control and problem - solving — were the most promising candidate traits for genetic mapping, based on both their strong genetic basis and association with the disease.

We show that both capacities become functional between the ages of 3 and 5 years, which provides empirical support for the contention that deep conceptual structures play an important role in cognitive development.

«The craft of popular moviemaking is based on hard - won, practice - forged, psychological principles that have evolved over a long time, fitting stories and their presentation to our cognitive and perceptual capacities,» adds Armstrong, who suggests that professional psychologists can learn much from studying the structure of filmmakers» products.

Although brain training games may not work (2 October, p 28), some types of structured cognitive training, usually but not...

«That means the structure of the mammalian cortex can not be decisive for complex cognitive functions such as multitasking,» continues Letzner.

Moreover, this restoration also improved the model mice's synaptic function, diminished cognitive abnormalities, and normalized the structure of dendrites.

«Silent seizures recorded in the hippocampus of two patients with Alzheimer's disease: Seizure - like activity in key memory structure may contribute to cognitive symptoms, offering new therapeutic target.»

Neuroimaging studies have linked intelligence to the developmental course of specific high - order brain regions (Shaw et al., 2006), total brain volume and focal brain structure (Thompson et al., 2001; Haier et al., 2004; Colom et al., 2006; Hulshoff Pol et al., 2006; Choi et al., 2008), microstructural organization of white matter (Chiang et al., 2009), and the functional dynamics of specific high cognitive brain regions (Duncan et al., 2000; Gray et al., 2003; Choi et al., 2008; Song et al., 2008).

Linguists agree that all humans must share some cognitive or linguistic structures, but there's great debate over which features of language are universal — or at least, innately human.