Sentences with phrase «cognitive structures in»

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«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.

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.

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 structureIn 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 structurein a Midwestern county, for example, W. Widick Schroeder and Victor Obenhaus describe as a major finding the absence in each of «informing cognitive structurein 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.

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.

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.

It is natural in that it identifies cognitive structuring.

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.

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).

You can't teach a baby to walk before his little muscles are developed enough; you can't teach him to talk before his oral structures and the brain wiring that enables this are present and he won't be able to truly «self soothe» no matter how long you leave him to cry himself to sleep, until he has developed the brain structures and cognitive skills that enable emotional regulation — in other words, the ability to calm himself when he becomes upset.

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.

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.

«Our findings suggest that, for some individuals, engagement in cognitively stimulating activities, especially those involving games such as puzzles and cards, might be a useful approach for preserving brain structures and cognitive functions that are vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease,» said Schultz.

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.

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.

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.

When the neurons in this structure rev up, research shows that our cognitive function improves.

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.

«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.»

In normal humans, relationships between cognitive test performance and cortical structure have received little study, in part, because of the paucity of tools for measuring cortical structurIn normal humans, relationships between cognitive test performance and cortical structure have received little study, in part, because of the paucity of tools for measuring cortical structurin part, because of the paucity of tools for measuring cortical structure.

Musen emphasizes that it is important to study both the structural and functional aspects of the brain in cognitive decline, explaining that, «We look at the correlation between the two because if a correlation exists, then it might suggest a common set of mechanisms underlying brain structure and function raising the possibility that similar treatments may be useful for improving both.»

Therefore, differences in the similarities of subjects» neural response time courses likely stem from factors such as differences in subjects» dispositions, moods, cognitive styles, pre-existing assumptions, expectations, values, views, and interests, as well as differences in the pre-existing knowledge structures into which incoming stimuli are integrated.

The latter discovered significant alterations in synaptic structure and activity in excitatory neuronal networks of the hippocampus, a region of the brain that plays a major role in cognitive processes.

This offers an unprecedented opportunity for research concerning individual variation and relationships between brain structure and function relative to development and cognitive capacity in a nonhuman primate.

By analyzing multiple patients with damage to a particular voxel or cluster of voxels and comparing their cognitive abilities with those of patients in whom the same structures were intact, the researchers were able to identify brain regions essential to specific cognitive functions, and those structures that contribute significantly to intelligence.

Human and chimpanzees, nonetheless, share many cognitive, communicative, and emotional processes in common, based on similarities in their neurobiological structure and function.

While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.

Very preterm births associated with altered brain structure and cognitive impairment in adolescence

Attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) involve pathological changes in brain structures such as the basal ganglia, which are essential for the control of motor and cognitive behavior and impulsivity.

This group had increased activation in higher - order brain regions associated with attention control and enhanced cognitive control, he says, while exhibiting a deactivation of the thalamus — a structure that acts as the gatekeeper for pain to enter the brain, he explains.

The findings suggest that during or shortly after menopause, women experience changes in the frontal areas of their brains that play a role in short - term memory and advanced cognitive abilities, like organizing, structuring and evaluating information.

Interestingly, one particular region of the cortex that promotes integration of emotional and cognitive processes was stronger in older meditating participants, suggesting the more you meditate the stronger the brain's structure becomes.

If organized training is more your speed and you want to really invest some time, mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) or mindfulness - based cognitive therapy (MBCT) can help you to alleviate anxiety and depression in a more structured fashion.

ApoE4 is associated with reduced LDL uptake and all the consequences that would result from an inability to deliver cholesterol and fatty acids to target cells.6 Cholesterol is an essential contributor to structure and function in the brain, and any interruption in its supply would have extreme consequences for cognitive function.

If you choose to use sound in your yoga practice, you can structure it to communicate a certain cognitive meaning (For example, repeating «Let go, let go, let go» on the Exhalation will help you to... let go).

With the learning content structured and offered in easily memorable ways, and by employing some of the Cognitive Theory principles for effortless absorption and retainment of acquired knowledge, microlearning is a learner's paradise!

In order for real learning to take place, a learner's schematic structure must be altered, according to the Cognitive Load Theory.

The change in the schematic structures and pathways will not occur, simply because the learner can not process the information being offered within the lesson.Therefore, from an instructional design point of view, eLearning courses should be created in such a way that reduces the cognitive load that is placed upon the learners.

Major shifts in school structures can be difficult and intensely bureaucratic, a product of cognitive dissonance.

Requesting that they use many specific language structures or advanced vocabulary is likely to be counterproductive to higher level thinking: When students devote part of their cognitive ability to looking for chances to sneak in a subjunctive structure, their ability to listen and react to the ideas brought forth will be limited, which detracts from the spontaneity and meaningfulness of the exchange.