The second, published in 2015, found that participants over 60 who practiced brain games and received diet and exercise counseling scored significantly better two years later on
cognitive tests compared with those who received routine care.
In one study, researchers found that supplementing with this vitamin for a year helped men perform significantly better in general
cognitive tests compared to those who received a placebo.
Not exact matches
Indeed, he found, the bilingual people in this group performed better than expected on intelligence
tests at their advanced age, and showed less relative
cognitive decline
compared to monolingual people.
The term IQ, or Intelligence Quotient, generally describes a score on a
test that rates the subject's
cognitive ability as
compared to the general population.
In 1989, researchers
tested the
cognitive and motor development of 400 1 - year - olds and then
compared their results to the amount of alcohol the babies» mothers had consumed while breast - feeding.
When
compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for
cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement
test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.
Most previous studies have
compared breast fed children with children who were exclusively formula fed, but some studies have found that the correlation between breast feeding and
cognitive ability increases with a longer duration of breast feeding.3 13 30 A Finnish study of 1163 children found a mean difference of 2.4 points on a
cognitive test at 6 months of age between children breast fed for less than five months,
compared to children breast fed for at least five months.10
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.
Late - term infants outperformed full - term infants in all three
cognitive dimensions (higher average
test scores in elementary and middle school, a 2.8 percent higher probability of being gifted, and a 3.1 percent reduced probability of poor
cognitive outcomes)
compared to full - term infants.
While the treatment did have some favorable effects, in the main measure of outcome — measured with a
cognitive test called the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale -
cognitive subscale — the researchers did not observe any statistically significant benefit
compared with placebo.
In an effort to examine this possible connection, researchers
compared performance on
cognitive tests over time for 706 participants (432 with normal cognition; 274 AD dementia) from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center database.
The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by
comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive
cognitive test battery for spaceflight.
We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on
tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and
cognitive ToM (experiments 4 and 5)
compared with reading nonfiction (experiments 1), popular fiction (experiments 2 to 5), or nothing at all (experiments 2 and 5).
Researchers
compared the lure of drugs, specifically cocaine, in three sets of mice: The
test or «trained» mice were put through a nine - day
cognitive training program based on exploration, incentives and rewards while their «yoked - to - trained» counterparts received rewards but no challenges.
Compared with uninfected individuals, people who
tested positive for H. pylori performed worse on
cognitive tests, including ones assessing verbal memory.
They
compared the animals» ability to negotiate a radial - arm water maze, a standard
test of
cognitive ability, with that of regular J20 mice and of normal mice at 4, 9, and 14 months of age.
These profiles are examined with respect to how well they «fit» various disorders;
test results are
compared with large normative databases derived from similar individuals without
cognitive disorders.
One year follow - up revealed that AN1792 antibody responders showed improvements in
cognitive measures as assessed by the neuropsychological
test battery (NTB) and a decrease in brain volume
compared with placebo.
A study
comparing treadmill desk users to those sitting in a regular office chair found that both groups had the same speed and accuracy on
cognitive tests.
Men who ate tofu at least twice weekly had more
cognitive impairment,
compared with those who rarely or never ate the soybean curd, and their
cognitive test results were about equivalent to what they would have been if they were five years older than their current age.
One particular study
compared the results of
cognitive tests from healthy men who were supplemented with KSM - 66 Ashwagandha against a placebo group.
Comparing boys to their sisters in a data set that includes more than 1 million children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, the authors demonstrate a persistent gender gap in graduation and truancy rates, incidence of behavioral and
cognitive disabilities, and standardized
test scores.
In fact, the
cognitive psychology term «
testing effect» was coined several decades ago to refer to the finding that taking practice
tests on studied material promotes greater subsequent learning and retention on a final
test as
compared to relying on more common study strategies.
The challenges presented by deficiencies in
cognitive function, emotional issues, and poverty are significant and must be recognized by leaders who are determined to continually
compare test scores.
Students in the intervention group improved two-fold when
tested on accuracy and
cognitive tasks
compared to the students who did not participate in the afterschool program.
find that the Tulsa state - funded «universal» pre-K program,
compared to Tulsa's Head Start programs, has about twice the immediate effects on
cognitive test scores at kindergarten entrance.
Testing was done to show that his
cognitive and motor skills were diminished to the point where even the simplest manual labor was beyond his ability, at least when
compared to a person who does not have similar physical and mental limitations.
In particular,
compared with their sisters, less - advantaged boys «have a higher incidence of truancy and behavioral problems throughout elementary and middle school, exhibit higher rates of behavioral and
cognitive disability, perform worse on standardized
tests, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to commit serious crimes as juveniles.»
For example, in one study, neglected children had a smaller corpus callosum relative to control and comparison groups.8
Compared to their non-maltreated peers, children in another study who experienced emotional neglect early in life performed significantly worse on achievement
testing during the first six years of schooling.9 Furthermore, although both abused and neglected children performed poorly academically, neglected children experienced greater academic deficits relative to abused children.10 These
cognitive deficiencies also appear to be long lasting.
Turkish immigrant children, on average, had lower HLE,
cognitive, and speaking proficiency
test scores when
compared to their German peers.
Results from global and verbal scores of
cognitive tests at military conscription (mandatory for all Swedish men during these years) were
compared between three groups (born 1968 — 1976): 746 adoptees born in South Korea, 1548 adoptees born in other non-Western countries and 330 986 non-adopted comparisons in the same birth cohort.
To detect this relationship, the Neuroscience study
compared functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans of 78 men and women between 18 and 40 years old with those subjects» performance on
tests of
cognitive performance that required «fluid intelligence» and «
cognitive control.»