Sentences with phrase «cognitive tests compared»

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.

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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.»
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