Sentences with phrase «cognitive tests did»

However, despite this reduction in white matter, cognitive tests did not find any evidence that being overweight was linked to reduced brain function.

In one hopeful finding, a 2012 meta - analysis found that in 13 studies in which participants had laid off weed for 25 days or more, their performance on cognitive tests did not differ significantly from that of nonusers.

They maintain that cognitive tests done over time actually indicate small or no differences in performance among these populations and that studies on risk factors have produced useful, yet insufficient, explanations of the disparities - largely due to the lack of African American participation in research studies.

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The White House told reporters on Monday that psychiatric tests would not be conducted as part of the president's physical, but did not explicitly rule out cognitive assessments.

Their conclusion: «In healthy young students, caffeine improves memory performance and sensorimotor speed, whereas SPRINT does not affect the cognitive performance at the dose tested.»

Not only did eating chocolate immediately boost participants» test scores, the study revealed that eating small amounts of chocolate daily boosted cognitive performance over a long period of time.

Then, half of the participants were given a handful of standard cognitive tests to keep them busy for ten minutes, while the other half were instructed to relax in a darkened room and do nothing.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

When the twins were given cognitive tests after sleep deprivation, those with the gene variant did better, making 40 % fewer errors.

Grandmothers who watched their grandchildren one day a week did better on cognitive tests than those who cared for grandchildren more often or not at all.

He grew up in a low - income neighborhood, he has siblings who've spent time in prison, and he doesn't do great on traditional tests of cognitive ability.

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome

Sometimes this is needed for fine motor delays or cognitive adaptive delays, which are determined based on the testing that I do in my office.

Despite their increasingly widespread use, computerized tests faces many of the same challenges as with use of traditional paper - and - pencil neuropsychological tests, and, because they do not test all the cognitive domains that some specific pencil - and - paper tests measure, have other limitations, including:

And yet the problem with trying to put numbers on non-cognitive qualities is that we don't have measures for grit or self - control that are as reliable as the standardized tests are for cognitive skills.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

They found that the babies of nursing moms who had consumed at least one alcoholic drink each day did not differ in measures of cognitive development from babies of teetotaling moms, but that they did score lower on tests of motor skills.

A new study shows that students who achieve the highest gains on standardized tests do not show improvements in their cognitive skills.

Breastfed kids have historically scored higher on cognitive tests than have nonbreastfed kids, and breast milk contains more omega - 3s than regular formula does.

Jackson said that while he «had no intention» of giving Trump a cognitive exam, the president specifically asked him to do one — and he performed «exceedingly well» on the test.

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According to Smith, the inability to do this test accurately reflects changes in memory and cognitive impairment indicative of Alzheimer's disease.

But in a more rigorous study — which randomly assigned participants to take either NSAIDs or a placebo daily for several years and administered annual cognitive tests — anti-inflammatories did not seem to help.

Tests showed that these two individuals appeared to have better than expected cognitive function, although the other four volunteers did not.

Then they were asked to do tests to evaluate both cognitive tasks and mood.

David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, has found that such supertaskers do exist, but comprise only 2.5 percent of people tested.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

When IQ, or «general intelligence», is tested in people, individuals tend to perform comparably across different types of cognitive tasks — those who do well in one type of task, tend to do well in others.

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.

Research in cognitive science and psychology shows that testing, done right, can be an effective way to learn.

Research in cognitive science and psychology shows that testing, done right, can be an exceptionally effective way to learn.

When Kolb put them through a series of cognitive and spatial - ability tests, the vitamin - charged rats did markedly better than the control group.

«We do want to test at these higher cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps between male and female students, as well as between lower and higher socioeconomic status students.»

With this setup, the experimenters could then test how hungry the subjects were some time later, and tease apart the purely physiological aspects of hunger (having to do with the volume consumed) from the cognitive aspects of hunger (having to do with impressions and judgments about what was consumed).

A study of older adults at risk of late - onset Alzheimer's disease found that those who consumed more omega - 3 fatty acids did better than their peers on tests of cognitive flexibility — the ability to efficiently switch between tasks — and had a bigger anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region known to contribute to cognitive flexibility.

«Overall, cognitive consequences research does not support claims for broad transfer of game playing to performance on cognitive skill tests,» Mayer wrote.

«It didn't affect their IQ at all; it affected their performance on an IQ test,» says Bob Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University.

While heavy drinkers showed less impairment than light drinkers on a rote fine motor test over time, they did not perform better on a test involving more short - term memory, motor speed, and more complex cognitive processing.

Cognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalCognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalcognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animals.»

Professor Baron - Cohen says: «We are excited by this new discovery, and are now testing if the results replicate, and exploring precisely what these genetic variants do in the brain, to give rise to individual differences in cognitive empathy.

«We went from a slow, average depiction of brain activity in a cognitive challenge to a quick test that is significantly easier for children to do than spend hours under observation,» Montague said.

Second, this Research Framework should not be used to restrict alternative approaches to hypothesis testing that do not employ biomarkers... biomarker - based research should not be considered a template for all research into age - related cognitive impairment and dementia.»

The group that participated in tDCS plus cognitive training however did not show a statistically significant difference from the group that only played cognitive training games as measured by less sensitive standard neuropsychological measures like the Brief International Cognitive Assessment in MS (BICAMS) tests or on computer - based measures of basic acognitive training however did not show a statistically significant difference from the group that only played cognitive training games as measured by less sensitive standard neuropsychological measures like the Brief International Cognitive Assessment in MS (BICAMS) tests or on computer - based measures of basic acognitive training games as measured by less sensitive standard neuropsychological measures like the Brief International Cognitive Assessment in MS (BICAMS) tests or on computer - based measures of basic aCognitive Assessment in MS (BICAMS) tests or on computer - based measures of basic attention.

Small children with low levels of vitamin B12 had more difficulties solving cognitive tests, such as the ability to do puzzles, recognize letters and interpret other children's feelings.

One 2013 paper found that, more than 7 years after the procedures, open - heart surgery patients scored slightly higher on cognitive tests than did people who underwent less invasive angioplasty, which requires only a local anesthetic.

Certain abilities do tend to decline with age, but researchers have found that individuals in their 70s often perform just as well on many cognitive tests as do those in their 20s.

A second study conducted in Thailand found that the digit span test was effective in identifying mild cognitive impairment, while the verbal fluency test did not demonstrate that ability.

«This is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of a diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years old who currently do not have cognitive impairment,» says Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush and principal investigator of the study.

In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, they tested subjects» cognitive abilities using three methods, asking them to do simple math, a timed - response task, and the classic Stroop test (in which color words like red are written in other colors, like blue, and subjects are asked about the color or the word).

Do you believe, this is what I believe and I could be wrong and you have more experience in this than I do so I'm testing my hypothesis with an expert, that as you add these toxins, like if you were to say on an average day someone with no toxins doesn't ever drop a word for their memory but on a day or a week or when their mercury levels hit one out of 10, maybe they drop one word today, and when they're five out of 10, they drop four words a day, there's a gradual decline in cognitive performance or physical performance before we hit the «Oh my god I feel crappy all the time, I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and I'm a zombie?&raquDo you believe, this is what I believe and I could be wrong and you have more experience in this than I do so I'm testing my hypothesis with an expert, that as you add these toxins, like if you were to say on an average day someone with no toxins doesn't ever drop a word for their memory but on a day or a week or when their mercury levels hit one out of 10, maybe they drop one word today, and when they're five out of 10, they drop four words a day, there's a gradual decline in cognitive performance or physical performance before we hit the «Oh my god I feel crappy all the time, I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and I'm a zombie?&raqudo so I'm testing my hypothesis with an expert, that as you add these toxins, like if you were to say on an average day someone with no toxins doesn't ever drop a word for their memory but on a day or a week or when their mercury levels hit one out of 10, maybe they drop one word today, and when they're five out of 10, they drop four words a day, there's a gradual decline in cognitive performance or physical performance before we hit the «Oh my god I feel crappy all the time, I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and I'm a zombie?»