Sentences with phrase «cognitive thinking on»

Help your child practice spelling skills, memorization, and cognitive thinking on this patriotic day.

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We have to practice how to connect to our thoughts and ensure we focus on the task at hand by our own initiative and cognitive ability.

For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

To win in the age of cognitive computing and cybersecurity, IBM is betting big on design thinking.

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

You really need to work on your literacy skills and putting together coherent cognitive thoughts.

The development of cognition in general is conceived in Piaget's genetic theory as a reconstruction of earlier forms of cognitive organization with new means and on a new level; the best known example of this development is the transformation and reconstruction of sensori - motor activity schemata into symbolic - conceptual thinking operations.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

Industry thought - leaders will voice their opinions on trending topics, including cross-channel marketing, staff and guest engagement, crisis management, advocacy, mobile payments and the science of food pairing with the world's «smartest cognitive computer.»

I also have my patients provide information on their daily cognitive workload, including their perceived difficulty of each type of thinking task.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

Individual differences in psychology are the variations from one person to another on variables such as attitude, values, self - esteem, the rate of cognitive development or degree of agreeableness — think of it as all of the little bits and pieces that set us apart and makes us unique from others.

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.

Therapy treatments rooted in cognitive research focus on helping people change these negative thinking patterns and replace such thoughts with more positive and realistic ones.

If humans are similarly susceptible, astronauts on voyages to Mars could suffer permanent cognitive impairment that could hinder their abilities to recall information and to think on their feet.

«It has long been thought that the stress of a mother during her pregnancy may imprint on the brain of her developing child,» says Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University who is presenting this new work at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston today.

SCD and MCI are considered to be early stages of the dementia process and are diagnosed based on the severity of cognitive symptoms, including memory loss and thought - and decision - making problems.

Vincent Cheung, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, thinks the answer would be yes, assuming it was predicated on local and non-local dependencies.

He pointed out that the way any animal thinks depends on its cognitive limitations and the environment in which it lives.

This illusion, thought to be based on the lifter's cognitive expectations, and the fact that it is also present in blind echolocators, but not in blind non-echolocators, shows that echolocation is an effective form of sensory substitution for vision.

The Lindamood - Bell program focuses on helping students develop the sensory and cognitive processing necessary for reading, such as thinking about words as units of sound, and translating printed letters into word meanings.

It is even possible that simulated foraging could have long - term effects on thinking style and possibly even lead to therapies for cognitive disorders.

The study — which included tests on pilgrims taking part in the famous Camino de Santiago and a brain stimulation experiment — found no link between intuitive / analytical thinking, or cognitive inhibition (an ability to suppress unwanted thoughts and actions), and supernatural beliefs.

The available sociological and historical data show that what we believe in is mainly based on social and educational factors, and not on cognitive styles, such as intuitive / analytical thinking.

Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it relies on, the Blue Brain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thought.

Cognitive training strategies included how to focus on the most relevant information and filter out the less relevant; ways to continually synthesize information encountered in daily life to encourage deeper thinking; and how to inspire innovative thinking through generating diverse interpretations, solutions and perspectives.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a short - term form of therapy that focuses on changing how a person thinks about and reacts to specific situations.

Furthermore, the study found that cognitive intrusion — recurrent thoughts about the stressor — was a significant and key mediator, accounting for 69 percent of the total effect of stress exposure on insomnia.

[Visiting Google] this summer opened my eyes to what it would mean if, instead of thinking of biomarkers as something we measure in blood or in a brain scan, we also include things we can measure on a smartphone: your activity level, your sleep, your social activity, and your cognitive performance.

Furthermore, pilots who relied more heavily on the computers to handle these tasks and who allowed their thoughts to drift during flight were more likely to suffer the effects of rusty cognitive skills.

Restating, the researchers now think that children who have autism as a consequence of inherited factors have less general cognitive damage than those with severe de novo mutations, which, says Wigler, in puzzling on the face of it.

Cognitive scientists live on too abstract a plane to investigate love but probably think it's due to how my neural networks connect with Harriet's.

The former activity is a cue for cognitive effort and as such led to decreased reliance on (incorrect) intuition, and more on dispassionate analytic thinking.

Then on top, the tertiary level is programmed by life experiences through the neocortex, engendering our higher cognitive processes such as thinking, ruminating, and planning.

There is no way to create a «schizophrenic» mouse, Meyer emphasizes, but certain key cognitive deficits and behaviors can be measured in both animals and humans and are thought to rely on similar brain regions and neural circuits.

«These preliminary results are promising in that higher - order cognitive training that focuses on «big picture» thinking improves cognitive performance in ways that matter to everyday life success,» said Dr. Cook.

While cognitive and motivational deficits were previously thought to be distinct domains of the illness, a better understanding of how the lack of motivation influences cognitive performance might mean it is the lack of motivation, not cognition on its own, that is causing people to perform poorly on tests.

We present taxonomy for classifying different types of research on scientific thinking from the perspective of cognitive development and associated attempts to teach science.

Lead author Christopher Flynn Martin of Indianapolis Zoo said: «We think our apparatus has much potential to advance primate social cognitive research by enabling, for the first time, computerised touchscreen tasks that multiple apes must work on together to solve.»

There is one insula on each side of the brain, and they are thought to be involved in emotion, perception, self - awareness and cognitive function.

Contrary to the poetic nature of «righting past wrongs» that some attribute to the de-extinction of passenger pigeons, I view the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon as a project seeded in our present and future; it is a pivotal exercise in thought stressing the recognition that we are the drivers of change on this planet and that we have the cognitive ability to take responsibility for the direction of that change.

The research team included Deborah Levine, M.D., MPH, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School who studies effects of aging, lifestyle and disease on different aspects of thinking ability, also called cognitive function.

CNS 2018 To kick off the 25th anniversary meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Michael Gazzaniga (University of California, Santa Barbara) took us back to the beginning of the field, and then on a whirlwind tour through the history of thought on consciousness.

The grants will focus on Alzheimer's disease and on age - related cognitive change — changes in thinking, learning, and memory that can come with growing older.

This talk will consider the contributions of episodic retrieval and simulation to a range of cognitive tasks that are not ordinarily considered «episodic memory tasks», focusing in particular on future imagining and divergent creative thinking.

Studies on brief «interpersonal» therapy (which emphasizes current stressful events and better coping strategies) and cognitive therapy (which addresses our negative thoughts about ourselves and our lives) show that these approaches, by themselves, have benefits that are at least as impressive as those that may come from drugs.

What it is: Cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT), a short - term, results - oriented form of counseling, focuses on changing unhelpful behaviors and thoughts — like I deserve to eat a piece of cake because I've had a hard day.

Some experts maintain that talk therapy is more effective in children, but the little research that exists on the subject suggests that cognitive - behavioral approaches may be especially effective in adults, who are likely to be more aware of their thinking patterns (and how to change them).

And Mayr says it's important that people not rely too much on wishful thinking: «If traders come to habitually ignore losses through cognitive reinterpretation, they may miss the signals that indicate trouble ahead as a bull market starts to shift to a bear market.»

Please do your own research on the mold in nuts / butters, esp peanuts / butter and that would need to start with spending a lot of time on the Internet (our best research tool), self - training in critical thinking by doing it, vetting various sites and authors in a variety of ways and over time, testing ideas within your own life and framework, and getting to the bottom of your own cognitive biases which prevent you from questioning authority in the first place.