Sentences with phrase «different cognitive mechanisms»

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«Is it possible that very different brain mechanisms for complex cognitive processes have developed independently in birds and in mammals in the 300 million years of their existence?»

«On the other hand, if these seemingly different abilities are carried out by overlapping cognitive mechanisms or brain areas, then experience with musical pitch processing should affect language pitch processing, and vice versa.»

«Messy play» - a learning mechanism whereby children are encouraged to get stuck in to exploring the world through various different textures (such as sifting through a sandpit with their hands, mushing mud through their palms or squelching goo between their fingers)- is essential for their social, emotional and cognitive development.

She will also describe current work on the underlying motivational, cognitive, and behavioral mechanisms explaining what makes gritty individuals different from others.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10