Sentences with phrase «effects on cognitive test»

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.

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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.

To examine whether the effects of breastfeeding varied for boys and girls, the analyses were extended to include tests of interactions between gender and measures of breastfeeding in their effects on cognitive and educational outcomes.

These effects endured not only throughout the animals» lives but were carried on to the next generation and along the same gender lines: The offspring of dual - parented pups turned in superior performances on tests of cognitive ability and social skills than mice raised by single parents.

To begin to address such questions, Chang showed men pictures of women and tested for statistically significant effects of those pictures on men's attitudes about war and on their cognitive processes related to war.

The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.

In young and healthy adults, for example, a high demanding cognitive test was required to uncover the subtle immediate behavioral effects that cocoa flavanols have on this group.

It has to be noted though, that the effects depended on the length and mental load of the used cognitive tests to measure the effect of acute cocoa consumption.

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.

Rather than merely a cumulative effect, Meyer says, the two conditions appeared to act in synergy, increasing anxiety behaviors in the mice as well as damaging their performance on tests for associative memory and other basic cognitive skills associated in people with a range of neurological disorders, including schizophrenia.

We propose that the touchscreen assay may be a useful test for exploring potential therapeutic effects on impaired cognitive function in this line.

Although the study was not powered to detect an effect of treatment on cognition (findings to be reported separately), in a post hoc analysis, we noted that final cognitive test scores were correlated to the rate of atrophy.

Third, two other randomised controlled trials of homocysteine - lowering treatments have shown effects on cognition: a trial in which normal participants with baseline tHcy levels > 13 µmol / L were treated with folic acid (0.8 mg / d) for three years showed a beneficial effect on several cognitive tests [44].

The purpose of this study is to test the effects of a 3 year diet intervention of the MIND Diet on cognitive decline and brain neurodegeneration.

«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.

Creatine supplementation had a positive effect on sleep deprived individuals in terms of both mood and performance in physical and cognitive tests.

Such «selection effects» could in theory account for the apparent school impacts on test scores, or even the apparent absence of impacts on fluid cognitive skills.

These effects are all larger than what would have been predicted based on the same students» test - score gains, leading the researchers to conclude that «high achieving charter schools alter more than cognitive ability.»

When those two factors are taken into account, the positive effect of cognitive skills on annual economic growth becomes somewhat smaller, but is still 0.63 percentage points per half of a standard deviation of 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.

Moreover, a new statement by the American Statistical Association reminds us that ranking teachers based on test scores does not even work for measuring their effect on cognitive skills.

To this end, they have developed a battery of neuropsychological test protocols that target each of these domains and they have used these tests to study the effects of age and the various interventions on cognitive abilities.

Implemented experiment to evaluate the effects of Cognitive Depletion and Executive Function on test taking scores

Objective To test the independent effects of television viewing in children before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years on several measures of cognitive outcomes at ages 6 and 7 years.

To test the independent effects of television viewing in children before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years on several measures of cognitive outcomes at ages 6 and 7 years.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

Testing the action - based model of cognitive dissonance: The effect of action orientation on postdecisional attitudes.

The aims of this study were to: (a) document the differences in Turkish immigrant (n = 79) and German (n = 88) preschool children's home literacy environment (HLE), cognitive, and speaking proficiency test scores, (b) identify predictors of HLE and developmental status, and (c) disentangle effects of education and ethnicity on children's HLE and developmental status.

The primary outcome measure will be scores on the self - report version of the SDQ, a measure of psychopathology in young people with excellent psychometric properties25 and test — retest reliability.26 One previous pilot study has investigated the effect of cognitive training on psychopathology in at - risk young people using the SDQ.19 According to this study, there was a between - group effect size of 0.36 for the SDQ.

y environment (HLE), cognitive, and speaking proficiency test scores, (b) identify predictors of HLE and developmental status, and (c) disentangle effects of education and ethnicity on children's HLE and developmental status.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

To examine the specificity of EF as a mediator of the effects of negative parent - child interaction and parental scaffolding on academic ability, we tested a second longitudinal model in which general cognitive ability (as measured by the Matrix Reasoning task) was entered as a mediator between negative parent - child interaction, parental scaffolding and academic ability instead of EF.