Sentences with phrase «for cognitive reasons»

Let us explain: For most individuals that are receiving SSDI for cognitive reasons, we're typically limited to life insurance policies that are known as «Guaranteed Issue» life insurance policies.

Therefore, assessing a child for their cognitive reasoning abilities is a means to provide parents / teachers with insight into his or her learning potential.

Not exact matches

Even a brief course of brain exercises can help older adults improve reasoning skills and processing speed for 10 years after the training ends, according to a recent federally sponsored study on cognitive training.

For this reason, proponents of the cognitive view argue that grammar alone is not enough to understand language.

This approach to AI emulates cognitive functions like perception, abstraction, reasoning, and learning to build machine - accumulated knowledge for organizations.

It is true that people often believe things for bad reasons — self - deception, wishful thinking, and a wide variety of other cognitive biases really do cloud our thinking — but bad reasons only tend to work when they are unrecognized.

I did not «cast off» my empirical upbringing when I became a believer; for me (as for so many others, including many scientists), there is no cognitive dissonance between reason and faith, nor any «war» between science and religion.

Religious faith, like every other part of our cognitive lives, always looks for reasons, and reasons come from many sources.

In the cognitive experience of intelligent beings there are not separable regions of causes and of reasons: one and the same of experience will at once provide for the ground and for the reason of a belief.

The only reason for accepting that perception in the mode of causal efficacy is accurate or reliable is that the perception occurs (where the perception is considered strictly as an experience without any cognitive or epistemic significance).

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

yay for reason and cognitive thinking!

Nor do measurements of cognitive development and physical and mental health give reason for satisfaction.

Shown to improve overall cognitive functioning and combat the effects of aging, blueberries are commonly cited amongst the «super foods» for good reason: these unassuming berries holistically mend our literal hearts and minds.

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

The primary reason why overnights can be endured (and — later — enjoyed) is that cognitive skills and verbal ability allow the older children to be prepared for separations and to be able to communicate more effectively their needs, desires, worries and concerns.

Another reason for your child's behavior might be that your child is developing the cognitive skills to reason things out, and he may pull hair to try to control the direction of a particular situation.

The primary reason why overnights can be endured (and - later - enjoyed) is that cognitive skills and verbal ability allow the older children to be prepared for separations and to be able to communicate more effectively their needs, desires, worries and concerns.

These favorite types of words tend to emerge before other words for reasons related to cognitive development, basic needs and wants, personal preferences, and social, cultural mores.

The problem with the second bullet point is that it's a good idea in theory but not usable in practice for two different reasons: (1) various cognitive biases would counteract your education from working when populist politically aligns with someone; (2) and conscious tactical choices would ensure that even those who are able to work around cognitive biases would still vote for that populist if they are aligned.

Another way that neuroscience is relevant for policy and theory is by looking into studies conducted in cognitive neuroscience, which helps explain some of the reasons for patterns of cooperation and enmity in international relations.

One of the reasons biases are so rampant is rooted in the human need for «cognitive consistency,» which means processing information in a way that confirms preset beliefs, explains Ann - Sophie Chaxel, a professor at Virginia Tech and author of the study.

Our moral reasoning is based on cognitive glitches — we need to rethink it for the world we live in now, says moral psychologist Joshua Greene

How does our brain develop the ability to perform complex cognitive functions, such as those needed for language and reasoning?

«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.

In one study that confronts that idea, cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto of the New School for Social Research in New York reasoned that if people use their physical perceptions and motor experiences to construct mental simulations, then physical characteristics that cause us to interact with the environment in systematically different ways should in fact send people down different mental pathways.

Back at MIT, cognitive neuroscientists Liane Young and Rebecca Saxe have been studying the right temporal parietal junction, a brain region used for reasoning about others» intent.

The prefrontal regions are responsible for analytic reasoning, impulse and desire inhibition, and cognitive flexibility based on information from many other brain regions.

«Then, once it became dominant in the question context, it was selected for in other contexts, the imperative and declarative, probably for reasons of grammatical consistency or cognitive ease.»

Last week, Lumosity hit the news for a different reason, as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it the latest target in a crackdown on companies selling products that purportedly enhance memory, provide some other cognitive benefit, or reduce the serious side effects of dementia.

He says this hope springs from the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for high - level cognitive activities such as planning, reasoning, establishing context — and, undoubtedly, inventing justifications for loving perennial losers in baseball.

The reasons for participants» multi-tasking success most likely include multiple factors, the researchers say, but they hypothesize that one explanation could be the cognitive arousal that happens when people anticipate completing a difficult cognitive task.

The experiment revealed that, for reasons that remain unclear, the cholesterol - reducing treatment protects the heart in old age, although it doesn't guard against strokes or cognitive decline.

«Physical activity is extremely helpful for stroke survivors for a number of reasons, and our findings suggest that this may also be a good strategy to promote cognitive recovery after stroke» said lead author Lauren E. Oberlin, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh.

Preliminary research has suggested that, «if the target is to improve older adults» cognitive control, reasoning, and higher - order cognitive skills, and stave off dementia and Alzheimer's as long as possible, then maybe strategy games are the way to go,» said Chandramallika Basak, assistant professor at the Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

«But this simple reason versus passion model fails to capture that there's a refined way of thinking with emotions, closely related to empathy and compassion,» said Anthony Jack, Director of Research at the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, associate professor of cognitive science, psychology and philosophy at Case Western Reserve and lead author of the new research.

This can be problematic for a variety of reasons including the high prevalence of cognitive and physical decline that can impair the ability of older patients to make sense of the many demands their doctors may make of them.

Some scientists think the cognitive skill needed for cooperative hunting is one of the reasons that humans evolved intelligence.

As the age cohort × time × sex interactions (reasoning P = 0.59; memory P = 0.12; phonemic fluency P = 0.005; semantic fluency P = 0.02; and vocabulary P = 0.006) suggested sex differences in cognitive decline for some tests, we also stratified these analyses by sex.

Fish has long been considered a healthy food, linked to improved long - term cognitive health, but the reasons for this have been unclear.

Because science is made up of «facts,» he writes, there must be some neuro - cognitive evolutionary reason for why the right wing brain limps along as it does.

«So if you're not using it, there's no reason to expect the continued benefit for a treatment that works that way, whereas cognitive behavioral therapy teaches skills.»

«Robert - Houdin and Tylor both contributed actively to the ideological apparatus of Western imperialism, helping articulate a rationale for colonialism in terms of the cognitive supremacy of rational, modern Euro - Americans whom they compared to irrational, non-modern others,» Jones writes in «Magic's Reason.»

«People with HIV infection have many reasons to have cognitive dysfunction, from the virus itself to medications for HIV infection and related conditions, particularly as they age,» said lead researcher Richard Saitz.

«Both of those things, we know, are risk factors for developing cognitive decline and dementia in later life, and both of those are reasons why a person might need to take a proton pump inhibitor,» Fargo explained.

The reason for this is that the majority of gluten intolerance symptoms are not digestive in nature, but are instead neurological, such as pain, cognitive impairment, sleep disturbances, behavioral issues, fatigue and depression.

During the condolence call, we chatted about her mom's life and the reason for the cognitive decline.

The ethical reasons can be powerful for many, however for some cognitive dissonance makes some turn away.

On the other hand, your chance of reasoning with a jury selected specifically for their lack of higher cognitive function is abysmal.

«Sleep is important for a lot of reasons, and can influence health and well - being and cognitive functioning...»