Sentences with phrase «for social memory»

Moreover, the team discovered that the modified mice had a significantly reduced capacity for social memory compared with the controls.

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Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

Repurpose Content — The social web for the most part, has a short memory.

Last night Yale's campus pro-life group — after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped raise money for the organization — became the first group in living memory to be denied membership in the Social Justice Network of Dwight Hall.

Bad school memories were the hot topic at a recent party hosted by David Dancer for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, with guests such as New York's, a social worker and educator of the year for 2009.

Most often, we do not even know that a battle for our mind is underway, but our minds are constantly bombarded from every direction, through our five senses, through the spiritual realm, through cultural and social pressure, through memories and imagination, and through a wide variety of other sources.

Before we do that we need to remember many other things, especially the way the passion of Jesus has been employed through millennia by Christian believers for the oppression of Jews.17 We should consider also the need of a people for a homeland, an issue poorly illumined by either the memory of the passion of Jesus alone or contemporary social sciences.

But the more basic insight that I take away from my memory of Hindenburg (or whoever it was) in his bathing suit is that it is important to guard the presentation of one's physicality in public, simply because the choice of clothing is a form of social communication, by which one can (for better or worse) say something about the order of one's life (and by saying it, reinforce it).

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Finally, on September 30th, the New York Times reported on a telephone survey of over 1,000 former NFL players conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and commissioned by league which found, alarmingly, that former players were being diagnosed with Alzheimer's or similar memory - related diseases at a rate 19 times higher than the normal rate for men aged 30 through 49.

Play builds needed neuronal connections that will influence memory, learning, emotional regulation, and social intelligence for years to come.

Our Kindergarten gently stimulates the development of curiosity, verbal capacities, sequencing, sensory integration, memory, social skills and motor skills that are essential for later learning and are the foundations for academic excellence.

These blueprint states of consciousness provide a basis for gently and safely discovering early imprint implicit somatic memories through intention, the co-regulation tempo, movement in highly cooperative relational fields and connected social processes.

Involving 150 kids each week, it is a diverse haven for children ages 6 to 11 that offers a setting for group play and camaraderie, social interaction and lifelong memories.

This area processes memory, emotions, the response to stress and is responsible for nurturing, caring, separation anxiety, fear, rage, social bonding and hormone control.

Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

Instead of social networking, the online technology that's really shaken up 2008 is fundraising: the candidates» ability to raise almost unlimited amounts of money online has been a true game - changer, allowing Barack Obama to opt out of public financing and to begin to build a significant Democratic financial advantage for the first time in political memory.

Most tell of their past lives and some reflect on how special programs such as «Drawing On Memories» created by Tulsa, Oklahoma artist Mel Lee with use of social dancing helped them in their problems of feeling alone, a desire for a bed of their own, and loss of memory.

«Social media — blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and others alike — provide an important outlet for us to recall memories, in the public space, and share with other people.»

«Just like working memory can hold about 7 items and a drug can be effective for certain amount of time, social influence seems to have a limited time window for effectiveness.»

For example, it could help communicate how widespread our basic susceptibility to memory distortions is,» said Lawrence Patihis, a graduate student in psychology & social behavior at UC Irvine.

The researchers also found that listening to favorite songs altered the connectivity between auditory brain areas and a region responsible for memory and social emotion consolidation.

There was no difference between mutant and normal mice when it came to investigating an empty cage, however, and the mutants even outperformed normal mice on a test of spatial learning and memory, suggesting that their deficit was specific for social behavior.

In another experiment, the researchers tested whether the animals» inability to form social memories might have to do with deficits in olfaction (sense of smell), which is crucial for normal social interaction.

A few studies have suggested that CA2 might be involved in social memory, as this region has a high level of expression of a receptor for vasopressin, a hormone linked to sexual motivation, bonding, and other social behaviors.

Detailed biochemical and sophisticated imaging experiments are employed to delineate the molecular signaling cascades that couple receptors to the translational apparatus during long - lasting synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, amygdala, cortex, and striatum, and whether these types of translational control are required for memory formation, social behaviors, and behavioral flexibility.

A third endeavor is raising hopes for the first drug treatment to relieve learning, memory, social and behavioral problems associated with fragile X syndrome, a genetic condition that shares features with autism.

Such models are likely relevant to the cognitive impairments (episodic memory) and negative symptoms (social functioning) of schizophrenia, and may be useful for the evaluation of novel antipsychotics.

Within the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders, the center's research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; understand the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and develop new treatment strategies for improving social functioning in social disorders such as autism; interpret brain activity through imaging; increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; determine how the interaction between genetics and society shape who we are; and advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.

Their interaction covers a lot of mental territory, including recalling autobiographical memories and semantic information (the president's birthday, for example), thinking about or planning the future, imagining new events, inferring the mental states of others, reasoning about moral dilemmas, reading fiction, self - reflecting, and appraising social and emotional information.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (which are skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

This was not possible with the previous techniques, but the researchers also succeeded in performing the same manipulations in the rat, thus creating an interesting model for evaluating behavior, knowledge, memory and social interactions.

Yes, staying healthy with a plant - based diet, exercise, and social interaction is crucial for so many reasons and for so many other diseases and afflictions, even NORMAL brain aging and memory issues (senior moments!).

Pankhurst now says he is creating a new social network, called Liife, that will be a way for people to store memories - but he said it will «no way [be] a replacement for Friends Reunited.»

Once T'Challa's true challenge is revealed, «Black Panther» becomes something deeper than the mere formation of one superhero, engaging such subjects as: the legacy of colonialism; collective memory and interior geography; the tension between autonomy and social conscience; and the need for solidarity within an African diaspora at political and cultural odds with itself.

An atheist from a young age, Delahaye converted to Catholicism in the 1980s, and spent five years working for the French social services, a period he had fond memories of.

The production of knowledge at the heart of this market driven regime is a form of instrumental rationality that quantifies all forms of meaning, privatizes social relations, dehistoricizes memory, and substitutes training for education while reducing the obligations of citizenship to the act of consuming.

Here is a bundle with quick revision for Attachment, Memory and Social Influence.

AACTE has lined up social media activities for you to connect with event presenters, participate in quizzes, and share your stories and memories as we celebrate 7 decades of AACTE.

He pointed to data showing that when the brain's centers for distress are activated, they impair the functioning of the prefrontal areas for memory, attention and learning (a point I made in Chapter 19 of Social Intelligence).

For visitors to Monterey Classic Car Week that is anchored by the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, it a magical week of motor cars and social events that serve up big doses of memories.

From diary entries, social worker's reports, half - recalled memories, story problems, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother's letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world while she searches for the way out of it.

The historical narrative includes supernatural scenes and creatures whose presence adds suspense — even terror — and vividly deepens and enriches the novel's themes about the vital need for storytelling, the strength of memories, the strong pull of family connections, and the catastrophic personal and social costs of war.

Among others, we meet Danielle DeVoe, a social worker whose challenging family life led her from a young age to dream of the power and magic of love, and Julie Wieber, standing on the pedestal for the second time, accompanied by her daughters and recalling through tears the memory of her late first husband, Jeff.

The LG Town C300 comes with a 2.4» TFT LCD display, QWERTY keyboard, 2MP camera, 20 MB internal memory, microSD card slot for up to 4 GB additional memory, music player, Bluetooth, social networking, support for GSM / GPRS / EDGE and more.

The Kobo Touch has a 6 - inch E Ink Pearl screen with infrared touch, 1 GB of usable memory, an SD card slot, web browser, notes, highlights, bookmarks, partial page refresh, dictionary look up, social network sharing, reading awards, and it supports Adobe DRM for ePub and PDF as well HTML, TXT, RTF, CBZ, CBR, MOBI, and PRC formats.

release 2011, April 15th SIZE Dimensions 124.5 x 63.5 x 10.2 mm Weight 141.8 g DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches — Accelerometer sensor for UI auto - rotate — Proximity sensor for auto turn - off — Gyro sensor — Touch - sensitive controls SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones Loudspeaker Yes 3.5 mm jack Yes MEMORY Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall Call records Practically unlimited Internal 8 GB storage, 512 GB RAM Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB DATA GPRS Yes EDGE Yes 3G HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA WLAN Wi - Fi 802.11 b / g / n, DLNA, Wi - Fi hotspot / Wi - Fi Calling Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP Infrared port No USB Yes, microUSB v2.0 CAMERA Primary 8 MP, 3264 × 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash Features Geo - tagging, face and smile detection, touch focus, image stabilization Video Yes, 1080p@24fps, 720p@30fps Secondary Yes, 1.3 MP FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo), upgradable to v2.3 CPU Dual - core 1 GHz ARM Cortex - A9 proccessor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 chipset Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM Browser HTML Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS Games Yes + downloadable Colors Black GPS Yes, with A-GPS support Java No — T - Mobile TV — NVIDIA Tegra Zone — T - Mobile Video Chat — Social networking integration — HDMI port — Google Search, Maps, Gmail — Digital compass — YouTube, Google Talk — DivX / Xvid / MP4 / H. 264 / H.263 / WMV player — MP3 / WAV / WMA / eAAC + player — Document editor — Organizer — Adobe Flash 10.1 support — Voice memo / dial / commands — Predictive text input BATTERY Standard battery, Li - Ion 1500 mAh Stand - by Up to 400 h Talk time Up to 7 h 40 min

It runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS with Samsung's own TouchWiz interface on top of it, powered by Samsung's Exynos 1.2 GHz dual - core processor accompanied by 1 GB RAM, 1080p HD video playback capability, equipped with a 2 - megapixel front - facing camera for video chats and a 3 - megapixel primary camera to record 720p HD videos, 21 Mbps HSPA + radio, 16GB / 32 GB internal memory storage, miroSD card slot for memory expansion up to 32 GB, Wi - Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, a 4000mAh battery, Android Market, Social Hub, Readers Hub, Music Hub.

In charge of over 800 offenders and 25 officers, I need to be able utilize its maximized multimedia features like awesome memory, pinch and zoom to store and view warranted offenders when attempting to identify for arrest; 5 mp camera to take the necessary photos as crime scenes or during drug busts for use in court; social feeds to keep in touch with my officers when in the field in real - time and its ultra fast browsing when information is crucial and every minute counts.