Sentences with phrase «gist reasoning»

Twenty adolescents, ages 12 - 20 who experienced a traumatic brain injury at least six months prior to participating in the research and were demonstrating gist reasoning deficits, or the inability to «get the essence» from dense information, were enrolled in the study.

The participants were randomized into two different cognitive training groups — strategy - based gist reasoning training versus fact - based memory training.

The theory relies on the distinctions between verbatim and gist reasoning.

Not exact matches

I heard an interesting story recently on the Gist podcast about intuition, or the the ability to immediately understand a situation without the need for conscious reasoning.

I wonder if Google's shift towards the knowledge graph and «gist» searches is the reason behind the fewer number of keywords.

The general gist of the reasons above is that the Tories essentially wish to bribe NI, Wales and Scotland into voting for them.

That is in contrast with what psychologists call «gist» reasoning, or representations of risk that rely on personal values and beliefs to create a qualitative, intuitive understanding of risks.

After training, only the gist - reasoning group showed significant improvement in the ability to abstract meanings — a foundational cognitive skill to everyday life functionality.

Additionally, the gist - reasoning - trained group showed significant generalized gains to untrained areas including executive functions of working memory (i.e., holding information in mind for use — such as performing mental addition or subtraction) and inhibition (i.e., filtering out irrelevant information).

If for any reason you're unable to watch the video right now, the gist of their statement is that a juror from the Avery trial contacted Ricciardi and Demos to say that he / she believes Steven Avery was not guilty, framed by law enforcement, and had voted to convict because of fear for his / her personal safety.

His reasons were vague, but the gist was that he had a secret self, a cowardly, despicable self he could never show me, and that he needed to go away like a sick animal until he could improve this self and bring it up to a standard he judged deserving of company.

If you haven't heard about the debate, the gist of it is that Barry Eisler turned down a half - million dollar contract with a NY publisher to pursue self - publishing (his reasoning here) while Amanda Hocking turned her self - publishing success into a two - million dollar contract (her announcement here).

The reason for this is something that we aren't going to talk about in great detail, but here's the gist: ETFs are rebalanced at regular intervals, with most of them being rebalanced each night.

The general gist is that you find yourself in Shanghai as a rogue general is laying siege to it for reasons that are never really explained, and must protect a Chinese V.I.P..

The actual announcement is in Japanese, but the gist of it is that the game has ceased development for «various reasons».

I urge people to go read the full posts made by those folks since I edited them down to give the gist of their reasoning.

At the trial court level in Digital Realty Trust v. Somers (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California), the gist of the judge's reasoning went like this:

The gist of the ad, which is similar to campaigns previously run by the IBC, is that the main reason insurance premiums have not decreased is that fraud continues to be a systemic problem.