Sentences with phrase «high cognitive control»

When people have high cognitive control, they are able to maintain their focused attention and ignore distractions to get things done.

«The literature gives us the impression that older adults are essentially doomed as their cognitive abilities decrease, when, in reality, many older adults get along just fine in their day - to - day lives, and we think that shows that aging adults don't always need to have high cognitive control.»

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They found that high multitaskers had less brain density in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region responsible for empathy as well as cognitive and emotional control.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) mediates the cognitive control of many high - level brain functions.

They found that higher doses of clonazepam were required to control Dravet syndrome seizures, but lower doses to treat its autistic and cognitive aspects.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

Although the question can not be answered definitively, other analyses have linked lower dementia risk to better control of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and high cholesterol, and by building up «cognitive reserve» with more education.

The components of the Dunedin study's human capital measure — educational attainment, cognitive ability and self - control — each predicted higher credit scores and younger heart age.

Particularly interesting was the discovery that the thickness of the gray matter in the brain's temporal and prefrontal regions — the structures that are critical for language and for higher - order cognitive functions like self - control and problem - solving — were the most promising candidate traits for genetic mapping, based on both their strong genetic basis and association with the disease.

They used high - resolution 3 - D images of the brain, questionnaires evaluating temperament and personality traits of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their non-bipolar relatives, and an extensive battery of cognitive tests assessing long - term memory, attention, inhibitory control and other neurocognitive abilities.

Now, researchers argue that the competing noise of other partygoers is filtered out in the brain before it reaches regions involved in higher cognitive functions, such as language and attention control.

We found that the neural reaction to pain in children of depressed mothers stops earlier than in controls, in an area related to socio - cognitive processing, so that children of depressed mothers seem to reduce mentalizing - related processing of others» pain, perhaps because of difficulty in regulating the high arousal associated with observing distress in others,» said Prof. Ruth Feldman, director of the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab and the Irving B. Harris Early Childhood Community Clinic at Bar - Ilan University and lead author of the study.

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.

These findings indicate that the PPC of humans represents high - level, cognitive aspects of action and that the PPC can be a rich source for cognitive control signals for neural prosthetics that assist paralyzed patients.

Additionally, people didn't require high levels of cognitive control for inherent, day - to - day tasks, like walking down the street or learning new information.

While these participants were listening to the recordings attributed to the professional, researchers saw higher activity in a region of the brain related to cognitive control and deliberative thinking throughout the course of the excerpt.

The largest portions of the neocerebellum take part in the executive control network implicated in higher cognitive functions such as working memory.

This group had increased activation in higher - order brain regions associated with attention control and enhanced cognitive control, he says, while exhibiting a deactivation of the thalamus — a structure that acts as the gatekeeper for pain to enter the brain, he explains.

Another study published in Cognitive Neuroscience examined the brains of chronic dieters, and found that those with higher body fat percentages had a weaker connection between two areas in the brain: the part that manages executive control, and the reward region.

The prefrontal cortex is where the highest cognitive and emotional control networks are being constructed, especially during the school years.

In effect, executive attention functions as a control tower for guiding the brain's higher - level cognitive processes to land on specific tasks and information.

This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text - based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) in 9 middle schools and 6 high schools.

The number of items that students answered was predictive of the highest level of education students attained by 2010, controlling for a host of factors including measures of their cognitive ability.

Cognitive science has yielded some paradoxical findings, including that play may be the best way for children to learn the self - control needed for hard work; that rote memorization can be a stepping stone to using higher - order critical thinking and problem - solving skills; and that integrating arts into the curriculum can improve students» long - term memory of what is taught.

In fact, there were two significant negative effects shown in cognitive skills for the three - year - old cohort, meaning the control group that did not participate in any preschool program had higher cognitive scores.

We also have a cerebral cortex — a thin layer on the outer portion of the brain that controls higher cognitive functions.

• Track record of providing instructional support within special and general education classrooms as required to meet the students» needs • Skilled in student evaluation and need assessment • Substantial knowledge of and ability to cater for students» age related developmental cognitive, social and psychological needs • Proficient in facilitating the teacher in conducting classroom related activities • Expert in developing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with students and colleague teachers • Effective in devising interactive supportive learning activities to reinforce the lesson being taught • Well versed in filing in for the lead teacher in case of leave or absence and implementing the devised lesson plan effectively • Particularly effective in supervising the children during lunch and playtime, ensuring ample and healthy social interaction among peers • Competent at lesson planning, classroom control, assignment marking, lesson reinforcement and activity facilitation • Profound ability to develop need based individualized educational plans and implement the same in light of pre-determined long term learning objectives for each pupil individually • Proven skills in record keeping, developing individual student progress charts and portfolios along with demonstrated ability to maintain open communication channels with the students» parents and teachers to discuss progress • Track record of providing excellent teacher support in all classroom and lesson planning related activities • Committed to delivery of highest standards of classroom support, maintenance of an interactive atmosphere and provision of specially designed AV aids for special needs students

His research focuses on the interactions of emotion and cognitive control and how those interactions influence metabolic expenditures and high - level cognition.

Internet - delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with mild to moderate depression and high cardiovascular disease risks: a randomised attention - controlled trial.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

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

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

The best developmental outcomes (including greater child self - esteem and social and cognitive skills and fewer emotional and behavioral problems) are associated with «authoritative» parenting, characterized by high levels of warmth combined with high control.

Although the research on resilience in foster children specifically is sorely lacking, studies of maltreated children suggest that maltreated children who exhibit resilience have high cognitive competence, self - esteem, and ego control (including flexibility, planfulness, persistence, and reflection).30 Thus, foster children, who have an increased likelihood of experiencing multiple risk factors such as poverty, maltreatment, and separation from family of origin, may have more positive outcomes if they are fortunate enough to also experience protective factors.

A cluster randomised controlled trial to determine the clinical effectiveness and cost - effectiveness of classroom - based cognitive - behavioural therapy (CBT) in reducing symptoms of depression in high - risk adolescents.

Children raised in families that experience multiple transitions do not consistently have higher levels of behavioral problems or lower test scores than do children in family types with one or fewer transitions, even when only child characteristics are controlled... Finally, maternal psychological well - being is shown to be an important mechanism by which family structure affects behavioral outcomes, but not cognitive ones.»

Fact: «Research on the impact of father involvement on children provides evidence that high levels of paternal participation tends to increase children's cognitive competence, empathy, and internal locus of control.

Fact:» [W] e find that family structure does operate through economic status because, once income is controlled, the family structure effects primarily disappear for both behavioral and cognitive outcomes... Children with higher quality home environments (with respect to emotional support and cognitive stimulation) have fewer behavioral problems and higher cognitive test scores.

High preschool classroom quality promotes a range of child outcomes, cognitive as well as social and behavioural, 24 and the development of executive functions and self - regulation appears to be an important mediating link.25 A randomized controlled experiment26 studied the joint effects of the Program for Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) and an interactive storybook reading intervention added to a regular Head Start curriculum.

The study found that compared with a control group, children who received home visits had higher birth weights; better home environments, including more positive parenting attitudes, by age 2; and cognitive benefits by age 6.

All three adult human capital factors — educational attainment, cognitive ability, and self - control — predicted both higher credit scores (Fig. 2A) and younger heart age (Fig. 2B).

Day two will include key information on the formation of Executive Function Skills (XFS) and the important role played by these important frontal lobe functions in the regulation and control of behaviors and emotions and the subsequent development of our critical higher order cognitive functions: organization, self - directed motivation, and self - understanding.

Parent - child interactions affect many different domains of development.41, 42,43 Child - focused, responsive and moderately controlling parenting attitudes have been positively associated with self - esteem, academic achievement, cognitive development and fewer behaviour problems.44, 45 Furthermore, high warmth and contingent responsiveness promote a wide range of positive developmental outcomes.46, 47,48,49 Parental management style and affective involvement may be especially salient for children's prosocial development, self - control and internalization of behaviour standards.41 The quality of parenting has been found to be important for child socialization, 50,51 and parenting variables show direct links with child adjustment.52

Powerlessness and the anxiety that results undermine executive functioning (I.e. higher order cognitive abilities such as reasoning, attention control, task flexibility) which is critical to coping well in challenging situations.

Neuroimaging studies have also demonstrated that suppression is associated with higher activation in the amygdale and insula [31], [32], and in regions implicated in cognitive control, namely prefrontal and anterior cingulated cortices [33], [34].