Sentences with phrase «higher cognition»

What other techniques you read about can you add to your teaching to increase transfer of sensory input through the RAS and amygdala into higher cognition and memory to build student fluency?

Luk is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest in Toronto, researching the influence of life experience, specifically bilingualism, on higher cognition across the lifespan.

Still, Dudley feels that evolutionary genetic analysis can help identify the most relevant genes and pathological mechanisms at play in schizophrenia and possibly other mental illnesses that preferentially affect humans — that is, neurodevelopmental disorders related to higher cognition and GABA activity, including autism and attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder.

Put another way, with complicated, highly social human thought — and the complicated genetics at the root of higher cognition — perhaps there is just more that can go wrong: complex function begets complex malfunction.

Thus, they may play a role in higher cognition.

The animals lack a layer of neurons considered essential to information processing, and many parts of their brains — especially the frontal lobe, the site of higher cognition in people — looked underdeveloped.

Other possible factors that might explain or influence the altruistic behavior — such as higher cognition (measured by brain size), hunting in groups, or stronger social bonds between group members — showed either much weaker correlations or no correlation at all with helping behaviors.

This study, he says, provides «fascinating confirmation of the link between higher cognition and brain asymmetry.»

Studies of individual animals in the wild suggest that higher cognition has evolutionary trade - offs.

Thirteen volunteers received TRNS to their prefrontal cortices, a part of the brain involved in higher cognition, while doing these problems for five days in a row.

We also know that in humans, this area functions in higher cognition that entails working memory, making plans, bringing plans to fruition, worrying, thinking about the future and imagining scenarios.

but if you behold it critically you will find a rich mixture of science and religion, blended in a manner only the very learned and of very high cognition in both fields can do.

When writing is embedded throughout the curriculum, it promotes the brain's attentive focus to classwork and homework, boosts long - term memory, illuminates patterns, gives the brain time for reflection, and when well - guided, is a source of conceptual development and stimulus of the brain's highest cognition.

It remains the Department's position that students who have high cognition, have disabilities and require special education and related services are protected under the IDEA and its implementing regulations.»

Not exact matches

Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.

The «highest» value - modality is the holy (characterized positively by the holy, negatively by the unholy); the next «highest» is the spiritual (characterized positively by the beautiful, the right, and the pure cognition of truth and negatively by the ugly, the wrong, and the positivistic quest of truth in terms of controlling nature); the third «highest» of the value - modalities is the vital (characterized positively by the noble and negatively by the vulgar); the next «highest» region is the useful (characterized positively by the useful and negatively by the nonuseful); and the «lowest» region is the.

The distinction Hartshorne insists on making here as applied to our present question can be expressed by saying that, whereas mere experience or feeling of God can be not only direct but immediate, high - level thought or cognition of God, being mediated, as it is, by the conscious judgment or interpretation of such feeling, is of necessity mediate.

Any defection from high sacramentalism is gleefully identified as matter - hating, body - denying, salvation - by - cognition, capital G, gnosticism.

But what is not necessarily excluded is another kind of cognition by which we leave ourselves open to being grasped by whatever higher or deeper ordering influence there may be.

It has high concentrations of the amino acid, L - theanine which helps to improve cognition and mood while reducing physical and mental stress.

A Drink Might Boost Cognition and Creativity, and Potentially Fight Off the Flu A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease finds evidence that adults who drink moderately and regularly have a higher chance of not only living longer, but doing so without developing dementia or other cognitive impairment...

Copiously illustrated, this book shows how the conscious development and training of the hands in the Waldorf curriculum, from Kindergarten through the high school, lead through the heart forces to enhanced cognition in students.

«Based on the relatively high competence of Waldorf pupils in natural science, combined with exceptionally high indicators of motivation and reflective cognition in these subjects as well as the different pedagogical principles, it is reasonable to conclude that public education can learn from the Steiner Waldorf schools, in particular with regard to being able to concretely apply knowledge in natural science.»

The children we observed tended to be of higher socioeconomic status and were less likely to be of minority race / ethnicity than the children we did not follow up, which could have led to overestimates if the effect of breastfeeding on cognition was much weaker or in the opposite direction in those who dropped out, situations we find unlikely.

They can solve puzzles that solitary leopards and tigers can't — evidence that sociality promotes high - level cognition

In high doses, it has a negative impact on the insects» taste and cognition ability.

Fellowships are available in six fields, four involving science or engineering: cognition and aging, brain trauma, computational genomics, and international high speed rail.

Turn It Up Scientists have suspected that the prefrontal cortex plays a key role in high - level cognition since the case of Phineas Gage.

Some memory and cognition researchers privately grumbled that the conclusions were too negative — particularly with respect to the potential benefits of not smoking, treating high blood pressure and engaging in physical activity.

«Our results using an animal model suggest that a maternal high - fat diet during pregnancy and lactation could have significant and lasting effects on the brain, behavior and cognition of rat pups,» said Dr. Tamashiro.

In conclusion, Petkov's findings provide an exciting common substrate for high - level, or complex, auditory cognition that can be studied in parallel in humans and in macaques.

Damasio considers his argument for the role of the body in higher forms of cognition the most controversial insight of his career.

«We also know that extremely high blood glucose can impact cognition as well.

«However, few long - term, high - quality, follow - up studies on physical activity and cognition have been published, and it has remained unclear what type and amount of exercise is needed to safeguard cognition,» Iso - Markku says.

The macaque - derived map models the core — the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the brain involved in consciousness, cognition and higher thought.

The New Caledonian crow — shown here with a tool it crafted — is capable of high - level cognition, researchers report.

Within a few days, the high - and - dry rats were regularly aiding their soaking companions by opening the door, the team reports online today in Animal Cognition.

To date, this metamemory process, which requires a higher level of self - reflection about our own cognition, was thought by some to be unique to humans, though this research suggests otherwise.

This work expands upon previous research which has shown that after being hospitalized, older adults are at high risk for memory and other cognitive problems, including both transient (temporary) delirium and long - term changes in cognition, including dementia.

Researchers have long thought that the region of the brain involved in some of the highest forms of cognition and reasoning — the prefrontal cortex (PFC)-- was too underdeveloped in young children, especially infants, to participate in complex cognitive tasks.

Pigs, which have been paid little attention in learning research and are not regarded very highly among the general public, thus have a much higher importance for cognition research than had been previously believed.

Researchers have identified eight distinct neural subnetworks that together form the connectivity infrastructure of the mammalian cortex, the part of the brain involved in higher - order functions such as cognition, emotion and consciousness.

«Although this was a small, preliminary study, it suggests that marijuana may affect individuals at high risk for psychosis differently than other marijuana users, by briefly inducing psychotic - like experiences and impairing their cognition,» said Nehal Vadhan, PhD, a psychologist and associate professor in Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and first author of the paper.

The ability to use and understand sophisticated relational representations is a key to higher - order cognition.

Structural connectomes (top two rows) and corresponding florbetapir PET images (bottom two rows) in four patients with normal cognition (NC) with the lowest whole cortex amyloid burden (left) and the four patients with AD with the highest whole cortex amyloid burden (right) focused on the composite regions used in connectome versus amyloid analysis.

The ability to recognize that you sometimes need a little help from your friends is a sign of higher social cognition, psychologists say, and is rarely found in other species.

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

Other hormone levels were unrelated to verbal memory, executive function or overall cognition, or to mood, the researchers found, with one exception: Higher progesterone levels in younger postmenopausal women were positively associated with better memory and global cognition.

Indeed, language dysfunction — typified by disorganized speech or jumping from one topic to another — is a feature of schizophrenia, and GABA is critical to speech, language and many other aspects of higher - order cognition.

Unlike the authors of many other popular accounts of animal cognition, Wynne argues that «animals have neither the «theory - of - mind» capabilities that humans have... nor the capacity for higher - level reasoning.»