Sentences with phrase «higher cognitive function»

The results of the neuropsychological evaluation revealed a number of areas of higher cognitive function to be impaired.

When you get a good, restful night's sleep you operate at a higher cognitive function, reduce cravings for unhealthy food, and are in a better mood overall.

It's now accepted that overall fitness is associated with higher cognitive function and learning.

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

Through the generation and focused phenotyping of prospective rat models, where gene targets have been identified through the systematic mouse phenotyping effort, we focus our complementary analyses to conditions where the larger size and higher cognitive function of the rat is advantageous for more complex and accurate physiological assessments.

The cell produces nerve cells that help form the neocortex — the site of higher cognitive function — and likely accounts for the dramatic expansion of the region in the lineages that lead to man, the researchers say.

Although ALS primarily affects motor neurons leading to impaired mobility, speech, swallowing, and respiratory function and FTD affects brain regions that support higher cognitive function, some patients have symptoms of both disorders.

These findings could be a step in grasping how the brain circuit is shaped during this early stage development and how these neuronal circuits contribute to higher cognitive function in adulthood.

They also had fewer folds in their surfaces, which are known to be vital for higher cognitive function.

Soon even these are passed, as the very young child begins to demonstrate the higher cognitive functions that are found only at the top of the continuum.

Higher cognitive functions, such as an awareness of our place in the world, do not spring from a specific area, says Fani Deligianni at University College London.

The areas in the brain linked to this type of decision making were the dorsal portion of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is known to support higher cognitive functions such as planning, and the premotor cortex, which is more involved in the execution of real or imaginary movements.

Dart argued that a brain structure called the lunate sulcus had been thrust back into a human position and that parts of the brain linked with higher cognitive functions had expanded.

Bruno van Swinderen, a researcher at the Neurosciences Institute (NSI) in San Diego, finds hints of higher cognitive functions in insects — clues to what one scientific journal called «the remote roots of consciousness.»

One Oxford neurobiologist went so far as to argue that right - handedness could be traced back 200,000 years to a single mutation — a sort of genetic Big Bang that created hemispheric specialization, language, and higher cognitive functioning in one go.

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.

As Willingham points out, the people who seem to have «grown out» of their autism had higher cognitive functioning and milder symptoms in the first place, and «many of them had behavioral interventions in childhood».

By measuring critical flicker speeds researchers are able to assess the processing speed of the brain itself, which forms the basis of many higher cognitive functions, such as fluency or memory.

These results, the authors conclude, demonstrate that «higher cognitive functions are not a privilege of the vertebrates.»

Some extreme adherents to this point of view, called embodiment theory, speculate that even the highest cognitive functions, including thought, do no more than regulate streams of intelligence rising from the body, much as the sound coming from a radio is modulated by turning the knobs.

Neurologists know that the cortex of the brain is responsible for higher cognitive functions, like music and language.

Of note, greater brain volume has been shown to be correlated with higher cognitive functioning.

It is the brain area that is typically attributed to higher cognitive functions like reasoning and language.

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

Neuroscientists at University College, London, recently discovered a fascinating connection between an antioxidant enzyme system called CAT (for catalase) and several major markers of high cognitive functioning.

Although Doug didn't possess much in the way of tangible skills, or even higher cognitive functions, the man knew how to fight, and what it meant to be a good teammate.

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

In the present study, we propose to use two well - characterised ERPs, P - 300 and Mis - match Negativity that are known to reflect higher cognitive functions of attention and memory (see table 2 for details on the assessments at each site).

They have higher cognitive functioning at age six, are better problem solvers during their toddler years, have higher IQ's by the age of three and grow up to be more empathetic.

Not exact matches

Although you can access gamma brain waves during periods of extremely high functioning, it's the beta waves that scientists associate with everyday alertness, critical thinking, socialization, learning and cognitive processing.

Studies have shown that walking more lowers risks of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, which is linked with decreased cognitive function.

The lead professor of the study suggested that the high polyphenol content of cacao may be protective against declining cognitive function.

There's even some preliminary evidence that a higher lifetime intake of coffee may boost cognitive function in older adults.

It's been declared a miracle food, due to it's high levels of anthocyanins, which help improve blood flow and cognitive function.

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.

Bilinguals have better cognitive and verbal skills, as well as higher executive function.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

During the follow - up visit (3 years old), kids with moms who had encouraged their children's autonomy showed better levels of cognitive functioning — specifically, the kids were more adept at processing «higher» thinking like delayed gratification and juggling multiple concepts.

Researchers also found those with high blood pressure performed significantly worse on two different assessments of cognitive function and memory.

The study is one of few basic science studies conducted to measure the direct effect of a high - fat maternal diet on the cognitive functioning on offspring.

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

For women with the lowest levels — about 25 percent of the general population — increased dopamine during ovulation will sharpen cognitive functions, whereas for the 25 percent of women with the highest levels, ovulation seems to take them beyond a threshold and to impair thinking.

Although the physical basis of consciousness is one of the deepest enigmas in biology, the best guess is that it arises from coordinated activity between the cortex and the thalamus, a switching station for sensory and motor signals, and within the cortex, which handles higher - order cognitive functions.

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.

«The results suggest that we should expect that women demonstrate relative strength in particular cognitive functions while men in others, even in societies with higher living conditions and more gender equal educational opportunities,» explains Weber.

While male and female participants performed about the same in terms of accuracy and reaction time, the neural pathways that were activated were different: Women showed greater activity in both hemispheres in the prefrontal cortex — in regions implicated in language functions and higher - level cognitive functions — than men.

The researchers found that the higher the BMI and blood sugar levels, the lower the cognitive function.

In June, researchers reported that office workers scored higher on tests of cognitive function when the room was better ventilated, but many studies have found that background noise impairs cognitive performance.

In terms of cognitive disability, the researchers found that in the subgroup of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on verbal and other cognitive function tests.

New research published online in The FASEB Journal shows that in rats, a substance called a ketone ester significantly increase exercise endurance, cognitive function and energy levels in the heart at high workloads.