Sentences with phrase «higher cognitive scores»

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.

The children of women who ate fish two or more times per week while pregnant revealed higher cognitive scores than the children whose mothers ate less than 2 servings per week or none at all.

However, children's fruit consumption had beneficial effects and was associated with higher cognitive scores.

Child consumption of both fructose and fruit in early childhood was associated with higher cognitive scores in several areas and greater receptive vocabulary.

Distinguishing groups from the professional or managerial classes, from more expensive owner - occupied housing or with high cognitive scores would serve to increase the contrasts observed and provide an alternative focus in interpreting the gradients of association.

Not exact matches

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

Adjusted OR for cognitive impairment (MMSE score < 24) were 2 · 23 (95 % CI 1 · 24, 3 · 99) for total sugars and 2 · 28 (95 % CI 1 · 26, 4 · 14) for added sugars, comparing the highest with lowest intake quintiles.

Scores on the cognitive, receptive and expressive communication and fine motor sections were highest among children who were breastfed for more than six months, the researchers reported in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Children who were breastfed for any amount of time scored higher on the cognitive, receptive communication and fine motor portions of the test than children who weren't breastfed.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children who were breastfed for more than six months scored the highest on cognitive, language and motor development tests as toddlers, in a new study from Greece.

Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores, and demonstrate a sharper memory and faster speeds on cognitive tests.

When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed on cognitive tests, and they score higher in both reading and math.

Studies show that infants who have received mothers milk have higher scores measuring visual acuity and cognitive development, including IQ, said Paula Meier, director for clinical research and lactation at Rush - Presbyterian - St.

Another study tracking 108 French - Canadian children found that kids who were securely - attached at age 6 scored higher on communication, cognitive engagement, and motivation to master new skills at age 8 (Moss et al 1998).

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

After adjustment for 15 appropriate key factors (including maternal age, education, race, ethnicity, SES, family size and childhood experiences), breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

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.

Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

Breastfed kids have historically scored higher on cognitive tests than have nonbreastfed kids, and breast milk contains more omega - 3s than regular formula does.

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.

Infants with high vs. low maternal involvement in the single - family room and open bay NICUs were compared on the Bayley Cognitive, Language and Motor scores and Pervasive Developmental Disorders autism screen.

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.

Late - term infants outperformed full - term infants in all three cognitive dimensions (higher average test scores in elementary and middle school, a 2.8 percent higher probability of being gifted, and a 3.1 percent reduced probability of poor cognitive outcomes) compared to full - term infants.

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.

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.

The study participants whose diets scored highest on the MIND diet score had substantially slower rate of cognitive decline than those who scored lowest.

In contrast to the results of slower decline with higher MIND diet score, stroke survivors who scored high on the Mediterranean and DASH diets, did not have significant slowing in their cognitive abilities.

This study expanded on previous research from 2016, which found that older adults who were sexually active scored higher on cognitive tests than those who were not sexually active.

This might account for the fact that the gap in higher cognitive ability has closed by the time both groups of children had reached the age of 11 with only slightly better scores for artificially conceived children at this later stage.»

Michael Bond's article discusses the disparity between high IQ scores and the ability to avoid cognitive bias in decision - making: the...

What's more, a follow - up study found that more typical brain responses correlated «with near perfect accuracy» with higher scores on a range of cognitive tests at age 4, and even higher scores at age 6, Kuhl says.

One 2013 paper found that, more than 7 years after the procedures, open - heart surgery patients scored slightly higher on cognitive tests than did people who underwent less invasive angioplasty, which requires only a local anesthetic.

Conclusion: MR - proADM levels were significantly different between the DWML groups and inversely correlated with cognitive function test scores, suggesting that high MR - proADM levels and DWMLs are associated with cognitive decline.

People who had jobs that involved high levels of scheduling, developing strategies, resolving conflicts, analyzing data, and evaluating and interpreting information tended to score the best — and also had the slowest rate of cognitive decline.

We did a study in my medical office of 100 patients with fatigue, aches and pains, and cognitive difficulties, and found that a score of 46 or higher was associated with a high probability of exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease.

Individuals having higher scores were also those who showed a slower rate of decline in cognitive tests, even when other factors, like education level, which could account for the result, were considered.

After accounting for these variables, individuals with the highest activity energy expenditure scores tended to have a lower probability of cognitive impairment incidence.

Four years later, the people with the highest level of four out of five of the B12 markers also had the best scores on their cognitive tests.

A 2002 study conducted by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine found that elderly patients who consumed the highest levels of selenium had higher cognitive test scores than those who consumed the lowest levels of the element.

Critics contend that better cognitive scores in breastfed infants are due to the fact that mothers with higher levels of educational attainment are more likely to breastfeed.

When older people (50 + years) had higher intakes of chocolate and wine (both being a rich source of flavanols) they had better scores on cognitive tests and slower declines in performance.

And that was true whether you scored high on the cognitive scores or not.

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

A high degree of correlation between measures of fluid cognitive skills and test scores is not news.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

While it's certainly true that test scores can tell us something important about a teacher, what is troubling for the test - score types is that it looks like (1) non-cognitive scores are better predictors of later life success (completing high school, taking the SAT, and going to college) and (2) that it is not the same set of teachers that is good at raising both cognitive and non-cognitive measures.

These effects are all larger than what would have been predicted based on the same students» test - score gains, leading the researchers to conclude that «high achieving charter schools alter more than cognitive ability.»

Poring over school records, he noted a pattern of significantly higher scores on tests of academic achievement and cognitive ability, including IQ tests, up to four years after the program's end.

Using data from a variety of sources, including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond study, and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, Jacobsen and his colleagues at Mathematica essentially confirm Neal and Johnson's findings, providing additional evidence that most of the remaining wage gap is due to differences in cognitive skills, as measured by test scores.