Sentences with phrase «higher executive function»

That's according to findings by developmental psychologist Nadine Gaab, whose work shows that people who play a musical instrument regularly have higher executive function skills than non-musicians — a significant finding for educators.

Similarly, the team found that children with lower executive function were not at a disadvantage in Montessori schools, and performed as well as those with higher executive function.

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

Conclusive, evidence - based research shows that better sleep means improved performance, higher executive functioning, fewer car accidents and improved overall health in kids.

The left precuneus demonstrated decreased FC to several regions of pain processing, reward, and higher executive functioning within the prefrontal (orbitofrontal, anterior cingulate, ventromedial prefrontal) and parietal cortices (angular gyrus, superior and inferior parietal lobules).

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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.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

Prior to joining the Brooklyn faculty in 2016, she was a member of the faculty for nine years at The Waldorf School of Garden City, where she served as a class teacher, mentor, and lower school chair, and where her ability to plan, organize, and maintain a high level of executive functioning skills, within both her personal class preparation and her classes themselves, were highly recognized.

According to their framework, high - level «non-cognitive» skills like resilience, curiosity, and academic tenacity that are essential to success in middle and high school are impossible for a child to obtain without first developing, in the early years of formal education, executive function, a capacity for self - awareness, and relationship skills.

Also present at the function were high profile personalities like Julius Debrah, the Chief of Staff, Samuel Justice Adjei, the Deputy Brong Ahafo Minister, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Hon Akwasi Oppong Ababio, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive among others.

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.

Results show that higher levels of fragmented sleep and lower sleep efficiency were associated with a 40 to 50 percent increase in the odds of clinically significant decline in executive function, which was similar in magnitude to the effect of a five - year increase in age.

This is suggested by the association between the composite score of autonomy support and child executive function, as well as by the fact that the clearest group differences emerged between children experiencing consistently high versus consistently low degrees of autonomy support over time.

The researchers found that the women with the premutation who had high methylation levels were more likely to have depression, social anxiety and problems with executive functioning skills.

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.

In contrast, females with autism had smaller callosal regions connecting to the anterior frontal cortex, which is involved in higher order «executive function» such as planning.

«What we found was that training higher - order cognitive skills can have a positive impact on untrained key executive functions as well as lower - level, but also important, processes such as straightforward memory, which is used to remember details.

A decline in function in the prefrontal cortex, the «executive» or front part of the brain, is present in high - risk individuals experiencing early symptoms of schizophrenia and may reflect biological changes that precede the onset of diagnosable illness, the study indicates.

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

The researchers had the teens» high school teachers complete a form assessing the students» executive function.

Students were also given a verbal fluency test, in which higher - order executive functions, such as simultaneous processing, initiation and systematic retrieval of knowledge were measured.

What has switching over to higher fat, bulletproof diet, with what toxins done for you, like you are clogged your executive function things?

From the young to the well - aged, the athlete to the executive, to the injured and ill, everyone benefits from this gentle manual therapy designed to balance the body and help it function at its highest potential.

The revolutionary insight that humans have an endocannabinoid system, which controls executive function, mood, social behavior, and pain, is conserved from invertebrates to high mammals, and can be activated by cannabinoids in marijuana, renewed interest in its medicinal applications (5, 52).

What my field of neurology has called «executive functions» for over 100 years, are the highest cognitive processes — they are sometimes called higher order thinking or critical thinking.

The stimulation of these networks during the ages of their rapid development strongly influences the development of the executive functions — the social - emotional control and the highest thinking skillsets that today's students will carry with them as they leave school and become adults.

Neuroplasticity, the process that rapidly prunes disused circuits and strengthens most - used circuits, means that when you give students ways to activate their executive functions, these highest control networks become stronger.

The implications of the bilingual research also relate to the influence of the higher brain's executive functions on working (short - term) memory strength down in the hippocampus.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

In planning instruction, consider how and when you will model these higher thinking skills and provide opportunities for students to activate their developing executive function networks throughout the learning process.

This neural network activation of the executive functions is one suggested explanation for the higher performance in cognitive tests by children who have had five to ten years of bilingual exposure (Bialystok, 2009; Kaushanskaya & Marian, 2007).

In the bilingual children, the higher performance in nonverbal cognition suggests that «holding» information in their working memory also benefits their early and frequent executive function exercise of paying attention to and evaluating language.

For students to be best prepared for the opportunities and challenges awaiting them, they need to develop their highest thinking skills — the brain's executive functions.

Describe your mental manipulation, challenges, and the executive functions you used to create something new as you found the authentic active learning opportunities that activated the students» interest, perseverance, and higher levels of thinking.

Stressors that shift the brain into the reactive mode put the lower, emotional brain in charge and reduce input to and output from the higher cognitive executive function networks in the reflective prefrontal cortex.

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.

Strong impulse control, executive function, and social skills can lead to greater labor market and higher education success, better physical wellbeing and personal finance, and lower substance abuse.

You'll encourage the birth of dendrites and synapses in their brains, giving them the executive function boost needed to achieve their highest potentials, successes, and satisfaction in their future careers.

«I was a good test taker, but that doesn't mean my executive functioning was up to par,» remembers Allison, who switched high schools to a «less pressurized one» because she needed to «go at my own pace.»

From elementary through high school and into adulthood, students will benefit from these opportunities to understand and develop their executive functioning:

To break this cycle, this project aims to build EEC providers» self - regulatory skills, including emotional regulation, stress management, executive functioning, and ability to communicate calmly and warmly with children, in order to support the high quality interactions and skill modeling that support children's self - regulation.

The study, which followed 147 preschoolers in 21 settings, showed that children taught using the Tools method scored significantly higher than did their counterparts on tests of «executive function skills,» such as the ability to keep their behavior in check, control their impulses, and focus — skills that certainly don't hurt when it comes to learning to read.

Our research proves that social emotional learning results in higher self - esteem, lessened anxiety, measurable academic improvements, improved classroom behavior, significant display of executive function and increased attachment to school.

Executive function is high level thinking and high level thinking plays a big role in helping us navigate the world around us.

Research shows that they hear about 30 million fewer words, they have significantly lower exposure to books, and their impulse control and self - regulation — often called executive function — tend to be less developed than in higher income children.

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