Sentences with phrase «highest cognitive level»

«While rodents are essential for understanding mechanisms at a cellular or molecular level, at a higher cognitive level, the best you could do was a sort of rough analogy.

«We do want to test at these higher cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps between male and female students, as well as between lower and higher socioeconomic status students.»

Patients who benefited from OT with regard to function were less educated and had higher cognitive level.

The goals of all this observing and questioning are clear: As a year of walk - throughs progresses, principals should see more student engagement, students working at higher cognitive levels, and teachers questioning their own practices and making appropriate adjustments.

Polette (1984) suggested heavy emphasis on the following factors: higher cognitive levels of thinking, critical reading, vocabulary development, wide exposure to literature, productive thinking, imaginative thinking, visualization, exploration of values, and a language arts approach.

«I have had several conversations with teachers about their teaching so that instruction is at a very high cognitive level in the native language and they can then transfer that knowledge to English.

Students submit their Conspiracy Logs to their instructors throughout the mission and answer higher cognitive level questions about the content to ensure understanding.

Figure 4.2 (p. 84) shows that higher cognitive levels are featured less in classroom activities.

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«They are designed with a primary goal of engendering high levels of immersion, engagement, and enjoyment for the players, -LSB-...] They do not tend to focus on one specific cognitive skill, as exercises usually do, but rather expose players to multiple demands that challenge a broad range of abilities.»

As countries around the world respond to their aging populations, the French results shine a spotlight on why it's important to keep up high levels of cognitive and social stimulation through work and retired life.

Twitter Video Ads Deliver Recall, Receptivity (Study) New research finds, among other things, «Twitter was the only platform where cognitive effort, or information processing, increased for video ads, on both desktop and mobile, and attention levels remained constant on Twitter whether users were watching organic or branded ad content,» adding that mobile recall was «significantly higher.»

It is, Whitehead maintains, at a higher level of experience that the object disengages itself from emotional associations and appears to us simply as an object, i.e., as a cognitive object.

This can be done, but then we need another word to distinguish high - level, thoughtful cognitive experience or feeling from mere experience or feeling» (1977, 95).

This can be done, but then we need another word to distinguish high - level, thoughtful, cognitive experience or feeling from mere experience or feeling.

Vice versa, overtaking another car requires an upward shift to partial or full alertness and a rapid evaluation of risks which involves higher levels of the cognitive hierarchy.

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.

Studies have shown that among the many effects of physical abuse are depression, anxiety, cognitive and learning difficulties, even a lowering of IQ (especially verbal IQ), disordered sleep, flashbacks, loss of empathy, aggressive behavior, chronically high stress levels which can lead to chronic health effects such as high blood pressure and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and inability to maintain relationships.

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.

Higher levels of fatty acids in blood samples were associated with improved cognitive development, particularly verbal and fine motor skills.

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.

Scientists have theorized that this reduction in glutamate activity, and therefore the higher KYNA levels seen in patients, might be connected with a range of symptoms seen in schizophrenia, especially cognitive problems.

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.

Based on analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.

Thus, they believe, early memories must be shipped off to the neocortex — an area involved in higher - level cognitive processes — for long - term storage.

The positive impact of sustained high levels of maternal responsivity from toddlerhood through middle childhood was true even for children with more autistic symptoms and lower nonverbal cognitive development levels.

Researchers believe that older adults who have higher levels of «cognitive reserve» may have a better chance for reducing their chances of developing dementia — which theoretically could reduce the risks for developing delirium.

Although it is unlikely that rDLPFC will enter the textbooks as the seat of the law in the brain, this intriguing new study by Buckholtz underscores the role of this region in high - level cognitive processes in general, and judgment and decision - making in particular.

In 2012, she published the first study to note a faster - than - normal cognitive decline among people exposed to higher levels of particulates, both those smaller than 2.5 micrometers and even larger ones that are thought to be less harmful.

If your average blood glucose levels climb high enough, you'll be diagnosed as diabetic — and that's bad news for your cognitive health.

Individuals who suffer from phenylketonuria — a metabolic disorder that causes cognitive impairment when phenylalanine level is too high — can use GMP as an alternative protein source.

Higher levels of physical activity were linked to the relationship between higher daily fruit and vegetable consumption and better cognitive perforHigher levels of physical activity were linked to the relationship between higher daily fruit and vegetable consumption and better cognitive perforhigher daily fruit and vegetable consumption and better cognitive performance.

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.

«We always want our students to do better, particularly on more difficult, higher - level cognitive tasks, and we want them to be successful and competitive with any other school in the country.»

The computerized part of the treatment was administered to pairs of adults with autism to help improve their neurocognitive abilities, such as attention and cognitive flexibility — which are important precursors to higher - level skills involved in problem - solving, self - regulation and social communication.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

While they wouldn't be mistaken for Lilliputian - sized brains, some of their fine - grained features bear a remarkable resemblance to the human cerebral cortex, home to our memories, decision making and other high - level cognitive powers.

As expected, teens who reported higher levels of interpersonal dependent stress showed higher levels of negative cognitive style and rumination at later assessments, even after the researchers took initial levels of the cognitive vulnerabilities, depressive symptoms, and sex into account.

«Attaining higher levels of education, having a mentally demanding job, or regular and sustained mental effort builds something called cognitive reserve,» Willette said.

He says this hope springs from the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for high - level cognitive activities such as planning, reasoning, establishing context — and, undoubtedly, inventing justifications for loving perennial losers in baseball.

For these groups, people with high levels of cognitive ability expressed more prejudice.

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.

Data from 304 PD patients followed for up to 8 years indicate that patients with higher cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) α - synuclein levels experienced faster cognitive decline in the following months, although no associations were found between α - synuclein levels and motor changes.

«Higher levels of cerebrospinal fluid predict faster cognitive loss in Parkinson's disease.»

Analyzing the results, the researchers found that people with both relatively higher and lower levels of cognitive ability show approximately equal levels of intergroup bias, but towards different sets of groups.

«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

The identification of this and other risk factors (such as lower levels of cognitive stimulation and a higher body mass index) may help us to target individuals for screening, intervention and possible treatment.

Steven Piantadosi and Celeste Kidd, assistant professors in brain and cognitive sciences, developed a novel evolutionary model in which the development of high levels of intelligence may be driven by the demands of raising offspring.