Sentences with phrase «impact on cognitive skills»

According to Au, further research will focus on determining whether these brain structure findings translate into impact on cognitive skills, such as problem solving, memory and language.

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«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.

Their results show that the declines in synaptic biomarkers had little impact on the participants» cognitive skills.

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

A 2009 study published in the medical journal «Nutritional Neuroscience» indicated that blackberry intake may have a positive impact on motor and cognitive skills, which often decline with age.

Such «selection effects» could in theory account for the apparent school impacts on test scores, or even the apparent absence of impacts on fluid cognitive skills.

• Each year of attendance at an oversubscribed charter school increased the math test scores of students in the sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation, a roughly 50 percent increase over the progress typical students make in a school year, but had no impact on their fluid cognitive skills.

However, the Education Endowment Foundation, a key research organisation for education, states that non ‑ cognitive skills, could well be having an impact on academic attainment.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

«Research has shown that community violence has large, short - term impacts on children's attention and impulse control, both of which are central to students» ability to learn in school,» says Dana Charles McCoy, assistant professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, who has studied the impact of neighborhood environments on the development of children's cognitive and socioemotional skills...

Modest impacts on students» cognitive skills mostly fade out by the end of 1st grade.

The article discusses the impact of student - teacher relationships and school environment on children's cognitive development, according to the 2013 article «Preschool Classroom Processes as Predictors of Children's Cognitive Self - Regulation Skills Development» in the «School Psychology Quarterlcognitive development, according to the 2013 article «Preschool Classroom Processes as Predictors of Children's Cognitive Self - Regulation Skills Development» in the «School Psychology QuarterlCognitive Self - Regulation Skills Development» in the «School Psychology Quarterly.»

Then, the EPI compares each applicant's answers to thousands of data points — all related to qualifications, teaching skills, cognitive ability and attitudinal factors — to measure that applicant's likely impact on student growth.

The brain is developing, determining the cognitive abilities and social - emotional skills that have an outsized impact on achievement.

Compounding this problem, children from low - income families, on average, begin kindergarten approximately a year behind their peers in preliteracy and language skills.106 This fluency gap widens as students continue in school and has a significant impact on economic success later in life.107 As a result, gains from high - quality preschool programs — including improved health, better social - emotional skills, and better cognitive outcomes — are particularly beneficial for children from low - income families.108

For his research, he conducted a Randomized Control Trial in Selective Schools in Perú to study the impact of cognitive and social skills of peers on educational outcomes.

The research answered questions related to impact of the WINGS program on children's relationships, behaviors, and person - centered competencies.The evaluation also collected an exploratory set of building block measures of early cognitive and emotional skills to better understand the underlying developmental mechanisms leading to the outcomes.

She said baseline measures are necessary in order to fully assess the impact rodeo participation may have on an individual's cognitive skills.

Children of depressed mothers also are more likely to have insecure attachment with their mothers, experience high social withdrawal, have poor communication and language skills, perform poorly on cognitive tasks, and show more disruptive behaviors across developmental periods.2 Particularly among low - income families, financial difficulties and related resource scarcity increase the detrimental impacts of maternal depression on the children's adjustment, the mother's health status, and the family's functioning as a whole.3

(April 2015) which identifies lead's «Neurobehavioral Signature,» and the negative impact that lead exposure has on children's cognitive abilities, speech and language, hearing, visual - spatial skills, attention, impulse control, social behavior, emotional regulation, and motor skills.

Along the same line, recent evidence indicates that children's socio - cognitive skills may have a direct impact on the quality of their relationships and school success.

Lastly, it is important to foster early children's socio - cognitive skills because they have a bigger impact on children's social and academic development when acquired at a young age.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a paper Educational Interventions for Children Affected by Lead (April 2015) which identifies lead's «Neurobehavioral Signature,» and the negative impact that lead exposure has on children's cognitive abilities, speech and language, hearing, visual - spatial skills, attention, impulse control, social behavior, emotional regulation, and motor skills.

Yet while many recent preschool interventions have been found to have short - term effects on young children's language, literacy, mathematics, executive function, and social - emotional development, studies show that impacts on cognitive and academic skills tend to diminish in early elementary school — a phenomenon commonly known as fade - out or convergence.

These programs have been critical in improving maternal and child health outcomes in the early years, leaving long - lasting, positive impacts on parenting skills; children's cognitive, language, and social - emotional development; and school readiness.

Cognitive assessments are given to children to determine the impact of intellectual ability, academic skills, behaviors, and cognitive functioning on academic and psychological funCognitive assessments are given to children to determine the impact of intellectual ability, academic skills, behaviors, and cognitive functioning on academic and psychological funcognitive functioning on academic and psychological functioning.

Bloom, H. S. and Weiland, C., Quantifying Variation in Head Start Effects on Young Children's Cognitive and Socio - Emotional Skills Using Data from the National Head Start Impact Study (March 31, 2015).

When optimal, parenting skills and behaviours have a positive impact on children's self - esteem, school achievement, cognitive development and behaviour.

Focuses on developing parents» skills sets and knowledge regarding reading strategies and techniques so they can impact the cognitive, emotional, and social development of children 4 - 9 years of age.

Parental neglect and the unpredictability of foster care can have lasting impacts on children's health, social - emotional development, and cognitive skills.

Initial EF predicted gains in cognitive and social — emotional skills and moderated the impact of the Head Start REDI intervention on some outcomes.