Sentences with phrase «improve other cognitive skills»

Complex, strategy - based games can improve other cognitive skills, including working memory and reasoning.

Not exact matches

Learning to play an instrument brings about dramatic brain changes that not only improve musical skills but can also spill over into other cognitive abilities, including speech, language, memory, attention, IQ and even empathy.

However, he did not find substantial evidence that any other games improve cognitive skills nor that any games improve reasoning or memory skills.

Intensive, adaptive computer - based cognitive training presented as a video game helped improve working memory and other cognitive skills of childhood cancer survivors and holds hope for revolutionizing management of the late effects of cancer treatment.

Meanwhile, Gazzaley plans to develop games to improve cognitive skills in other groups, including people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or depression.

The games are pure fun — remembering a pattern of blocks, spotting a bird in a field — and are based on what research has found to improve concentration and other cognitive skills.

Other anti-amyloid compounds, including one developed by Biogen, for example, have recently shown encouraging results in reducing amyloid plaques as well as improving cognitive skills.

2) Does iRead Intervention improve other developmental skills (social skills and cognitive skills) of young children?

Other options we're looking at is trying to come up with ways [to improve students» cognitive ability], improve their thinking skills, and so there are a couple of projects that we may do from there.

I use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and other techniques to help you learn skills to manage anxiety and depression, improve relationships, heal wounds from past trauma, cope with grief and loss, and address your individual needs.

From newborns to teenagers, we have classes that help parents and caregivers learn skills that are proven to enhance cognitive, social and emotional development; improve executive function and impulse control, improve school readiness and academic performance while reducing child abuse and neglect, drug and alcohol abuse and a wide range of other risk factors for children.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.