Sentences with phrase «in cognitive capacity»

July 2011 by Charles Rotblut Declines in cognitive capacities can hurt your ability to effectively manage your finances.

Retired Investor Aging's Adverse Impact on Decision Making Declines in cognitive capacities can hurt your ability to effectively manage your finances.

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Essentially, it gives that professional permission to call specific trusted individuals (usually, your powers of attorney and / or a family member), if they have noticed some diminishment in your physical, cognitive, mental or psychological capacity.

Memory is a key component of cognitive capacity, required for comparing options (alternatives need to be kept in mind simultaneously), making judgments (you have to remember pros and cons in order to weigh them), and plotting and executing strategy (you have to remember the steps to form them into an overall plan).

In short, it is the prescription for medical oppression in which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corpIn short, it is the prescription for medical oppression in which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corpin which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corps.

Recently, Singer repeated this assertion in an interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and cognitive disabilities have less value than animals with higher capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):

Any person who does this I can respect whatever conclusion they reach, it's the people who have always been one thing or another and their cognitive dissonance and absolute refusal to accept disbelief in god as an alternative in any capacity that I have beef with.

The interpreter's cognitive presuppositions and his or her spiritual capacity for understanding the truth of God are fundamental in the formation of doctrine.

The capacity we have for maintaining cognitive dissonance can explain why some of the most intelligent people can believe in a higher being.

At the core of the view of Human being underlying paideia and the «Athens» model is the view that the characteristic defining human being is the capacity of reason in intuitive, cognitive judgment to apprehend the ultimate principle of being and of value — that is, God.

Very few people in the West grasp the reality, much less the magnitude, of this threat to what might be called «cognitive security»: the capacity of Western populations to see things as they are, including things going on in our own societies.

Moreover, it is his argument that any truly integrated system — a brain, a computer, the Internet, but also a barometer, a photodiode, a geranium, a sheet of paper — has some calculable Phi value; consciousness is qualitatively the same in all things, but in terms of intensity and capacity it increases along with the complexity, «synergy,» and ordering of cognitive information in organized wholes, and along with the richness of the information it integrates in «holographic» or «crystallized» conceptual structures.

The focus generally has been on the individual as the basic unit of analysis, with human activity explained in terms of motives, personality, and social and cognitive traits and capacities.

Surely when social relationships in the child's nexus is strong during the day and involves a lot of engagement and contact by reassuring parents, and this positive engagement is extended throughout the night, the child is getting more of that which is already good, therein further reinforcing such personality qualities as self comforting skills, confidence, self - worth, and social - cognitive engagement skills along with more positive emotional - empathic capacities altogether.

The Health Belief Model guided the formative research and supported information delivery, while Social Cognitive Theory was predominately used in shaping the intervention and in facilitating understanding of the potential interaction between overestimation of new parents capacity to cope and underestimation of potential problems.

If psychologists could help people expand their working - memory capacity or make it function more efficiently, everyone could benefit, from chess masters to learning - disabled children, says Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD, an assistant cognitive neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

We have over 40 years of longitudinal research in developmental psychology showing that safe, secure relationships support development of the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and social adaptation.

Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard staff photographer Understanding similarities in the cognitive and moral capacities of humans with animals can make humans...

Understanding similarities in the cognitive and moral capacities of humans with animals can make humans better conservationists, speakers told journalists at an event organized by AAAS» program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.

This beneficial effect was accompanied by the preservation of motor capacities, without any alteration to cognitive performance, and a reduction in the incidence of pathologies usually associated with aging, such as cancer or diabetes.

Children's cognitive development should be considered in research and practice so that programs are created to match children's abilities and developmental capacity.

That would be getting close to the number of cells in a mouse brain,» raising the distant prospect of a human brain organoid with cognitive and even emotional capacities, all while sitting in a lab dish.

They argue that they are complementing traditional computers with cognitive - computing - like abilities that offer vast savings in energy, enabling capacity to grow by leaps and bounds.

«This new evidence illuminates the central role of early experience as infants specify which signals, from an initially broad set, they will continue to link to core cognitive capacities,» said Danielle R. Perszyk, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

I lay out what science tells us: rattlesnakes have what we have in terms of emotional and cognitive capacities, and then look at rattlesnake natural history through that lens.

Some expectant parents play classical music for their unborn babies, hoping to boost their children's cognitive capacity later in life.

Just as individual computers are networked to create concentrated processing and storage capacity in the field of Cloud Computing, links in the complex cognitive processes that take place in the prefrontal cortex play a key role.

Cognitive symptoms, including deficits in long - term memory, are known to affect approximately half of individuals with MS.. This study was conducted in 70 patients with MS, who were evaluated for intellectual enrichment, verbal long - term memory, and working memory capacity.

The emphasis with robots is on their autonomy, cognitive capacities, strategy for cooperation and in the interaction with their human colleagues».

We show that both capacities become functional between the ages of 3 and 5 years, which provides empirical support for the contention that deep conceptual structures play an important role in cognitive development.

The use of the touchscreen presents a controlled setting to test cognitive capacities in animals and has already successfully been used in a number of species.

The cognitive control capacities of the subject get somewhat redirected — we don't quite understand how — toward goals and activities that are violent in a very specific way.

Outdoor exposure has long been associated with healthier cognitive functioning in children, with reduction in Attention Deficit Disorder symptoms and greater emotional capacity.

Writing in the June 2017 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with otherCognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with othercognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.

Fish exposed to higher carbon dioxide levels — which are expected to increase in the oceans for several decades — showed impaired cognitive function, learning difficulties, slowed visual capacity and altered sense of smell and sound.

Cognitive functions in middle aged individuals are related to metabolic disturbances and aerobic capacity: a cross-sectional study

This offers an unprecedented opportunity for research concerning individual variation and relationships between brain structure and function relative to development and cognitive capacity in a nonhuman primate.

The former strongly suggests that those same genes are tied to intelligence, and «could be involved in the amazing cognitive capacity of dolphins,» McGowen said.

Another studying appearing in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research found that cognitive capacity was significantly reduced whenever a smartphone is within reach, even when the phone is off.

The brain can relax and enter a contemplative state in nature settings which helps to refresh or restore cognitive capacities.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

«Given the high content of certain specific polyphenols in the juice blend, the increased antioxidant protection [in the body] after consumption of the juice blend, and the anti-inflammatory capacity in vitro, further research is warranted to evaluate whether juice blend consumption may provide reversal of risk markers in subjects with conditions such as arthritis, obesity, chronic viral diseases, cardiovascular disease and compromised cognitive function, as well as other conditions associated with chronic inflammation,» wrote lead author Gitte Jensen from Holger NIS Inc., a contract research laboratory.

Toxins overwhelm our detox capacity and build up in fat tissue, affecting endocrine function, fertility and cognitive function.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

The driver of the camper turns out to be a young man (Paul Dano) with the cognitive capacity of a 10 - year - old, and the detective in charge of the investigation (Jake Gyllenhaal) quickly rules him out as a suspect.

Do schools that succeed in raising test scores do so by improving their students» underlying cognitive capacities?

Cognitive Load Theory suggests that learners can absorb and retain information effectively only if it is provided in such a way that it does not «overload» their mental capacity.

You can include capacities like content mastery, critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, civic literacy, and other cognitive capacities necessary for success in the 21st century.

So the idea of a number of relatively independent cognitive capacities is not in itself daunting.

«Texts can be redesigned to offer engaging content, as well as critical information without overloading the cognitive capacities of those young children who acquire literacy in school,» Hiebert said.