Sentences with phrase «in cognitive challenges»

«We went from a slow, average depiction of brain activity in a cognitive challenge to a quick test that is significantly easier for children to do than spend hours under observation,» Montague said.

Not exact matches

It is this alleged reversal cognitive relativity in God that I wish to challenge... On the contrary, the fallibility and incompleteness of our knowledge consists in the drastically restricted scope of certain aspects of its relativity.

For some, it has been possible for thirty years to live in The Movement, a cognitive world impervious to both internal contradictions and challenges from the outside.

The challenge I often face in my practice is how to implement cognitive rest for concussed high school and college athletes who are engaged in regular classwork and study.

There is also mounting evidence that the very structure of the human brain is altered by the cognitive challenges inherent in learning how to parent (Rilling, 2013).

Because I'm a data nerd (note former career as a cognitive neuroscientist) and in order to keep myself accountable, at the beginning of the challenge I started a log of my daily driving (drive to get Violet from school, drive kids to soccer, drive to business meeting, drive to grocery store, drive to meet Mom... these were highly repetitive themes) and included a «DONE!»

The challenge for educators is to translate these neurobiological findings into a pedagogical program that matches manual and cognitive skills with the appropriate stage in brain development.

The maze manages to be challenging (I'm still stuck on track section 2) yet doable (Laurel has already figured out track section 2), and the cognitive psychologist in me wonders whether the lasting enjoyment of this game relates to the fact that you're so concentrated on the track as you rotate that you rarely look at the big picture — meaning, the maze always seems to look new and different when you approach it.

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

In advance of each class, families receive the TLC Weekly Newsletter with evidence - based resources supporting the developmental focus (for example, creative, fine / gross motor, cognitive, language, social / emotional, & nature development), in addition to family - friendly articles on common parenting topics such as Sleep Challenges, Mealtime Struggles, Positive Discipline, and Toilet TraininIn advance of each class, families receive the TLC Weekly Newsletter with evidence - based resources supporting the developmental focus (for example, creative, fine / gross motor, cognitive, language, social / emotional, & nature development), in addition to family - friendly articles on common parenting topics such as Sleep Challenges, Mealtime Struggles, Positive Discipline, and Toilet Traininin addition to family - friendly articles on common parenting topics such as Sleep Challenges, Mealtime Struggles, Positive Discipline, and Toilet Training.

I have noticed that Baby N is more engaged with a toy when it is activity - based and challenges him in some way, either to use his cognitive ability, memory, creativity or motor skills.

Internationally adopted children often suffer physical, cognitive and behavior challenges due to poor nutrition in their early years.

Based on a developmental understanding of the learning process and view of the child that takes human spirituality seriously, Summerfield Waldorf School offers students a comprehensive learning environment designed to challenge and support them in strengthening their cognitive, emotional and intentional abilities.

In this talk, I will review how cognitive science enriches our understanding of belief and rationality, challenges commonly discussed theories of religion and atheism, and provides a more empirically grounded account of the mind that we can utilize to better understand the causes and effects of atheism and anti-atheist prejudice.

Second, a cognitive psychology approach is needed to conduct basic science research on the mental representations and operations that may be uniquely challenged in the investigation of nanomaterials.»

Such training therefore ultimately helps us deal with current global challenges, says Anne Böckler of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science and Julius Maximilians University Würzburg in Germany.

In addition, Luthar and Cicolla cite other studies showing moms of early adolescents are likely experiencing their own developmental challenges as they begin to recognize declines in physical abilities, cognitive functioning and increased awareness of mortalitIn addition, Luthar and Cicolla cite other studies showing moms of early adolescents are likely experiencing their own developmental challenges as they begin to recognize declines in physical abilities, cognitive functioning and increased awareness of mortalitin physical abilities, cognitive functioning and increased awareness of mortality.

A study in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that handwriting tests could give polygraphs a challenge for lie detection.

The study's lead investigator, Bryan James of the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, suggests that, «Perhaps life space is an indicator of how much we are actively engaging and challenging our cognitive abilities.»

Prior studies have suggested that participation in activities that stimulate thought, new ideas, new memories, and that challenge us mentally may encourage brain health as we age and possibly reduce risk of cognitive impairment and dementia.

«However, engagement in effective and challenging brain exercises targeting specific cognitive abilities may be required to immediately improve cognitive and everyday function of older adults,» she says.

Eack says many previous ASD treatments have been more behavioral in nature, without a focus on trying to improve core cognitive challenges, and it's especially important for this age group.

In a report published in 2012 Yuan and Le evaluated the mathematics and English language arts tests offered by 17 states, rating each question on the tests on the cognitive challenge it poses to the test takeIn a report published in 2012 Yuan and Le evaluated the mathematics and English language arts tests offered by 17 states, rating each question on the tests on the cognitive challenge it poses to the test takein 2012 Yuan and Le evaluated the mathematics and English language arts tests offered by 17 states, rating each question on the tests on the cognitive challenge it poses to the test taker.

The study — published in Scientific Reports — was the first to challenge a growing trend among cognitive psychologists over the past 20 years that has attempted to show that believing in the supernatural is something that comes to us «naturally» or intuitively.

«Social interactions seem to impose important cognitive challenges that must be met by enhanced investment in certain brain regions,» he says.

The higher the neuronal variety in the brain, the higher the chances that it contains some cells that are capable of rising to these cognitive challenges.

«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for school learning, practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in classroom behavior and academic skills,» she says.

Teaching children skills such as how to cope with bullying at school, poor performance or problems with their parents, for example, in the framework of general cognitive preventative treatment and resilience training in school, may help children to better deal with emotional turmoil and challenging situations during adolescence.

He argues that developments in the cognitive sciences and behavioural ecology challenge the assumption that the pursuit of scientific knowledge demands an abandonment of values.

One of the main challenges in finding a treatment for the disease in the future is the research and development of pharmacological therapies capable of activating the Crtc1 protein, with the aim of preventing, slowing down or reverting cognitive alterations in patients.

Researchers compared the lure of drugs, specifically cocaine, in three sets of mice: The test or «trained» mice were put through a nine - day cognitive training program based on exploration, incentives and rewards while their «yoked - to - trained» counterparts received rewards but no challenges.

Because the study used cognitive stress as a challenge, it was not confounded by potential group differences in stimulant - induced changes in cerebellar radiotracer delivery.

The Kavli Foundation recently held a conversation with the new laureates to learn what led them to study memory and cognition, the challenges they faced in getting the neuroscience community to accept findings that often went against the conventional wisdom of the time, and where they see cognitive neuroscience as a field headed.

Cognitive neuroscientists gave presentations in 5 different symposia on topics ranging from human and machine cognition, to direct brain stimulation, to opportunities and challenges in the field over the next 25 years.

«As the world's population ages, cognitive frailty is our biggest biomedical challenge,» said Dena Dubal, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology, the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegeneration at UCSF and lead author of the study, published May 8 in Cell Reports.

The Bernstein Center Berlin was founded in 2004 and addresses one of the most challenging questions in computational and cognitive neuroscience:

Title: Re-evaluating the PCP challenge as a pre-clinical model of impaired cognitive flexibility in schizophrenia Author: L. Fellini et al..

Crawford, a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the International Society of Hypnosis, tackles anxiety and stress with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), which encourages us to challenge the way we think about things, which in turn fosters positive behavioural results.

Individuals in the yoga group demonstrated better overall balance control than non-yoga participants when faced with a cognitive challenge.

The disease is caused by a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain, which leads to a progressive loss of muscle control, increased disability, and cognitive and psychological challenges.

Curcuminoids in turmeric have been shown to be able to cross the blood - brain barrier and help the body reduce neuroinflammation which has been linked to cognitive challenges.

Choose one of the six categories below to learn all about each exercise in that category, including the scientific principles behind them, the cognitive skills they challenge, and the exercise task.

However, a professor from Swansea University in the UK who specialises in dietary influences on mood and cognitive function challenged the findings.

For example, it is possible that the oft - discussed challenges some students from high - performing urban schools experience in college (see ««No Excuses» Kids Go to College,» features, Spring 2013) stem in part from deficits in fluid cognitive skills.

This is especially important because the Common Core is demanding on students and asks them to learn in ways that No Child Left Behind often did not - and to develop the stamina to dig into challenging work that includes increased cognitive rigor.

This is challenge that requires deep educational innovations of global willingness that promotes intrinsic reforms from its own ontological nature of the ecology of the intelligence; and become, ultimately, in the genesis of a cognitive democracy: composed by new transcultural and transpolitical symbiosis between the different civilizations that have been formed on the earthly homeland in the last six millenniums.

(The complexity and the nature of the challenges posed to the learners tested their cognitive proficiency to tackle the situation at hand, thereby resulting in immersive learning.)

Through using our resources, your children will engage in a broad repertoire of enjoyable physical activities that provide them with exciting physical and cognitive challenges and opportunities.

Under the auspices of NBU, the Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science conducts interdisciplinary research on the human mind and seeks to further challenge and change the education system in Bulgaria.

In it, the Harvard professor of education challenges entrenched notions of cognitive development.»