Sentences with phrase «in spatial abilities»

The finding that there were differences in spatial abilities between males and females (Halpern 1986) suggested several possible explanations.

Our results support the «biological - environmental - interactionist» approach of gender differences in spatial abilities.

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In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

But lately, I've wondered what that mobility and access to global goods for unlimited consumption has done to our ability to invest in our actual spatial communities and grow roots in a place.

Howard Gardner is a psychologist and professor known for developing of the theory of multiple intelligences, which points out that a person has multiple intelligences distributed in various skills, such as logical reasoning, language, music, spatial sense, kinesthetic ability, and interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.

For example, in an observational study, researchers tracked the behavior of toddlers from the age of two, and then tested the children's spatial abilities when they were four and a half.

The participants in the study took a variety of tests, which measured different aspects of their thinking abilities including memory span and verbal and spatial abilities.

Maternal diet soda consumption was associated with poorer fine motor, visual spatial, and visual motor abilities in early childhood and poorer verbal abilities in mid-childhood.

But not only the spatial distributions of titanium and iron resemble those in Cas A. Also the total amounts of these elements, their expansion velocities, and the velocity of the neutron star are in amazing agreement with those of Cas A. «This ability to reproduce basic properties of the observations impressively confirms that Cas A may be the remnant of a neutrino - driven supernova with its violent gas motions around the nascent neutron star,» concludes H. - Thomas Janka.

The bulkier white matter may be what gives men their ability to focus intently on work and tune out distractions, as well as their clear - cut superiority when it comes to spatial reasoning, says Ruben Gur, a psychologist and director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The hippocampus — a region crucially involved in forming «episodic» memories (event recall) and spatial memory (for physical navigation)-- is especially affected by aging, with accompanying declines in the ability to learn and remember; it also deteriorates early on when afflicted by Alzheimer's.

First, he inflicted injuries in two parts of infant rats» brains: the frontal lobe, which controls motor function and the ability to plan and execute tasks, and the parietal lobe, which influences spatial functions.

Recently, some researchers have proposed that in some cases, dyscalculia may arise not from a «core deficit» in the ability to compare quantities, but instead from an «access deficit» — a problem in how the brain links perceptions of quantity to number symbols such as Arabic numerals, or in how it maps numbers onto verbal or spatial processes.

The fact that experience can shape individual differences, which in turn can affect the quality of spatial and social cognition a person, suggests that growing up in certain built environments can have detrimental or beneficial effects on their cognitive ability.

To test whether the hippocampus could actually form spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.

The real benefits, he says, will come from the ability to display spatial relationships in a way we can't do today: Using 3D visualizations instead of 2D ones, for example, could help physicians facing complicated procedures.

Falk reasoned that the extra neurons of men and rhesus males are most likely dedicated to visual - spatial skills, such as map reading, distinguishing between left and right, and mentally rotating figures — all abilities useful for navigating uncharted territories in search of mates.

We investigated spatial imminence of threat by developing an active avoidance paradigm in which volunteers were pursued through a maze by a virtual predator endowed with an ability to chase, capture, and inflict pain.

Specifically, they are required in processes in which mammary cells lose their normal polarity, or spatial orientation; and in which the cells lose the ability to commit preprogrammed suicide, or apoptosis, upon detection of gross abnormalities.

All groups who exercised saw some benefit, and those who exercised more saw more benefits, particularly in improved visual - spatial processing — the ability to perceive where objects are in space and how far apart they are from each other.

The hippocampus, a brain structure known to play a role in memory and spatial navigation, is essential to one's ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people — a phenomenon known as recognition memory — according to new research from the departments of Neurosurgery and Psychology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

ALMA is a telescope suitable for analyzing molecules in galaxies because of: 1) a high sensitivity to detect faint radio signals; 2) a high fidelity imaging capability to image actual gas distributions; 3) the ability to observe wideband multiple wavelengths simultaneously, and high spatial resolution.

The scholars conducted the research in part because there had never been a comprehensive study to examine whether humans» «spatial localization» ability — that is, whether we can immediately and accurately perceive where an object is located — is as well - honed as we believe it to be.

A key to a mechanistic understanding is the ability to observe membrane organization with a spatial resolution on the molecular level, a temporal resolution in the micro-second range and sensitivity down to the single molecule without disturbing the system (noninvasive).

Spatial learning ability of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in relation to inferred ecology and ancestry.

«In fact, the particular regions and connections we found support an emerging body of neuroscience evidence indicating that intelligence depends on the brain's ability to integrate information from verbal, visual, spatial and executive processes,» he said.

With its high - definition resolving power, HDST has the amazing ability to take an optical image or spectrum at about 100 - parsec spatial resolution or better, for any observable object in the entire Universe, no matter where a galaxy lies within the cosmic horizon.

«Warning signs are changes in mood or personality, withdrawal from work or social activities, decreased or poor judgment, misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps, new problems with words both in speaking and writing, trouble understanding visual or spatial relationships, confusion with time or place, difficulty completing familiar tasks, challenge in planning or solving problems and memory loss,» according to The Alzheimer's Association.

In monkeys, deficiency of male hormones impairs the development of spatial perception (which, in humans, is normally more acute in men than in women), of learning ability and of visual discrimination tasks (such as would be required for readingIn monkeys, deficiency of male hormones impairs the development of spatial perception (which, in humans, is normally more acute in men than in women), of learning ability and of visual discrimination tasks (such as would be required for readingin humans, is normally more acute in men than in women), of learning ability and of visual discrimination tasks (such as would be required for readingin men than in women), of learning ability and of visual discrimination tasks (such as would be required for readingin women), of learning ability and of visual discrimination tasks (such as would be required for reading.)

In monkeys, deficiency of male hormones impairs learning and the ability to perform visual discrimination tasks - such as would be required for reading - and retards the development of spatial perception, which is normally more acute in men than in womeIn monkeys, deficiency of male hormones impairs learning and the ability to perform visual discrimination tasks - such as would be required for reading - and retards the development of spatial perception, which is normally more acute in men than in womein men than in womein women.

Back in 2004, a study by Tisa Lach and Lynae Sakshaug had already shown that middle school students made significant improvements in algebraic reasoning, spatial sense, and problem - solving abilities after playing biweekly sessions of popular tabletop games such as Connect Four, Mastermind, Rush Hour, and Guess Who.

Most importantly, research shows that video games sharpen visual discrimination skills, spatial thinking, and the ability to visualize and interact with 3D objects — good predictors of not only academic achievement but future engagement and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — the STEM fields.

Three - fifths of «average» children have a propensity for or deficit in verbal, quantitative or spatial abilities.

Pupils who lack verbal skills, but have high spatial ability perform less well in GCSEs, research shows.

Often lost in the discussion of girls» advantages is the reality that boys outperform girls on tests of visual and spatial abilities, and do at least as well on tests of mathematical skills at this age, and these differences widen as they advance in school.

Spatial: Spatial thinkers tend to have good visual memory and an artistic eye or ability, especially in multiple dimensions.

«Spatial intelligence refers to the ability to represent the spatial world internally in your mind - the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatialSpatial intelligence refers to the ability to represent the spatial world internally in your mind - the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatialspatial world internally in your mind - the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatialspatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatialspatial world.

The CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test) assesses students» abilities in reasoning and problem solving using verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal (spatial)Abilities Test) assesses students» abilities in reasoning and problem solving using verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal (spatial)abilities in reasoning and problem solving using verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal (spatial) symbols.

Iowa / CogAT Level 12 / D Combo assess both the students» achievement in Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Language, Math, Social Studies, and Science and assess students» abilities in reasoning and problem solving using verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal (spatial) symbols.

Iowa / CogAT Level 10 / B Combo assess both the students» achievement in Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Language, Math, Social Studies, and Science and assess students» abilities in reasoning and problem solving using verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal (spatial) symbols.

Assess students» abilities in reasoning and problem solving using verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal (spatial) symbols.

As a parent of kids who are brilliant at mathematics, spatial thinking, technology and creativity, please please fight grammar streaming in schools as these really clever kids end up working in lower ability groups.

Technology's ability to capture data and present them in multifaceted visual forms ensures a growing need to capitalize on spatial intelligence, says geospatial extension specialist Shannon White.

Other studies found improvement in hand - eye coordination, pattern discrimination, reaction time, and spatial visualization abilities.

Assessing one's spatial ability is an important stage in the diagnosis of dementia.

In her own words, she «took to abstraction like a feather to wing» rapidly adopting (and mastering) her teacher's incisive, whiplash drawing style and his ability to evoke complex spatial architectures while maintaining the integrity of the picture plane.

With approximately one hundred works, from his paintings of consumer products in the early 1920s to the work left on his easel at his death in 1964, the exhibition will highlight Davis's unique ability to transform the chaos of everyday life into a structured yet spontaneous order that communicates the wonder and joy that can be derived from the color and spatial relationships of everyday things.

In other words, the bridging factor in the two bodies of old and new work is the coherent continuity of Kahn's ability to control tonalities as spatial devices, and to use color as a tonal meanIn other words, the bridging factor in the two bodies of old and new work is the coherent continuity of Kahn's ability to control tonalities as spatial devices, and to use color as a tonal meanin the two bodies of old and new work is the coherent continuity of Kahn's ability to control tonalities as spatial devices, and to use color as a tonal means.

The development of methods and protocols that effectively capture spatial and temporal variation in GHG fluxes is crucial for improving our ability to compare «apples to apples» between different reservoir systems.

The General Circulation Models (GCM) driving the regional models chosen are rated in the top 25 %, according to a performance evaluation of CMIP5 models carried out by Perez et al. (2014), in their ability to reproduce spatial patterns and climate variability over the north - east Atlantic region, that is the most influential on the European weather patterns.