Sentences with phrase «increased cognitive capacities»

At age 6, babies who bedshared had increased cognitive capacities.

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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.

Thus, increasing neurogenesis is a potential treatment for a variety of disorders that would benefit from improving cognitive capacity.

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.

• Our heart muscle thickens • Arteries stiffen • Lung capacity reduces • Our kidney and bladder become less efficient • Our immune system declines • Body fat increases • Cognitive function reduces • Muscle tone declines • Bones lose density • Hearing and sight decline

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.

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

Clark & Mayer demonstrated that graphics must be present next to the text mentioned, as distance generates increased cognitive load, to the already knowledge - limited capacity of active memory, with the direct consequence of dissuading the learner from active learning.

Alejandro provides Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools Seminars for skills development, self - directedness, improved collaboration, and increased capacity for individuals and teams to reach greater levels of success.

Smart, purposeful engagement strategies that all teachers can use to expand students» cognitive capacity, increase motivation and effort, and build deep, enduring understanding of content.

This in turn reduces cognitive load and increases the capacity to learn and remember.

Facilitated groups daily, to assist clients in developing skills and access resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful and satisfied in living and working environment utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psycho - education and Motivational Interviewing

Aside from their very immature cognitive capacities, infants have no sense of time to help them understand separations, although their ability to tolerate longer separations from attachment figures increases with age.

Resilience research has identified several mechanisms by which protective and vulnerability factors operate to increase or decrease the probability of competence in contexts of adversity, respectively.11 As noted previously, sensitive caregiving engenders adaptive neurobiological, behavioural, and cognitive organization in early childhood.4, 8 Thus, positive relationships contribute to resilient adaptation by promoting resources, such as self - esteem, self - efficacy and coping capacities.

This group also showed significant improvements in cognitive development and increased capacity to become engaged in cognitive tasks.

The idea that parents and caregivers might proactively build the rudiments of resilience is not without precedent.67, 68 Vygotsky suggested that the role of parents, caregivers, and teachers is to work within the child's zone of proximal development so the child will learn to master skills that were previously beyond their independent ability.69 This is the theory behind both Reach Out and Read70, 71 and more recent efforts to decrease obesity by nurturing the foundational motor skills needed for an active lifestyle.72 — 74 The current challenge, then, is for pediatricians, home visitors, and early educators to collaboratively increase the capacity of caregivers and communities to nurture those rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills as they emerge developmentally.

AIM was provided to youth and their parents with the assumption that by both increasing parenting capacity and training youth in cognitive skills, escalation in drug use over time would be reduced.

The sequence in which tantrums, oppositional behavior, and physical aggression develop early; proactive aggression, the use of obscenities and vindictive behavior appear later, and blaming others, verbal aggression and insults, and homicidal threats are last to appear; reflects the children's increasing cognitive and verbal capacity.