Sentences with phrase «influence on our cognition»

Kipnis and his colleagues had previously shown that a type of white blood cell called a T cell (shown above) in the meninges is associated with significant influence on cognition and hence were curious about the role of meningeal immunity on brain function.

A lot of recent research however indicates that the positive effects extend to brain health as well, having an influence on cognition.

In this post, we will explore these new advances and how they translate to the positive influence on cognition and brainpower.

Over the week, we will explore biological and experiential aspects of fear, its influence on our cognition and emotion, and its expression in both healthy states and clinical disorders.

Not exact matches

It's a phenomenon they chalk up to «enclothed cognition» and it suggests that what we wear has a systematic influence on our psychological processes.

«This suggests that the beneficial influence of physical activity on the brain and cognition is not solely based on decreasing vascular risk factors,» says researcher Paula Iso - Markku from the University of Helsinki.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

The sex hormone testosterone exerts a substantial influence on human behaviour and cognition.

While cognitive and motivational deficits were previously thought to be distinct domains of the illness, a better understanding of how the lack of motivation influences cognitive performance might mean it is the lack of motivation, not cognition on its own, that is causing people to perform poorly on tests.

We study the processes underlying motivated cognition and their influence on self perception, social cognition and decision - making, as well as their impact on real - world outcomes.

It is based on the concept of embodied cognition that recognises the way the body influences the mind.»

Luk is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest in Toronto, researching the influence of life experience, specifically bilingualism, on higher cognition across the lifespan.

Finally, the Institute focuses on how the development of cognition can aid in the analysis and design of effective literacy, mathematics and science instruction, taking into account how the social and cultural dimensions influence learners and outcomes.

EU Read is basically just a collective body of people who want to understand, on a fundamental level, how digital reading influences cognition and retention.

The influence of cultural cognition explains why people with different outlooks and identities are forming such strong and divergent understandings of what happened despite their having almost no clear evidence to go on.

Fox argues that cultural cognition dynamics are likely to influence not only public perceptions of risk but also market - related assessments and decisionmaking within groups one might expect to be more focused on money and data than on meaning.

To bounce off a comment I wrote downstairs... it seems to me that those who are most «adept» at avoiding polarization on scientific issues are those who are most thorough in employing basic tools of accurate «perspective taking,» which in turn largely reflects an explicit intent to employ tools that mitigate the influences of motivated reasoning and cultural cognition and identity - protective cognition.

His research focuses on the interactions of emotion and cognitive control and how those interactions influence metabolic expenditures and high - level cognition.

Tables IV, V and VI show the results of the logistic regression analyses at T1, T2 and longitudinally predicting ever smoking by demographics (Step 1), anti-smoking parenting practices (Step 2), attitudes, social influences and self - efficacy (Step 3), and intention (Step 4), in order to shed light on the process by which parenting practices operate on smoking behavior and the role of smoking - specific cognitions and intention herein.

Media as social influence: racial differences in the effects of peers and media on adolescent alcohol cognitions and consumption

Social psychologists have become increasingly interested in the influence of culture on social cognition.

Cognitive Therapy, as its name implies, focuses on the role cognitions play in causing or influencing emotions.

Researchers interested in children's development have explored parenting attitudes, cognitions, and the resulting emotions (such as anger or happiness), because of their influence on parenting behaviour and on the subsequent impact of that parenting behaviour on children's socioemotional and cognitive development.

A critical review of the influence of oxytocin nasal spray on social cognition in humans: evidence and future directions.

From a scientific perspective too, more emphasis in prevention research on intrapersonal, cognitive processes is needed to experimentally test theoretical propositions regarding how cognitions influence parenting.

This study seeks to explore whether neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness moderate the influence of relationship conflict experienced in groups on changes in group members» evaluative cognitions related to teamwork quality (teamwork - related mental models).

Genetic and environmental influences on interpersonal cognitions and associations with depressive symptoms in 8 - year - old twins