Sentences with phrase «into other cognitive abilities»

Learning to play an instrument brings about dramatic brain changes that not only improve musical skills but can also spill over into other cognitive abilities, including speech, language, memory, attention, IQ and even empathy.

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Given the correlations between cognitive ability and academic achievement throughout childhood and into young adulthood, it is evident that if breastfeeding is associated with one of these outcomes, it is likely to be associated with others.

Gazzaley is testing a meditation - inspired activity that may help people train themselves to minimize internal distractions, while Bavelier is interested in another type of cognitive control that likely plays into supertasking: emotional regulation, or the ability to minimize interference from anxiety and other strong, distracting emotions.

Unlike SATs, which focus on curriculum - based material, primary school CATs focus on a child's natural cognitive reasoning ability, allowing our teachers and other staff to gain an invaluable insight into pupils» ability to reason across four distinct areas: verbal, non-verbal, mathematical and spatial.

They describe emotional empathy as «the capacity to share or become affectively aroused by others» emotional states at least in valence and intensity», and they describe cognitive empathy as «the ability to consciously put oneself into the mind of another person to understand what she is thinking or feeling».