The authors agree that some animals have extraordinary, savant -
like cognitive powers — Clark's woodpecker can locate over 1000 pine nut stashes, for example — but they say these brilliant birds are simply well adapted, and don't suffer other cognitive impairments typical in human autistic savants.
Not exact matches
We are entering a new
cognitive age where AI agents,
like IPsoft's Amelia, can overcome the limits of human -
powered live chat and be programmed to deliver superior performance.
Informational technology today is replacing human
cognitive power much
like steam
power, the internal combustion engine and electricity replaced physical
power during the industrial revolution.
Texts say that the current of energy ending in the left nostril is cooling,
like the moon; it is associated with the
cognitive senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing), with the latent
power of consciousness, and with refueling and replenishment.
My psychic
powers tell me that long days of sunbathing and sipping mimosas with my girlfriends will make it pretty much impossible for me to do any sort of
cognitive activity
like typing up words and online shopping.
Knowing when to
power down allows teachers to dial up all kinds of meta -
cognitive tasks
like reflection, analysis and critical thinking, the deep end of the learning pool.
That is, the true test of the predictive
power of «noncog» measures is not whether they are correlated with
cognitive measures (
like achievement scores), but whether they are correlated with later life outcomes.
Paul Tough's best - seller, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden
Power of Character, dramatically underscores what
cognitive psychologists
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Folks in places
like BRIC countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China] are well aware that these are potent technologies in terms of cultural authority and
power over time, and those who eschew
cognitive enhancement at any level are likely to fall behind.