Sentences with phrase «limited cognitive capacities»

Like sharks, it was thought, stingrays were «reflex machines having very acute senses but limited cognitive capacities.»

Biddy's limited cognitive capacities spring from oxygen deprivation during birth as well as lifelong deprivation of nurturing.

The right hemisphere does not speak, as a rule, and has very limited cognitive capacities.

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While the numbers may vary a bit, research from University College, London tells us that our cognitive capacity is limited to handle no more than 150 to 250 relationships.

Extraneous content takes up the limited cognitive load capacity without contributing to the learning objectives.

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.

The cognitive burden can occur when the information itself is presented in multiple forms (verbal and visual) or when presented without necessity in a complex way since the processing capacity of each channel is limited.

Maternal postnatal depression (PND) is common with a prevalence in the developed world of around 13 % 1 and a far higher prevalence in some developing world contexts.2, 3,4 There is a considerable body of evidence attesting to the fact that PND limits a mother's capacity to engage positively with her infant, with several studies showing that PND compromises child cognitive, behavioural and emotional development.5 It has proved difficult to predict PND antenatally6 and, in any event, preventive interventions have largely proved ineffective.7 Research and clinical attention has, therefore, been focused on the treatment of manifest PND.