Modeled writing helps
make the cognitive processes going on inside a writer's head visible, and therefore, can help demystify the writing process.
Not exact matches
I was interested in testing whether
cognitive exercises would be effective in improving
cognitive functioning — but also whether they could be used to affect decision
making processes.
Early business partners with IBM are developing applications that will build on the Watson
cognitive software to
make digital personal shoppers smarter, to
make the medical device purchasing
process more streamlined and a health management application that rewards positive behaviors.
The constant change of scenery
makes it harder to think, because «the detection of changes in the visual stimulation results in distraction of
cognitive processing,» according to the journal NeuroReport.
Insurers are starting to
make cognitive impairment testing a part of the underwriting
process for larger life insurance cases...
Cognitive biases cause investors to
make poor decisions because of objective errors in their thinking or reasoning
process.
I conclude that Craig and the
process theist are at an impasse so that if a decision is to be
made concerning the
cognitive superiority of either the kalam or
process theistic models, this must be
made by appeal to issues in philosophical theology other than the question of the extension of the past.
Cognitive ability refers to mental
processes such as thinking, remembering, and
making decisions.
Economists, social theorists and philosophers have long analyzed the incentives of human actions, decision
making, rationality, motivation, and other
cognitive processes.
An expert panel convened by the Institute of Medicine clarified the
cognitive aging
process by
making a distinction from Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and provided recommendations to enhance
cognitive health in older adults.
«There is still more to learn about the biological
process involved with
cognitive aging, but there are interventions that can be
made now,» says Dr. Inouye.
In psychology and in artificial intelligence, it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental
processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental
processes as comprehension, inferencing, decision -
making, planning and learning (see also
cognitive science and cognitivism).
But a growing mass of empirical evidence on the
cognitive processes behind decision -
making suggests otherwise.
Although it is unlikely that rDLPFC will enter the textbooks as the seat of the law in the brain, this intriguing new study by Buckholtz underscores the role of this region in high - level
cognitive processes in general, and judgment and decision -
making in particular.
SCD and MCI are considered to be early stages of the dementia
process and are diagnosed based on the severity of
cognitive symptoms, including memory loss and thought - and decision -
making problems.
At the same time, these are
cognitive processes like many others — reasoning, remembering, decision -
making — and as such must originate in the brain.
Older people slow down to avoid
making errors, but there may not be a uniform decline in all
cognitive processes
A baby's cry not only commands our attention, it also rattles our executive functions — the very neural and
cognitive processes we use for
making everyday decisions, according to a new University of Toronto study.
Cognitive conflict
processing is important because it controls attention — one of the most basic executive functions needed to complete a task or
make a decision, notes Haley, who runs U of T's Parent - Infant Research Lab.
«The prefrontal cortex is associated with judgment, decision
making, and mental flexibility — or with the ability to change plans when faced with an obstacle,» explained Dr. Flores, «Its functioning is important for learning, motivation, and
cognitive processes.
«Many studies show the integrative function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in relatively simple
cognitive tasks, and we believe that this relatively basic
process forms the foundation for far more complex forms of behavior and decision -
making, such as norm enforcement,» said lead author Joshua Buckholtz, now an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging of Ultimatum Game players to investigate neural substrates of
cognitive and emotional
processes involved in economic decision -
making.
«
Cognitive neuroscience research is being carried out on the brain
processes that
make it possible for us to cherish our loved ones and reflect on ourselves.
Not much is known however about the
cognitive processes that come into play when people choose allies within different social settings — and whether «minimal information», such as snap judgments
made about someone based on how their face looks, is used in our assessments of suitable allies.
For example, in one experiment participants were asked a series of questions, known as the
Cognitive Reflection Test, designed to assess the degree to which System 1 intuitive
processes are engaged in decision -
making.
His evidence suggests that we use the same
cognitive process to
make sense of comics as we do to read a sentence.
«Even though we would call playing chess a higher - order
cognitive process, it is
made up of lower - order functions,» says Grafman.
I've tried to classify illusions in a way that shows the principles underlying them, starting with physical causes, moving on to physiological disturbances of neural signals, and finally to
cognitive processes — where the brain tries to
make sense of sensory signals, not always successfully.
That
process requires multiple components — some parts of the brain encode sensory information, some parts retain this information while
making a decision, and some parts decode sensory and
cognitive information in order to act upon it.
His research focuses on the psychological and
cognitive process of decision -
making on a range of issues, including the environment, earthquakes, smoking and terrorism.
We combine techniques from psychology,
cognitive neuroscience, economics, and computer science to develop and test novel models about how psychological
processes (e.g., emotions & expectations) are represented in the brain (e.g., insula, ACC, ventral striatum, & OFC) and motivate behavioral actions such as
making a decision.
Under the leadership of John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP for Research & Training, and Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, scientists have
made important contributions to the knowledge of
cognitive decline in MS. Clinical studies span new learning, memory, executive function, attention and
processing speed, emotional
processing, employment and
cognitive fatigue.
The physiology of
cognitive processes such as visual attention, spatial perception, and decision -
making.
Under the leadership of John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP of Research & Training, and Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience and TBI Research, scientists have
made important contributions to the knowledge of
cognitive decline in MS. Clinical studies span new learning, memory, executive function, attention and
processing speed, emotional
processing and
cognitive fatigue.
Research in the Brain Function Laboratory has
made fundamental contributions to understanding the neural
processes for
cognitive control that enable flexible goal directed behaviors including the resolution of conflict.
The results, which are published in the journal Cell, add to the understanding of how the brain's frontal lobes work and control behaviour.The frontal cortex of the brain plays a crucial part in
cognitive functions, including everyday mental
processes such as attention, memory, learning, decision -
making and problem - solving.
As previously discussed, this
makes caffeine a powerful Central Nervous System stimulant and has been proven to improve alertness, decision
making and
cognitive processing, especially in a time of extreme stress or fatigue.
Instead of
making hateful comments, try to give your self - talk a more positive or at least a neutral spin, a
process known as
cognitive restructuring.
«I was struck by the exceptional magnitude of similarity among friends,» Carolyn Parkinson, a
cognitive scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said, adding, «our results suggest that friends might be similar in how they pay attention to and
process the world around them... that shared
processing could
make people click more easily and have the sort of seamless social interaction that can feel so rewarding.»
However, studies have shown that speaking two languages
makes our brains work harder and uses more
cognitive processes.
Lack of sleep has been shown to produce impairments equivalent to those of alcohol intoxication, [4] and can lead to various problems, like irritability, slower
processing speed, poor decision
making, low
cognitive performance, increased risk of depression, obesity, and cardiovascular problems.
This
process makes MCT's a powerful tool to reduce inflammation, improve metabolism and enhance
cognitive function.
Cognitive load theory (how to manage extraneous and essential
processing), the use of multimedia in instruction, and the science of assessment, guide developers and go a long way toward
making truly outstanding instructional design.
On the other hand, from the Multi-Institutional and Multidisciplinary Doctorate in Dissemination of Knowledge (DMMDC), located in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), we work the triple theoretical, epistemological and methodological area which study the knowledge from their construction, translation and distribution
processes, aiming at the understanding of languages, frameworks and
processes specific to different disciplines with the aim of
making these specific bases for the construction of the ballast of understanding inter / transdisciplinary and multi-referentiality, with the commitment of production and socialization of knowledge in open perspective to dialogue between these different disciplines / sciences, and other modes of knowledge organization, in order to
make private knowledge of
cognitive or epistemic communities in public.
Trauma impacts a child's brain and
cognitive processes,
making critical thinking and problem solving more difficult and emotional outbursts more likely.
Rather, the difficulty must lie in the setting — at least in most cases: the students can not
process the text with enough
cognitive bandwidth left over to
make inferences, or they lack the vocabulary to follow the narrative, or they lack knowledge.
The findings show that the external information the teacher candidates received through the selected readings and demos, as well as the carefully structured synchronized observations, helped greatly in enhancing their understanding of VS. Because teacher candidates have limited
cognitive skills to help them
make sense of their experiences (as described by Hudson, Bergin, & Chayst, 1993), it was necessary to structure the information gathering
process so the teacher candidates could be carefully guided in their learning.
Kearsley and Shneiderman noted that engaged learning prompts active
cognitive processes such as creativity, problem - solving, reasoning, decision -
making, and evaluation.
Think Aloud A think aloud is an interactive
process in which the teacher shares her internal
cognitive thinking
process aloud as a way to support and scaffold various reading comprehension strategies such as summarizing, retelling, asking questions and
making connections (e.g. text - to - self, text - to - text, text - to - world).
To
make the hidden
cognitive processes of reading and writing more accessible to ELLs, effective teachers orally narrate their own comprehension strategies.