Sentences with phrase «measured on cognition»

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They fall behind on measures of cognition and language development, and they have executive - function problems, too: They struggle with attention regulation; they are perceived by their teachers and parents as inattentive and hyperactive; they have trouble focusing in school.

«We measured many aspects of social ability and found significant treatment effects on social cognition, social interaction and social communication in youth with autism,» Corbett said.

Shaw and her colleagues briefly captured and banded 20 adult birds, which they trained to carry out six different tests to measure various skills thought to be linked to specific types of animal cognition (defined as the ability to acquire, process, and act on information about the environment).

«The findings suggest that it may be justified to go beyond the handgrip and to include the upper and lower body when measuring muscle strength, as this may better reflect the association between muscle strength and cognition,» says Early Stage Researcher Heikki Pentikäinen, the first author of the article, who is currently preparing a PhD thesis on the topic for the University of Eastern Finland.

The attendees developed a list of top research priorities and a research agenda for exercise in solid organ transplant, which includes the need to conduct large multicenter intervention studies, standardize measures of physical function in clinical trials, examine the benefits of novel types of exercise, and assess the effects of exercise on measures such as immunity, infection, and cognition.

Nevertheless, ONTRAC's effects on cognition and behavior, judged by different measures, had the same modest effects as Akili's ADHD group, and persisted when measured six months later.

The researchers, who released their findings on the study on moral judgment in a recent issue of Cognition, created an implicit task that measures moral judgment without self - report, called the moral categorization task.

UA researchers considered survey respondents» self - reports of physical health and quality of life, as well as their scores on cognition tests measuring verbal fluency, word recall and delayed word recall.

Based on chocolate's support for cognitive function, he decided to see if chocolate consumption was related to another measure of cognition — Nobel Prize awards per capita.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

A 2012 article titled «Physical Activity Strategies for Improved Cognition: The mind / body connection,» referenced a study on Australian elementary students that found «across age and sex, academic ratings were significantly correlated with measures of physical activity» and that «it can be concluded that daily quality physical education appears to increase the rate of learning and is positively related to academic achievement.»

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, but the correlations among them are far from perfect.

Not to deny by any means the importace of thinking about the US vs. UK differences — in public opinion & in how public opinion bears on political decisionmaking — but we did use our framework to test how cultural cognition, measured w / our scales, affects English (yes, English; not entire UK) public engagement with informaton on climate change.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Whilst emotional and behavioural distress was experienced by children who had lost both parents, these children were found to function better than accompanied refugee children on measures of cognition and language.

An analysis was conducted on the pre - and post-Symptom Checklist scores, measuring the child's improvement on six symptom categories (behavior, emotion, cognition, relationships, physical, and moral / spiritual).

They also scored more highly on two other measures of cognition (dysfunctional attitudes and negative automatic thoughts).