Sentences with phrase «measures of cognitive processing»

Donepezil (Aricept) is a centrally acting reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor which has been extensively studied for its efficacy on measures of cognitive processing and attention.

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ImPACT ® demonstrated the strongest performance for detecting cognitive impairment because it measured the types of tasks that this meta - analysis analyzed as being most effective in detecting such post-concussion issues: processing speed, verbal memory, visual memory and recall.

By measuring critical flicker speeds researchers are able to assess the processing speed of the brain itself, which forms the basis of many higher cognitive functions, such as fluency or memory.

Time - series analysis of default - mode activity provides a measure of the degree to which a task engages a subject and whether it is sufficient to interrupt the processes — presumably cognitive, internally generated, and involving episodic memory — mediated by the default - mode network.

Among other telltale signs, HSPs exhibit a high measure of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), which is a personality trait that has been described as having hypersensitivity to external stimuli, high emotional reactivity, and greater depth of cognitive processing.

Proper processing of sensory inputs is important for all of these top - level cognitive functions, so may be an efficient way to both measure and intervene in a very targeted way.

With Günther Fink from the Harvard [T.H. Chan] School of Public Health, I've developed a new measure for the 0 — 3 age range that uses caregivers» reports of children's motor, language, cognitive, social, and emotional skills to capture these complex processes in fast, cost - effective ways.

The Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI)[15] is a Likert - type, 14 - item questionnaire designed to measure four components of mindfulness: cognitive, process, acceptance and non-judgmental stance.

Aber and colleagues looked at developmental trajectories of (1) teachers» reports of children's aggressive and prosocial behaviors, (2) children's reports of their own behavioral symptomatology, and (3) children's social — cognitive processes as the measures of program influence.

This scale was favoured given its focus on response tendencies, which makes it a more clinically relevant measure opposed to more pure cognitive or processing approaches to the study of emotions in BD.