Sentences with phrase «memory abilities»

Results showed variability in the cognitive processes used in prospective memory tasks, most likely due to differences in retrospective memory abilities.

«Removing the grid - cell network removes memory for places but leaves completely intact a whole host of other important memory abilities like recognition memory and memory of fearful events.»

Pictures have distinctive features that enable to distinguish pictures from words and such discriminability increase memory ability in comparison with verbal cues (Jenkins, Neale & Deno, 19 [11] 67).

So the team designed a task that tested participants» relational memory abilities.

Youssef Ezzyat, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues studied memory abilities in 25 people who had electrodes implanted in their brains as part of their epilepsy treatment.

Given that these birds rely heavily on food caches to survive winter, it seems likely that low elevation birds would be less successful at high elevations due to their lower food caching propensity and inferior memory abilities.

«There might be something to be said about practicing one's cognitive and memory abilities outside the context of the Internet,» Storm says.

[2 marks] 0 3 Outline one problem of studying internal mental processes like memory ability by conducting experiments such as that described in Question 03 above.

Short - term and long - term memory Ability to learn new skills and solve problems Attention, concentration, and distractibility Visual - motor coordination Planning, synthesizing and organizing abilities We provide assessment of adult attention — deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders, and have obtained testing accommodations for affected college students planning to take the Graduate Record Examination, Law School Aptitude Test, and Medical College Admissions Test.

Here, we found again that compromised working memory ability is a key mechanism that explains elevated ADHD symptoms in children who had been exposed to institutionalization.

Players had troublesome changes in white matter tracts — nerve cell bundles that carry messages across the brain — three months after injury, despite normal thinking and memory abilities, researchers reported in November in Neurology.

Furthermore, some symptoms seen in people with OCD, such as compulsive checking, may result from them having reduced confidence in their memory ability.

In a study looking at brain scans of people with mild loss of thought and memory ability, Johns Hopkins researchers report evidence of lower levels of the serotonin transporter — a natural brain chemical that regulates mood, sleep and appetite.

The purpose of both tests is to ensure language and memory abilities will not be affected as a result of surgery.

It's important to map the brain prior to surgery to prevent damage to language and memory abilities.

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the study was the correlation between the cognitive abilities of participants with Down Syndrome and the integrity of their white matter - those who had higher motor skill coordination and better learning and memory ability had healthier frontal white matter connections.

No special mental or memory abilities were required, in her view, although scientists disagree about the extent to which practice makes perfect (SN: 7/17/10, p. 10).

The transplants helped to replenish the brain by replacing cells lost due to apoE4, regulating brain activity and improving learning and memory abilities.

Investigators will examine the impact of the mSMT on new learning and memory abilities and measures of daily life functioning and overall quality of life, assessing both groups immediately post-treatment and at one and two years post-intervention.

Mental development may refer to changes in intellect and memory ability, as well as the development of motor skills such as speech and hand - eye coordination.

I also believe that, with the onset of devices like phones and laptops, we have lost a lot of our memory ability because things like phone numbers and addresses etc. are at our finger tips and we no longer have to retain them in our memory.