Sentences with phrase «memory tests»

After seniors watched a funny video in a 2014 study, their cortisol levels dropped and they did better on memory tests.

Other studies have shown that people suffering from swollen gums and bleeding gums generally perform worse in memory tests.

Participants were also given a second type of memory test, in which they were given a list of 32 brand names and asked which ones of them had appeared in the game.

Those with the highest exposures scored on average 5.3 points lower on a short - term memory test, and 2.7 points lower on an IQ test, than children with the lowest exposures.

In one study, aging rats were fed blueberries and then given memory tests.

The researchers put the competitors and a group of control subjects into an MRI machine and asked them to perform several different memory tests while their brains were being scanned.

Researchers found that prior to treatment, mice with tumors performed worse on learning and memory tests compared to their normal counterparts.

Memory tests administered several minutes later showed that the patients retained few, if any, specific details about the clips.

In a subsequent memory test, female participants could freely recall significantly more images than the male participants.

This method is more accurate compared to memory testing alone, but less sensitive than PET scans.

If memory tests give you errors, it's very possible that your RAM — at least one of the sticks — is faulty and needs to be replaced.

For participants who had something to gain, being confronted with age stereotypes meant poorer performance on memory tests.

This theory is backed up by findings that people iron deficiency score lower in memory tests.

The women were then given a variety of memory tests.

However, after 24 months of continuous supplementation, the vitamin group scored higher on short - term memory tests.

In one study, aging rats were fed blueberries and then given memory tests.

Major league baseball's annual ritual for drafting minor leaguers is here again — with memory tests for the tappers

Before and after the two - week period, the students took memory tests that engaged the brain's hippocampus, the region associated with complex learning and memory.

They then conducted spatial memory tests in which the mice needed to navigate a series of mazes.

Among the older adults, 17 so - called super agers had performed as well on memory tests as adults four to five decades younger.

For example, while women could recall an average of 25.8 words on the verbal memory test at age 43, that figure dipped to 23.3 words by age 69.

Previous work by Kofler and his colleagues at University of Mississippi Medical Center showed that kids with ADHD did better on working memory tests when they moved more — suggesting that these kids may benefit cognitively from behaviors like squirming or fidgeting.

Blocking microglial EP2 activity significantly improved these animals» performance on two kinds of standard memory tests: one that assesses how quickly a mouse forgets that it has encountered an object before, and another that rates the mouse's ability to remember where a food reward is in a maze.

Mice that had been eating a ketogenic diet performed at least as well on memory tests at old age as they did at middle age, while mice eating the normal diet showed an expected age - associated decline.

The team also showed that blocking inputs to the amygdala from the hippocampus during memory testing impaired short - term memory performance (tested on the second and eighth days)-- but not distant memory (tested on days 15 and 22)-- whereas blocking inputs to the amygdala from the cortex showed the opposite pattern.

The response of the participants was measured behaviorally using memory tests in which they were asked, given two previously visualized elements, which one they had seen first.

In fact, individuals who did not consume dairy products regularly (fewer than twice a week), were five times as likely to fail simple memory tests.

In the current study, scientists compared the working memory of healthy young men and women (mean age 24.5) and older men and women (mean age 69.1) in a visual memory test involving multitasking.

Because of previous concerns of an own gender bias in women, the Cambridge Face Memory Test features only male faces.

When the devices were tuned up and turned on, the patients» scores on memory tests improved by up to 30 percent.

Individuals who performed worse on memory tests showed greater changes to their hippocampus.

With the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test, participants were shown a series of shapes to remember and draw later.

Afterward, outside of the scanner, there was a surprise memory test for all objects that were shown during scanning.

«This paper provides novel evidence for memory impairment in large animals that have brains similar to humans,» says Paul Buckmaster, a neurobiologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, whom Cook consulted about how to do memory tests.

«We found that the brain activity before people were presented with information predicted how well people ended up remembering that information on a later memory test,» Addante said.

On some tests, including memory tests, nearly 1 in 4 scored low enough to be considered learning disabled, or handicapped.

By two hippocampal - dependent memory tests, the Morris water maze and contextual fear conditioning, rivastigmine improved the memory... deterioration of the T2DM - AD mice (n = 8, p < 0.01).

Participants were then randomized to either a «decentring» question (Socratic questions designed to facilitate viewing moods within a wider perspective) or a control question condition, before completing the Autobiographical Memory Test again.

Very few of the game's challenges, like memory tests or matching different images, are as simple as they were in Sun and Moon.

Healthy women ranging in age from 50 to 80 who reduced their calorie intake by 30 % for three months not only lost weight, but their scores on verbal memory tests also shot up by 20 %, according to a study conducted by Agnes Floel, MD, and her colleagues from the University of Munster in Germany, who published the results in the January 27 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Extensive memory tests, meanwhile, had probed the extent of his memory loss (which was enormous).

Recent findings do suggest that healthy younger adults can improve their smarts as well: The ability of twentysomethings to solve patterning problems improved after practicing on unrelated memory tests, one University of Michigan study found.

The results highlight just how crucial it is for older adults, as well clinicians, to be aware of how ageist beliefs about older adults can affect older adults» real memory test performance.

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One example is the milkshake memory test.