Sentences with phrase «more complex cognitive processing»

While heavy drinkers showed less impairment than light drinkers on a rote fine motor test over time, they did not perform better on a test involving more short - term memory, motor speed, and more complex cognitive processing.

Not exact matches

«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.

These exercises use a «bottom - up» approach, targeting more basic cognitive processes early in the treatment to strengthen cognitive foundations, then moving on to training focused on more complex cognitive functions later in the program.

AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

In fact, in some respects reading is a more complex process than arithmetic, in that it involves auditory and visual discrimination as well as cognitive construction.