Sentences with phrase «number of cognitive processes»

In fact, creativity is thought to involve a number of cognitive processes, neural pathways and emotions, and we still don't have the full picture of how the imaginative mind works.

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It requires people to use a number of cognitive skills at once — including processing speed, sustained attention, and visual skills.

One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.

Using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods, he and his colleagues examine how children develop foundational number - processing abilities, such as the ability to judge which of two numbers is larger or to estimate numbers» position on a number line; why these basic cognitive processes sometimes go awry; and how to help children with serious deficits in numerical processing.

A number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

«A number of studies have assessed the effects of binge drinking in young adults during different tasks involving cognitive processes such as attention or working memory,» says López - Caneda.

The attractiveness of conspiracy theories may arise from a number of cognitive biases that characterize the way we process information.

At age 16, the participants were evaluated on a simple test of cognitive processing speed — reaction time in pressing keys corresponding to numbers (1 to 4) flashed on a screen.

This observation coincides with the theory of neuronal recycling, developed by Stanislas Dehaene, and which stipulates that advanced cultural cognitive processes, such as mathematics, recycle ancient evolutionary brain functions, such as a sense of number, space and time.

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.

CSE and CRESST also publish a number of technical reports, including «Monitoring and Improving a Portfolio Assessment» (1995, $ 4.50), «Cognitive Analysis of a Science Performance Assessment» (1995, $ 5), and «Using Group Collaboration as a Window into Students» Cognitive Processes» (1995, $ 2.50).

A number of whom seem to be more interested in the cognitive processes of human thinking and in the way that belief systems and the way that information is processed end up being more powerful motivators than the facts in themselves.

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Children's cognitive development (covering their memory span, learning capacity and cognitive processing speed) is proceeding rapidly as they begin to form basic concepts of time, number and logic.