Sentences with phrase «of cognitive control»

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine gender differences in the neural processes of cognitive control during a stop - signal task.

Two types of cognitive control processes play a large role: proactive and reactive.

Additionally, people didn't require high levels of cognitive control for inherent, day - to - day tasks, like walking down the street or learning new information.

In order to explore the benefits of cognitive control, many lab - based behavioral experiments require participants to complete a specific set of tasks, limiting the role of distraction.

Although strong group - level age - related performance enhancement was seen, not all children develop the same degree of cognitive control at the same pace.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

Carter uses methods from cognitive neuroscience including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and conducts basic research into the neural mechanisms of cognitive control as well as clinical and translational research in schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

At those moments, part of the cognitive control network, called the inferior frontal gyrus, was more active than it was at other times.

As an advanced grad student and then a postdoc in Cohen's pioneering Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene first began using fMRI to scan volunteers as they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problems.

At the same time, there's an increase in activity in the prefrontal cortex, the seat of cognitive control and the source of the motivation for taking actions.

This permitted the experimenters to more directly observe that merely going through an interview does not affect one's strength of cognitive control, but going through an interview while having to conceal one's sexual orientation led to significant declines.

In a test of cognitive control, researchers found that repeatedly pairing a specific face, such as this photo of Leonardo DiCaprio, with the wrong name primed participants to focus entirely on the face when identifying the person in the image.

The recovered women also exhibited increased activation of cognitive control circuitry regardless of metabolic state.

Although they also hope to expand the research beyond the aging population to examine how distractions can be beneficial for people with a range of cognitive impairments, for now they recognize that this understanding of cognitive control is a step closer to understanding the aging brain.

The neural substrates of cognitive control deficits in autism spectrum disorders.

Slow walking on a treadmill desk does not negatively affect executive abilities: an examination of cognitive control, conflict adaptation, response inhibition, and post-error slowing.

In his latest book, The Triple Focus: A New Approach to Education, he collaborates with Peter Senge to showcase the importance of cognitive control in helping students make good decisions.

An artist statement describes the technical process: «Anadol gathers data on the neural mechanisms of cognitive control from an EEG (electroencephalogram) that measures changes in brain wave activity and provides evidence of how the brain functions over time.

Incentive - related modulation of cognitive control in healthy, anxious, and depressed adolescents: Development and psychopathology related differences

Gazzaley is testing a meditation - inspired activity that may help people train themselves to minimize internal distractions, while Bavelier is interested in another type of cognitive control that likely plays into supertasking: emotional regulation, or the ability to minimize interference from anxiety and other strong, distracting emotions.

Due to experience, environment, or genes, some teens may possess relatively low levels of cognitive control, making them particularly vulnerable to neurological signals of fear, Casey suggests.

The current work extends our previous preliminary study examining gender differences in motor response inhibition during the SST (Li et al. 2006a), specifically recruiting more men and women subjects in order to examine gender differences in the component processes of cognitive control.