Sentences with phrase «of cognitive power»

«Any new rules, circuits, or understanding of how the brain works will allow us to design neuromorphic machines that are much more powerful in terms of cognitive power, energy efficiency, and packaging,» Curioni said.

These semantic tricks are not simply oddities of a few isolated cults, but the very source of the cognitive power of cults, the means by which cults concentrate power at the top of the pyramid.

At the beginning of this article, I quoted Polanyi's belief that it is necessary to return to St Augustine «to restore the balance of our cognitive powers.»

This is perhaps not so surprising since in his great work, Personal Knowledge, he tells us that «we must now go back to St Augustine to restore the balance of our cognitive powers.»

According to Catholic teaching, man in fact possesses a plurality of cognitive powers (Denzinger 1795 etc.).

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Essentially, it gives that professional permission to call specific trusted individuals (usually, your powers of attorney and / or a family member), if they have noticed some diminishment in your physical, cognitive, mental or psychological capacity.

If your IQ score isn't the be-all-and-end-all of brainpower and your activities and attitude can influence how intelligent you are on a daily basis, then you are just as able to lower your cognitive powers as you are to increase then.

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.

Herzer claims the document that transferred this power should be nullified because Redstone's cognitive abilities have deteriorated to the extent that he isn't competent to make those kinds of decisions.

We are entering a new cognitive age where AI agents, like IPsoft's Amelia, can overcome the limits of human - powered live chat and be programmed to deliver superior performance.

It is certainly with this in mind that Aristotle asserts that sight is superior to touch in purity (NE 1176a1) and, as a cognitive power, is the most perfect of all the senses (NE 429a3, M 98a21).

But Gilbert helps me suspect anew that the power of the psychological immune system we spy through the lens of cognitive science may be only the first level of what we may glimpse if we open ourselves to the resources that Mark and Paul tell us come from beyond.

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Among the many interests and modalities that she brings to her work, Christine has advanced training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Anxiety & Depression, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness Meditation, Trauma - Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy — Level I. For many years, she participated in Dr. Tina Payne Bryson's professional study group on Interpersonal Neurobiology, a field that deeply informs her work and belief in the healing power of relationship and connection.

Noting — as I often have on this blog — that cognitive deficits make children especially vulnerable to the persuasive power of advertising, Simon and Linn object to any use of cartoon characters and other standard tactics for marketing to kids, even for objectively healthy foods such as this:

But a growing body of research indicates that early nutrition has the power to improve cognitive skills that may make a difference in the classroom.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

And, they say, it could turn out that the moon has power over other aspects of our behavior as well, such as our cognitive performance and our moods.

This power of belief over evidence is the result of two factors: cognitive dissonance and the backfire effect.

The field of nutritional psychiatry is taking off as scientists home in on the ingredients for good mental health and cognitive staying power

Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.

While they wouldn't be mistaken for Lilliputian - sized brains, some of their fine - grained features bear a remarkable resemblance to the human cerebral cortex, home to our memories, decision making and other high - level cognitive powers.

A study at Oregon State University indicates that both a high - fat and a high - sugar diet, compared to a normal diet, cause changes in gut bacteria that appear related to a significant loss of «cognitive flexibility,» or the power to adapt and adjust to changing situations.

Scientists and philosophers traditionally place our higher cognitive powers in a realm distinct from that of our senses and actions, but, Aziz - Zadeh observes, the faculties «are intrinsically tied to the flesh.»

Yet the cognitive power on display here can trigger chills.Principia marks the dawn of modern physics, beginning with the familiar three laws of motion («To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction» is the third).

A paper published in the December 1999 IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering describes a NavChair Assistive Wheelchair Navigation System (pdf) developed at the time to reduce the «cognitive and physical requirements of operating a power wheelchair for people with wide ranging impairments that limit their access to powered mobility.»

Although the study was not powered to detect an effect of treatment on cognition (findings to be reported separately), in a post hoc analysis, we noted that final cognitive test scores were correlated to the rate of atrophy.

He revolutionized the assessment of brain function by harnessing the power of computerized cognitive testing, and is now the chief scientific officer at Cambridge Brain Sciences — a platform for tracking and optimizing cognitive performance.

This piece is adapted from Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power, to be published on March 6th, 2018 by Avery / Penguin Random House.

Our research extends beyond the concerns of preventing and mitigating Alzheimer's, into maintaining vital cognitive power over a lifetime.

The scientists, medical professionals, and athletes on the ground floor of the keto movement can barely contain their excitement over its power to reliably reduce excess body fat, enhance neurological function, protect against diseases of cognitive decline, and slow the rate of inflammation and oxidative damage that are the essence of the (accelerated) aging process.

Of course, the benefits will be different depending on the athlete but in general, athletes usually experience one or more of the following when they become metabolically efficient: 1) decreased body weight, 2) decreased body fat, 3) improved and sustained energy levels and mental alertness throughout the day, 4) improved recovery, 5) improved cognitive function, 6) improved power to weight ratio, 7) improved running velocity, and 8) better sleeOf course, the benefits will be different depending on the athlete but in general, athletes usually experience one or more of the following when they become metabolically efficient: 1) decreased body weight, 2) decreased body fat, 3) improved and sustained energy levels and mental alertness throughout the day, 4) improved recovery, 5) improved cognitive function, 6) improved power to weight ratio, 7) improved running velocity, and 8) better sleeof the following when they become metabolically efficient: 1) decreased body weight, 2) decreased body fat, 3) improved and sustained energy levels and mental alertness throughout the day, 4) improved recovery, 5) improved cognitive function, 6) improved power to weight ratio, 7) improved running velocity, and 8) better sleep.

Acetyl - L - Carnitine has been shown in clinical studies to benefit cognitive ability, memory and mood as it helps supply the brain with more energy by improving efficiency of mitochondria, brain cell power stations.

Texts say that the current of energy ending in the left nostril is cooling, like the moon; it is associated with the cognitive senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing), with the latent power of consciousness, and with refueling and replenishment.

According to one researcher, the sheer power of the brain - protective food used in the study granted the subjects the cognitive benefit of being 11 years younger.

Some research has shown that 100g a day can boost brain power, speeding up cognitive performance, memory and even slowing the ageing process of the skin.

My psychic powers tell me that long days of sunbathing and sipping mimosas with my girlfriends will make it pretty much impossible for me to do any sort of cognitive activity like typing up words and online shopping.

The power is having some augmented reality glasses, and these glasses have somehow that cognitive intelligence to tell the operator what screws they have to press, in what order they have to do a process... in the end, it comes to help, because the human being is fatigued or does not have their best day, and if you are doing some kind of delicate operation, having help, a counselor who is saying «First tighten the screw A, once it is closed, you go to B...»

A few weeks ago Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, wrote a belated review of Paul Tough's 2012 best - seller, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character.

Knowing when to power down allows teachers to dial up all kinds of meta - cognitive tasks like reflection, analysis and critical thinking, the deep end of the learning pool.

That is, the true test of the predictive power of «noncog» measures is not whether they are correlated with cognitive measures (like achievement scores), but whether they are correlated with later life outcomes.

In his most recent book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, Paul Tough hypothesizes that a child's success depends less on pure cognitive ability and more on the development of a collection of qualities referred to as non-cognitive skills.

The power of formative assessment lies in its double - barreled approach, addressing both cognitive and motivational factors.

How experts think, the power of framing, the miracle of attention, the weird world of cognitive biases and more...

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By seeing black men in positions of power and influence in close proximity, a cognitive dissonance can occur that challenges negative notions of black men honed by the media and bias - forming conversations.

Paul Tough's best - seller, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, dramatically underscores what cognitive psychologists like... Read More»

In an ill - structured domain such as literacy teaching, Rand Spiro has argued for the importance of cognitive flexibility and for the power of case - based learning, specifically using mini-cases that, through computer technology, can be juxtaposed to illustrate complexities of teaching.

This may account for part of its efficacy (power to be able to produce an effect) in treating cognitive dysfunction.

The fact that young adult temperament and cognitive measures had more predictive power is not entirely surprising, because they were collected much closer to the time of actual outcome.

The first is referred to as the Great Wave and was an inexplicable chain of natural disasters, and the second is a pandemic that turned humans into «the dissolved» — infected beings with special cognitive powers whose bodies will eventually dissolve into blood.