Sentences with phrase «of cognitive systems»

Not only can the elimination of critical ad - hominem attacks prevent defensive, critical, and stonewalling responses from your partner, but it can also prevent flooding for both of you — the overwhelming of all cognitive systems in extreme physiological arousal.

Another mistake of interpretation that Levine makes is diminishing the importance of the interaction of cognitive systems.

Not exact matches

Other benefits include boosting cognitive function, strengthening the immune system, and reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.

«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»

At Stanford, I majored in symbolic systems, which is a combination of artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

The benefits of practicing meditation may include boosted cognitive function, a strengthened immune system, and reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety.

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.»

Cognitive systems are bringing new levels of automation and productivity to a broad range of fields, from financial services to manufacturing.

Reading this book, readers will get warnings about four mistakes that companies commonly make — blindness to interactions between systems, getting locked in to existing ways of doing business, falling victim to cognitive biases, and derailment by short - termism.

Both offer large scale systematic accounts of the nature of reality in general, largely dismissing the suggestion that the only world we can know is one whose main structure is determined by the human cognitive system and which, therefore, only exists for us.

Despite difficulties in conceptualizing and measuring the idea of broad meaning systems or broad explanatory frameworks, the studies seemed to demonstrate the importance of such cognitive perspectives.

First of all, one can differentiate among religions by comparing their cognitive assertions and belief systems, and by defining absolute religious truth in propositional statements.

So to fundamentalist structures as we've seen rise in post-war America, science is actually a threat to those kinds of systems because it gives people the cognitive tools to question the assumptions of the collective fundamentalist ideology.

That is, religious language makes cognitive claims which go beyond practical and attitudinal uses, but such claims are more modest than those of all - inclusive metaphysical systems.

Moreover, it is his argument that any truly integrated system — a brain, a computer, the Internet, but also a barometer, a photodiode, a geranium, a sheet of paper — has some calculable Phi value; consciousness is qualitatively the same in all things, but in terms of intensity and capacity it increases along with the complexity, «synergy,» and ordering of cognitive information in organized wholes, and along with the richness of the information it integrates in «holographic» or «crystallized» conceptual structures.

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.

Eating leafy green vegetables has been shown to be beneficial in the prevention of chronic disorders, stabilizing blood sugar levels, improving cognitive functions, and boost the immune system.

The SCAT takes 15 - 20 minutes to complete and computes a composite score, comprised of the Glasgow Coma Scale, a Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC) score (cognitive and physical evaluation, delayed recall), and a balance assessment score (modified Balanced Error Scoring System or BESS).

It is safe to say that all developmental scientists encourage emotional responsiveness on the part of caregivers: The back - and - forth, or serve - and - return, is crucial to brain development, cognitive and emotional development, the stress regulation system, and just authentic human connection.

Imaginative / pretend play is known for its cognitive and motor skill benefits... and it happens to be at the core of the Tot on the Pot system.

This updated volume also offers new insights on prematurity, sleep patterns, early communication, toilet training, co-sleeping, play and learning, SIDS, cognitive development and signs of developmental delay, childcare, asthma, a child's immune system, and safety.

While the choice ultimately lies with the mother, there is a strong body of evidence that indicates that breast feeding has numerous health advantages, including the strengthening baby's immune system, preventing allergies, reducing the risk for SIDS, and maybe even helping their cognitive development.

Developing a cognitive awareness of the original traumatizing experiences, and of the systems created in their wake, is a good start to the process of taking responsibility for our own healing.

Magnesium contributes to normal development of bone... Vitamin A contributes to the normal function of the immune system... Iron contributes to normal cognitive development..

Since DHA and ARA promote the development of the brain and nervous system, they believe that when a child receives breast milk, it helps to increase cognitive abilities.

In one study comparing two groups of preterm infants, researchers found that children who'd received skin - to - skin contact in the first weeks postpartum had developed, by age 10, more healthy stress response systems, improved sleep patterns, and better cognitive control (Feldman et al 2014).

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine points out that this effect has been linked to «genetic damage, reproductive defects, cancer, neurological degeneration and nervous system dysfunction, immune system dysfunction, cognitive effects, protein and peptide damage, kidney damage, and developmental effects...

Silver Alert will require that each police municipality have a system of communication to identify and locate those with cognitive impairments.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

Recently, advanced cognitive researchers have been especially focused on the capacities of abstraction, generalization, concretization / specialization and meta - reasoning which descriptions involve such concepts as beliefs, knowledge, desires, preferences and intentions of intelligent individuals / objects / agents / systems.

Adam Gazzaley, professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and executive director of Neuroscape, has developed video games designed to improve memory, attention and learning that adjust to a player's performance and focus on different cognitive systems.

Around one sixth of people in the UK aged over 75 have vitamin B12 deficiency, which when severe can lead to significant problems in the nervous system including muscle weakness, problems with walking, tiredness, and pins and needles, as well as depression and problems with memory and other important everyday cognitive functions.

«Dependence on others and geriatric illnesses, such as cognitive impairment and mobility problems, affect the majority of older emergency patients across a wide range of nations with different health systems and cultural contexts.

Our study found no evidence of benefit for nervous system or cognitive function from 12 months of supplementation among older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.

[1] At the end of the study after 12 months of supplementation, participants undertook clinical tests to assess their nervous system function including measures of muscle strength, coordination, mobility, tests of cognitive function including memory, and of psychological health.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

Kraus is a biologist who studies the auditory system, which is at the nexus of our cognitive, sensory and limbic systems.

The rush of hormones at puberty helps drive the reward - system network toward maturity, but those hormones do nothing to speed up the cognitive control network.

Then you have the cognitive system, which is much faster because of the way it's wired and also because a lot of the fiber systems are totally myelinated, which means they work much faster.

Methods employed in cognitive neuroscience include psychophysical experiments, functional neuroimaging, electrophysiological studies of neural systems and, increasingly, cognitive genomics and behavioral genetics.

But Kennedy collaborator Frank Guenther, associate professor of cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, and his colleague Jonathan Brumberg recently worked out a system that translates neural signals from Ramsey's implant into vocal form via a synthesiser that produces the corresponding sound.

Traditional antipsychotic drugs, which have been used for 40 years, are known to alleviate symptoms of the disorder in some patients by blocking receptors of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is central to the brain's reward system as well as cognitive processing like attention and problem - solving.

Peter Stern Senior Editor Education: M.D., University of Frankfurt Medical School; Ph.D., University of Heidelberg Areas of responsibility: Cellular and molecular neurobiology, cognitive neurobiology, systems neurobiology, ion channels, electrophysiology, neurological diseases, neuropharmacology E-Mail: [email protected]

Lipids are integral to the central nervous system, and as studies of statins and diabetes drugs have shown, dropping levels of some lipids can have deleterious cognitive effects.

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.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

«There is an intimate relationship between face recognition and the reward system,» said Rypma, associate professor of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Participants also underwent testing of their ability to suppress a response and their cognitive flexibility that allows them to switch back and forth between different tasks — both crucial capabilities in everyday life (employing the Delis - Kaplan Executive Function System Color - Word Interference Test).

But they are now beginning to recognize the cognitive benefits of playing video games: pattern recognition, system thinking, even patience.

A 2010 study by William Jarrold, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Davis, suggests that an automated system that analyzes speech patterns on phone calls can potentially pick up on cognitive impairment and clinical depression or determine if someone is in the very early stages of Alzheimer's.