Sentences with phrase «of cognitive tool»

An analysis of cognitive tool use patterns in a hypermedia learning environment.

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I am a cognitive behavioral therapist and I used the tools of my craft to change my mind about what I ate, how much I ate and why I was putting it in my mouth.»

Advances in user interfaces, automation and cognitive computing are removing the barriers to adoption of big - data tools and they are now at costs that small businesses can afford.

I encourage entrepreneurs and other readers to explore the many cognitive biases that affect their lives in various ways, and find effective tools to mitigate the negative effects of those biases.

Or, as cognitive scientist Stephanie Braccini and colleagues put it in a Journal of Human Evolution study, «a strengthening of individual asymmetry [may have] started as soon as early hominins assumed a habitual upright posture during tool use or foraging».

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.

I find it's often helpful to get some sense of a concussed patient's cognitive deficits by performing a neurocognitive assessment, either using a standard written concussion assessment tool, or one of the many computer - based assessment tools.

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

Talaris Research Institute works to improve the social, emotional and cognitive development of children from the prenatal period through age five by providing parents with tools to raise their children effectively.

Significant Evidence - Based Research Findings of Infant Massage: • Supports parent - infant interaction • Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants1 • Lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Increases muscle tone • Improves sleep and awake patterns • Shortens lengths of stay in hospitals • Improves cognitive and motor development at eight months of age • Infant massage is an inexpensive tool • Can be used as part of the developmental care plan of preterm infants • Recent research shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental scores and earlier discharge2

Dianne C. Kuchlak, LCSW Attachment Therapy and Family Counseling 47 Marchwood Road, Suite 2H Exton, PA 19341 [phone] e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.attachmentdisorderhelp.com Eclectic approach, using Martha Welch - type holding (coaching the parents - no therapist holding); Theraplay - type structured play activities; Family Narrative Therapy; therapist - directed nurturing of the child by the parents; parent education to facilitate understanding of and empathy toward the child's behavior and provide effective parenting tools; and correction of cognitive distortions.

Tools of the Mind gives teachers the tools to ensure every child becomes a successful learner, developing the underlying cognitive, social and emotional skills needed to reach his or her highest potenTools of the Mind gives teachers the tools to ensure every child becomes a successful learner, developing the underlying cognitive, social and emotional skills needed to reach his or her highest potentools to ensure every child becomes a successful learner, developing the underlying cognitive, social and emotional skills needed to reach his or her highest potential.

Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and was designed for use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it is considered a «practical sideline assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across multiple domains of cognitive functioning that are susceptible to the acute effects of concussion.»

Once the first aid issues are addressed, then an assessment of the athlete's mental status can be made by athletic trainers, coaches, and sideline medical personnel using a brief cognitive screening tool such as the Standardized Assessment Of Concussion (SACof the athlete's mental status can be made by athletic trainers, coaches, and sideline medical personnel using a brief cognitive screening tool such as the Standardized Assessment Of Concussion (SACOf Concussion (SAC).

I was reasonably well at that time but I did some therapy along the lines of cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT) therapy and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a form of psychotherapy, to make sure that, should my old anxieties and depression return, I had some tools that I could use to fight them.

These tools and toys help your child grow and reach all of the other cognitive and developmental milestones.

Cognitive and creative learning is at a peak and these little ones need lots of tools to express their creative growth.

According to Arrington, the Nano / Human Interface initiative emphasizes the human because the successful development of new tools for data visualization and manipulation must necessarily include a consideration of the cognitive strengths and limitations of the scientist.

MoodKit employs the tools of a technique called cognitive behavioral therapy.

In pilot studies in France and Greece, the tool pinpointed patients with confirmed mild cognitive impairment 80 percent of the time.

Beginning in 2011, Olson and her team developed a sports concussion protocol that includes a neuro - cognitive assessment tool called ImPACT, balance testing and quality - of - life measures.

The study details a promising approach for pinpointing more athletes who play «impaired» on the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT, a computerized tool consisting of eight subtests that gauge neurocognitive performance.

«We have the tools to measure the different cognitive abilities associated with the syndrome, and thanks to Julie and Debbie we are now able to combine this with studies of the underlying genetic and neurological aspects.»

«The novelty of this study is that it provides potential neuroimaging - based tools that can be used with new patients to inform about the degree of certain neural pathology underlying their pain symptoms,» said Marina López - Solà, a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory and lead author of the new study.

Using such tools, a group in Paris led by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France has argued for several years that a hallmark of conscious visual perception is a particular type of electric wave, called P300, that occurs whenever an adult subject is attending to a consciously perceived picture or a sound.

«Young students of cognitive neuroscience are lucky to be in the midst of a new era where we have access to amazing new tools of science for eavesdropping on the population of cells with a superb temporal resolution,» Parvizi says.

«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game performance relies on specific cognitive / brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.

Genome - Seeking Stone Tools By this time — more than 100,000 years ago — Neanderthals and modern humans had advanced cognitive abilities, indicated by the complexity of their tools and hunting strateTools By this time — more than 100,000 years ago — Neanderthals and modern humans had advanced cognitive abilities, indicated by the complexity of their tools and hunting stratetools and hunting strategies.

The tool could pave the way for early interventions that prevent and treat a range of physical, psychological, social, and cognitive impairments.

New research in the field of adaptive human - robot interaction (HRI) will provide tools for the robots to support cognitive stimulation and social inclusion, which improve over time by learning from and adapting to the state of the user.

Indeed, Oliva says; «Human cognitive and computational neuroscience is a fast - growing area of research, and knowledge about how the human brain is able to see, hear, feel, think, remember, and predict is mandatory to develop better diagnostic tools, to repair the brain, and to make sure it develops well.»

Your call for caution in the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a research tool for assessing and explaining brain function was timely (19 October, p 32), particularly as it is widely used to pinpoint male - female differences in cognitive abilities and performance.

They found that the most obvious positive impact of technology on education was reflected in cognitive tools that helped show what was being studied — like a demonstration of how a cell divides, or the details of the internal organs of a medical patient.

Together with colleagues at IBM led by Scott Spangler, principal data scientist at IBM, the team initiated a research project to develop a knowledge integration tool that took advantage of existing text mining capabilities, such as those used by IBM's Watson technology (cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer.)

They included China's ambitious 15 - year plan aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive functions while developing the tools to diagnose and treat brain diseases early; it is likely to be funded with $ 1 billion over the first 10 years.

The paper offers evidence - based suggestions, which grew out of the study, for developing diagnostic tools and interventions to enhance language and cognitive development.

«The tool - using features of the H. naledi hand, in combination with its small brain size, has interesting implications for what cognitive requirements might be needed to make and use tools, and, depending on the age of these fossils, who might have made the stone tools that we find in South Africa,» Tracy Kivell at the University of Kent in England, lead author of one of the two H. naledi papers, said in a statement.

To find the answers, Phelps uses the tools and principles of cognitive neuroscience, a discipline that explores how the brain gives rise to the mind: how neuroanatomy and the electrical activity of nerve cells relate to thoughts and actions.

Although nowadays many San tribes that have used bowhunting and poison arrows in the past have abandoned them due to restrictions, modern tools and change of lifestyle in general, the familiarisation, adoption and development of poison weapons dating back to Ancient times are excellent examples of the cognitive shifts in human evolution.

The study gives cognitive scientists more tools to study the origins of emotion in the brain.

«Telling a lie successfully requires deliberately creating a false belief in the mind of the lie recipient, and ToM could provide an important cognitive tool to enable children to do so,» the researchers write.

It also is an ability that is consistently impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and for University of Iowa neurologist Nandakumar Narayanan that makes «timing» an ideal tool to study cognitive problems in PD.

Plotnik has now moved to Clayton's lab to conduct detailed comparisons of the cognitive abilities of elephants and members of the crow family — which are remarkably adept at learning how to use tools.

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Subsequent finds have pushed back the dates of humans» evolutionary ancestors, and of stone tools, raising questions about who first made that cognitive leap.

The tools «shed light on an unexpected and previously unknown period of hominin behavior and can tell us a lot about cognitive development in our ancestors that we can't understand from fossils alone,» said lead author Sonia Harmand, of the Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University and the Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre.

The project's fundamental research in cognitive science will inform the design of software and tools to help those viewing the data and make information of interest or trends easier to uncover.

The researchers hope to use the answers they find to such fundamental cognitive science questions to inform the design of new tools that will improve interactions between humans and computers, Matzen said.

Director of the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, Professor Peter Morris, said: «Functional magnetic resonance imaging is the main tool available to cognitive neuroscientists for the investigation of human brain function.

We discovered that the appearance of a type of more complexly shaped stone tool kit in the archaeological record marked an important cognitive shift when our ancestors started to think and act more like humans rather than apes.