Sentences with phrase «on cognition tests»

UA researchers considered survey respondents» self - reports of physical health and quality of life, as well as their scores on cognition tests measuring verbal fluency, word recall and delayed word recall.

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Not only did the experimental group score better on tests of their cognition compared with the control group, but the improvement was twice as great as the one that had previously been shown for the antidementia drug donepezil (brand name Aricept).

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

It saw no significant effect on cognition, but two different batteries of tests assessing daily living skills both showed significant improvement.

«The effects of young blood on cognition have not been replicated by an independent group, and there has never been a test with a mouse model of Alzheimer's.»

Shaw and her colleagues briefly captured and banded 20 adult birds, which they trained to carry out six different tests to measure various skills thought to be linked to specific types of animal cognition (defined as the ability to acquire, process, and act on information about the environment).

The study, published recently in the journal Memory & Cognition, is based on a series of reading - and - recall experiments in which one group of students is told they will be tested on a selection of written material, and another group is led to believe they are preparing to teach the passage to another student.

But over the past 15 years, the field of canine cognition has exploded as scientists have shown that dogs can outsmart chimpanzees in some tests and can even shed light on the evolution of our own intellect.

In an effort to examine this possible connection, researchers compared performance on cognitive tests over time for 706 participants (432 with normal cognition; 274 AD dementia) from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center database.

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

While cognitive and motivational deficits were previously thought to be distinct domains of the illness, a better understanding of how the lack of motivation influences cognitive performance might mean it is the lack of motivation, not cognition on its own, that is causing people to perform poorly on tests.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit tested whether learning to read by sounding out words is more effective than focusing on whole - word meanings.

«This survey is an important step in our knowledge of how behavioral neurologists apply single - domain cognitive testing in their practices,» said A.M. Barrett, MD, of Kessler Foundation, director of the subgroup on spatial cognition tests.

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.

Third, two other randomised controlled trials of homocysteine - lowering treatments have shown effects on cognition: a trial in which normal participants with baseline tHcy levels > 13 µmol / L were treated with folic acid (0.8 mg / d) for three years showed a beneficial effect on several cognitive tests [44].

However, as is true of most biological mechanisms, context must be taken into account: acute administration of insulin improves performance on tests of memory and cognition, but chronically elevated insulin levels have the opposite effect.4, 42,43 This is akin to the pathology of T2D, in which normal, acute doses of insulin help regulate glucose uptake, but chronically elevated levels lead to insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, and the attendant inflammation and vascular damage.

It's hard because the... I'll tell you where I get caught on this in terms of any sort of neuroplasticity, any sort of cognition research, even memory recall Stroop test is there's a lot of research out there but they don't divide fast with adequate hydration away from the fast that include water.

On the other hand, individuals consuming Alpha Brain as prescribed (treatment group) showed increased neuropsychological abilities confirmed through short / long term memory and basic brain cognition test results.

-- A Commentary by Howard Gardner Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs professor in cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the «father» of multiple intelligences theory, weighs in on the issue of high - stakes testing in this commentary.

Five experimental studies are proposed: The first set of studies (1 - 3) in this proposal test the impact of two types of cognition on children's generosity: numerical cognition and counterfactual reasoning.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

Researchers from Royal Holloway and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit tested whether learning to read by sounding out words is more effective than focusing on whole - word meanings.

The emphasis on standardized testing that has permeated U.S. schools for the last couple of decades may partially account for this neglect of meta - cognition.

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, but the correlations among them are far from perfect.

In considering his argument, the work of Kahan and others on cultural cognition, and the paralyzed polarization of environmental politics, the next step, of course, is to test fresh paths toward an energy menu that works for the long haul.

Not to deny by any means the importace of thinking about the US vs. UK differences — in public opinion & in how public opinion bears on political decisionmaking — but we did use our framework to test how cultural cognition, measured w / our scales, affects English (yes, English; not entire UK) public engagement with informaton on climate change.

the cultural cognition project does controlled experiments to test the effect of ideology on how people evaluate «expert» opinions.

To date, however, no studies have directly tested the impact of cultural cognition on judges.

Such practice effects are commonly reported in neuropsychological testing and must be taken into account in the design of studies focusing on cognition and on repeated testing in a clinical context.

Our findings are not necessarily generalisable, but do include four LMICs on three continents and therefore make an important contribution to understanding associations between improved water, improved sanitation and performance on a test of cognition.

In addition, a model is tested to analyze the effects of anti-smoking parenting practices on lifetime smoking and the mediating role of smoking - specific cognitions.

The therapist helps the patient test hypotheses based on negative cognitions with the aim of disproving them.

In a series of experiments run by researchers at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Warwick, low - income people who were primed to think about financial problems performed poorly on a series of cognition tests, saddled with a mental load that was the equivalent of losing an entire night's sleep.

From a scientific perspective too, more emphasis in prevention research on intrapersonal, cognitive processes is needed to experimentally test theoretical propositions regarding how cognitions influence parenting.

Ample research with full - term children indicates that those from more advantaged backgrounds outperform those from less advantaged backgrounds on tests of EF, despite no obvious SES differences in many other domains of cognition (Noble, Norman, & Farah, 2005).

The relationship between cognition and action: Performance of children 3 1/2 — 7 years old on a Stroop - like day - night test

However, we tested for differences in the number of boys and girls in the social anxiety trajectory groups, checked for gender differences on the cognition, social competence and temperament variables and controlled for gender in the analyses differentiating social anxiety trajectory groups on the basis of these variables.