Sentences with phrase «on cognitive learning»

Although the Common Core Standards begin to recognize more than linguistic, math and science learning, we are still largely, and narrowly, focused on cognitive learning alone.

These almost always focus on cognitive learning or raising awareness: What should the learners know upon completion?

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In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

The latest science has already shown that it's possible to reverse cognitive decline in the middle - aged brain, and it's possible to rewire your brain as an adult through practice and «deliberate performance,» and learn new skills on the fly.

For me, the research that's relevant is on learning, both cognitive learning and especially emotional learning.

Some observers would say that theological education has been too much focused on the cognitive dimension of learning as opposed to personal and social transformation — doing and feeling.

In recent work on theological education the constructive suggestions usually return or remain limited to questions of how to order cognitive learning.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

Activities in Waldorf early childhood education take into consideration the age - specific developmental needs of young children, from a focus on will - oriented physical activity in the first three years, then on imaginative play in the middle years of early childhood, and later a more cognitive approach to learning after the child enters school.

Playing on the floor is the the best place for a baby to learn and to stimulate his visual, sensory, gross, fine and cognitive skills.

Read on for some of the cognitive milestones that you can expect from your little one as she starts to learn about her world.

As they grow older, barring a physical or learning disability, children will be expected to progress in cognitive and physical development, be ready to take on more responsibility, have more self - control and be able to interact socially with peers and be figuring out how to understand more complex concepts.

It is in opposition to behavioralist or cognitive schools of learning, which suggest that learning happens on a subconscious level.

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.

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

Lack of sleep in children has also been associated with health problems ranging from obesity to mood swings, as well as cognitive problems that can have an impact on a child's ability to concentrate, pay attention, and learn in school.

Weeks and months before baby books tell you your little on learns «cause and effect», she'll begin on day 1 of life to explore this primary cognitive concept through incidental interactions with the world.

While you're enjoying this one - on - one time, she'll learn how to identify you by sight and sound at the same time you're helping her to develop motor and cognitive skills.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

In 2003, companies that promote cognitive learning used lead paint, children's clothing burned faster than newspaper, nightlights exploded, and crib mobiles leaked battery acid on infants.

and Focus On Transition (two therapeutic programs for individuals with aphasia and cognitive - linguistic deficits), Hear It, Say It, Learn It (a children's program for developing language and literacy), and co-author of a best - selling textbook Acquired Language Disorders: A Case - based Approach, in its 2nd edition.

Based on a developmental understanding of the learning process and view of the child that takes human spirituality seriously, Summerfield Waldorf School offers students a comprehensive learning environment designed to challenge and support them in strengthening their cognitive, emotional and intentional abilities.

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.

Scientists are starting to learn what is going on in the human brain during these complex cognitive feats, and some of the findings are coming from unexpected sources.

«Understanding how a healthy brain works is important in terms of knowing its impact on cognitive functions such as memory, learning and in this case attention,» Noudoost said.

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.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2000, Maye spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in New York, where she began conducting experiments on how babies learn.

Early in her graduate school career at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Maye (pictured right) decided she wanted to focus on psycholinguistics, a relatively new branch of linguistics that draws on cognitive sciences, including psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, speech and hearing, and neural imaging to explain how humans learn language.

A new treatment, contextual cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT), is particularly promising, as it focuses on accepting pain that can not be cured, and learning to live life to the full amid the pain.

Adults can't learn to speak new languages without an accent, can't take up piano in their fifties then go on to play Carnegie Hall, and often suffer strokes that lead to permanent paralysis or cognitive deficiencies.

«These results demonstrate that pain responses can be shaped by learning that takes place outside conscious awareness, suggesting that unconscious learning may have an extensive effect on higher cognitive processes in general,» says Karin Jensen.

A drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease could offer clues on how drugs might one day be able to reverse brain changes that affect learning and memory in teens and young adults who binge drink.

The victims of cerebral infarcts that lose a part of the mobility of their body undergo physiotherapy treatments, while the therapies based on the training of attention are reserved for patients with cognitive disorders such as learning or memory difficulties.

Was it a rational decision learned in childhood, or was it — as Harvard evolutionary biologist and cognitive neuroscientist Marc Hauser claims — based on instincts encoded in our brains by evolution?

It's all part of what IBM calls the cognitive systems era, in which computers aren't just programmed, but also perceive what's going on, make judgments, communicate with natural language, and learn from experience.

For example, in a study of fifth - graders published in Applied Cognitive Psychology in 2011, lead author Hailey Sobel of McGill University reported that students who learned definitions of vocabulary words on a spaced - out schedule remembered three times as many definitions as students who spent the same amount of time learning the material in a single session.

One part of the study was based on cognitive science research about how people learn from diagrams.

The effect of aging on cognitive processes such as learning, memory and logical reasoning have so far been studied almost exclusively in people.

Many of our everyday cognitive functions such as learning and memory rely on normal communication between the two regions of the brain - the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

Investigating further, Wieman learned what cognitive scientists have proven repeatedly in recent years: Humans don't learn concepts very well by having someone blab on about them.

In these test settings, various science curricula were revamped to get them to jibe with the latest cognitive science research on effective learning, which points to more interactive approaches that include immediately and repeatedly putting new information to use.

«The craft of popular moviemaking is based on hard - won, practice - forged, psychological principles that have evolved over a long time, fitting stories and their presentation to our cognitive and perceptual capacities,» adds Armstrong, who suggests that professional psychologists can learn much from studying the structure of filmmakers» products.

Dolphin communication is suspected to be complex, on the basis of their call repertoires, cognitive abilities, and ability to modify signals through vocal learning.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

John DeLuca, PhD, VP of Research & Training chairs Workshop 6: Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional activity.

The grants will focus on Alzheimer's disease and on age - related cognitive change — changes in thinking, learning, and memory that can come with growing older.

This subanalysis was based on the Foundation's MEMREHAB Trial, which provided the first Class I evidence for the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in MS. (Chiaravalloti N, et al: An RCT to treat learning impairment in MS. Neurology 2013 81 (24): 2066 - 72 (doi: 10.1212 / 01.

If simply learning that one is biomarker positive causes a person to perform worse on cognitive testing, then primary outcomes data of AD trials may not be valid.

So we'd like to learn much, much more about how they work, and based on those discoveries, determine if it is possible to make drugs that could help people with learning, cognitive enhancement, and also possibly with Alzheimer's.