Sentences with phrase «on cognitive tasks»

Background television exposure has been linked to lower sustained attention during playtime, lower quality parent - child interactions, and reduced performance on cognitive tasks.

Children of depressed mothers also are more likely to have insecure attachment with their mothers, experience high social withdrawal, have poor communication and language skills, perform poorly on cognitive tasks, and show more disruptive behaviors across developmental periods.2 Particularly among low - income families, financial difficulties and related resource scarcity increase the detrimental impacts of maternal depression on the children's adjustment, the mother's health status, and the family's functioning as a whole.3

The current literature reports that MS patients with ongoing depressive symptoms perform poorly on cognitive tasks assessing information processing speed, attention, etc. (Arnett et al., 1999) Cognitive impairment is dominant in depressed MS patients, affecting effortful but not automatic information processing.

No one can perform well on cognitive tasks when their brains are being bombarded with fight - or - flight chemistries.

This shows us that adding coconut oil or other oils with MCTs to someone who suffers from a neuronal hypometabolism, could be positively beneficial for him, as It would improve his brain functioning, at least when it comes to performance on cognitive tasks.

He's found that intermittent fasting in rodents seems to improve their blood sugar levels, boost performance on cognitive tasks and help keep them lean.

The scientists found that haloperidol patients had mildly diminished scores on cognitive tasks and a slightly increased rate of tardive dyskinesia, along with the slightly increased rates of akathisia.

Research shows that time of day explains 20 percent of the variance on human performance on cognitive tasks.

Practicing hatha yoga three times a week for eight weeks improved sedentary older adults» performance on cognitive tasks that are relevant to everyday life, researchers report.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

Our findings are the first to suggest a strong correlation between the number of neural connections in the brain and how well an individual does on a cognitive task.

Not exact matches

In five different scenarios, they measured their subjects on a set of cognitive tasks, and controlled for the formality or casualness of their clothing, instructing subjects to bring «clothing you would wear to a job interview» to change into.

We have to practice how to connect to our thoughts and ensure we focus on the task at hand by our own initiative and cognitive ability.

For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

Based on this examination, we find extensive evidence that brain - training interventions improve performance on the trained tasks, less evidence that such interventions improve performance on closely related tasks, and little evidence that training enhances performance on distantly related tasks or that training improves everyday cognitive performance.

We then examined these groups» abilities on cognitive control dimensions that could indicate a breadth - bias in cognitive control at different control loci: the allocation of attention to environmental stimuli and their entry into working memory, the holding and manipulation of stimulus and task set representations in working memory, and the control of responses to stimuli and tasks.

I also have my patients provide information on their daily cognitive workload, including their perceived difficulty of each type of thinking task.

A bigger hippocampus is associated with better performance on spatial reasoning and other cognitive tasks.

Surprisingly these same people are just as affected as everyone else on other tasks that require different cognitive abilities, such as maintaining focus,» said Paul Whitney, a WSU professor of psychology and lead author of the study, which appeared in the journal Scientific Reports.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

Based on analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.

They found that L - theanine and caffeine together improved their subjects» performance on cognitive tests where they had to switch quickly between different tasks.

However, all the lesions were part of the same functional network, located on different parts of a single circuit that normally allows neurons throughout the brain to cooperate with each other on specific cognitive tasks.

The study, which is the first to examine the effects of infant vocalizations on adult neural activity during a cognitive task, will be published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

«The association between task - related BOLD fMRI activation and outdoor temperature was investigated in 28 MS patients who demonstrated worse cognitive function on warmer days.

Specifically, the study relied on data collected at NYU ECoG, a center where brain activity is recorded directly from patients implanted with specialized electrodes placed directly inside and on the surface of the brain while the patients are performing sensory and cognitive tasks.

«We always want our students to do better, particularly on more difficult, higher - level cognitive tasks, and we want them to be successful and competitive with any other school in the country.»

General intelligence is usually defined as the ability to do well on multiple cognitive tasks, from math skills to problem solving.

In «Touch and Go: Merely Grasping a Product Facilitates Brand Perception and Choice,» published in Applied Cognitive Psychology, they conduct a series of experiments and show that blindfolded people induced to grasp familiar products (a bottle of Coke, for example) under the guise of a weight judgement task are then quicker in recognizing the brand name of the product when it slowly appears on a screen, include more frequently the product in a list of brands of the same category, and choose more often that product among others as a reward for having participated in the experiment.

However, with more experienced performers imagery appears to be effective on a range of tasks, including both motor and cognitive.

A study of older adults at risk of late - onset Alzheimer's disease found that those who consumed more omega - 3 fatty acids did better than their peers on tests of cognitive flexibility — the ability to efficiently switch between tasks — and had a bigger anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region known to contribute to cognitive flexibility.

During another test, participants demonstrated poorer performance on a «Stroop task,» a commonly - used measure of executive cognitive function.

Now, new research suggests the loss of certain types of cognitive skills with age may stem from problems with basic sensory tasks, such as making quick judgments based on visual information.

Furthermore, pilots who relied more heavily on the computers to handle these tasks and who allowed their thoughts to drift during flight were more likely to suffer the effects of rusty cognitive skills.

In the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counseling.

Gamblers also scored much lower on the cognitive reflection task, which measures impulsivity.

Fortunately, two BYU researchers have good news: People on treadmill desks perform cognitive tasks nearly as well as those at sitting desks, despite the fact that they're walking.

In a study of older adults who completed cognitive tasks while cycling on a stationary bike, UF researchers found that participants» cycling speed improved while multi-tasking with no cost to their cognitive performance.

A large body of research suggests that controlling your position can be a task like any other, drawing on cognitive resources: simple tasks such as counting backward get harder when you must also hold a particular pose, and vice versa.

The recent study, published in the journal Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, focuses on using a simple test of visual flicker to evaluate an individual's level of executive cognitive abilities, such as shifting attention between different tasks, planning or organizing and problem solving.

It focuses on the ability to hone in on a task and ignore distractions, which «leverages every single thing we do,» says cognitive neuroscientist Helen Neville at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

What's more, the survey focused on the cognitive aspects of intelligence that fit well - defined tasks.

But those things mainly affect speed: when healthy older people are given extra time to perform cognitive tasks, the results are on par with younger folks.

Domestic dogs, who are descended from cooperatively breeding wolves, and elephants also perform better on socio - cognitive tasks, such as imitation, compared to other animals of similar brain size.

Lead author Christopher Flynn Martin of Indianapolis Zoo said: «We think our apparatus has much potential to advance primate social cognitive research by enabling, for the first time, computerised touchscreen tasks that multiple apes must work on together to solve.»

Also unknown is the association between brain signal variability and cognitive performance on various tasks such as memory, reasoning, speed, vocabulary, and semantic knowledge.

Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.

Mike Kuhar, a neuroscientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, introduced the topic of cognitive enhancers or â $ œsmart drugs.â $ He described one particular class of proposed cognitive enhancers, called ampakines, which appear to improve functioning on certain tasks without stimulating signals throughout the brain. Kuhar questioned whether â $ œsmart drugsâ $ pose unique challenges, compared to other types of drugs.