Sentences with phrase «on spatial reasoning»

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

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They found that considering a projected financial decision, such as how to pay for a car repair, affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks.

The bulkier white matter may be what gives men their ability to focus intently on work and tune out distractions, as well as their clear - cut superiority when it comes to spatial reasoning, says Ruben Gur, a psychologist and director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

While chimps performed well on tests involving their physical environment and spatial reasoning, they did not do as well when it came to tests of cooperative communication skills, such as the ability to follow a pointing finger or human gaze.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

Thanks to the app on that fancy little pocket computer you carry around but call a phone, you no longer have to exercise the part of your brain to use spatial reasoning to work your way out places you're not very familiar with.

[15] One study has shown that consumption of dark chocolate improved performance on cognitive tests which included the abstract reasoning test, the scanning and tracking test, the working memory test, the visual - spatial memory test, and the organization test.

On the basic level of characters occupying reasonable fields of spatial reasoning, the film passes with flying colors.

By far the largest and most comprehensive study on this topic ever conducted, «THE ARTS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS,» confirms claims that listening to music temporarily enhances spatial skills (the controversial «Mozart Effect»), as well as claims that children who study music gain skill in spatial reasoning.

The finding suggests that music and spatial reasoning are related psychologically (i.e., they may rely on some of the same underlying skills) and perhaps neurologically as well (i.e., they may rely on some of the same, or proximal, brain areas).

Research on cognitive and non-cognitive learning gains, spatial reasoning, self - efficacy, and social networks within makerspaces

Unlike SATs, which focus on curriculum - based material, primary school CATs focus on a child's natural cognitive reasoning ability, allowing our teachers and other staff to gain an invaluable insight into pupils» ability to reason across four distinct areas: verbal, non-verbal, mathematical and spatial.

Participants will evaluate the reasonableness of solutions to application problems focusing on Measurement, Geometry and Spatial Reasoning, and data.

The focus will be on effective teaching of mathematics for all students by emphasizing visualization, spatial reasoning and evidence of learning.

The focus of this session is on effective teaching of mathematics for all students by emphasizing visualization, spatial reasoning and evidence of learning.

The charming spatial reasoning and logic puzzles on display have no match, so hopefully Nintendo will hop on the good foot and do the right thing by bringing this over to North America so we can stop writing sonnets about it.

It's not quantitative for several reasons (ocean heat uptake, the dependence of radiative feedbacks on the spatial structure of the SST changes, etc).

Like learning a new language, learning how to play an instrument has a proven impact on brain development, showing that «learning to play a musical instrument not only increases grey matter volume in various brain regions, but can also strengthen the long - range connections between them» and that» musical training also enhances verbal memory, spatial reasoning, and literacy skills».

I personally use the Superlux HD 681 for mobile gaming on my couch, but which headphones you use are up to you — open headphones are better for spatial reasoning, but closed headphones will make sure people sitting next to you don't hear your game's sound.