Sentences with phrase «on spatial tasks»

This study examines whether listening to music temporarily enhances performance on spatial tasks — a phenomenon known as the «Mozart effect.

Basically listening to Mozart K. 448 enhances performance on spatial tasks for a period of approximately 20 min.

On the other hand, when Wolfgang Jantzen, a special - education expert who retired in 2005 from the University of Bremen in Germany, tested affected 11 - year - olds — whose language skills were at about a four - year - old level — on spatial tasks, they performed almost age - appropriately.

Since the right hemisphere is involved in spatial tasks and the left hemisphere is involved in verbal tasks, the researchers thought volunteers who received stimulation on the right side while training on spatial tasks would improve on spatial tests and those who received stimulation on the left side while training on verbal tasks would improve on verbal tests.

Not exact matches

Scholars in the gender clinic were doing fascinating research on tasks like spatial rotation skills.

It is indeed a difficult task to «switch gears» from a theology based on static, spatial models alone, such as the essence of God, the natures of Christ, and the substance of bread and wine, to a theology that is concerned with spatio - temporal models, such as change in God, Christ becoming divine, and the on - going process of revelation.

Because girls» capacity for language (located primarily in the left brain) matures earlier than boys», they rely more on verbal skills in solving problems, including nonverbal problems such as spatial tasks.

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

OUR ability to solve spatial tasks may be linked to our linguistic skills, say researchers who studied the effect of sign language on spatial cognition.

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.

Both tasks differed only in the required response: in the spatial task subjects had to click with their index finger or middle finger to classify the digits, and in the non-spatial task they applied either a small or a large force on a pressure sensor with their thumb.

This episode simultaneously taxed my visual / spatial system for three separate tasks: the intense spatial planning of where the heavy tree branches were to be cut, and would fall; the meaningful interpretation of the incoming barrage of sensory input; and the essential need to keep my balance based primarily on the constantly moving visual input.

She and Northeastern psychologist David DeSteno found that people who were told they had excelled on a spatial rotation task subsequently took more control over a similar, team - based task, regardless of their mood or how competent they reported feeling.

The next day, the same rodents did not succeed the spatial memory task learned on the previous day.

Direct hippocampal stimulation in six subjects had no effect on their performance of the spatial learning tasks, as compared with no stimulation, with respect to both latency (z = 0.52, P = 0.69)(Figure 2B) and excess path length (z = − 0.52, P = 0.69)(Figure 2D).

A convenience sample of 54 patients with severe brain injury, including 23 in a vegetative state and 31 in a minimally conscious state, underwent functional MRI as a means of evaluating their performance on motor and spatial imagery tasks.

The graphs show the behavioral performance of six subjects on spatial learning tasks during stimulation and nonstimulation of the entorhinal region (Panels A and C) and the hippocampus (Panels B and D).

Characterisation of spatial neglect induced by unilateral 6 - OHDA lesions on a choice reactiontime task in rats

Scott Herrick - «The effect of hippocampal lesions on spatial and non-spatial declarative memory tasks in rats» (Advisor: S. Ramus)

Results show that direct stimulation of the entorhinal area successfully improved hippocampal - dependent memory across a wide range of memory tasks (verbal recall, spatial navigation, face - name memory, and person / object recognition) with stimulation site (entorhinal white / gray) as the critical determinant of subsequent memory performance independent of antiepileptic medication (on / off), side (left / right) or type (macro / micro) of stimulation.

Subjects were divided into two groups and tested on a variety of numeracy - and memory - related memory tasks including spatial recall and random number generation to identify a baseline level of cognitive performance.

While on a stationary bicycle, participants performed a simple orientation discrimination task using high - contrast stimuli composed of alternating black and white bars presented at one of nine spatial orientations.

In 1992, responsible researchers at the University of California, Irvine, happened upon an interesting finding that showed that when college students listened to Mozart for 20 or 30 minutes shortly before an exam, they tested a little bit better than average on certain kinds of spatial problem - solving tasks.

On the symbolic math side, which relies heavily on phonological processing and other linguistic brain functions, we can mitigate math's trickiness by increasing verbal math activities — especially ones that link back to visual - spatial taskOn the symbolic math side, which relies heavily on phonological processing and other linguistic brain functions, we can mitigate math's trickiness by increasing verbal math activities — especially ones that link back to visual - spatial taskon phonological processing and other linguistic brain functions, we can mitigate math's trickiness by increasing verbal math activities — especially ones that link back to visual - spatial tasks.

Studies have shown that both women and gays score poorly on tasks that require navigation or spatial awareness.

To activate Windows Sonic, right - click the speaker / audio icon in the system tray on the right side of your task bar, then select Spatial sound (none).