Sentences with phrase «other cognitive skills of»

Intensive, adaptive computer - based cognitive training presented as a video game helped improve working memory and other cognitive skills of childhood cancer survivors and holds hope for revolutionizing management of the late effects of cancer treatment.

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So, top managers need a set of cognitive skills not always needed by others, skills that are not easy to learn in the classroom.

Baker (2003) found that peak performing adult athletes typically engaged in a wide array of sporting activities during their youth and that participating in other sports augmented the cognitive and physical skills relevant to their sport.

I think we need a more integrative approach to education that recognizes that a person is a whole person, that there are these cognitive skills and abilities that need to be developed, but they can be developed in contexts that can help with these other elements of what a person really is.

It helps the development of the motor and cognitive skills and this will encourage them to be a little better than some of the other children when they need to go to pre-school.

Enfamil Gentlease has DHA, choline, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin A, and many other necessary nutrients to assist in the development of your babies motor, cognitive, social, and communicative skills as they grow.

Not only do toddlers enjoy these activities, but they learn a lot of important cognitive, fine motor skills and other developmental skills by playing with them.

The underlying idea is that to help children «succeed» — especially in the context of escaping poverty and other dysfunction — it isn't enough (or even the primary task) to teach them cognitive skills.

Other signs of readiness to look out for are his motor development and cognitive skills.

A 1999 critique of primate mirror self - recognition studies in the journal Animal behavior said that differences between species could be due to the conditions in which they were reared, and that it was premature to speculate as to how the skill relates to other cognitive abilities, such as inferring the mental states of others.

Rather, it's the stress and challenge of living with others — recognizing friend from foe, calculating who to deceive and who to befriend — that led these and other social creatures to evolve their cognitive skills.

«We know a lot about how to educate people on facts, but we know almost nothing about how to educate people on acquiring perceptual skills other than lots of repetition, which can be very time - consuming and expensive,» says cognitive scientist Robert A. Jacobs of the University of Rochester.

Halpern and several research assistants administered a battery of tests — of memory, IQ, reading ability, and other cognitive skills — to the three groups.

Other measures such as cognitive (i.e. IQ) ability, early linguistic skills, measures of the environment such as socio - economic status, and whether there is a family member with reading problems or dyslexia are all common early factors used to assess risk of developing reading difficulties.

Living in such a society requires that the birds recognize and remember others, and whether they are friend or foe — mental tasks that are thought to be linked to the evolution of significant cognitive skills.

To confirm these results, the next step will be to establish a clinical trial with patients suffering motor skills disorders due to a stroke and divide them into two groups: one of them undergoing physiotherapy treatment and the other with complementary cognitive training.

Of course, now that doesn't mean that these TV shows are dumbing it down and this is serious, it could be the other way around that having the poor cognitive skills might be what attracted, you know, watch those TV shows in the first place.

The researchers next asked parents of three groups of children — Turner's females, normal females, and normal males, who get their single X chromosome from the mother — to rate their children's cognitive skills, such as awareness of other people's feelings and interpreting body language.

Rather than merely a cumulative effect, Meyer says, the two conditions appeared to act in synergy, increasing anxiety behaviors in the mice as well as damaging their performance on tests for associative memory and other basic cognitive skills associated in people with a range of neurological disorders, including schizophrenia.

But they imply that boosting blood levels of estradiol or estrone — even in younger postmenopausal women — may not have a substantial effect on cognitive skills one way or the other.»

To isolate the effect of preexisting illness, anesthesiologist Stephen Choi of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, and colleagues have started to track memory and other cognitive skills in people scheduled for knee or hip replacements.

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

The definition of intelligence is subjective, but our working memory, reflective exploratory behavior, and other cognitive skills appear to be uniquely enhanced versus these abilities in other animals.

The games are pure fun — remembering a pattern of blocks, spotting a bird in a field — and are based on what research has found to improve concentration and other cognitive skills.

Can somebody help explain to me the cool downs 1 & 3 exercises; Also what would be some other exercises both cognitive and motor skills and could this be applied to various styles of training?

According to the parents» and teachers» reports, improvement was noted regarding behavior and cognitive functions in 9 of 17 patients, particularly in the fields of concentration, learning ability, and communication skills with other children.

In other words, contrary to Tough's assertion that «we have been focusing on the wrong skills and abilities in our children» (what he calls «the cognitive skills — the kind of intelligence that gets measured on IQ tests, including the abilities to recognize letters and words»), it would appear, especially for the poor in our inner cities, that we have not been focusing enough on those skills.

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

We worked with SCALE to take the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, the Historical Thinking Standards, and other frameworks of cognitive skill development to create a comprehensive, developmentally tiered measure of the thinking skills required for college readiness.

2) Does iRead Intervention improve other developmental skills (social skills and cognitive skills) of young children?

In other words, more than 90 percent of participants in their twenties had higher fluid cognitive skills than did typical participants in their seventies.

Other practices include cooperative learning, extended dialogues to develop language and thinking skills, explicit teaching of cognitive strategies, and the use of technology to enhance instruction.

That the acquisition of cognitive skill as measured by tests is important does not mean other aspects of education are unimportant.

Many workers have migrated from a different state, and still others have immigrated to the United States from abroad; both of these groups will tend to differ in their cognitive skills from those who remain in a state after finishing their education.

The development of a child's skills in one domain (cognitive, social - emotional, interpersonal) can profoundly inform the development of her skills in other domains; the interrelatedness of these domains demands more attention than previously understood.

The fact that grit or other character skills may not be strongly predictive of achievement test results is not surprising if these non-cog measures capture something that is important independently of cognitive ability.

Other options we're looking at is trying to come up with ways [to improve students» cognitive ability], improve their thinking skills, and so there are a couple of projects that we may do from there.

In other words, had that money effectively raised cognitive skills by the 50 test points that would have brought the United States close to world leadership, the economic returns to the country would probably have been enough to cover the entire cost of education in 2015 and after.

The first step was to use the 12 PISA and other international math and science assessments, dating back to 1964, to construct an index of cognitive skill levels for a large sample of countries at various points in time.

Cognitive skills would be emphasized, of course, but children would also be taught social skills so they could learn to get along with others and follow social rules in the classroom.

Only one in 10 elementary classrooms across the country emphasizes the development of cognitive skills; other researchers have advocated for explicit instruction of metacognitive, cognitive, and other strategies to facilitate the process of learning as a way to engage and motivate middle and high school students.

In too many classrooms, students and their teachers focus so much attention on the cognitive elements of education that other life skills are left behind.

«Extensive research has shown that students who build strong biliteracy skills (in English and one or more other languages) have higher academic success, a foundation for increased salary earnings, and stronger cognitive skills as they grow older,» Jan Gustafson - Corea CEO of the California Association for Bilingual Education said in a press release supporting Lara's bill.

I believe that the overall and unifying goal of learning (via a lifetime of informal and formal education) is to develop and maintain cognitive, moral, physical, and spiritual knowledge and skills that help learners to solve or in other ways to cope with the problems they encounter.

Notably, the first three of these five minds focus on cognitive skills, but the final two — the respectful and ethical minds — focus on how people interact with and relate to others.

... then we will see measurable growth in students» Habits of Success, which will lead to greater student success on other measurements of skill and knowledge, including their cognitive skills and content knowledge.

PRI's book Moonshots in Education cites the success of Summit public charter schools in implementing a blended - learning model, where cognitive skills such as writing are taught by teachers, but students also spend 16 hours a week acquiring other skills and knowledge through the use of the school's online resources.

A graduate will effectively use cognitive and psychomotor skills in the practice of veterinary clinical care and other contexts in which veterinary medicine plays a key role.

Music's worse than many other areas, largely because so much of the material involves complex cognitive and / or physical skill - building in addition to knowledge acquisition — developing musicians literally have a whole lot of brain «re-wiring» to do.

One source who had been involved in recruitment leaked a bit of info about the interview questions: «They ask us to evaluate five key characteristics: intellectual and cognitive ability; planning and organizational skills; communication skills; working with others; and character.»