Sentences with phrase «predicted better cognitive»

Greater complexity of father - toddler social play predicted better cognitive and social outcomes for children, and this correlation was stronger in the EHS group.

Dr. Silveri's results provided the first in vivo human evidence of lower frontal lobe GABA in healthy adolescents relative to emerging adults, which predicted better cognitive control and lower impulsivity.

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The machine - learning program predicted which patients would fail to respond to cognitive behavioral therapy with 70 percent accuracy, significantly better than chance, or 50 percent.

They found that cognitive performance and white matter connectivity in the brain predicted how best we can learn to play the two types of games.

Indeed, Oliva says; «Human cognitive and computational neuroscience is a fast - growing area of research, and knowledge about how the human brain is able to see, hear, feel, think, remember, and predict is mandatory to develop better diagnostic tools, to repair the brain, and to make sure it develops well.»

This indicates that BICAMS may be useful for predicting performance on everyday activities, as well as for assessing cognitive abilities.

Deaner, R. O., Isler, K., Burkart & J. & van Schaik, C. P. Overall brain size, and not encephalization quotient, best predicts cognitive ability across non-human primates.

In fact, Zuelsdorff said, past adverse events predicted African Americans» cognitive function more strongly than well - known risk factors like age, education, and genetics.

It is possible to create better learning conditions when choosing modalities that do not overload a single channel of recruitment but are complementary, as predicted by the Model of Cognitive Theory for Multimedia Learning.

By the time children reach kindergarten, their level of emotional intelligence — not IQ or cognitive intelligence — can already predict how well they will perform in academic and employment settings, and even whether they will have trouble with the law in the future.

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

Also, if an ACC marker predicts better response, researchers might develop cognitive training that specifically targets this region, which could increase brain activation to accelerate or boost response to more traditional intervention.

In sum, empirical precedents support the importance of cognitive as well as affective empathy, and of dispositional as well as situational forms of empathy in predicting providers» level of spousal support.

A three - step, hierarchical regression analysis was performed to predict change in generalized anxiety from cognitive vulnerabilities, sub-dimensions of psychological well - being, and their interaction (as well as T1 generalized anxiety).

The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) Synchrony during early mother - child interactions has neurophysiological correlates [85] as evidenced though the study of vagal tone [78], cortisol levels [80], and skin conductance [79]; (2) Synchrony impacts infant's cognitive processing [64], school adjustment [86], learning of word - object relations [87], naming of object wholes more than object parts [88]; and IQ [67], [89]; (3) Synchrony is correlated with and / or predicts better adaptation overall (e.g., the capacity for empathy in adolescence [89]; symbolic play and internal state speech [77]; the relation between mind - related comments and attachment security [90], [91]; and mutual initiation and mutual compliance [74], [92]-RRB-; (3) Lack of synchrony is related to at risk individuals and / or temperamental difficulties such as home observation in identifying problem dyads [93], as well as mother - reported internalizing behaviors [94]; (4) Synchrony has been observable within several behavioral or sensorial modalities: smile strength and eye constriction [52]; tonal and temporal analysis of vocal interactions [95](although, the association between vocal interactions and synchrony differs between immigrant (lower synchrony) and non-immigrant groups [84]-RRB-; mutual gaze [96]; and coordinated movements [37]; (5) Each partner (including the infant) appears to play a role in restoring synchrony during interactions: children have coping behaviors for repairing interactive mismatches [97]; and infants are able to communicate intent and to respond to the intent expressed by the mother at the age of 2 months [98].