Sentences with phrase «produces cognitive gains»

According to a study from 2013 published in Scientific Reports, daily exercise increases grey matter in the brain, produces cognitive gains, and fights dementia.

These kinds of interventions typically produce cognitive gains that last a few years and then fade — but, more important, also produce better life outcomes, such as less crime, fewer teenage pregnancies, higher high school graduation rates, and higher incomes.

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Significant Evidence - Based Research Findings of Infant Massage: • Supports parent - infant interaction • Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants1 • Lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Increases muscle tone • Improves sleep and awake patterns • Shortens lengths of stay in hospitals • Improves cognitive and motor development at eight months of age • Infant massage is an inexpensive tool • Can be used as part of the developmental care plan of preterm infants • Recent research shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental scores and earlier discharge2

In fact, it may be accurate to say that schools like the most effective schools in our study may be the first to produce students for whom these two types of cognitive ability are consistently decoupled, providing an opportunity to study just which kinds of outcomes are enabled by gains in crystallized knowledge alone.

Preliminary results of a government - sponsored assessment of Head Start programs appear to confirm the view of their proponents that they produce «substantial gains» in children's cognitive and language development.

Although there is considerable support in cognitive science for personalizing along certain dimensions, there is also evidence that personalizing along others doesn't produce the gains educators think it might.

It is quite plausible that teachers who are effective at producing gains on a given test are also good at producing gains in deeper cognitive skills not captured by standardized tests.

This study builds on the previous work of the investigators, which indicated that a combination of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) produced important gains among regular methamphetamine users across a number of domains.