Sentences with phrase «significant cognitive work»

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«Findings like those reported in this paper provide significant evidence of the value and need for continued behavioral, cognitive and neurogenomic work with this important species,» said William D. Hopkins, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Georgia State and associate research scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.

«Findings like those reported in this paper provide significant evidence of the value and need for continued behavioural, cognitive and neurogenomic work with this important species,» said Dr. William D. Hopkins, professor of neuroscience at Georgia State and associate research scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.

Research to date, however, has demonstrated that while cognitive rehabilitation helps people return to work — a central goal for many — such treatment actually produces significant improvements in overall quality of life, such as increased participation in social relationships, family relationships, and social interactions.

First there is significant controversy over body size estimates and second recent work shows that absolute brain size is the best predictor for cognitive ability [32]--[33].

The correlations between our measures of fluid cognitive skills and 8th - grade math test scores are positive and statistically significant, ranging from 0.27 for working memory to 0.53 for fluid reasoning.

Using standard cognitive tests, we measured attention, impulsivity and working memory before and after one month of at - home interaction with the device, and found statistically significant improvements in these 3 areas, and especially large improvements for children with substantially higher attention impairment at the beginning of the study.

Discover how we worked with 14 states to assess students with significant cognitive disabilities.

These standards may be modified for students with significant cognitive disabilities but the assumption is that they, like all students enrolled in school, should be working towards a high - quality life.

My experience of working with people who have suffered brain injury includes more subtle but still potentially significant concussive head injury cases including post-concussion syndrome, and more serious cases of long term cognitive and behavioural difficulties after moderate brain trauma.

A recent study showed a decline in psychomotor speed and attention, learning, and working memory and a significant overall cognitive decline in women with PTSD.