Sentences with phrase «social cognition tests»

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

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The researchers assessed social cognition through game - based tests, in which they hid treats and toys and then communicated the hiding places through nonverbal cues such as pointing or looking in a certain direction.

Comparative psychology research in the last decade has shown that dogs excel at social cognition, out - testing even some primates.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (which are skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

Try this short online test adapted for Education Week readers by Jordan Axt, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Virginia's Implicit Social Cognition Laboratory.

Test will also start collecting data in spring 2005 for an upcoming project, which will involve a longitudinal study of the development of social cognition in children from birth to age five.

«I will be studying American children at first,» Test says, «but hope to expand [my research] to look at social cognition in the early years cross-culturally.»

In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that more socially connected people have brains characterized by stronger intrinsic connectivity between the amygdala and other brain regions subserving social cognition, using resting - state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI).

Using a similar logic, we first tested our hypothetical topographic model of the functional - anatomic organization of brain networks subserving social cognition (Fig. 1).

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However, we tested for differences in the number of boys and girls in the social anxiety trajectory groups, checked for gender differences on the cognition, social competence and temperament variables and controlled for gender in the analyses differentiating social anxiety trajectory groups on the basis of these variables.

This longitudinal study is the first to examine developmental trajectories of social anxiety in a nonclinical sample aged 9 to 21 years and simultaneously test whether conceptually relevant individual level variables assessing cognition, social competence, and temperament discriminated between the trajectories.

We tested three models according to the categories of variables: Model 1 included the cognition variables negative interpretations, self - focused attention, and self - evaluation of performance; Model 2 included social competence variables, with independent observer evaluations of nervousness and social skill and social problems reported by teachers; Model 3 included the temperament variables of neuroticism, extraversion, and behavioral inhibition reported by parents and social withdrawal reported by teachers.

We tested whether variables assessing cognition, social competence, and temperament discriminated between the trajectories.