Sentences with phrase «spatial abilities when»

For example, in an observational study, researchers tracked the behavior of toddlers from the age of two, and then tested the children's spatial abilities when they were four and a half.

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Coaches at Carrington rave about Morrison's technical ability and spatial awareness and, when he gets up to match fitness, Sam Allardyce will seek to integrate him into his promotion - chasing team rapidly.

Those games depend primarily on a person's ability to recognize spatial patterns — for example, you know an elliptical galaxy when you see one.

The bulkier white matter may be what gives men their ability to focus intently on work and tune out distractions, as well as their clear - cut superiority when it comes to spatial reasoning, says Ruben Gur, a psychologist and director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The hippocampus — a region crucially involved in forming «episodic» memories (event recall) and spatial memory (for physical navigation)-- is especially affected by aging, with accompanying declines in the ability to learn and remember; it also deteriorates early on when afflicted by Alzheimer's.

When Kolb put them through a series of cognitive and spatial - ability tests, the vitamin - charged rats did markedly better than the control group.

While chimps performed well on tests involving their physical environment and spatial reasoning, they did not do as well when it came to tests of cooperative communication skills, such as the ability to follow a pointing finger or human gaze.

The results showed that when both groups consumed caffeine, their map memorizing ability (a measure of their spatial memory) improved.

When Shannon Pruden and her colleagues tracked the development of 52 babies, the researchers found that early exposure to spatial language predicted higher spatial ability later on.