Sentences with phrase «specific cognitive mechanism»

The third model, the Mediation Model, suggests that parental behaviors indirectly influence children's academic ability via more specific cognitive mechanisms (e.g., EF or general cognitive ability).

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Regardless of the specific mechanism at play in our bodies, the most recent recommendations suggest that working out twice a week may be beneficial in curbing some symptoms of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a stage that precedes the development of Alzheimer's in some older people.

The results support the idea that primates have built - in mechanisms for recognizing a very specific threat based on its shape, says Isabelle Blanchette, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Quebec, Trois - Rivières, in Canada who studies the role of emotion in how we process information.

The researchers from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, which studies cognitive brain mechanisms, and Center for Neuroscience, which studies molecular, cellular and system - level brain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative study.

EM is a principal investigator at Brown University who explores the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying disorders of cognitive development, such as intellectual disability and autism, with a specific attention to CS.

Yoga research for individuals with PTSD is in the early stages, and more empirically rigorous studies are needed to understand the specific mechanisms (cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physiological, etc.) that might be affected by regular yoga practice, as well as yoga's direct effects on PTSD symptoms.

Literature suggests that perturbations in both «bottom up» attention mechanisms and «top down» executive control processes may play a central role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety.22 These perturbations extend to both emotionally charged and affectively neutral stimuli, reflecting both preferential treatment of specific categories of stimuli (i.e., bias to threat cues) and heightened vigilance of one's own performance and behaviour (i.e., cognitive monitoring).

These finding suggest that antisocial behaviour problems characterised by high levels of CU traits may have unique aetiological mechanisms associated with specific cognitive and affective impairments that are heavily dependent on genetics.