Sentences with phrase «specific cognitive processes»

I provide detailed interventions and recommendations that target specific cognitive processes (e.g., working memory, processing speed, planning, organization, etc.), higher level language and comprehension skills, and basic academic skills required for efficient learning.

Unlike typical brain training programs, the professor of neurobiology & behavior pointed out, video games are not created with specific cognitive processes in mind but rather are designed to immerse users in the characters and adventure.

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The software counts how many times a speaker or author uses words in specific categories, such as emotion or perception, and words that indicate complex cognitive processes.

«Our study shows that children's cortisol activity and the experience of specific family adversities may be key processes that predict cognitive development for children from low - income backgrounds.

Recent studies have hinted that a specific part of the brain — a central region called the insular cortex — may also play an important role in the cognitive and emotional processes that facilitate drug and tobacco use.

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.

Unravelling the unique contribution of these specific neuronal populations to the function of neural circuits will advance our understanding of how the brain processes abstract cognitive functions.

A major goal of my research is to probe the activity of functional network systems as a novel cross-species translational language that can be related to specific behaviours, cognitive processes and neuropathological traits.

While the researchers describe the antioxidant - rich foods in a Mediterranean diet as potentially protecting against cognitive decline, «the evidence to data that pure antioxidants such as vitamin E have an impact on some specific process related to cognitive aging is very, very slim,» said Knopman, who wasn't involved in the study.

When we teach students about their brain functions and connect them to specific activities, they become more self - aware and fluent in their own cognitive processes.

In effect, executive attention functions as a control tower for guiding the brain's higher - level cognitive processes to land on specific tasks and information.

Activities are included that help to develop cognitive skills including processing speed and memory; identification of specific phonemes; practice identifying and recalling words, including spelling of words from memory.

On the other hand, from the Multi-Institutional and Multidisciplinary Doctorate in Dissemination of Knowledge (DMMDC), located in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), we work the triple theoretical, epistemological and methodological area which study the knowledge from their construction, translation and distribution processes, aiming at the understanding of languages, frameworks and processes specific to different disciplines with the aim of making these specific bases for the construction of the ballast of understanding inter / transdisciplinary and multi-referentiality, with the commitment of production and socialization of knowledge in open perspective to dialogue between these different disciplines / sciences, and other modes of knowledge organization, in order to make private knowledge of cognitive or epistemic communities in public.

Inquiry is more specific to relating and extending (and similar cognitive processes) but it needs ideas to work on.

Professional Experience Valley Trauma Center (Van Nuys, CA) 2011 — Present In - Home Outreach Counselor • Provide prevention education and counseling at the individual, family and group level within both in - home and clinical settings while overseeing all case management services • Utilize various methods including humanistic, cognitive behavioral and family systems approaches • Assist group members in the discovery of internal sources of strength and ability to effectively cope with situational crises a well as modify self - defeating behavior • Set and achieve specific group - level goals while helping participants define concrete, meaningful developmental benchmarks, appraising on - going change processes and related dynamics, and connecting individual efforts to common themes • Manage 10 cases on a weekly basis while ensuring an initial visitation with clients within 48 hours of referral • Perform new program participant assessments and participate in all intake and discharge functions

Talking about cognitive tasks during childhood, Dr. Carol S. Dweck at Stanford says: «Our message to parents is to focus on the process the child engages in, such as trying hard or focusing on the task — what specific things they're doing rather than «you're so smart, you're so good at this... what (the adult) does early matters.»

These are complemented by tests on specific cognitive functions by subtests from the developmental neuropsychological test battery A Developmental NEuroPSYchological Assessment, version 2 (NEPSY - II) including attention and executive functioning, language, social perception, sensorimotor and visuospatial processing (Delhi) and adaptive functioning by the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Bangalore).

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).

Written by a team of experts in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this workbook offers powerful, symptom - specific skills from a variety of empirically supported cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatments, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and — for the first time — cognitive processing therapy (CPT).

Finally, negative and positive feelings of self - worth could be the result of a cognitive, inferential process, in which children observe and evaluate their own behaviors and competencies in specific domains (self - efficacy).

Even when study is limited to family processes as influences, multivariate risk models find support.9 - 12 For example, Cummings and Davies13 presented a framework for how multiple disruptions in child and family functioning and related contexts are supported as pertinent to associations between maternal depression and early child adjustment, including problematic parenting, marital conflict, children's exposure to parental depression, and related difficulties in family processes.10, 11 A particular focus of this family process model is identifying and distinguishing specific response processes in the child (e.g., emotional insecurity; specific emotional, cognitive, behavioral or physiological responses) that, over time, account for normal development or the development of psychopathology.10

Our findings above raise the question: Could adding a specific cognitive training component to schema therapy speed up and / or enhance the ability to disengage from these unhelpful rigid cognitive processes to enable more adaptive functioning?

The focus addresses particular cognitive processes causing specific behaviors.

It will provide specific practical ways to integrate narrative psychotherapeutic procedures such as emotional processing, restorative retelling, adaptive disclosure, imagery rescripting, cognitive restructuring, journaling with exposure - based and skills - oriented stress inoculation training procedures.

Detailed description of the phase synchronization calculation [29] is widely used in neurophysiology since the analysis can be restricted to certain frequency bands reflecting specific brain rhythms, which allows relating the results to cognitive processes [38].

Using the process model, we evaluate the recent empirical literature spanning self - report, observational, behavioral, and physiological methods across five specific families of emotion regulation processes — situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation.