Sentences with phrase «study on cognition»

«Until we get data on cell numbers and do more studies on cognition, I am happy to be agnostic.»

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In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

And while we are on the subject of being cognitive: a feature of normal cognition is a confirmation bias that allows us to be impervious to contradictory evidence and only notice information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs, hence the cherry picking, reinterpreting and mixing of what is convenient which has led to the approximately 40,000 Christian denominations and organizations in the world (Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary).

Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Noon Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together NoOn Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!

Breastfeeding may benefit child cognitive development, but few studies have quantified breastfeeding duration or exclusivity, nor has any study to date examined the role of maternal diet during lactation on child cognition.

«Executive powers in the nursery: New study explores the effect baby vocalizations have on adult cognition.»

Cognition is an abstract property of advanced living organisms; therefore, it is studied as a direct property of a brain or of an abstract mind on subsymbolic and symbolic levels.

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

OUR ability to solve spatial tasks may be linked to our linguistic skills, say researchers who studied the effect of sign language on spatial cognition.

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

«However, few long - term, high - quality, follow - up studies on physical activity and cognition have been published, and it has remained unclear what type and amount of exercise is needed to safeguard cognition,» Iso - Markku says.

«Executive powers in the nursery: New study explores the effect baby vocalizations have on adult cognition.»

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

Seidler said the brain changes could reflect new connections between neurons, and she's leading another long - term study that will help determine the repercussions on cognition and physical performance, as well as how long the brain changes last.

Multiple studies in older adults indicate that on - screen exercises can slow age - related cognitive decline, but improving the cognition of other groups is another question.

The study constituted part of the extensive, population - based DR's EXTRA study, which was a four - year randomised and controlled intervention study analysing the effects of exercise and nutrition on endothelial function, atherosclerosis and cognition.

Some of these, based on previous studies of knockout mice, seem to play a role in cognition and behavior, including fear responses and the ability to learn new behaviors when given food rewards.

The attendees developed a list of top research priorities and a research agenda for exercise in solid organ transplant, which includes the need to conduct large multicenter intervention studies, standardize measures of physical function in clinical trials, examine the benefits of novel types of exercise, and assess the effects of exercise on measures such as immunity, infection, and cognition.

It's not feasible to study the effects of cosmic rays on real astronauts, such as those living in the International Space Station, because many variables, including the stress of living on a spaceship, can affect cognition, says Patric Stanton, a cell biologist at New York Medical College in Valhalla.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

«I've always believed it's scientifically possible to enhance cognition, but society will have to decide whether it wants these drugs,» says Keith Wesnes, a psychologist who spent 10 years studying the effects of nicotine on attention and memory at British universities and who now runs Cognition Drug Research, a Reading - based company similar tocognition, but society will have to decide whether it wants these drugs,» says Keith Wesnes, a psychologist who spent 10 years studying the effects of nicotine on attention and memory at British universities and who now runs Cognition Drug Research, a Reading - based company similar toCognition Drug Research, a Reading - based company similar to Crook's.

The study, published recently in the journal Memory & Cognition, is based on a series of reading - and - recall experiments in which one group of students is told they will be tested on a selection of written material, and another group is led to believe they are preparing to teach the passage to another student.

The study identifies new components of consumer ethnocentrism, establishing, in consultation with other research on the topic, five distinct dimensions in the process: prosociality, in which the interest of one's country is more important than one's own; cognition, or interpreting the world from the point of view of one's own ethnic group; insecurity, or regarding foreign products as a threat to the domestic economy; reflexiveness, meaning that one's ethnocentrism is automatically activated; and habituation, in which ethnocentrism becomes a habit.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

But a new opportunity may be opening up for studies of chimpanzee behavior and cognition: A first - of - its - kind partnership between a sanctuary and a research center, announced this month, is designed to bolster the scientific output of facilities that have until now primarily focused on the long - term care of their animals.

He studies human memory with a particular interest in the nature and spread of misinformation and runs a blog for the Psychonomic Society on human cognition.

The researchers, who released their findings on the study on moral judgment in a recent issue of Cognition, created an implicit task that measures moral judgment without self - report, called the moral categorization task.

«Premature menopause, effects on later life cognition studied.»

The UA study looked at health and cognition across a normal spectrum, rather than focusing on clinical cognitive disorders or chronic illnesses.

The researchers acknowledge that using brain scans to study human cognition has its limitations because it relies on certain assumptions about the links between brain regions and their functions.

We study the processes underlying motivated cognition and their influence on self perception, social cognition and decision - making, as well as their impact on real - world outcomes.

The proponents of the BAM Project proposal focused on mapping large populations of neurons that would provide scientists an unprecedented understanding of the dynamics underlying this crucial middle scale at which consciousness and cognition emerge, but have so far lacked the tools to study.

Together, this translational program is developed within the National Cancer and Cognition Platform (CNO / Ligue Nationale contre le cancer), with the aim to collaborate in a structured way with French oncology groups, research teams as well as pharmaceutical industry, by providing preclinical models and guidance on standard operating procedures for ancillary or future studies in identified population at risk.

«This study aims to explore the effect of regular use of GHB and / or GHB - induced comas on brain function and cognition.

A pilot study of yogic meditation for family dementia caregivers with depressive symptoms: effects on mental health, cognition, and telomerase activity.

Although the study was not powered to detect an effect of treatment on cognition (findings to be reported separately), in a post hoc analysis, we noted that final cognitive test scores were correlated to the rate of atrophy.

This study is the first step toward understanding the early effects of mild TBI on cognition.

As the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, my work has been focused on the rigorous study of the optimal diet for the brain, not just to prevent or mitigate Alzheimer's (obvious from the name of our clinic) but also to maintain memory, cognition, and focus over an entire lifetime.

With zinc deficiency being one of the most common nutrient deficiencies in the elderly, lots of studies have been conducted on the subject, which show that in elderly patients zinc therapy can protect against cognition decline.

According to the researchers, larger, long term studies are required to substantiate the results and determine if lower doses could provide benefits with less impact on cognition.

A group of 95 non-active young adults were enrolled in a study to observe the effects that a 6 - week high intensity workout program had on memory and cognition.

In a study that evaluated the effects of testosterone therapy on cognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms and quality of life in male patients with Alzheimer's disease and healthy elderly men, patients receiving testosterone had significant improvement in quality - of - life scores and the treatments were well tolerated.

The most interesting finding in this study was a strong improvement in cognition during the intervention which returned to baseline after a month back on their usual diet.

Previous studies involving exercise and cognition were focused on decreasing the risk of dementia in the elderly.

Studies on humans showed supplementation of 20 mg a day of PQQ improved cognition in middle - aged and elderly people.

Studies have associated poor performance with parasite infestation and evidence that the more parasites you have the more they have an effect on your attention / cognition.

However, two Dutch studies on subjects aged 24 - 81 years also found positive effects of caffeine on cognition, mainly reaction time and verbal memory, but no age - related differences11, 12.

But one clinical study involving 24 healthy female subjects showed «synergistic» effects on cognition and mood, which incidentally translated into improved blood pressure.