Sentences with phrase «test of spatial memory»

Cognitive function improved as a result, as assessed with tests of spatial memory.

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The participants in the study took a variety of tests, which measured different aspects of their thinking abilities including memory span and verbal and spatial abilities.

To test the birds» spatial memory, he constructed a wall containing 60 identical rubber pockets the contents of which were concealed with a white craft pom pom.

Within six hours of viewing this film, the period during which memories are thought to be consolidated for long - term storage, test subjects were randomly assigned to one of three tasks: answering trivia; playing Tetris, a 1980s video game that involves optimizing visual - spatial cues; or engaging in nothing in particular.

Her own, 3 - year study of 38 female chimps found that the oldest four individuals — all older than 50 — got progressively worse at a spatial memory test as they aged.

«My lab works on the neural bases of learning and memory,» says Pozzo - Miller, «so we decided to test if LM22A - 4 was able to improve spatial discrimination deficits by enhancing synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for spatial learning and memory.»

To test the long - term spatial memory of mice, the scientists trained the rodents to spot a new object placed in a controlled environment where two objects of similar shape and volume stand.

They then conducted spatial memory tests in which the mice needed to navigate a series of mazes.

There was no difference between mutant and normal mice when it came to investigating an empty cage, however, and the mutants even outperformed normal mice on a test of spatial learning and memory, suggesting that their deficit was specific for social behavior.

By asking participants to recall the items they delivered instead of the stores they visited, the researchers could test whether their spatial memory systems were being activated even when episodic memories were being accessed.

In a test of spatial learning and memory, the mice with extra klotho performed twice as well.

Martinez - Trujillo, a member of Western's renowned Brain and Mind Institute, notes that most spatial memory experiments include animal models being tested in actual, real - world mazes while humans are assessed virtually, using computer screens, more often than not in a two - dimensional setting.

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.

[15] One study has shown that consumption of dark chocolate improved performance on cognitive tests which included the abstract reasoning test, the scanning and tracking test, the working memory test, the visual - spatial memory test, and the organization test.

In addition, cognitive function was assessed through a variety of tests that included working memory, verbal episodic memory and visual - spatial memory as well as scanning and tracking.

Subjects were divided into two groups and tested on a variety of numeracy - and memory - related memory tasks including spatial recall and random number generation to identify a baseline level of cognitive performance.