Sentences with phrase «tested at a specific age»

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But both he and Stuart Ritchie at the University of Edinburgh, UK, say they would like to see stronger and more specific tests of this idea, looking at elements of intelligence whose decline with age are well established, such as processing time and reaction speed.

Beginning at 18 months, the children were tested every six months until six years of age on age - appropriate standardized and specific cognitive tests.

To test whether clinicoanatomic heterogeneity in AD is driven by the involvement of specific networks, network connectivity was assessed in healthy subjects by seeding regions commonly and specifically atrophied in three clinical AD variants: early - onset AD (age at onset, < 65 y; memory and executive deficits), logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (language deficits), and posterior cortical atrophy (visuospatial deficits).

[4] In other words, over 90 percent of those in recent age cohorts are not performing at a reasonably high level on any externally administered, subject - specific examination, a possible explanation for the much lower percentage of US students than students in many other advanced industrial societies who are performing at the «advanced» level on international tests.

She should not be bred til she is at least 2 years of age, and has had all her breed specific health testing done.

The age - specific dog food segment is time - tested, and many manufacturers already offer lines specifically for dogs at different life stages, but innovation continues, and several manufacturers are producing new formulations to serve the category.

A joint test for the significance of the YAD age specific effects rejects that they are jointly zero although many individual parameters are not significantly different from zero and the individual year parameters flirt with significance at the 5 % level over the last 50 years of their life).

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

Given that the theoretical model suggested by Loeber et al. (2000) which we aimed to test in this study is age specific, we selected from all the participants of the Zuid - Holland longitudinal study, a sub-sample of participants who were aged 6 — 8 years (i.e., children in early childhood; 507 children / 243 males) and had parent reports at Time 1.