Sentences with phrase «underlying cognitive abilities»

Often only a single untrained task is used to measure near transfer to the underlying cognitive ability.22 The capacity for a single task to accurately reflect multifaceted and complex cognitive abilities is questionable.

Multiple tasks which measure different dimensions of the underlying cognitive ability are therefore required.

Despite these promising findings in terms of both the treatment and prevention of mental illness, several limitations of the cognitive training literature have been noted.22 The ultimate goal of cognitive training is to demonstrate that improvements in performing a particular task transfer to improvements in an underlying cognitive ability more generally (near transfer, ie, training on a specific executive functioning task leads to improvements in overall executive functioning ability).

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It is known that the cognitive talents underlying voice perception, such as speaker recognition, are shared with many other animal species, but the findings of Petkov and his colleagues provide a cerebral location for these abilities.

«We have the tools to measure the different cognitive abilities associated with the syndrome, and thanks to Julie and Debbie we are now able to combine this with studies of the underlying genetic and neurological aspects.»

«We want to combine neuroimaging and cognitive assays with clinical symptoms to enhance prodromal diagnosis, identify neuroprotective agents to target underlying disease mechanisms in the brain, and develop behavioral and cognitive exercises that will increase the patient's ability to adapt.»

«Most cognitive neuroscientists focus on the signals themselves, on the words, gestures and their statistical relationships, ignoring the underlying conceptual ability that we use during communication and the flexibility of everyday life,» he said.

This finding agrees with results of large - scale meta - analyses by the University of Iowa industrial psychologist Frank Schmidt demonstrating that general cognitive ability — the psychological trait underlying IQ — is the single best predictor of performance in the workplace.

Mar. 14, 2014 — A brain - mapping study of patients with schizophrenia has found that areas associated with the ability to imitate are impaired, providing new support for the theory that deficits in this basic cognitive skill may underlie the profound difficulty with social interactions that characterize the disorder.

Underlying this belief is the notion that cognitive processes are largely enabled by vocabulary and syntactical ability.

Children often experience separation anxiety and while more treatment options exist for children because of their advanced cognitive ability and speech capacity, the underlying disorder is virtually identical to that in dogs.

That, in turn, reduces our cognitive capacity («the psychological mechanisms that underlie our ability to solve problems, retain information, engage in logical reasoning, and so on») and our executive control («our ability to manage our cognitive activities, including planning, attention, initiating, and inhibiting actions, and controlling impulses».