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Hoping to minimize this uncertainty, Chan and colleagues tested the verbal memory of 90 students, half of whom had been studying music for 1 to 5 years.

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Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

When news broke this week that Shell was selling almost all of its oilsands assets in the province, Alberta's opposition parties pilloried the deal with something resembling verbal muscle memory.

* There are common verbal devices used for structuring memory, such as: thinking memorable thoughts; use of mnemonic, heavily rhythmic and balanced patterns; use of frequent repetitions or antitheses, alliterations and assonances; use of epithetic, formulaic, proverbial sayings; use of standard thematic settings

It is a commonplace that memories were incomparably more efficient and enabled people to recall large quantities of written material in the days when the mind was not bombarded all day long with verbal sights and sound.

Our Kindergarten gently stimulates the development of curiosity, verbal capacities, sequencing, sensory integration, memory, social skills and motor skills that are essential for later learning and are the foundations for academic excellence.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

As Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHI.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Recently, this article reminded me of these memories and confirmed that reading to our children — especially at bedtime — is one of the very best ways to encourage verbal and cognitive development.

«The last memory milestone is verbal recall,» says Lise Eliot, PhD, author of What's Going On in There?

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.

As a start, 30 teams have signed up to each try to replicate [observations of] a phenomenon called the «verbal overshadowing effect,» the idea that describing things that aren't coded in words, like the taste of wine, worsens your memory for those things.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

Lower income kids performed at a lower level than others in reading comprehension and mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may affect development at the level where different abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehension.

«In particular, the hippocampus — a part of the brain that is involved in the verbal recall memory task — is very sensitive to changes in oestrogen and cortisol.»

Although verbal memory might take a hit, «it is possible that when faced with different tasks, for example, those more directly related to the care of offspring such as multitasking, performance under stress or sensitivity to infant cues, mothers might exhibit enhanced performance,» Glynn says.

A slew of studies in adults have found that nonusers beat chronic weed smokers on tests of attention, memory, motor skills and verbal abilities, but some of this might be the result of lingering traces of cannabis in the body of users or withdrawal effects from abstaining while taking part in a study.

ImPACT ® demonstrated the strongest performance for detecting cognitive impairment because it measured the types of tasks that this meta - analysis analyzed as being most effective in detecting such post-concussion issues: processing speed, verbal memory, visual memory and recall.

The authors examined data from the «Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe» in which more than 31,000 men and women over the age of 50 from 13 European countries answered questions that tested cognitive functions including memory, mathematical ability, and verbal fluency.

In a 2005 Harvard University functional imaging study of working memory — that short - term memory we use to carry on conversations or remember telephone numbers — a group of volunteers were given verbal attention tasks while inside the scanning machine.

What's more, the decline in verbal memory seemed to be related to hormone levels: women who experienced high levels of oestrogen during early pregnancy and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol throughout pregnancy experienced the most marked fall in verbal memory performance.

Glynn found that after around 29 weeks of pregnancy, pregnant women did start to perform worse than non-pregnant women — but only when it came to remembering pairs of words (verbal memory).

«Despite the fact that the literature describes only correlation between verbal memory tests and hippocampal cell densities in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis, we found a correlation between right hippocampal cell densities and performance on visual memory tests, including both immediate and delayed recall,» says authors Sandra Mara Comper and Anaclara Prada Jardim, students in the laboratory of Dr. Elza Marcia Yacubian at the Federal University of São Paulo.

Compared with those who received no hormone treatment, athletes in the two estrogen treatment groups taken together had significantly better verbal memory and cognitive flexibility scores at the end of six months than their pre-treatment scores, the investigators reported.

Cognitive testing before and after treatment included assessment of verbal memory, specifically recall of spoken words (using the California Verbal Learning Test, Second Ediverbal memory, specifically recall of spoken words (using the California Verbal Learning Test, Second EdiVerbal Learning Test, Second Edition).

Rather than posting a verbal idea in our conscious minds («I have to wait until the meeting on Friday»), experiential memory makes use of somatic markers, emotions or physical sensations that inform us about a situation based on past experiences or feelings.

Over a two - month trial, all six subjects in the control group showed a decline in the activation of the left hippocampus, which processes auditory memory, and on average deteriorated on tests of verbal recall.

The tests evaluated multiple modes of cognition, including verbal learning and memory and visuospatial working memory / processing speed.

«That's why the older individual's understanding of speech and verbal memory are so fuzzy, and the same is true of the visual system,» Merzenich says.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

PTSD veterans also performed less proficiently on tasks requiring sustained attention, working memory and registration of new verbal information than did veterans without the disorder, according to the study.

Believing that traditional psychometric tests are too abstract and crude to assess memory loss in normal people, Wesnes and Crook developed a battery of computerised tests based on everyday tasks involving verbal and visual recall.

«The results of our research confirm the importance of motor sensory experiences in memory retention and help to better define sensory episodes associated with verbal expression,» Boucher concluded.

Cognitive symptoms, including deficits in long - term memory, are known to affect approximately half of individuals with MS.. This study was conducted in 70 patients with MS, who were evaluated for intellectual enrichment, verbal long - term memory, and working memory capacity.

Mental processing speed and verbal memory were more related to depression, anxiety, and hot flashes in both HIV - infected and healthy women than the stage of menopause.

Last year, researchers in Finland and Canada found that patients in the early stages of stroke recovery who listened to their choice of music experienced improved verbal memory and attention compared with patients who listened to audio books or no recordings.

The study «provides compelling evidence» that formal music training is responsible for the improvements in verbal memory, says neuropsychologist Lorna Jakobson of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

Verbal memory improved in those who'd stuck with their lessons and improved even more dramatically in those who'd recently taken up an instrument, but the quitters» memory got neither better nor worse, the researchers report in the July issue of Neuropsychology.

Previous studies have found that the part of the brain responsible for verbal memory is larger in musicians, and Jakobson and Chan agree that future studies should investigate whether music training boosts development of the region, thereby making musicians more handy with words.

Over the years, Moffitt reported in a series of papers that these boys did poorly in neuropsychological tests (such as verbal skills and verbal memory), measured high for impulsivity, and were likely to engage in substance abuse as they grew older.

Between 2004 and 2014, 477 patients treated with BMT at City of Hope underwent standardized neuropsychological testing before their transplant, and at the six - month and one -, two - and three - year marks after transplant; testing was conducted on eight cognitive domains, including executive function, verbal fluency and speed, processing speed, working memory, visual and auditory memory, and fine motor dexterity.

Among veterans with predicted exposure to the Khamisiyah plume, smaller hippocampus volume was correlated with lower scores on a test of verbal learning and memory.

Whatever the curve downward, whether you decline quicker, if you're bright for analytic ability — and the same is true of processing speed; working memory is bright neutral, verbal bright bonus, processing speed and analytic bright tax.

Whether other types of learning and memory (such as verbal or autobiographical) can be similarly enhanced awaits future study, as does the determination of the existence of laterality effects.

When the potential modifying effect of using hormone treatment at the time of premature menopause was examined, there was some evidence that it may be beneficial for visual memory, but it could increase the risk of poor verbal fluency.

Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.

Past exposure to marijuana was associated with worse verbal memory but does not appear to affect other domains of cognitive function.