Four cognitive tests were used covering the following areas: logical performance test,
verbal test of synonyms and opposites, test of visuospatial / geometric perception, and technical / mechanical skills including mathematical / physics problems (50).
Not exact matches
Our colleague, David Bullock, has given us a great
verbal rule
of thumb for
testing ads and marketing campaigns:
For instance, couldn't a
test that asks people to match pictures
of faces with words for emotions end up measuring people's
verbal knowledge rather than their level
of empathy?
That's why the key to great chess players in pattern matching, or why the intelligence
of young children can be
tested even before they are
verbal.
Tension between North Korea and the United States has been building after a series
of nuclear and missile
tests by Pyongyang and bellicose
verbal exchanges between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.
The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area
of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete
tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set
of words as possible.
Ironically the
test I tooked that showed I have dysexia by an educational psychologist also showed I have a rich vocabulary and am in the top 1 %
of the population for
verbal reasoning and problem solving ability.
Based on the
verbal and nonverbal data that can be acquired in therapy, the therapist must continually
test out various hypotheses as to the real nature
of the patient's illness in an attempt to help the patient better cope with his or her world.
(46) Validation involves
testing the projection
of good guesses by determining the probability
of the «
verbal intention
of the text».
A clergyman holding this belief in
verbal inspiration suggested that «God put misleading fossils in the rocks to
test the faith
of man.»
Words about God are, after all, only
verbal counters, and in themselves alone are inadequate as
tests of the religious experience they are used to reveal.
Cognitive function was measured with a battery
of seven
tests: Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), word list learning, digit span, clock drawing, figure copying, and Stroop and
verbal fluency
tests.
This
testing allows the school to be able to see
verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning abilities
of the student applying compared to their achievement in each
of those areas.
Because
of these nutrients, some research suggests that school - age children eating meat perform better on
verbal tests.
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.
This study used age - appropriate cognitive
tests that measure developmental skills, such as the ability to focus, as well as
tests that measure comprehension and
verbal ability which are strong indicators
of IQ.
Differences in Kaufman Brief Intelligence
Test — Second Edition
Verbal Scores at Age 7 Years According to Duration
of Any Breastfeeding, With Linear Trend Line
Examples
of accommodations include the ability to complete a
test a different way / format, use
of verbal intermediaries, and ability to request special accommodations in regard to school placement (teachers, friend in the class, etc.).
In 2007, researchers reported in the journal Early Human Development that children who had received no DHA in formula or breast milk during the first 17 weeks
of life had poorer visual acuity at age 4, and did worse on language
tests showing
verbal IQ, than those who fed breast milk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
For a paper published in the International Journal
of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures
of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age
of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on
verbal IQ
tests.
In terms
of cognitive disability, the researchers found that in the subgroup
of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological
testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on
verbal and other cognitive function
tests.
Cognitive
testing before and after treatment included assessment
of verbal memory, specifically recall of spoken words (using the California Verbal Learning Test, Second Edi
verbal memory, specifically recall
of spoken words (using the California
Verbal Learning Test, Second Edi
Verbal Learning
Test, Second Edition).
Hill claims that on the basis
of these
tests he was then subjected to extreme and prolonged
verbal and physical abuse, the police claiming that «he was covered in gelignite».
To
test which
verbal cues dogs really recognize, Andics and his team recruited 13 dogs
of varying breeds, from border collies to golden retrievers.
Participants then went through five standard cognitive
tests involving immediate recall
of a list
of presented words, delayed recall
of those words later, forward and backward recall
of long lists
of numbers, and a
verbal fluency
test in which they listed as many animals as possible without repetition, the use
of proper nouns or descriptors.
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.
This initial model was
tested in a study where participants rated the funniness
of verbal puns, as well as the funniness
of variants
of these jokes (e.g. the punchline on its own, the set - up on its own).
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.
They also took the Chinese version
of an IQ
test called the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised, which examines
verbal and non-
verbal skills such as vocabulary and coding.
It was these two sets
of tests where participants who engaged in weekly sexual activity scored the most highly, with the
verbal fluency
tests showing the strongest effect.
To
test their system, the researchers used a database
of 1,000 images, each
of which had a recording
of a free - form
verbal description associated with it.
Testing confirmed that
verbal IQ scores, which measure vocabulary and language skills, fell in proportion to the hours
of TV the children watched.
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.
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.
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.
To
test whether learning with language impacts which brain networks are involved in stone toolmaking, 15
of the 31 participants learned to knap stone via
verbal instruction by watching videos
of a skilled knapper's hands during individual training sessions.
UA researchers considered survey respondents» self - reports
of physical health and quality
of life, as well as their scores on cognition
tests measuring
verbal fluency, word recall and delayed word recall.
On a
test designed to measure
verbal and mathematical reasoning, for instance, men who were 65 to 70 years old at the beginning
of the study saw their scores decline by 10 %, on average.
Students were also given a
verbal fluency
test, in which higher - order executive functions, such as simultaneous processing, initiation and systematic retrieval
of knowledge were measured.