In our written reports, common areas of discussion include attention and concentration, intellectual abilities, language skills,
visual spatial abilities, executive functioning issues, learning and memory and psychological functioning.
Not exact matches
We also administered the Wide Range Assessment of
Visual Motor Abilities (WRAVMA) 12 pegboard (fine motor), matching (visual spatial), and drawing (visual motor) sub
Visual Motor
Abilities (WRAVMA) 12 pegboard (fine motor), matching (
visual spatial), and drawing (visual motor) sub
visual spatial), and drawing (
visual motor) sub
visual motor) subtests.
Maternal diet soda consumption was associated with poorer fine motor,
visual spatial, and
visual motor
abilities in early childhood and poorer verbal
abilities in mid-childhood.
The standard definition of normal
visual acuity (20/20 or 6/6 vision) is the
ability to resolve a
spatial pattern separated by a
visual angle of one minute of arc.
To test whether the hippocampus could actually form
spatial maps using only
visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the
ability to use smells and sounds as cues.
Falk reasoned that the extra neurons of men and rhesus males are most likely dedicated to
visual -
spatial skills, such as map reading, distinguishing between left and right, and mentally rotating figures — all
abilities useful for navigating uncharted territories in search of mates.
Visual /
spatial is the
ability to hear or read a word and capture how you see it through sensory to remember it.
All groups who exercised saw some benefit, and those who exercised more saw more benefits, particularly in improved
visual -
spatial processing — the
ability to perceive where objects are in space and how far apart they are from each other.
«It's been proposed that Neanderthals depended on
visual -
spatial abilities and toolmaking, for survival, more so than on the social affiliation and group activities that typify the success of modern humans — and that Neanderthal brains evolved to preferentially support these visuospatial functions,» Berman explained.
«In fact, the particular regions and connections we found support an emerging body of neuroscience evidence indicating that intelligence depends on the brain's
ability to integrate information from verbal,
visual,
spatial and executive processes,» he said.
For example, center researchers will be investigating the hypothesis that some high - functioning autistic adults have exceptional
visual,
spatial and pattern - recognition
abilities that give them a unique advantage for certain tasks such as data visualization
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.
«Warning signs are changes in mood or personality, withdrawal from work or social activities, decreased or poor judgment, misplacing things and losing the
ability to retrace steps, new problems with words both in speaking and writing, trouble understanding
visual or
spatial relationships, confusion with time or place, difficulty completing familiar tasks, challenge in planning or solving problems and memory loss,» according to The Alzheimer's Association.
In monkeys, deficiency of male hormones impairs the development of
spatial perception (which, in humans, is normally more acute in men than in women), of learning
ability and of
visual discrimination tasks (such as would be required for reading.)
In monkeys, deficiency of male hormones impairs learning and the
ability to perform
visual discrimination tasks - such as would be required for reading - and retards the development of
spatial perception, which is normally more acute in men than in women.
Some studies show that such benefits can come from video games, as these can strengthen a range of cognitive
abilities, including
visual and
spatial discrimination, memory, reasoning, logic, and problem solving.
Most importantly, research shows that video games sharpen
visual discrimination skills,
spatial thinking, and the
ability to visualize and interact with 3D objects — good predictors of not only academic achievement but future engagement and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — the STEM fields.
Often lost in the discussion of girls» advantages is the reality that boys outperform girls on tests of
visual and
spatial abilities, and do at least as well on tests of mathematical skills at this age, and these differences widen as they advance in school.
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Visual -
spatial ability — how we understand and manipulate what we see — is fundamental to almost all school learning.
Spatial:
Spatial thinkers tend to have good
visual memory and an artistic eye or
ability, especially in multiple dimensions.
Technology's
ability to capture data and present them in multifaceted
visual forms ensures a growing need to capitalize on
spatial intelligence, says geospatial extension specialist Shannon White.
Examining her Rot - schwarz - gelbes, almost floating atop the large, low white platform, one becomes conscious of its layers, its considered deployment of color, its complexity, and its
ability to trick your
visual and
spatial awareness.
Children who had witnessed domestic violence had significantly poorer verbal
abilities than nonwitnesses after controlling for SES and child abuse, but there were no group differences on
visual —
spatial abilities.
(April 2015) which identifies lead's «Neurobehavioral Signature,» and the negative impact that lead exposure has on children's cognitive
abilities, speech and language, hearing,
visual -
spatial skills, attention, impulse control, social behavior, emotional regulation, and motor skills.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a paper Educational Interventions for Children Affected by Lead (April 2015) which identifies lead's «Neurobehavioral Signature,» and the negative impact that lead exposure has on children's cognitive
abilities, speech and language, hearing,
visual -
spatial skills, attention, impulse control, social behavior, emotional regulation, and motor skills.