Sentences with phrase «with higher cognitive»

As hypothesized, both husbands and wives had lower marital quality when their cognitive egalitarianism was discrepant from their partner, and such a discrepancy had a greater influence on wives» reports of marital quality, especially for wives with higher cognitive egalitarianism.

This project aims to quantify the causal effects of being exposed to peers with higher cognitive and social skills.

U.S. students are particularly weak in performing math tasks with higher cognitive demands, such as taking real - world situations and translating them into mathematical terms, according to the OECD report.

It's now accepted that overall fitness is associated with higher cognitive function and learning.

Of note, greater brain volume has been shown to be correlated with higher cognitive functioning.

Dart argued that a brain structure called the lunate sulcus had been thrust back into a human position and that parts of the brain linked with higher cognitive functions had expanded.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

Other studies have shown that words that are used to express balance or nuance («except,» «but,» and so on) are associated with higher cognitive complexity, better grades and even the truthfulness with which facts are reported.

However, children's fruit consumption had beneficial effects and was associated with higher cognitive scores.

Child consumption of both fructose and fruit in early childhood was associated with higher cognitive scores in several areas and greater receptive vocabulary.

People with high cognitive ability showed the reverse pattern.

Distinguishing groups from the professional or managerial classes, from more expensive owner - occupied housing or with high cognitive scores would serve to increase the contrasts observed and provide an alternative focus in interpreting the gradients of association.

Not exact matches

«They are designed with a primary goal of engendering high levels of immersion, engagement, and enjoyment for the players, -LSB-...] They do not tend to focus on one specific cognitive skill, as exercises usually do, but rather expose players to multiple demands that challenge a broad range of abilities.»

Online quizzes are what I call Cognitive Catnip; people engage with them at remarkably high rates, often spending several minutes in each quiz, then sharing with colleagues and friends.

Although you can access gamma brain waves during periods of extremely high functioning, it's the beta waves that scientists associate with everyday alertness, critical thinking, socialization, learning and cognitive processing.

A small 2009 study found that of the 41 participants with mild cognitive impairment, those who had higher stress ratings also had faster rates of cognitive decline.

«When you initially learn mindfulness meditation practices, you have to cognitively work at it — especially during a stressful task — and, these active cognitive efforts may result in the task feeling less stressful, but they may also have physiological costs with higher cortisol production,» Creswell explained.

Studies have shown that walking more lowers risks of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, which is linked with decreased cognitive function.

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

Could it be that you have been experiencing some cognitive dissonance with being a believer and a high view of scripture whilst advocating the pointing finger where the bible here places such action in the same light as oppression.

Recently, Singer repeated this assertion in an interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and cognitive disabilities have less value than animals with higher capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):

In comparison with this «modern» world with its demanding cognitive criteria and its high social ideals, the traditional religions seemed anachronistic and outdated, empty and uncertain, narcissistic and undemanding — and incurably white and bourgeois.

People who have achieved a high degree of cognitive sophistication in one domain may make use of relatively simple cognitive strategies in other areas or may resort to such strategies when taken out of contexts with which they are familiar.

Particularly in the case of commercial messages, language becomes a surrealistic, frenetic, high - volume self - ridicule with little or no cognitive content, let alone defensible arguments.

Adjusted OR for cognitive impairment (MMSE score < 24) were 2 · 23 (95 % CI 1 · 24, 3 · 99) for total sugars and 2 · 28 (95 % CI 1 · 26, 4 · 14) for added sugars, comparing the highest with lowest intake quintiles.

«While we can't make a direct link between higher caffeine consumption and lower incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia, with further study, we can better quantify its relationship with cognitive health outcomes.

What they found is that the more parents talked with baby, the higher the child's cognitive and language skills at 18 months of age.

«It is imperative that we set high standards for the safety and well - being of children and youth in our sports and fitness programs to ensure their physical, cognitive, social and emotional health,» said Donna M. McGrath, with Army CYSS Sports & Fitness Program Manager.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Mothers with higher education may already follow child - rearing practices that stimulate cognitive development of their infants through more frequent verbal interactions and reading.

After adjustment for 15 appropriate key factors (including maternal age, education, race, ethnicity, SES, family size and childhood experiences), breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

Higher levels of fatty acids in blood samples were associated with improved cognitive development, particularly verbal and fine motor skills.

During the follow - up visit (3 years old), kids with moms who had encouraged their children's autonomy showed better levels of cognitive functioning — specifically, the kids were more adept at processing «higher» thinking like delayed gratification and juggling multiple concepts.

Fathers» involvement in parenting is associated with positive cognitive, developmental, and socio - behavioural child outcomes such as improved weight gain in preterm infants, improved breastfeeding rates, higher receptive language skills, and higher academic achievement [33].

Infants with high vs. low maternal involvement in the single - family room and open bay NICUs were compared on the Bayley Cognitive, Language and Motor scores and Pervasive Developmental Disorders autism screen.

The new facility will provide critical space to offer evidence - based programming to help inmates address behavioral and criminogenic issues, such as the County's new RESTART program that offers cognitive therapy for high - risk offenders that is linked with critical aftercare and connects them with community providers when they return home.

Analyses of brain activity also revealed that we are more likely to use this type of shallow processing under conditions of higher cognitive load - that is, when the task we are faced with is more difficult or when we are dealing with more than one task at a time.

Although she acknowledges that the relationship between intelligence and neuron count has not yet been firmly established, Herculano - Houzel and her colleagues argue that avian brains with the same or greater forebrain neuron counts than primates with much larger brains can potentially provide the birds with much higher «cognitive power» per pound than mammals.

Researchers also found those with high blood pressure performed significantly worse on two different assessments of cognitive function and memory.

People with the rare AB blood type, present in less than 10 percent of the population, have a higher than usual risk of cognitive problems as they age.

The researchers therefore believe that the cognitive problems can be explained to a high degree by the risk factors that are common to patients with different types of heart complaint, for example diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Scientists have theorized that this reduction in glutamate activity, and therefore the higher KYNA levels seen in patients, might be connected with a range of symptoms seen in schizophrenia, especially cognitive problems.

For women with the lowest levels — about 25 percent of the general population — increased dopamine during ovulation will sharpen cognitive functions, whereas for the 25 percent of women with the highest levels, ovulation seems to take them beyond a threshold and to impair thinking.

In fact, today many researchers believed that our brain is able to develop higher cognitive skills simply by interacting with the environment, starting from very little innate knowledge.

People with mild cognitive impairment are at one - in - 10 risk of developing dementia within a year — and the risk is markedly higher among those with depression.

Based on analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.

The positive impact of sustained high levels of maternal responsivity from toddlerhood through middle childhood was true even for children with more autistic symptoms and lower nonverbal cognitive development levels.

Instead, quite a moderate amount of physical activity was found to be sufficient for memory - protecting benefits, and only the most inactive group of twins stood out with a significantly higher risk for cognitive impairment.