Sentences with phrase «working memory tests»

Then they assessed the volunteers» performance on working memory tests and a test of problem - solving ability.

Previous work by Kofler and his colleagues at University of Mississippi Medical Center showed that kids with ADHD did better on working memory tests when they moved more — suggesting that these kids may benefit cognitively from behaviors like squirming or fidgeting.

Case No. 18 states that a study in which a healthy volunteer undergoes MRI brain imaging while performing a working memory test is now a clinical trial because the effect being evaluated — brain function — is a health - related outcome.

[15] One study has shown that consumption of dark chocolate improved performance on cognitive tests which included the abstract reasoning test, the scanning and tracking test, the working memory test, the visual - spatial memory test, and the organization test.

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Your mother may have warned you not to walk and chew gum at the same time, but when Schaefer compared the performance of both children and young adults on a standard test of working memory when they were sitting with when they were walking, her results contradicted mom's advice.

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.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

However, at age 9 months and 12 months, mice on the extra virgin olive oil - enriched diet performed significantly better on tests designed to evaluate working memory, spatial memory, and learning abilities.

However, it must be kept in mind that we have not tested whether the observed sex - dependent effects of sleep loss on working memory during morning hours would also occur at other time points of the day.

In one experiment, published in March 2016, a team from the Netherlands reported that a commercial tDCS headset actually made participants less accurate in a well - established test of working memory.

In addition, a growing number of studies are testing tDCS in healthy people and suggest it can improve working memory, attention and decision - making as well as stimulate creativity.

In a typical test procedure for evaluating working memory, cognitive aging researcher Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia asked people to perform arithmetic computations while also trying to remember the last digit in each problem.

«Test results indicated that continued use of standing desks was associated with significant improvements in executive function and working memory capabilities,» Mehta said.

In the less difficult version, they were told how many items they had to remember, and took the test in order; in the difficult version, the amount of information to remember in working memory was random.

Voss now plans to test whether this method works on individuals who have disorders in which the memory association network is weak, such as Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia.

In his review of the latter (Review, 5 May 1990), Paul Harvey wrote, «The very fact that these particular scientists (Bryan Clarke, Tom Kemp, Pat Bateson, Robin Dunbar, Bob Martin, et al.) felt moved to write in memory of Huxley says a lot for the legacy he left us which, I conclude, is more one of inspiration than of scientific achievement... Julian Huxley's published works have not stood the test of time; his vision of progress in evolution that led him to revere Teilhard de Chardin is one example.»

The training programs Johns Hopkins compared are not the commercial products available sold to consumers, but tools scientists rely on to test the brain's working memory.

However, Participants with PD and OH were far more susceptible to posture - related impairment on several tests, including those that measured math skills, the ability to produce words easily, keeping information in mind while working on it, paying sufficient attention so that later memory is efficient and searching for items quickly and accurately.

Dozens of groups are now working on pilot tests of the device for memory impairments.

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

But those taking care of grandchildren for five or more days a week did significantly worse on one of the tests, which assesses working memory and mental processing speed.

«Our results show a clear statistical correlation between a high level of language competence and a good working memory in the students we tested,» she says.

They were tested on both their Norwegian and English language skills, as well as on working memory skills.

Cognition outcome measures include tests of general intelligence that determine IQ scores such as the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery, which tests working memory, language and processing speed, among other things.

«My lab works on the neural bases of learning and memory,» says Pozzo - Miller, «so we decided to test if LM22A - 4 was able to improve spatial discrimination deficits by enhancing synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for spatial learning and memory.»

The boys and girls were given a standardized English test and a test of «Working Memory,» a temporary storage in the brain used to organize, manipulate and analyze newly arrived information.

The tests were repeated one and two years later, with the findings showing a connection between important executive functions related to working memory, language and reading comprehension.

In this second study, the researchers tested children who were in the bottom quarter of ability in reading, and found that fish oil supplements did not have any or very little effect on the children's reading ability or working memory and behaviours.

The ONTRAC trial assessed ADHD symptom severity using a parent rating scale, and measured cognitive performance on tests of attention, response inhibition and working memory.

Sandström also asked healthy women and those with exhaustion syndrome and major depression to complete a working - memory test.

In one test for working memory — the ability to use recent experience to make decisions — the mice were trained to find food in one arm of a maze based on a visual cue.

The older gamers showed gains of about 100 milliseconds in the speed of their response to a test of working memory — the ability to hold something in the mind briefly and then recall it — while there were no improvements in the control groups (who either didn't play the game or weren't forced to do the driving and sign recognition tasks simultaneously).

Next the NIMH team plans to test whether COMT - blocking drugs, currently used to treat Parkinson's disease, can improve working memory in schizophrenics.

The researchers then analyzed post-concussion symptoms, neuropsychological test results and working memory activity in both groups.

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.

A «brain training» iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at work and living independently, according to research.

The children also scored lower on tests of reading and working memory.

The researchers also ran a test of working memory called a «sentence span task,» in which the women were each given a series and then asked whether each sentence made sense.

They then performed serial behavioral tests on the mice, including Y - maze test (to assess working memory), rotarod test (motor function and learning), and contextual and cued fear condition test (fear learning and memory).

The trial mainly tested the safety of the drug in people, and so the final word on whether aducanumab works to ameliorate the memory and cognitive losses associated with Alzheimer's will have to wait until the completion of two larger phase III trials.

Both tests activated the frontal and parietal regions with a clear left - handed predominance, regions anatomically related to attention and working memory functions.

What's more, the researchers also reported that over a six - month period, participants in the aerobic exercise group improved in tests that measure executive function — a set of thinking processes that include working memory, reasoning, and problem solving — while the stretching group showed no change.

Software was tested which was created to improve working memory, one of the main deficiencies seen in ADHD individuals.

Just one 20 - minute Hatha yoga session has been shown to improve accuracy and speed on tests of inhibitory control and working memory, two measures of brain function responsible for the capability of remaining focused and absorbing as well as retaining information.

They were better at remembering numbers in a backwards order; their working memory was better, and they scored higher on a test of general intelligence.

In addition, cognitive function was assessed through a variety of tests that included working memory, verbal episodic memory and visual - spatial memory as well as scanning and tracking.

Further studies are needed to test whether green tea improves working memory.

In the test involving the young men, mild dehydration caused some difficulty with mental tasks, particularly in the areas of vigilance and working memory, according to the results of the second UConn study.

The correlations between our measures of fluid cognitive skills and 8th - grade math test scores are positive and statistically significant, ranging from 0.27 for working memory to 0.53 for fluid reasoning.

The research conducted by Mark Moss, from Northumbria University, found that pupils working in a room with the aroma of rosemary, in the form of an essential oil, achieved five to seven percent better results in memory tests.