• Schizophrenia is a brain disorder associated with cognitive deficits that severely affect the patients' capacity for daily functioning. (hindawi.com)
  • Therefore, cognitive deficits in schizophrenia may result from a GABA synapse dysfunction that disturbs neural synchrony. (hindawi.com)
  • Therefore, functional recovery (e.g., recovery of the capacity to maintain employment) is largely dependent on improving cognitive deficits. (hindawi.com)
  • If functional recovery of patients with schizophrenia depends on improving cognitive deficits, then understanding the neural basis of the normal cognitive operations that are impaired in schizophrenia is crucial to develop new therapies. (hindawi.com)
  • Deficits in other cognitive domains and their evolution over time are less well documented. (bvsalud.org)
  • President Donald J. Trump is extremely healthy for his age and has no cognitive deficits, said his physician in a briefing to reporters on the results of a 4-hour exam conducted in consultation with a dozen specialists. (medscape.com)
  • Lead Poisoning Lead poisoning often causes minimal symptoms at first but can cause acute encephalopathy or irreversible organ damage, commonly resulting in cognitive deficits in children. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Evidence of powerful individual differences in cognitive aging has sharpened focus on identifying biological factors underlying relative preservation versus vulnerability to decline. (jneurosci.org)
  • These conflicting results indicate the need for greater clarity for the use of exercise as a method for preventing cognitive decline, specifically the precise parameters needed for improving brain health. (springer.com)
  • A new, massive research effort has examined all available data on whether cognitive training, also colloquially referred to as 'brain training,' can offset cognitive decline. (extremetech.com)
  • With the over-65 population growing rapidly, medical costs rising, and an acute need for treatments that can stop or reverse the onset of Alzheimer's disease , dementia, and other types of cognitive decline, the idea you could use specific types of puzzles and games to accomplish these ends was a potentially huge business. (extremetech.com)
  • The prevalence rate of cognitive decline in males and females in their 50s was 28% and 15%, respectively. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • In males, older age and greater SVA were both significantly and independently associated with cognitive decline. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • When multiple of these variables were considered at once, age alone remained significantly associated with cognitive decline. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • In essence, the study identified that cognitive decline could be reliably detected by combining age and the degree of spinal imbalance. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • This combination was able to detect latent cognitive decline, although it could not rule out decline at any age or spinal balance. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • Over the whole day, consumption of tea rather than water, and of caffeinated compared to decaffeinated beverages, largely prevented the steady decline in alertness LARS and cognitive capacity observed with water ingestion. (erowid.org)
  • Based on the emerging evidence for the role of work design in promoting cognition, we propose an integrative model suggesting that the short-to-medium term processes between work design and cognition accumulate to affect longer-term cognitive outcomes, such as the prevention of cognitive decline as one ages. (cdc.gov)
  • and advancements in science in developed countries have made it possible for people affected by this syndrome to live longer, but an extended life span has brought with it Alzheimer's disease (AD), which exacerbates the cognitive decline in these individuals. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim was to conduct a review on the literature on objective cognitive impairment in patients after COVID-19. (frontiersin.org)
  • All studies on global cognitive function found impairment, ranging from 15 to 80% of the sampled patients. (frontiersin.org)
  • Patients with recent SARS-CoV-2 infection appear to experience global cognitive impairment, impairment in memory, attention and executive function, and in particular verbal fluency. (frontiersin.org)
  • We also identify three longer-term pathways (cognitive preservation, accumulated knowledge, and ill-health impairment). (cdc.gov)
  • Recent studies indicate that several negative lifestyle factors can contribute to the development of cognitive impairment, but intervention and prevention strategies have not been. (lu.se)
  • Overview of Delirium and Dementia Delirium (sometimes called acute confusional state) and dementia are the most common causes of cognitive impairment, although affective disorders (eg, depression) can also disrupt cognition. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia is acute or chronic cognitive deterioration due to diffuse or focal cerebral infarction that is most often related to cerebrovascular disease. (msdmanuals.com)
  • This impairment is sometimes called reversible dementia, but some experts restrict the term dementia to irreversible cognitive deterioration. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Age-associated memory impairment refers to changes in cognition that occur with aging. (msdmanuals.com)
  • They are respected as theories of cognitive psychology and neuroscience and constitute a good part of the limited efforts to create integrated theories of cognition. (lesswrong.com)
  • Conclusions: Major tasks in the field of cognitive medicine are basic neuroscience research to uncover diverse disease mechanisms, determinations of the prevalence of cognitive dysfunction, health-economical evaluations, and intervention studies. (lu.se)
  • Variability across studies might also be explained by factors moderating exercise-induced changes in cognition. (springer.com)
  • Our project essentially focuses on two main chapters, mate choice in seabirds, and cognitive abilities in scavenging/predators birds. (institut-polaire.fr)
  • Language is one of few cognitive abilities unique to our species. (frontiersin.org)
  • These black-feathered avians excel in problem-solving abilities , demonstrating a level of cognitive sophistication that is unrivaled in most species. (birdingtrail.org)
  • There has been convergent evolution of the capacity for auditory-vocal learning, and possibly for structuring of external vocalizations, such that apes lack the abilities that are shared between songbirds and humans. (igi-global.com)
  • Defining cognition in terms of both knowledge and cognitive processes or fluid abilities, we show that five types of work characteristics (job complexity, job autonomy, relational work design, job feedback, and psychosocial demands) affect employees' cognition via multiple pathways. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr Jackson said he had not planned to assess the president's cognitive abilities because most guidelines seemed to indicate it was not necessary unless family and friends had observed troubling behavior. (medscape.com)
  • Anders Brodin , Professor of Theoretical Ecology at Lund University's Department of Biology, has spent many years studying birds' learning and cognitive abilities. (lu.se)
  • Linguistic, Cultural and Cognitive Capacities of Bonobos (Pan paniscus). (wikipedia.org)
  • What role does domain-general cognitive control play in understanding linguistic input? (frontiersin.org)
  • and (ii) whether this engagement is necessary for comprehension (i.e., whether understanding linguistic input requires domain-general cognitive control mechanisms, or whether those mechanisms are helpful but non-essential). (frontiersin.org)
  • First, substantial evidence is necessary concerning the potential impact of linguistic variation on cognitive development, including evidence that can provide ways of articulating precocious capacities in the pre-linguistic period and subsequent developments across a variety of child languages. (benjamins.com)
  • Second, relating language and cognition also requires that we take into account both structural and functional determinants of child language within a model that can explain development at different levels of linguistic organization in the face of cross-linguistic diversity. (benjamins.com)
  • Our intervention research in schools concerns teacher training and the effects on the well-being of teachers and children and the linguistic capacity of the children. (lu.se)
  • Compared to controls, deterioration in cognition and motor function was detectable in both preHD and early HD, as well as worsening in oculomotor function in early HD. (medscape.com)
  • The current study sought to determine whether pregnancy and motherhood are associated with brief or long-term cognitive deterioration using a representative sample and measuring cognition during and before the onset of pregnancy and motherhood. (cambridge.org)
  • No significant differences in cognitive change were found as a function of pregnancy or motherhood, although late pregnancy was associated with deterioration on one of four tests of memory and cognition. (cambridge.org)
  • The hypothesis that pregnancy and motherhood are associated with persistent cognitive deterioration was not supported. (cambridge.org)
  • Dementia is chronic, global, usually irreversible deterioration of cognition. (msdmanuals.com)
  • cause a slow deterioration of cognition that may resolve with treatment. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Based on the current results, we recommend clinicians to evaluate the need for cognitive assessment of patients with a recent COVID-19 infection, regardless of the severity of the disease, treatment methods and length of ICU stay. (frontiersin.org)
  • Dr Jackson employed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment ( MoCA ), a longer, more involved screening test. (medscape.com)
  • Cognitive Capacity after intracranial hemorrhage[The Montreal Cognitive Assessment will evaluate cognition in different domains such as attention, memory, concentration, executive functions, language, visual-constructional skills, calculation, conceptual thinking and orientation. (who.int)
  • Functional Outcomes after intracranial hemorrhage [Modified Rankin Score and Montreal Cognitive Assessment will be used to evaluate the level of physical disability, independence in daily activities, and cognition. (who.int)
  • For that, they are turning to nootropics… chemical supplements that claim to improve cognitive function, increase alertness and strengthen memory and recall. (madinamerica.com)
  • Cholinesterase inhibitors can sometimes temporarily improve cognitive function. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Although positive symptoms are usually the presenting and most striking clinical feature of schizophrenia, disturbances in cognition appear to be the core features of the illness as they are present before the onset of psychosis and are the best predictor of long-term functional outcome for schizophrenia patients [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • We moreover studied the development of gaze following skills in ravens and found an extraordinarily early ontogenetic onset of such predictive capacities. (lu.se)
  • Aging is accompanied by profound changes in the brain's dopamine system that affect cognitive function. (jneurosci.org)
  • We next used fMRI to define the functional impact of elevated synthesis capacity on cognitive flexibility, a core component of executive function. (jneurosci.org)
  • Dopamine therefore represents a prime target for investigating the neurochemical basis of variability in executive function in youth, and may represent a driver of powerful individual differences in cognitive aging. (jneurosci.org)
  • [2] Cognitive architectures are computational models of human brain function, including separate cognitive capacities that work synergistically. (lesswrong.com)
  • An understanding of this capacity is central to several fields: the evolution of form and function, the design of effective strategies for biomedicine, and the creation of novel life forms via chimeric and bioengineering technologies. (mdpi.com)
  • An important function and property of the human cognitive system is the ability to extract important information out of textually and verbally described situations. (wikibooks.org)
  • This indicates a high level of cognitive function and collective intelligence. (birdingtrail.org)
  • The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between spinal balance, age, and cognitive function. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • Cognitive function was assessed using two tests (MoCA and MMSE). (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • Cognitive function scores tended to decrease with age for both males and females. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • When we consider the impact impaired cognitive function has on an individual, their physical and social activity, it highlights the need for effective prevention if at all possible. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • A major role of GABA-mediated transmission may be producing synchronized network oscillations which are currently hypothesized to be essential for normal cognitive function. (hindawi.com)
  • Alterations of GABA signaling that impair gamma oscillations and, as a result, cognitive function suggest paths for novel therapeutic interventions. (hindawi.com)
  • It is possible, however, that such enhancements in cognitive function may not suffice to help us meet the challenges of the 21st century - we may need to take a broader approach to augmenting our consciousness. (gesda.global)
  • SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Few studies have combined measurement of brain dopamine with examination of the neural basis of cognition in youth and aging to delineate the underlying mechanisms of these associations. (jneurosci.org)
  • The study showed change in the total functional capacity, a widely used measure of HD clinical severity, that was associated with both whole-brain and caudate atrophy rates. (medscape.com)
  • Change in cognitive and motor measures were associated with whole-brain volume loss. (medscape.com)
  • I argue that we should stop asking whether domain-general cognitive control mechanisms play a role in language comprehension, and instead focus on characterizing the division of labor between the cognitive control brain regions and the more functionally specialized language regions. (frontiersin.org)
  • This paper examines the relationship between high-level language processing and domain-general cognitive control, with a focus on the brain systems that support these cognitive capacities. (frontiersin.org)
  • Brain regions that support domain-general cognitive control have been implicated in a wide range of goal-directed behaviors (see e.g. (frontiersin.org)
  • The paper is structured as follows: First, I introduce the brain regions that support high-level language processing vs. domain-general cognitive control, and discuss the evidence for the neural separability of these two sets of brain regions. (frontiersin.org)
  • Next-generation artificial intelligence algorithms, designed to mimic the more probabilistic and error-tolerant computations done by human brain networks, will be hybridised with human intelligence to boost the human capacity for learning further. (gesda.global)
  • The assumption has always been that the brain and its capacity are linked to the size of the body - large organism, larger brain and better cognition. (lu.se)
  • a traumatic brain injury (eg, chronic traumatic encephalopathy), or certain brain tumors located in cortical or subcortical brain areas involved in cognition. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The objective of this article is to describe how the 6 concept-mapping phases originally outlined by William Trochim guided our strategic planning process and how we adjusted the specific methods in the first 2 phases to meet the specialized needs and requirements to create The Healthy Brain Initiative: A National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health . (cdc.gov)
  • We then selected the top 10 action items, and in 2007, we published The Healthy Brain Initiative: A National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health, which represents the strategic plan for The Healthy Brain Initiative. (cdc.gov)
  • That same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alzheimer's Association formed a new partnership, The Healthy Brain Initiative, to examine how best to bring a public health perspective to the promotion of cognitive health. (cdc.gov)
  • To illustrate concept mapping in concrete terms, we show how the tool was applied to create a conceptual framework for The Healthy Brain Initiative: A National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health (10), hereafter referred to as the Road Map. (cdc.gov)
  • Through studying socio-cognitive capacities in extant archosaurs, it is possible to draw inferences on the social cognition of non-avian dinosaurs. (lu.se)
  • The use of high-intensity exercise is safe in older populations [ 9 ] and provides a time-effective method to increase physical health, yet, until more consistent and rigorous evidence is available, the widespread use of high-intensity exercise to enhance cognitive health will continue to be questioned. (springer.com)
  • Although much evidence has suggested that domain-general cognitive control and working memory resources are sometimes recruited during language comprehension, many aspects of this relationship remain elusive. (frontiersin.org)
  • The third category of symptoms includes a number of cognitive abnormalities such as disturbances in selective attention, working memory, executive control, episodic memory, language comprehension, and social-emotional processing. (hindawi.com)
  • These ubiquitous black birds are far more intelligent than they get credit for and have exhibited complex cognitive behaviors that may surprise you. (birdingtrail.org)
  • I am a cognitive zoologist that have focused a lot of my research on cognitive comparisons between birds and mammals, in particular corvids and great apes. (lu.se)
  • Since 2017, I am also researching dinosaur cognition by comparing the cognitive skills of several palaeognath birds and American alligators. (lu.se)
  • To obtain a better understanding of the evolution of social cognition in the avian lineage, this thesis investigates species phylogenetically bracketing the lineage of dinosaurs from which the birds derived. (lu.se)
  • Here, drawing findings from behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, we provide a new model, labeled "The interactive influence model of emotion and cognition," to elaborate the relationship of emotion and reason in decision making. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this review, drawing on findings from behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, we firstly identify decision contexts in which emotion overrides reason to influence human behaviors and then discuss how cognition regulates emotion as well as how emotion and cognition cooperate to influence decisions. (frontiersin.org)
  • Together, these findings define striatal dopamine's association with cognitive flexibility and its neural underpinnings in young adults, and reveal the alteration in dopamine-related neural processes in aging. (jneurosci.org)
  • Combining in vivo PET imaging of dopamine synthesis capacity, fMRI, and a sensitive measure of cognitive flexibility, we reveal three core findings. (jneurosci.org)
  • however, studies examining the impact of exercise interventions on cognition have produced inconsistent findings. (springer.com)
  • Finally, we used our findings to hypothesize about social cognition in extinct dinosaurs. (lu.se)
  • Taken together, the findings of this thesis suggest that non-avian paravians possessed a variety of socio-cognitive skills surpassing those of mammals living at the same time. (lu.se)
  • This multi-arm pilot randomised clinical trial investigated the effects of 6 months of high-intensity exercise and moderate-intensity exercise, compared with an inactive control, on cognition. (springer.com)
  • For example, the multicenter, NIMH-funded Clinical Antipsychotic Trials in Intervention Effectiveness project recently found that newer atypical antipsychotics are not significantly more effective for treating psychosis than older typical antipsychotic medications and showed little benefit for improving cognitive symptoms [ 2 , 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Raising awareness for cognitive medicine as a clinical topic would also highlight the importance of specialized health care units for an integrative approach to the treatment of cognitive dysfunctions. (lu.se)
  • Indeed, a 2015 Cochrane review [ 2 ] of RCTs concluded there is insufficient evidence, in cognitively normal older adults, to suggest an effect of exercise on cognition. (springer.com)
  • In the short-to-medium term, we identify three cognitively enriching pathways (opportunity for use of cognition, accelerated knowledge acquisition, motivated exploratory learning) and two cognitively harmful pathways (strain-impaired cognition, depleted cognitive capacity). (cdc.gov)
  • Cognitive architectures are a longstanding field of research at the conjunction of computer science and cognitive psychology. (lesswrong.com)
  • He works as Chair of the Biology & Cognitive Psychology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Netherlands), since 2007. (wikibooks.org)
  • This course is an introduction to cognition, an area of psychology that investigates the ways in which we acquire, store, create and use knowledge. (psu.edu)
  • I am also practically responsible for Lund University Corvid Cognition Station and the caretaker of the ravens living there. (lu.se)
  • I'm a doctoral student in cognitive zoology at the Department of Philosophy of Lund University since September 2021. (lu.se)
  • After the illness, around one fifth of all patients had one or more of the aforementioned cognitive impairments. (frontiersin.org)
  • The topics of social ontology, culture, and institutions constitute a problem complex that involves a broad range of human social and cultural cognitive capacities. (researchgate.net)
  • Language comprises a central component of a complex that is sometimes called "the human capacity. (igi-global.com)
  • Rather, the development of such capacities appears to require sustained investment in relatively complex environments that afford opportunities for consistent practice and engagement with domain-related challenges. (extremetech.com)
  • Much of human cognitive capacity is shaped by culture, including exposure to tools like mathematics and language, which underpin the ability to grasp abstract concepts and create complex models of the world. (gesda.global)
  • Complex cognition is readily described as cognitive tasks requiring the coordination of multiple steps of processing or tasks exceeding short term memory capacity. (dissertations.se)
  • These two groups share similar cognitive functions even in their most flexible and complex cognition. (lu.se)
  • The separate evolution of the similar cognition in these two lineages likely harbors many answers to principal questions on the nature of cognition. (lu.se)
  • To study the evolution of social cognition, it is crucial to investigate several distantly related lineages. (lu.se)
  • Studies in comparative cognition have traditionally been biased towards primates and a few social mammalian species, limiting evolutionary interpretations to few and closely related lineages. (lu.se)
  • There is a reason why it's we humans who are talking about intelligence, cognition and smartness, and not the chimpanzees or other organisms. (lu.se)
  • That said, much behavioral and neuroimaging evidence (to be reviewed in section Narrowing Down the Hypothesis Space for the Relationship between Language Processing Mechanisms and Cognitive Control Mechanisms) suggests that domain-general cognitive control mechanisms do sometimes get recruited during language comprehension . (frontiersin.org)
  • I then introduce two questions about the relationship between language comprehension and cognitive control and define the hypothesis space for each. (frontiersin.org)
  • One must admit that it would only be natural for psychiatry to seek out methods for "cognitive enhancement. (madinamerica.com)
  • Language and Cognitive Processes 13 .51: 521-549. (benjamins.com)
  • Globally, the changing aging pyramid results in increased prevalence of cognitive disorders, and the diversity of cultures influences the expression, manifestation and consequences of cognitive dysfunction. (lu.se)
  • We conclude that entropy may be a promising marker of cognitive tasks and acute mild stress. (nature.com)
  • Disability induced by cognitive dysfunction is also a major issue in groups of patients not suffering from Alzheimer's disease or related disorders. (lu.se)
  • The contribution of both emotion and cognition is undeniable in this situation. (frontiersin.org)
  • This study examined the cognitive profiles of the PPA variants over time and determined the contribution of cognition on functional capacity. (bvsalud.org)
  • The relative contribution of ACE-III subdomain scores to overall functional capacity over time was identified using mixed and hierarchical regression modelling. (bvsalud.org)
  • however, the contribution of cognition on functional capacity varied across variants and over time. (bvsalud.org)
  • Variability in synthesis capacity was related to intrinsic frontoparietal functional connectivity across groups, suggesting that striatal dopamine synthesis influences the tuning of networks underlying cognitive flexibility. (jneurosci.org)
  • Therapoints - Aiding in the cognition of fine motor control, this workbook helps people with cognitive difficulties regain functional capacity in their fingers. (ttu.edu)
  • Each of these elements - family ties, cooperation, shared knowledge, language-like call systems, and conflict resolution - is a testament to their cognitive capabilities, making them one of the underrated geniuses in the animal kingdom. (birdingtrail.org)
  • Reference Crawley, Dennison and Carter 17 However, the animal-model literature paints a radically different picture of the effects of pregnancy and motherhood on cognitive capabilities. (cambridge.org)
  • Our project, merges animal behaviour, sensory ecology, and cognition, and aims at studying those cues and clues influencing seabirds' behaviour. (institut-polaire.fr)
  • This machinery includes sensory and motor systems, memory and attention mechanisms, and mechanisms that support social cognition, among others. (frontiersin.org)
  • Cognitive research studies how sensory input, learning and information are managed. (lu.se)
  • They have been used as tools to create theories about human cognition, and similar variants have been applied as AI tools. (lesswrong.com)
  • Data were collected as part of a large-scale transdiagnostic, four-week observational study of individuals initiating internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT) or antidepressant medication. (elifesciences.org)
  • Tea ingestion is associated with rapid increases in alertness and information processing capacity and tea drinking throughout the day largely prevents the diurnal pattern of performance decrements found with the placebo no caffeine condition. (erowid.org)
  • We-mode social cognition and shared intentionality appear to be crucial in the formation of social ontology and social institutions, which, in turn, provide the bases for the social man. (researchgate.net)
  • Our objective is to provide empirical data of skuas in social cognition (e.g. may skuas learn from conspecifics? (institut-polaire.fr)
  • Nevertheless, we know of no evidence for broad-based improvement in cognition, academic achievement, professional performance, and/or social competencies that derives from decontextualized practice of cognitive skills devoid of domain-specific content. (extremetech.com)
  • The relation between language and cognition in child development is one of the oldest and most debated questions, which has recently come back to the forefront of several disciplines in the social sciences. (benjamins.com)
  • Emotions have also been seen as being genetically endowed thus we are born with the capacity to feel emotions and not learn them from social situation. (wikiversity.org)
  • Background: The challenges of today's society call for more knowledge about how to maintain all aspects of cognitive health, such as speed/attention, memory/learning, visuospatial ability, language, executive capacity and social cognition during the life course. (lu.se)
  • Review of the book The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition]. (wikipedia.org)
  • Boosting cognitive capacity further will require further enrichment of the cultural environment. (gesda.global)
  • Cognitive capacities interact synergistically in human cognition. (lesswrong.com)
  • It is no mystery that cognition, physical capacity, socialisation, and overall quality of life are interconnected aspects of human health. (spinalresearch.com.au)
  • While it's a normal part of human cognition, excessive mind-wandering can impact productivity . (yahoo.com)
  • Understanding whether and how work design affects human cognition is important because: (a) cognition is necessary for job performance, (b) digital technologies increase the need for cognition, and (c) it is vital to maintain cognitive functioning in the mature workforce. (cdc.gov)
  • Currently I am a research assistant in the cognitive zoology group at the department of Philosophy, where I for the past years mostly have been collecting experimental data on various animal species. (lu.se)
  • Overall, my goal is to identify the factors which drive the evolution of cognition by assessing the presence and extent of cognitive skills in different animal species in key positions on the phylogenetic tree. (lu.se)
  • Both the New York Observer and New York Times investigate the rise of the use of "cognitive enhancement" and energy-increasing psychiatric drugs among stressed workers and ambitious executives. (madinamerica.com)
  • However, language has neither evolved nor does it exist in isolation from other cognitive and neural machinery (e.g. (frontiersin.org)
  • The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effect of systematically manipulated high-intensity and moderate-intensity exercise interventions on cognition. (springer.com)
  • By assuming situations to be encoded by perceptual symbols (Barsalou, 1999), the theory of Situation Models touches many aspects of Cognitive Philosophy, Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. (wikibooks.org)
  • Situation models not only form a central concept in theories of situated cognition that helps us in understanding how situational information is collected and how new information gets integrated, but they can also explain many other phenomena. (wikibooks.org)
  • 5 Further enhancement of cognition is a major project for the 21st century, to be realised by more of the same, plus drugs and machine interfaces. (gesda.global)
  • Disability due to cognitive failure among the workforce has become a major challenge. (lu.se)
  • We found clear evidence in young adults that low levels of synthesis capacity were suboptimal, associated with diminished cognitive flexibility and altered frontoparietal activation relative to young adults with highest synthesis values. (jneurosci.org)
  • Third, we demonstrate alteration of these relationships in older adults, suggesting neurochemical modulation of cognitive flexibility changes with age. (jneurosci.org)
  • When you're more successful in soccer, you have cognitive flexibility, you can shift focus, you can suppress behaviour, you can be creative and find solutions very fast," he says. (newscientist.com)
  • Negative symptoms include asociality (withdrawal or isolation from family and friends), avolition (impaired initiative, motivation, and decision-making), alogia (poverty in the amount or content of speech), and anhedonia (reduced capacity to experience pleasure). (hindawi.com)
  • However, in patients with the above disorders, evaluation of cognitive ability is expected to provide effective information in determining decision-making ability level. (scirp.org)
  • These questions focus on four areas pertaining to disability: Capacity, Functioning, Broad Environment, and Use of Assistive Devices. (cdc.gov)
  • The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC-III) is a representative test for evaluating cognitive ability. (scirp.org)
  • Critically, these relationships between dopamine, performance, and activation were transformed in older adults with higher synthesis capacity. (jneurosci.org)
  • First, we find evidence supporting older adults' capacity to upregulate dopamine synthesis. (jneurosci.org)
  • It's quite possible that there are enough of those things that this direction will be eclipsed by continued development of large models, and that progress in integrating cognitive capacities will take a different route. (lesswrong.com)
  • It poses a major threat to maternal and child survival, contributes to low birth weight, lowered resistance to infection, poor cognitive development and decreased work productivity. (who.int)
  • Second, we define relationships between dopamine, cognition, and frontoparietal activity in young adults indicating high levels of synthesis capacity are optimal. (jneurosci.org)
  • Previous research has linked mind-wandering to anxiety, depression and creative thinking, as well as the executive control capacities of an individual. (yahoo.com)
  • This research doesn't answer the nature versus nurture question - it isn't clear if the cognitive skill in athletes is innate, or if it is a result of training, says Faubert. (newscientist.com)
  • That is why deep time cognitive research is of essence. (lu.se)
  • In 2005, Congress appropriated funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address cognitive health (2). (cdc.gov)
  • Using the PET tracer 6-[ 18 F]fluoro- l - m -tyrosine, we found strong support for upregulated striatal dopamine synthesis capacity in healthy older adult humans free of amyloid pathology, relative to young people. (jneurosci.org)
  • We share our cognitive load with systems that enhance general consciousness, attention and recall. (gesda.global)
  • In the domain of language, cognitive control has been shown to play an important role in language production , based on behavioral evidence (e.g. (frontiersin.org)