How alcohol affects the cognition of a person with dementia isn't completely understood, but four new studies presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference shed a little more light on their relationship.
Whereas every dog lab now tests the cognition of its animals while their human owners are blindfolded or asked to face away, young children are still presented with cognitive tasks while sitting on their mothers' laps.
On Thursday, Carnegie Mellon University invited Pitt to have his brain imaged and be examined by Marlene Behrmann, a neuroscientist, professor of psychology and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition within the university's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
She has been Associate Faculty of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California at San Diego since 2002 and Professor Emerita of Social Research Methodology at the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she taught from 1989 to 2009.
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It is quite puzzling, therefore, why the field of animal cognition has such a long history of claims about the absence of capacities based on just a few strolls through the forest.
Beyond issues of cognition, not all Americans have the discipline and the drive to master a complex body of advanced subject matter.
This drug appears to provide a small but significant benefit in terms of cognition.
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Social scientists note that there are two different modes of cognition: the paradigmatic mode and the narrative mode.
The design principles of a Man-Machine framework that truly respects human virtuosity can be explained by the Three Levels of Cognition developed by Prof.
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People who continued taking donepezil did better on two different scales of cognition and impairment than those taking no medication or those taking memantine alone.
It is a realm of Being with its own characteristics, its own laws, and to which we have access by an organ of cognition appropriate to just this realm.
The results showed that the people who had higher levels of infection had a 25 percent increase in the risk of a low score on a common test of cognition called the Mini-Mental State Examination.
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Several hundred pages are devoted to the neuroscience of perception, cognition, emotion, empathy and other aspects of social awareness.
Those strong assumptions about states of knowledge and cognition have not always been at the centre of the economics profession.
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The elegant basic idea is that variation along a small number of universal dimensions of emotion and cognition can account for the entire stunning range of human morality.
In the 1990s, Russian chemist Sergey Bachurin showed it had potential for improving cognition in a variety of lab-animal tests.
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Behavioral economists are right to point to the limitations of human cognition.
By requiring speakers to carefully consider the meaning of their words, he hoped that his analytical language would force many of the subterranean quirks of human cognition to the surface, and free people from the bugs that infect their thinking.
Dr Matthew Brett, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. said there had only been limited research into the long-term effects of motherhood in humans.
And of all the artifacts that have aided cognition, the most important is the development of writing, or more properly, of notational systems: number systems, writing, calendars, notational systems for mathematics, engineering, music and dance.
Others are skeptical that AI will ever reach human levels of intelligence and cognition, let alone surpass it.
Over the past ten years, a number of studies have shown that video game players often outperform non-gamers on measures of perception and cognition, and that video game practice can enhance those abilities.
When ads are pulled because of new and serious side effects, some reappear in a longer form with more detail about the new risks, says Ruth Day, director of the Medical Cognition Laboratory at Duke University.
However, the second study, carried out by Dr Bugnyar when he was working at the University of Austria, and published last month in Animal Cognition, suggests that ravens may have mastered the art of deception too.
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It calms hyperactive people, peps up those in need of energy and improves cognition in Alzheimer's patients.
University of Virginia professor of psychology Jonathan Haidt is a pioneer in the scientific study of moral emotion and cognition.
The last bastion of defence in favour of our superiority was cognition.
Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative.
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