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Originally used to help patients with brain injuries, tDCS has supposedly been found to increase cognitive performance in healthy adults.
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Other projects have explored how HRI can be applied to enhance human behavior as applied to motor learning and cognitive performance.
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Rodents put on such diets show declines in cognitive performance within weeks.
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Complex male bowerbird behaviour including dance routines, mimicking of other birds and the building of the bower may allow females to get an idea of a male's cognitive performance.
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The researchers found that, as a whole, the WoW group saw a greater increase in cognitive performance than the control group, though improvements tended to vary on a person-to-person basis.
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For four weeks starting April 20, Mayo Clinic researchers were in Nepal taking physiological measurements of 10 climbers' hearts and lungs, as well as conducting sleep studies and cognitive performance tests on them.
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Previous studies have shown that quick, insightful solutions tend to be more correct than analytic solutions (at least, for the types of tasks in the study), and other studies have shown that a positive mood enhances overall cognitive performance.
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"Further tests are needed to confirm this, but if neurofeedback can positively influence the cognitive performance of healthy individuals, as we have previously shown on attention and musical performance, it opens up the possibility that such treatment may be beneficial for those suffering from cognitive deficits".
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This "noise in the system" erodes our performance on a wide spectrum of cognitive activities, including the ability to recall details in our lives.
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Participants showed improved performance compared with those who didn't get such cognitive training.
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Age, and the cognitive decline that goes along with it, is a very real factor in CEO performance.
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