In addition, the learning materials also follow an integrated approach to literacy acquisition drawing on the benefits of the language experience and whole word approaches while taking seriously the recent findings of neuro-cognitive research.
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While research has attempted to measure cool through traditional cognitive measures, our research suggests these measurements are unreliable.
As the clinical director, she was doing research on cognitive behavioral treatments that taught recovering addicts how to identify problems and overcome cravings.
For the past 30 years, Dr Pepperberg, who studies parrots at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, has been producing research papers on the cognitive abilities of her African Grey, Alex, who died in September 2007 and who was the subject of an Economist obituary.
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Dr Lawrence Whalley of the University of Aberdeen, who has led research showing that smokers' cognitive ability decreases with time, said the current study findings were very important.
Research in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and educational psychology is rapidly bringing new insights into how we learn and retain information and how these differences between individuals can be designed into education, not ignored.
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Tenenbaum's research aims to define and describe these cognitive tools, and build mathematical models to imitate them.
According to John Geake, a former teacher who is now a cognitive neuroscientist, a shake-up in educational research is long overdue.
This research is just the latest looking at cognitive function in the so-called Lothian Birth Cohort, which involves a group of people born in 1936.
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New research published in the journal Neuron suggests stimulating cognitive activities may be more effective than exercise alone in protecting the brain against Alzheimer's disease.
The NTSB cited research that showed most drivers experience a decline in both cognitive and visual functions with a BAC of 0.05.
Dr Eric Karran, from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said the exact connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline was still unknown.
While the trend in psychological health has been increasingly to increase the drugs and decrease the therapy, research continues to show that various talk therapy methods, like cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) are extraordinarily effective.
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An integration of ICC (Integrated Cognitive Creation) technology, developed by I3 (I-cubed) Research Center, and Sharp large-screen panel technology that gives a resolution four times that of conventional full HD LCD panels, the ICC-LED TV reproduces the cognitive process by which the human brain interprets light stimuli, resulting in on-screen images that approach true-to-life quality.
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"The best you can give for a person with dementia is recognition of the person they were and are and be compassionate in your communication, " said Darby Morhardt, a research associate professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center.
Dr Mark Stokes, a cognitive neuroscientist from the University of Oxford, said it was an "exciting" piece of research that brought us closer to the concept of dream-reading machines.
Recent research suggests that if left untreated, hearing loss might contribute to an acceleration in cognitive decline - relating to our understanding, reasoning and perception skills - as we age.
Rather than asking you questions, we assess your cognitive and emotional profile by having you play a series of short computer games adapted from the last decade of research.
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