They also saw enhanced learning and memory skills in these patients and in a group of people with Alzheimer's disease that they tested.
Both memory and thinking skills were tested every year for an average of eight years.
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Epic singers are distinguished by their prodigious memory and performance skills, combining singing, vocal improvisation and musical composition coupled with theatrical elements.
"What we don't know is whether there is something common to musical training that is common to attention, sequencing (processing the order in which something occurred), memory and language skills, " she says.
The finding could suggest that babies with better memory and motor skills may advance faster in their verbal abilities, but it isn't clear if that is based on genetic or environmental factors, Dr. Kuhl says.
In addition to a general physical exam, your doctor will likely conduct relatively brief question-and-answer tests to judge your memory and other thinking skills.
He teamed up with Carnegie Mellon economist George Loewenstein and others to test 87 residents of a poor village in India on a variety of tasks involving memory, fine motor skills and creativity.
From mental sharpness to memory, leaders need finely tuned skills to be at the top of their game.
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The key: As you play, you're working on your memory, strategy, and spatial skills--all required for improving brain health--at the same time.
This hierarchy has multiple interconnections among levels that enable us to sort things in space and time and associate them with previously encountered things, be they faces, phone numbers or typing skills--whatever our memory holds.
Crisp analytical skills and a razor-sharp memory for data distinguished many bosses of yesteryear.
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People with autism, a condition characterized in part by poor social skills, tend to have poor episodic memory and also poor ability to anticipate others' reactions or emotions.
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The greatest impairment is found in attention, memory, judgment, decision-making, information processing and language skills.
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Aging brains rely less on the hippocampus as memory degrades and more on the frontal cortex, which is more focused on reasoning skills.
But scientific studies have taken things one step further and shown that as cab drivers hone their skills, their hippocampus -- the part of the brain that deals with spatial memory and navigation -- gradually gets bigger.
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