... at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting today in Chicago.
One cognitive capacity that is vital to human intelligence is the ability to determine whether two or more ...
... of hypoxia—low oxygen levels—that might lead to brain abnormalities that could reduce cognitive capacity. Alternatively, hypoxia may cause or exacerbate diseases that are characterized by cognitive ...
... have discovered that diabetics who carry a particular genotype - one or more of the ApoE-e4 alleles - are at greater risk for diminished cognitive capacity than individuals without the gene.
... drive hypothesis. When these authors formulated their hypothesis, evidence that the size of the brain limits the cognitive capacity of animals were scanty. Since then, however, a substantial body of ...
... permanent ones that we can find," said Professor Christensen.
"We found no effects of pregnancy on cognitive capacity and motherhood also had no detrimental effects.
"One thing we did observe was ...
... , "particularly when children attempt to multitask while conversing on the cell phone and have reduced cognitive capacity to devote to potentially dangerous activities such as crossing streets."
For ...
... automatons that just follow certain decision rules. But it is becoming increasingly clear that they have complex cognitive capacities that play an important role."
Zuk, the research paper's only ...
... and they're less likely to be in stressful circumstances. It could also be that mothers then have greater cognitive capacities to sort of sit down and discuss the pros and cons of waiting to have sex ...
... ,000 years ago, linking advanced cognitive capacity to early human dispersal. Yet ... genetics, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, neurophysiology or cognitive sciences.
Dr Eva Hoogland, EUROCORES ...
... or less accepted the limitations put on their lives and resigned themselves to a diminished cognitive capacity.
The majority of women complained about the lack of acknowledgement from the medical ...
... to date, they have been unable to readily probe the genetic contribution to one higher cognitive capacity of particular interest — the ability to learn language from one another. Now scientists have ...
... committed by adolescents are done in groups with other teens and are not premeditated."
In contrast, differences in cognitive capacity measures increased from ages 11 to 16 and then showed no ...