The mice were then put through tests that measured their memory and cognitive ability.
Their conclusions could lay the groundwork for a genetic test to predict a person's inherited cognitive ability.
The act of multilingualism inspires the brain to do better work through improved cognitive ability and to work more efficiently.
In other words, those who had above-average cognitive ability at age 11 also tended to be above average when much older.
Schools are trying to get ahead of the problem by implementing baseline testing to measure cognitive ability before and after an injury.
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Dr. Hsu was also interested in the genetics of cognitive ability, so the pair joined with other colleagues to launch the BGI intelligence project.
And there is tremendous controversy on this head, especially on whether success at Lumosity games is a factor of repetition and gamesmanship, rather than innate cognitive ability.
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.
According to a longitudinal study of the top 1% in cognitive ability The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth being in the top 1% in ability disproportionately increases the likelihood of earning a Ph.
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Cohen Kadosh added that it was important to identify any downsides of this and other similar forms of transcranial electrical stimulation to ensure that boosting one cognitive ability did not lead to damage in another.
The similarity of the SNPs was then compared with other aspects of the individuals' similarity in this case, with their cognitive ability in both youth and old age, and how much that had changed over the years.
But the report found that while aspirin may slow changes in cognitive ability in women at high risk of a heart attack or stroke, it made no difference to the rate at which the women developed dementia - which was also examined for by a neuropsychiatrist.
It may simply be that those who have the wherewithal to cook at home--or who earn sufficient income to support a wife who cooks at home or to hire a servant to do it--tend to be those with the cognitive ability to handle the complicated task of managing a healthy and balanced diet.
Cognitive dissonance is the ability of the mind to believe what it wants even in the face of opposing evidence.
The trick in getting this right lies in the ability to recognise cognitive limitations and biases.
This "noise in the system" erodes our performance on a wide spectrum of cognitive activities, including the ability to recall details in our lives.
The goal is to create sufficient cognitive dissonance to release the suppressed ability to reason, something most people fall back on only as a last resort.
Dr. Gow said previous research with the Lothian group suggested people who participated in more social and intellectual activities at age 70 and had better cognitive abilities were the ones who scored higher on mental ability tests at age 11.
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