The studies together indicate that math ability is inborn in many species, with number sense, mathematical skills and verbal ability perhaps being separate talents in humans that we later learn to combine.

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Proven and sustained communication (verbal and written) skills, including ability to prepare reports and conduct presentations on key issues by clearly formulating positions and issues, articulating options concisely, conveying, the maximum nescessary information, making and defending recommendations.

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People who were asked to reflect on their many past successes or a specific failure scored roughly 10% better on tests of mathematical ability, as well as verbal, spatial, and abstract reasoning, than those who reflected on either many past failures or a single specific success.

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The scientists, who reported their findings at a recent meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, have discovered that a certain type of neurodegenerative disease may chip away at the ability to understand the social, physical and verbal cues that help people recognize indirect language, such as sarcasm, and even deceit.

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The study, which involved 19 infants, tested the infants' verbal skills at age 1 by assessing their babbling and their ability to recognize familiar names and words and to produce different sounds.

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In this context, he attaches particular importance to Senator Pinochet's memory deficit for recent events, which would affect his ability to relate and understand items of information given to him at a trial, and to his limited ability to comprehend complex sentences and questions and to process verbal information.

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Increased awareness of our non-verbal signals in communications, to take only one example, brings with it a huge increase in our ability to read others.

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