Sentence examples for cognitive advance from inspiring English sources

In the second section I will construct a parallel case with regard to cognition, arguing that synthetic biology as biological engineering represents no cognitive advance over what was required for domestication and the new agricultural subsistence pattern it grounds.

But Foer's book reminds us that the cognitive advance of our species is not inexorable.

Both nervous-system maturation and experience contribute to this particular cognitive advance.

It is only at about 300 400 kya that another major technological (and possibly cognitive) advance is found.

Another cognitive advance children make during the concrete-operational stage is the knowledge that hierarchical relationships can exist within categories.

But [Joshua Foer's Moonwalking With Einstein] reminds us that the cognitive advance of our species is not inexorable.

Given that so many genes, operating in different parts of the brain, contribute in some way to intelligence, it is hardly surprising that there is scant evidence of cognitive advance, at least over the last 100,000 years.

Sometimes the bargain is worthwhile; I would certainly not give up the pleasures of my library for the ability to recite "Middlemarch". But Foer's book reminds us that the cognitive advance of our species is not inexorable.

These tools also signify a cognitive advance in hominins; even with intensive training, no ape has yet mastered the notion of hitting one rock with another at precisely the angle needed to detach a sharp flake.

Although the notion has been contested, it does seem fairly clear that these implements bear witness to another cognitive advance: the existence in the toolmaker's mind of a standard "mental template" to which the tools were made.

The rich dopaminergic innervation of the prefrontal cortex (28) accompanies the cognitive advances in infants between 6 and 12 mo.