About a quarter of them were cognitively healthy, while the others had mild cognitive impairment, considered a precursor to dementia, or were in various stages of Alzheimer's.
Selective attention, WM, and inhibition, are higher-level cognitive functions, considered to comprise executive control, that are involved in the control and regulation of lower-level cognitive processing, in order to orchestrate cognitive performance [ 16, 17].
In this spirit, philosophers began to question the preeminence assigned to normalcy, and the concomitant devaluation of the physical and cognitive conditions considered to be disabilities (Canguilhem 1989).
The cognitive domains considered were processing speed, attention, sustained attention, verbal learning and memory, non-verbal learning and memory, working memory, verbal fluency and executive functions.
In 2006 the UKCAT assessed the cognitive powers considered to be valuable for healthcare professionals through four sub-tests: verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, abstract reasoning, and decision analysis.
Of the seven cross-sectional cognitive outcomes considered in table 4 and excluding the current smokers, there were 14 independent tests.
Although statistical thresholding may be a factor, the most likely explanation is that these regions are multi-functional, and support more than one of the cognitive abilities considered.
The authors in [3] propose a resource allocation scheme for cognitive femtocells considering sub-channel occupation fairness, co-tier and cross-tier interference mitigation, and spectrum-sensing errors.
Based on these measures, the achievable performance of these dual-polarized cognitive networks, considering both half-duplex and full-duplex communications, will be determined.
This novel idea, named cognitive radio, considers that secondary users can opportunistically exploit spectrum holes left temporarily unused by primary users.
