Holly suffers adolescent "daymares" and is blessed with extraordinary cognitive gifts.
Originally, the team of researchers, whose findings are published in the Aug. 24 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were trying to find out what unusual cognitive gifts multitaskers possessed that made them so successful at multitasking.
Mr. Doctorow's final novel, "Andrew's Brain" (2014), was written as a confessional monologue by a brilliant and deluded cognitive scientist whose gift for dissembling is attributed to the nature of the mind and the impossibility of burrowing to the truth with the tools of thought and speech.
Learning about the cognitive underpinnings of his gifts hasn't made Robbins a better pickpocket, but it has given him a new framework for describing what he does.
Since when does royalty or socioeconomic class equate with the highest cognitive, imaginative and aesthetic gifts?
Bloom's only principle has been to seek out and champion writers of the highest cognitive, aesthetic and imaginative gifts.
All of us -- student-scholar, student-athlete and adult -- have similar cognitive capacities, and unique talents and gifts awaiting development.
In other words, passion and task commitment are gifts just as much as cognitive ability and creativity.
The CogFX studies, conducted in collaboration with Syracuse University and SUNY Upstate Medical University, and supported by a gift to Harvard from United Technologies, showed a direct link between cognitive function and indoor environment.
The University of Michigan recently received a $7.7 million gift from Marshall M. Weinberg to establish the Weinberg Center of Cognitive Science, which will house the recently established major in Cognitive Science.
