People will choose and adhere better to a regime of activities that they find more enjoyable, so it is tricky to determine scientifically whether any particular brain training package or cognitive pursuit is really actively supporting healthy brain function.
This is what we've been involved in through chant, magic, theater, dance, poetry, religion, science, politics, and the cognitive pursuit of all kinds, occupying, for all practical purposes, less than 25,000 years a blink of an eye on the cosmic scale.
It has been hypothesized that they'd been buffered from the effects of the disease by the extra neuronal capacity that they had been born with (brain reserve) or that had accrued through years of intellectual and physical pursuits (cognitive reserve).
Some appeal to Dutch books (Teller 1973; Lewis 1999), others to the pursuit of cognitive values (Greaves and Wallace 2006), especially closeness to the truth (Leitgeb and Pettigrew 2010a,b), and still others to the idea that one should generally revise one's beliefs as little as possible when accommodating new information (Williams 1980).
Acute ketamine has been shown to model features of schizophrenia such as psychotic symptoms, cognitive deficits and smooth pursuit eye movement dysfunction.
It has been argued that the frontopolar cortex forms the apex of a frontal lobe hierarchy, integrating the outcomes of separate cognitive operations in the pursuit of long-term or more global behavioral goals (Ramnani and Owen 2004).
The prevailing interpretation among scholars is that clinicians go about solving diagnostic problems using approaches that are in part mandated by the complexity posed by the case [ 52, 59] but also seem to modulate strategies depending on the cognitive stage during the pursuit of a solution, and the perceived pay-off of choosing between differing approaches.
Although I wanted cognitive space for my own pursuits, averting my gaze was not to bury my head.
Musical informatics depends largely on concepts from music theory as tailored to the world of information, but qualitative pursuits turn to cognitive studies for direction.
A STRIKING trend in today's culture is the pursuit of rapid cognitive enhancement.
In this way, if cognitive enhancement becomes only a pursuit of private persons and businesses, the public sector and the worse off may become less competitive.
