Sentence examples for cognitive tool from inspiring English sources

In recent years, however, psychologists and neuroscientists have redeemed this mental state, revealing the ways in which mind-wandering is an essential cognitive tool.

The husband-and-wife team of Nicola Clayton and Nathan Emery, who are largely responsible for this work, argue that it shows some birds have "the same cognitive tool kit" that apes have: "causal reasoning, flexibility, imagination, and prospection".

The Talmud has come to embody this stereotype, and it is now seen as a cognitive tool in a country where there is an enormous amount of pressure on students to succeed in school.

Last year's question — "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive tool kit?" — drew 165 responses from scientists, sculptors, linguists and museum curators, each presenting a specialized theory or term that should be adopted into common parlance — in the manner of "random sample" or "placebo" — making "people smarter by providing widely applicable templates".

Not only did the new cognitive tool enable our ancestors to engage in increasingly sophisticated social exchanges with one another, it also allowed them to anticipate and manipulate the activities of other species: to figure out where a prey animal might be headed, or how to lure a salt-licking reindeer by impregnating a tree stump with the right sort of human waste.

Because the dynamic "between"—their link is fundamental, the cognitive tool for capturing the ultimate reality cannot be "one" principle.

This seems to me to lose one of the most wonderful cognitive tools ever invented.

Students don't learn "cognitive tools" -- the bits and pieces of cultural knowledge that help young people make sense of the world around them.

Canada isn't satisfied with propelling selected children to a better life; his goal is to "contaminate"the entire culture of Harlem with aspirational values, disciplined self-improvement and the cognitive tools to do better than those who came before.

And we know so much at this point about the circuitry and pharmacology of drug addiction that we can help drug addicts break their addictions in a totally participatory way, working with them to help them tip the battle inside their brains which is between craving for a drug and having the cognitive tools to overcome that craving.

They exhibit the emotional and cognitive tools for both.