"Her cognitive abilities definitely outweigh her physical abilities," Ms. McLoughlin said.
It would appear that the disease was already beginning to disrupt her cognitive abilities".
Time has brought back most of her cognitive abilities, though it was hard to talk at first.
But they said they do not doubt her cognitive abilities and are confident that she understood the debt issue when she voted Monday.
Three years ago Steven Austad, head of the department of biological sciences at the University of Idaho, bet Jay Olshansky, of the University of Illinois, that by 2150 somebody will survive to the age of 150 with his or (more probably) her cognitive abilities intact.What is important in demographic terms is not so much maximum life-span but average life expectancy at birth.
"I was hoping that her cognitive abilities would still be there.
What is significant about this case, however, is that we would not intuitively regard the truth of the agent's belief as being because of her cognitive abilities.
But this conclusion is surely too strong, in that the agent is employing her cognitive abilities to some degree, and so surely deserves some credit for the truth of the belief formed (she would not have asked just anyone, for example, nor would she have simply accepted just any answer given by her informant).
Her behavior was disobedient and her cognitive abilities were regressing.
Malala not only recovered but suffered no loss of her cognitive abilities; in fact, she emerged even stronger.
The doctor worries for her "cognitive abilities" and asks if she knows who the "people in the hall are?" She knows, and the hall people come in, and it seems like her "cognitive abilities" are fine, but she is not allowed to talk, and there is some concern for her "voice abilities," which is terrible, because the best thing about Nashville are the songs.
