cognitive constraints
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cognitive
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/us/ˈkɑːɡ.nə.t̬ɪv/
connected with thinking or conscious ...
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constraint
noun
uk/kənˈstreɪnt/us/kənˈstreɪnt/
something that controls what you do by keeping you within ...
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Integrating cognitive constraints with comparative data from other species can illuminate the adaptive benefits of food sharing in humans.
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But institutions also have boundaries that delineate where and when these regulative, normative, and cognitive constraints operate.
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There is no contradiction in claiming that visually-based imagery exists and that it can be manipulated by cognitive constraints.
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These social and cognitive constraints are reflected in the spatial language use described here as the archetypal wayfinding strategies.
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As mentioned above, institutions provide stability through regulative, normative, and cognitive constraints on actors.
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Taking into account sociocultural and cognitive constraints on literacy development, the question is : what abilities underlie literate competence in the individual?
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Cognitive constraints mean that the development of literacy is at-risk for many children living in a literate environment.
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Taking into consideration cognitive constraints such as working memory capacity and goal preferences may help to better explain individual differences and neuropsychological phenomena in language acquisition.
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The manipulation of the type of event sequence and the display mode allowed us to verify that cognitive constraints involved in handling referential links underlies the linguistic functions of and.
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As well as in the second law of thermodynamics, some paths from one memory to the other are prohibited not by thermodynamics but by cognitive constraints.
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Two levels can be distinguished: (1) a priori representations, which are underdetermined, enabling them to occur within valid inferences; (2) perception and/ or action, which obeys different cognitive constraints.
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While it does not address the issue of pre-existing cognitive constraints, it points to the ways that human beings organize information coming from the physical and social world around them.
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The argument from cognitive constraints is not designed to be a knock-down punch, nor do we expect that any single model will stand alone in the final rounds.
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Third, entrepreneurs consolidate their innovations by creating new jurisdictions or boundaries that delineate the scope of regulative, normative, and cognitive constraints on action.
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