cognitive deficit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveanddeficit
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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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deficit
noun[C]
uk/ˈdef.ɪ.sɪt/us/ˈdef.ə.sɪt/
the total amount by which money spent is more than ...
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In contrast, lexical memory and hearing appear to be relatively spared, and there is no convincing evidence for a generalcognitivedeficit.
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Rather, they propose that a general basiccognitivedeficitin autism underlies the social communication impairments in joint attention, pretend play, and theory of mind.
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Impairments in attention may be onecognitivedeficitresulting from disarrayed cell positioning and nonoptimal neural connections.
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Cognitivedeficitcaused by regional depletion of dopamine in prefrontal cortex of rhesus monkey.
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Another common finding is that both conditions in orphanages and conditions in adoptive homes can modify the amount ofcognitivedeficit.
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Cognitivedeficitcaused by regional depletion of dopamine in prefrontal cortex of rhesus monkeys.
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Another is to make cross-syndrome comparisons on the basis of a specific ability for which both syndromes are reported to have the samecognitivedeficit.
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Areas covered include assessment of social functioning,cognitivedeficit, the experience of emotion and family perspective.
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Furthermore, we assert that schizophrenia is primarily a neurocognitive disorder and affective processing impairments are secondary to this primarycognitivedeficit.
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Poor performance on nonnative word learning could then be a consequence of reduced general cognitive abilities rather than a specificcognitivedeficitin phonological awareness.
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Fig. 1 presents a frequency histogram for these derived 'cognitivedeficit' scores.
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Other accounts of impairments in joint attention and pretend play see them merely as symptoms of a more basic underlyingcognitivedeficit, in attention or executive function.
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Indeed, because the three-year-olds were able to produce metaphoric compounds in an elicited production task, we can conclude that there is nocognitivedeficitprohibiting children from producing such utterances.
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In schizophrenia, impaired conscious retrieval of past events and facts may represent a selectivecognitivedeficitof declarative memory against a background of a generalized neuropsychological impairment.
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Jerger et al.52 compared auditory andcognitivedeficitin 130 persons aged 51-91 years.
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Impaired dexterity of the ipsilateral hand after stroke and the relationship tocognitivedeficit.
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The question of inter-individual heterogeneity is of relevance when we consider the nature of the underlyingcognitivedeficitaccounting for the impairment in the use of linguistic context within sentences.
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Abeta plaques were measured and counted in prefrontal cortex of 16 pet dogs of different breeds, classified as control and with a light or severecognitivedeficit.
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