cognitive demand

collocation in English

meaningsofcognitiveanddemand

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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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demand
noun
uk
/dɪˈmɑːnd/
us
/dɪˈmænd/
a ...
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The neuronal assemblies of interest, however, are not defined on anatomical grounds but are recruited according tocognitivedemand.
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Open-endedness is a consequence of the fact that generalizations make littlecognitivedemandon those who assert them.
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Functioning as a surrogate decision maker typically places great moral, emotional, and cognitive demands on the family surrogate.
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Instrumental activities are affected earlier in dementia than personal care activities because of their greater cognitive demands.
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This is because there may be an ideal balance between the two processes; if thecognitivedemandthat isn't too heavy, then the monitoring processes won't supersede it.
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The tasks assessed different aspects of phonological awareness and recruited different cognitive demands for their solutions.
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The only task for which group differences emerged in the present studies, phonemic segmentation, involves moderate cognitive demands.
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We reduced the cognitive demands of the task by leaving the original event on screen and asking only for first-level similarity judgments.
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For example, without the social and cognitive demands created by and through talk, access to one's vocabulary may deteriorate.
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In contrast, research on reducing cognitive demands has been limited.
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Common regions of the human frontal lobe recruited by diverse cognitive demands.
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This drop in performance can be explained by higher cognitive demands and limitations of visuospatial working memory in blindfolded conditions.
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In order to optimize the likelihood of uncovering infants' true learning potential, every attempt was made to reduce the unnecessary cognitive demands of the task.
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The cognitive demands of preference-elicitation interviews exceed the demands of providing self-assessment information on health status; thus, the direct approach is not suitable for all types of respondents.
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Writers with low verbal ability did not profit from the relaxed demands, suggesting that positive effects on quality depend not only on cognitive demands but also on verbal ability.
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The sentence enactment task does place greater cognitive demands on the child in that they have to remember what was said, identify the appropriate objects, and then perform the activity.
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