cognitive flexibility
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveandflexibility
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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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flexibility
noun[U]
uk/ˌflek.səˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌflek.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the ability to change or be changed easily according to ...
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This may be one of the main sources of thecognitiveflexibilityand adaptability which is so distinctive of our species.
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It appears that school age children with autism have problems in planning,cognitiveflexibility, working memory, and verbal fluency.
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The ability of the children to use a different dimension in their second selection is taken as a measure of theircognitiveflexibility.
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Together these assess general domains of function often described as memory, perception, intelligence,cognitiveflexibilityand abstraction.
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They exhibited auditory processing abnormalities in both nonlinguistic and linguistic information processing and impairment on nonverbal measures of executive functioning involving planning andcognitiveflexibility.
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These learning experiences must have modified theircognitiveflexibilityas well as their linguistic and metalinguistic knowledge.
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Cognitive remediation had no benefit on attention, verbal memory, visual memory, planning,cognitiveflexibilityor mental state.
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In turn, newly developed conceptual representations may promotecognitiveflexibility, and novel and creative ways of encoding experience.
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Methylphenidate andcognitiveflexibility: dissociated dose effects on behaviour and cognition in hyperactive children.
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Further work is needed to extend our understanding of modafinil's effects in a wider range of patients with schizophrenia and to examine further the effects oncognitiveflexibility.
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To thiscognitiveflexibility(both linguistic and representational) is connected the well-known flexibility of the interpretations sanctioned by the evolutive perception of the phases of illness (aggravation, remission, becoming chronic).
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How readily a subject learns that the previously rewarded stimulus is now punished, and that the previously punished stimulus is now rewarded, is a measure ofcognitiveflexibility.
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This was used to testcognitiveflexibility.
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Methylphenidate andcognitiveflexibility: dissociated dose effects in hyperactive children.
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That is, in the case of reasoning - as opposed to the visual domain - some people do have thecognitiveflexibilityto decouple unneeded systems of knowledge and some do not.
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It was thought appropriate to present the results from this study relating to planning andcognitiveflexibility, as they cover important areas often discussed when considering cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
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Ozonoff et al. (1994) found that while children with autism were impaired on a task measuringcognitiveflexibility, they were intact on a task measuring inhibition of response.
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Studies conducted with people of various ages and with particular deficits have further informed howcognitiveflexibilitydevelops and changes within the brain.
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Persons with schizophrenia also tend to demonstrate deficits in response inhibition andcognitiveflexibility.
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It was also found that positive affectivity facilitate creativity,cognitiveflexibility, novel responses, openness to new information and dealing with mental problems.
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