cognitive ability
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveandability
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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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ability
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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(Definition ofcognitiveandabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One could use such a variable as a proxy forcognitiveability.
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Finally, suppose that we can infer thecognitiveabilityof recognizing symmetry in artifacts from knapping intentions.
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However, it is not just brain size that determinescognitiveability.
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Smoking during pregnancy and its effects on childcognitiveabilityfrom the ages of 8 to 12 years.
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These difficulties appear to be independent of other deficits incognitiveabilityand executive function.
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An additional issue of interest was the relationship of generalcognitiveabilityand particularly language ability to the variables under consideration.
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The treatment effect on emotion knowledge was estimated after controlling for age andcognitiveability.
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The magnitude of the correlations amongcognitiveability, emotion regulation, and emotion knowledge are consistent with previous findings from low-income populations.
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Thus, more powerful measures will not necessarily attenuate our initial finding that thinking dispositions do predict independent variance aftercognitiveabilityhas been controlled.
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Chemotherapy-induced anemia may also significantly affectcognitiveability.
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The measure ofcognitiveabilityis based on the first principal component from four ability measures: mathematics, comprehension, verbal and non-verbal abilities.
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These four sections analyse the relationships between voter turnout and education,cognitiveability, personality and political interest, respectively.
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Even on tasks with clear computational limitations, some subjects from the lowest strata ofcognitiveabilitysolved the problem.
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The subtests served both to screen for below averagecognitiveabilityand as a background measure and were: picture completion, picture arrangement, and block design.
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Her results identified three components of phonological awareness that applied across all the tasks: generalcognitiveability, verbal memory, and speech perception.
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Conversely, on virtually all the problems, some university subjects of the highestcognitiveabilityfailed to give the normative response.
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If true, this would represent a minor cognitive development, of interest primarily because it is acognitiveabilitytied to tool manufacture and use.
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We had expected that age andcognitiveabilitymight limit the growth of emotion knowledge in the younger children in our low-income sample.
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As we have seen, the child's environment strongly influences the expression of problem behaviors (including autistic symptoms) andcognitiveability.
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