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Excess physical activity, less screen time linked to better function in to
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"Executive function underlies your ability to engage in goal-directed behaviors," said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign kinesiology and community health professor Naiman Khan, who led the study with graduate student Arden McMath and food science and human nutrition professor Sharon Do
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Researchers find variations in brain activity of children with and without
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Chappel Hill (North Carolina) [US], July 26 (ANI): It's not simply a professional skill to multitask. It requires something known as cognitive flexibility, or the capacity to seamlessly switch between different brain processes, and it is essential to functioning as a person. Researchers fro
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Scientists show how brain flexibility emerges in infants
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
North Carolina [US], Sept 1 (ANI): To shed light on the development of cognitive flexibility during early infancy, researchers conducted a brain imaging study in infants to examine the emergence of neural flexibility, which refers to the frequency with which a brain region changes its role (
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Researchers identify neurons responsible for making memory-based decisions
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Los Angeles [USA], June 26 (ANI): A collaborative team of neuroscientists have identified different sets of individual neurons that are responsible for memory-based decision-making.
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Gene mutation enhances cognitive flexibility in mice
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 29 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have discovered in mice what they believe is the first known genetic mutation to improve cognitive flexibility -- the ability to adapt to changing situations. The research was led by researchers at the National Institute of
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Bilingualism may increase cognitive flexibility in autistic kids
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 16 (ANI): A study has recently found that bilingualism may increase cognitive flexibility in kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).
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