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Multimedia Battery for Assessment of Cognitive and Basic Skills in Mathematics (BM-PROMA)
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2021
BM-PROMA is a valid and reliable multimedia diagnostic tool that can provide a complete cognitive profile of children with mathematical learning disabilities.
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Numerical Cognition: More or Less
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville One of the goals of the modern education system is to teach children mathematical literacy. They are taught to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and this base knowledge is used to support learning about geometry, algebra, calculus, physics, and statistics. School-aged children usually acquire these skills in formal educational settings, but the foundation of mathematical understanding is developed much...
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An Introduction to Cognition
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2023
Cognition encompasses mental processes such as memory, perception, decision-making reasoning and language. Cognitive scientists are using a combination of behavioral and neuropsychological techniques to investigate the underlying neural substrates of cognition. They are interested in understanding how information is perceived, processed and how does it affect the final execution of behaviors. With this knowledge, researchers hope to develop new treatments for individuals with cognitive...
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A Behavioral Test Battery for the Repeated Assessment of Motor Skills, Mood, and Cognition in Mice
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2019
A comprehensive behavioral test battery of motor skills, mood—including social interaction, depression, and anxiety—and cognition is designed for the repeated assessment of neurodegeneration-related behavioral changes in mice.
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Practical Methodology of Cognitive Tasks Within a Navigational Assessment
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2015
Children who have complex communication needs can benefit from the use of a speech-generating device (SGD). Cognitive skills were identified as having an impact on the ability to navigate between levels of SGDs. This protocol describes the steps needed for Speech-language Pathologists to assess cognitive skills and navigational abilities.
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Goal-directed behavior depends on coordination among several mental processes rather than on one isolated ability. Attention helps select relevant information, perception supports interpretation of stimuli, memory contributes stored information, and reasoning or decision-making helps evaluate possible responses. Their combined operation allows people to adjust actions as circumstances change and pursue intended outcomes in everyday and social settings.
Cognitive skills operate as an interconnected system, so a difficulty in one process can influence later stages of information use. For example, altered attention may affect what information is processed, while changes in memory or reasoning may influence evaluation and response selection. Examining related skills together can therefore provide a more informative account of behavioral differences than examining one ability alone.
A cognitive skill is inferred from how a person performs under defined conditions, whereas behavior is the observable response produced during a task or situation. Accuracy, reaction time, learning, and flexible responses provide measurable indicators of underlying performance. This distinction allows researchers to connect mental processing with behavior without treating a single observed action as a complete description of cognitive ability.
Researchers assess these abilities with behavioral tasks designed around a specific mental demand, such as maintaining attention, learning information, solving a problem, or selecting among options. They record outcomes including accuracy, reaction time, learning across trials, or flexibility when conditions change. Comparing performance under defined conditions helps identify patterns in information processing and their relationship to behavior.
Patterns of performance can show how cognitive abilities vary across development or change in association with neurological conditions. Researchers may examine accuracy, speed, learning, or flexible responding to identify differences in particular aspects of information processing. These results can help characterize behavioral change and provide evidence for psychological or behavioral research without relying only on informal observation.
In education, assessment of these abilities can clarify how learners attend to, remember, and use information. Rehabilitation research can examine changes in performance and flexible responding, while psychological studies use cognitive measures to investigate individual differences in behavior. Across these settings, structured task outcomes provide a way to evaluate cognitive functioning and relate it to practical behavioral goals.