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Heritability of Cognitive Functions in Families of Successful Cognitive Aging Probands from the Central Valley of Costa Rica
(J Alzheimers Dis. 2011 ; 27(4): 897–907. doi:10.3233/JAD-2011-110782., 2011)
We sought to identify cognitive phenotypes for family/genetic studies of successful cognitive
aging (SCA; maintaining intact cognitive functioning while living to late old age).We
administered a battery of neuropsychological ...
Relationship between sleep duration affects cognitive function in adolescents
(2016)
Sleep time may interfere with the ability to perform tasks requiring memory, organization and reasoning. A lack of sleep has been related to cognitive deficits; however, few studies had demonstrated an association between ...
Understanding notional machines through traditional teaching with conceptual contraposition and program memory tracing
(2016-08)
A correct understanding about how computers run code is mandatory in order to effectively learn to program. Lectures have historically been used in programming courses to teach how computers execute code, and students are ...
Association of Apolipoprotein E-e4 and Dementia Declines with Age
(2014-10)
To study the association of dementia with apolipoprotein E-e4 (APOE-e4) and its interaction with age in a nonagenarian Costa Rican group (N-sample) and a general elderly contrast group (GE-sample).
In both case-control ...
Depressive Symptoms Affect Working Memory in Healthy Older Adult Hispanics
(2015-09-27)
Objectives: Low and middle income nations will experience an unprecedented growth of the elderly population and subsequent increase in age-related neurological disorders. Worldwide prevalence and incidence of all-types of ...
Neuropsychological Test Performance in Cognitively Normal Spanish-speaking Nonagenarians with Little Education
(2016-06)
To find associations of age, sex, and education with neuropsychological test performance in cognitively normal Spanish-speaking Costa Rican nonagenarians with little education; to provide norms; and to compare their ...
Teoría de la mente en niños preescolares: diferencias entre sexos y capacidad de memoria de trabajo
Theory of mind refers to the ability to predict and explain the behaviour of others in terms of their internal mental states, and has been recognized as a fundamental aspect of the cognitive development during the preschool ...
Rendimiento cognitivo de personas mayores que participan en grupos organizados en la provincia de San José
(2014-06-15)
Since cognitive performance is a major determinant for the development of healthy aging processes and quality of life, the profiles of cognitive performance in executive functions and memory of 110 elders participating in ...
Reasoning from transitive premises: An EEG study
(2014)
Neuroimaging studies have contributed to a major advance in understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms underpinning deductive reasoning. However, the dynamics of cognitive events associated with inference making ...