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An aptitude is an innate
inborn ability to do a
certain kind of work.
Aptitudes may be physical or
mental. Aptitude and
intelligence quotient are
related, and in some ways
opposite, views of human
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Brain damage
Brain damage or brain injury
is the destruction or
degeneration of brain
cells.
Brain damage may occur due
to a wide range of
conditions, illnesses, or
injuries. Possible causes of
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List of memory biases
Memory biases may either
enhance or impair the recall
of memory, or they may alter
the content of what we
report remembering. There
are many memory biases
including the humor effect,
positivity effect and the
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Functional neuroimaging
Functional neuroimaging is
the use of neuroimaging
technology to measure an
aspect of brain function,
often with a view to
understanding the
relationship between
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Cognitive neuroscience
The field of cognitive neuroscience concerns the scientific study of the neural mechanisms underlying cognition and is a branch of neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience overlaps with cognitive ... > more -
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Encephalopathy
Encephalopathy is a nonspecific term describing a syndrome affecting the brain. Generally, it refers to involvement of large parts of the brain (or the whole organ), instead of identifiable changes ... > more -
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Learning disability
In the United States and Canada, the term learning disability is used to refer to psychological and neurological conditions that affect a person's communicative capacities and potential to be taught ... > more -
Social cognition
Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations. There has been much recent interest in the ... > more -
Mensa International
Mensa International is the largest, oldest, and most well-known high IQ society in the world. The organization restricts its membership to people with high testable IQs. Specifically, potential ... > more -
Mental retardation
Mental retardation is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual ... > more -
Multi-infarct dementia
Multi-infarct dementia, also known as vascular dementia, is a form of dementia resulting from brain damage caused by stroke or transient ischemic attacks (also known as ... > more -
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. Initial forays into ... > more
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