AUDIO: Canal Sur Radio – HORA SUR MEDIODIA: Un estudio demuestra que los adolescentes que juegan habitualmente al fútbol mantienen mejor la atención

77473 Un estudio del Centro de Investigación de la Mente de la Universidad de Granada, junto con la Universidad Católica de Valencia, asegura que la práctica regular de Fútbol en la adolescencia está relacionada con el aumento de la capacidad de mantener la atención de forma sostenida.
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Teens Who Regularly Play Soccer Are More Focused

77473 A direct correlation was found between teens who play soccer and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.

 

The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played soccer regularly.

The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.
The results showed that the soccer players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.

The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others.

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TEENS WHO REGULARLY PLAY FOOTBALL ARE MORE FOCUSED

77473 A direct correlation has been found between teens who play football and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.
The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played football regularly, reports Efe.
The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.
The results showed that the football players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.
The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others
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Teens who regularly play football are more focused

77473 A direct correlation has been found between teens who play football and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.

 

The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played football regularly, reports Efe.

The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.

The results showed that the football players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.

The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others.

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Teens who regularly play football are more focused

77473 A direct correlation has been found between teens who play football and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.
The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played football regularly, reports Efe.
The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.
The results showed that the football players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.
The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others.
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Teens who regularly play football are more focused

77473 The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played football regularly, reports Efe.

 

The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.

The results showed that the football players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.

The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others.

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Teens who regularly play football are more focused

77473 A direct correlation has been found between teens who play football and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.

The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played football regularly, reports Efe.

The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.

The results showed that the football players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.

The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others.

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Teens who regularly play football are more focused

77473 A direct correlation has been found between teens who play football and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.

The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played football regularly, reports Efe.

The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.

The results showed that the football players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.

The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others. (IANS)

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Teens who regularly play football are more focused

77473 A direct correlation has been found between teens who play football and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.
The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played football regularly, reports Efe.
The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.
The results showed that the football players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.
The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others.
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Dyslexic children do not detect stressed syllables well while listening to words

77443 Dyslexia is not only a problem related to reading; children with this difficulty also display impaired prosodic processing, in other words, they struggle to detect stressed syllables. A Spanish team of researchers has shown this feature to be lacking in dyslexia for the first time in Spanish (it has already been demonstrated in English) and highlights the importance of including oral expression activities, as well as reading, to differentiate tone, word stress and intonation.

 

Regardless of the school level or intelligence of the individual, dyslexia can generate difficulties in correctly and fluently recognising words, writing without making spelling mistakes and decoding words. The immediate consequences are an effect on written work and reading, which stops dyslexics from naturally developing the necessary vocabulary and memory.

Experts currently attribute this disorder to a phonological impairment which translates into difficulty in suitably representing phonemes to automate the rules of grapheme-phoneme conversion and maintain the phonological information in the working memory.

A new study, published in ‘Research in Developmental Disabilities’, demonstrates for the first time in Spanish (evidence for this already exists in English) that dyslexia is not only a problem in learning to read. Children with this difficulty also display impaired prosodic processing (also known as supra-segmental phonology).

To demonstrate this, the team of scientists lead by the University of Granada (UGR), performed a series of experiments with 31 Spanish children: «We designed a task which consisted of the participants having to detect and use the keyboard to point out the stressed syllable from a series of spoken stimuli,» explains Gracia Jiménez-Fernández. Jiménez-Fernández is a researcher in the department of Developmental Psychology and Education at UGR and the lead author of this study.

More errors for dyslexic children

In the first task, the stimuli were words with three syllables which could carry the stress on the last syllable (with or without an accent), the penultimate syllable (again with or without an accent) or the antepenultimate syllable. The second task had the same structure but the stimuli presented were pseudowords (nonsensical words in Spanish that respect graphotactical rules, for example ‘cátupos’).

«It is worth pointing out that the words and pseudowords were presented in spoken form, meaning that at no point did the child have to read them, they just had to listen to them and indicate the stressed syllable using the keyboard,» says Jiménez-Fernández.

According to the results, the group with dyslexia showed a significantly greater number of errors in detecting the stressed syllable and also took longer to respond. It was also revealed by comparing the performances with the words and pseudowords that the participants in the control group (without dyslexia) employed different strategies in each case, using the lexical knowledge they possessed about the words.

However, the dyslexic participants tended to apply a single strategy to process the words and pseudowords without being able to use their lexical knowledge. «What we still do not know is whether the dyslexic group does not possess such lexical knowledge or, despite possessing it, cannot use it in this type of task,» notes the researcher.

The authors consider it «essential» to include tasks with pseudowords to study this type of dyslexia and for children to learn to differentiate tones, word stress and intonation. Therefore, «dyslexia intervention must not only include reading and segmental phonology activities (phonological awareness) but also pay special attention to supra-segmental or prosodic processing,» warns the researcher.

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Un informe de la UGR analiza el éxito en los contratos predoctorales a través de la lectura de tesis doctorales

Elaborado por el Vicerrectorado de Política Científica e Investigación, el trabajo ha determinado si los contratados predoctorales consiguen leer su tesis doctoral, y cuánto tiempo tardan en conseguirlo

El trabajo revela que el 87% de los contratados que han finalizado su formación en la UGR ha logrado defender la tesis doctoral. Además, un contratado predoctoral tarda en la UGR un promedio de 3,74 años en realizar su tesis doctoral

El Vicerrectorado de Política Científica e Investigación de la Universidad de Granada ha publicado un nuevo informe con el objetivo de analizar el rendimiento de los programas relacionados con los contratos predoctorales (FPU, FPI, FPDI y Plan Propio). Concretamente, el trabajo analiza si los contratados predoctorales consiguen leer su tesis doctoral, y cuánto tiempo tardan en conseguirlo.

Entre los resultados del informe destacan las siguientes cifras:

  • De los 923 contratados que han finalizado su formación, 805 han logrado defender la tesis doctoral. Esto supone una Tasa de Éxito para la UGR en su conjunto del 87%.
  • Un contratado predoctoral tarda en la UGR un promedio de 1365 días, es decir 3,74 años, en realizar su tesis doctoral.
  • En los últimos cinco años, el 25% de las tesis doctorales leídas están defendidas por un contratado predoctoral. En 2014, este porcentaje se sitúa ya en el 32%.

Sobre el informe

El objetivo del estudio es determinar el éxito de los contratos predoctorales, comprobando para ello si éstos han conseguido finalizarse con la defensa de la tesis doctoral. En estos programas de formación de doctores, evidentemente, el objetivo esencial es la realización y presentación por parte de los contratados de la tesis doctoral por lo que entendemos que cualquier contratado predoctoral que consigue el grado de doctor finaliza con éxito su contrato.

Las convocatorias de formación predoctorales que se han analizado son 1366 contratos predoctorales (FPU, FPI, FPDI y Plan Propio) celebrados en la UGR entre los años 2005 y 2014. Se ha verificado que 443 están actualmente en vigor, y 923 ya han finalizado.

Se han calculado los siguientes indicadores:

* Porcentaje de contratados predoctorales que han leído la tesis doctoral/ Tasa de Éxito.

  • Número de días y años empleados por los contratados predoctorales para realizar la tesis doctoral. En relación a los niveles de agregación, los resultados se presentan por tipo de programa/convocatoria y por áreas científicas.

El informe completo se puede descargar desde la siguiente dirección:

Contacto:
Irene Luque Fernández 
Directora de Secretariado de Recursos Humanos en Investigación 
Tlf: 958 244309 
Correo electrónico: personalinves@ugr.es


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Teens who regularly play soccer are more focused

77473 A direct correlation was found between teens who play soccer and their ability to maintain focus, the Catholic University of Valencia and the Granada Center for Brain, Mind and Behavior Research, or Cimcyc, revealed in a recent study.

 

The University of Granada, which oversees Cimcyc, announced on Tuesday the findings of a study that sampled 75 male and female adolescents, half of whom played soccer regularly.

The subjects took questionnaires and performed tests to determine their aerobic fitness, in addition to undergoing a task specifically designed to assess alertness and sustained attention.

The results showed that the soccer players had better aerobic fitness than those who did not play, unsurprisingly, but more importantly, they had better reaction times in the alertness task, «which shows a better ability to maintain focused attention,» Daniel Sanabria, a Cimcyc researcher and co-author of the study, discussed.

The authors of the study pointed to factors that could explain the results, such as the perceptual and motor skills demonstrated by the athletes as compared to the others.

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