Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ―British Ukrainian Academic Congress‖ (March 20-22, 2026) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. - Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2026. - 183 p.

156 • Cognition is ―a mental process that provides the ability to think, know and learn. Though cognitive skills are necessary to do daily tasks…‖ [Savarimuthu, Ponniah, 2025, p.1-3] war psychological traumas change students’ cognitive functions in different and in a profound ways. • The level of Cognitive Reserve is a dominant, dynamic structure, professional competency of a modern psychologist in Ukraine, regarding rehabilitation process of wounded and with amputations warriors. It reflects how proficient a psychologist’s brain is in pulling in skills and capacities to solve immediately, quickly, and productively socio and psychological problems , cope with challenges in order the patient could trust him/her. The Cognitive Reserve in university students, under distant education, is built up due to cognition-stimulating actions, and especially due to reading and commenting professional psychology texts. It allows for students to develop their individual cognitive mechanisms which are responsible for psychological readiness to counteract crisis and extreme situations [3;12;13;20]. As Larina explains, ―The cognitive component is a core element of the personality and it is responsible for both the healthy development of human adaptive mechanisms and the processing of the changing information space. The life-long development of cognitive plasticity is the basis for cognitive stability and productivity of an individual in situations of affective stress caused by being in natural disaster zones, epidemic zones, combat operations zones, etc.‖ [12 ,p.147- 147]. In light of stated above, it is one of the challenges and of primary importance both for students and University educators to focus their attention on the first-year students, on their systematic building of the Cognitive Reserve which is developed by a lifetime of education [3;12]. • Years of education and time spent in leisure time activities have the strongest impact on cognition [Cognitive Reserve, 2025] • Cognitive Reserve has an impact particularly on language and attentional- executive functions on University students (1-st-4th year of study at the institution)