Sentences with phrase «cognitive learning scientists»

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Although you can access gamma brain waves during periods of extremely high functioning, it's the beta waves that scientists associate with everyday alertness, critical thinking, socialization, learning and cognitive processing.

The only thing I learned here is that scientists (well, engineers...) can be stricken with cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias too.

Scientists are starting to learn what is going on in the human brain during these complex cognitive feats, and some of the findings are coming from unexpected sources.

According to Sandia National Laboratories cognitive scientist Mike Trumbo, learning a language or an instrument or going dancing is the best way to keep your brain keen despite the ravages of time.

Creators of machine - learning systems «used to be able to look at the source code of our programs and understand how they work, but that era is long gone,» says Simon DeDeo, a cognitive scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Cognitive scientists have found that «learning only happens when you have this intense engagement,» he adds.

By creating a virtual problem landscape, IU cognitive scientists explored the dynamics, advantages and disadvantages of «social learning» — the act of learning about the world by observing or imitating others.

Investigating further, Wieman learned what cognitive scientists have proven repeatedly in recent years: Humans don't learn concepts very well by having someone blab on about them.

«Cognitive scientists ID mechanism central to early childhood learning, social behavior.»

Under the leadership of John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP for Research & Training, and Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, scientists have made important contributions to the knowledge of cognitive decline in MS. Clinical studies span new learning, memory, executive function, attention and processing speed, emotional processing, employment and cognitive fatigue.

Under the leadership of John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP of Research & Training, and Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience and TBI Research, scientists have made important contributions to the knowledge of cognitive decline in MS. Clinical studies span new learning, memory, executive function, attention and processing speed, emotional processing and cognitive fatigue.

Astonishingly, no teachers, professional educators, cognitive scientists, or learning experts were invited.

Scientists and researchers have time and again proved that cognitive overload (the situation when we're faced with more info than we can handle) is actually detrimental to the learning process.

That is because they produce conditions that cognitive scientists say are ideal for learning.

Cognitive scientists» skepticism of grouping students stems, in large part, from the emergence of various theories on «learning styles.»

«Project learning is great when it's done well, but it's very hard to pull off,» observes University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, the author of Why Don't Students Like School?

Similarly, instead of quoting a single cognitive scientist about the deficiencies of project - based learning, Pondiscio should examine the National Research Council's 2005 volume on «How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom» or the excellent research synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Slearning, Pondiscio should examine the National Research Council's 2005 volume on «How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom» or the excellent research synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Slearning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning SLearning Sciences.

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, an expert in the field, explains that it is not catering to the individual child's learning style that affects achievement, but rather the utilising of the modality that best supports specific content that determines whether it is mastered.

That's because the Core Knowledge Sequence is built on the principle, firmly established by cognitive scientists, that we learn new knowledge by building on what we already know.

And when it comes to rote learning of facts and knowledge, cognitive scientists have proved beyond question that it's impossible to think effectively about any given subject without a vast inventory of knowledge which can be recalled whenever needed.

Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of cognitive basis of learning.

Although academics, including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and education researchers, have waged fierce debates about what these different needs are — some talk about multiple intelligences and learning styles whereas others point to research that undermines these notions — what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace.

Social learning is an age - old learning and teaching strategy, backed by many cognitive scientists.

http://ldx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/80 HOW WE LEARN - ASK THE COGNITIVE SCIENTIST The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies Author: Daniel T. Willingham American Educator (American Federation of Teachers), Winter 2006 - 07 Results from 481 studies on 16 different categories of strategies conclude that; «Teaching children strategies is definitely a good idea.»

(Jossey - Bass, 2008), cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham also upholds the complexity of teaching, explaining that teaching must be an «act of persuasion» if teachers are to convince students that learning is worth the effort.

Actually, some of the nation's top cognitive scientists have shown that frequent testing improves learning.

Through this grant, PowerMyLearning will receive $ 150,000, advisory support, and access to a team of world - class cognitive scientists focused on applying the latest in learning sciences to product design.

Putting students in charge of how fast they learn worries some cognitive scientists.

While a state of agitation and distraction impairs students» cognitive learning and memory processes, scientists have found the opposite to also be true; calm, stress - free classroom environments improve cognitive function and allow students greater ability for rational thoughts, creativity, and self - control (McCraty, 2005).

In a 2011 article published in The Chronicle for Higher Education, we learn that in the late 20th century, the study of metaphor became increasingly popular with «philosophers, linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and others...» Some believe that metaphor is «the concept at the crux of all thought, and maybe all human understanding.»

As contemporary cognitive scientists and linguists argue, language is instinctual, not learned.