Sentences with phrase «cognitive neuroscience research»

The study, conducted by Francesca Filbey, Ph.D., Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Research of Addictive Behaviors at the Center for BrainHealth and her colleagues, shows that risk - taking teens exhibit hyperconnectivity between the amygdala, a center responsible for emotional reactivity, and specific areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with emotion regulation and critical thinking skills.

Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood to adulthood has proven difficult.

The Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation, together with other NSF programs, has an important role in supporting cognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaboration efforts.

In my current role as Program Manager, I oversee the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience Research Program.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

Yet other programs support cognitive neuroscience research within interdisciplinary contexts (e.g., NCS, CRCNS, NEURONEX).

CEI's path has been shaped through singing and visioning with the Peter Yarrow, planning cognitive neuroscience research with Dr. Bruce Wexler, skyping with Dr. Rony Berger from Israel and Dr. Koncha Pinós - Pey in Spain, meditating with many yogis, and participating in gatherings of leaders and students at Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) LearnLab, an international educational symposium in Finland, and the 2013 Science of Compassion seminar in Telluride.

Studies of field potentials and of hemodynamic signals have played central roles in cognitive neuroscience research to date, and seem likely to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

The three - day program of plenary speakers, symposia, posters and special events covers all aspects of cognitive neuroscience research.

«Cognitive neuroscience research is being carried out on the brain processes that make it possible for us to cherish our loved ones and reflect on ourselves.

Until recently, her background has primarily been in cognitive neuroscience research, so she's excited to begin doctoral work in clinical and couples psychology in the fall of 2012 as part of the Center for Marital and Family Studies Lab at DU.