Sentences with phrase «cognitive neuroscience at»

The report quotes Dr. Marilyn Albert, professor of neurology and director of cognitive neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Chair of the GCBH.
He completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and received additional postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at Duke University Medical Center.
Commenting on the research, Prof Sophie Scott, from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, said: «Finding something like this in a primate brain isn't too surprising - but it is quite something to demonstrate it in dogs.
Other STEM themed sessions include: Tony Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, discussing «A glimpse of robotics future»; «Creating the next generation of female programmers» in the Bett Arena and hosted by Anne Marie Neatham and Phil Bagge; and «How can Creativity Enhance Learning — Inspiring Girls into Science».
As part of J - Term, HGSE students participated in a two - day field visit to the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children's Hospital where they listened to lectures, conducted on - site and hands - on visits to labs, and discussed the experience.
After studying Cognitive Neuroscience at M.I.T., and receiving her M.D. from Cornell University, she completed her residency and fellowship at Bellevue / NYU.
Dan Pardi, CEO and founder of Dan's Plan and researcher on sleep neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University, joins Dr. Lo to discuss how YOU can sleep like a baby... naturally.
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5...
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.
He also directs the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience at EPFL and is Professor of Neurology at Geneva University Hospital and Geneva's new Campus Biotech.
«It was already known from previous studies that the method of loci can considerably increase memory performance,» said Martin Dresler, assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands and lead author of the study, noting that the loci method is used, without exception, by all world - class memory athletes.
Bernard was joined by Marilyn S. Albert, director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Sevil Yasar, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
«I find some people way too quick to pooh - pooh the idea of an impending Singularity,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
However, cost and staff availability limit what can be provided,» Heidi Johansen - Berg, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Oxford said in a press release.
Sophie Scott at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London cautions that the way we hear language is more complicated than just lining up different phonemes.
Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, says it is crucial to figure out what neural circuitry is behind «free won't,» as she refers the ability to control impulses, because it is one «of the many psychiatric disorders for which self - control problems figure prominently.»
The FFA and PPA were first identified in the human cortex by Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT.
The study was carried out by Dr. Vadim Axelrod and Prof. Moshe Bar, from the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar - Ilan University, and Prof. Geraint Rees, from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.
The research was conducted in the Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at GUMC, led by Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD.
Francesca Happé is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
The study was led by Debra Mills, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Bangor University in Wales.
'' [The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance,» says Adele Diamond, professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.

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In a study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers found that people were much better at processing information about people they had just met if they had large social groups.
Facebook acknowledged that it allowed Kogan — a University of Cambridge researcher in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience who obtained the data through his role at a company called Global Science Research — to collect that information with user permission.
Kogan, who is a researcher in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, created the app that acquired the personal information of 270,000 Facebook users who downloaded the app in 2013.
Contemporary research at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience and genetics demonstrates that children develop the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and overall mental health when caregivers respond to the meaning of behavior rather than the behavior itself.
In a research project published in November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own mothers.
If psychologists could help people expand their working - memory capacity or make it function more efficiently, everyone could benefit, from chess masters to learning - disabled children, says Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD, an assistant cognitive neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
John Colombo, PhD, professor of psychology, University of Kansas; associate director of cognitive neuroscience, Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
«I looked at people like [cognitive neuroscientist] Stanislas Dehaene, whose research illustrated the value of using neuroscience to ask questions about numerical cognition and knowledge acquisition, and I said, «I want to do this too.»»
Marilyn Albert is the Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
At the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2010 annual meeting in Montreal, psychologist Mara Mather of the University of Southern California and her colleagues asked male and female volunteers to place their hand in ice water, which makes the stress hormone cortisol shoot up.
- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.
«It has long been thought that the stress of a mother during her pregnancy may imprint on the brain of her developing child,» says Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University who is presenting this new work at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston today.
In a paper published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience in 2011, researchers at Yale described their discovery that people who touched a warm object were more likely to invest money with a stranger than people who touched something cold.
Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State UnCognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State Uncognitive psychology at Colorado State University.
«Not only can people with autism socialize more under the effect of oxytocin, they can understand the behaviors of others and respond accordingly,» explains study co-author Angela Sirigu, director of research at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France.
Hearing certain sounds during slumber can spur learning, according to research detailed at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting in Montreal
«These findings help reinforce a strategy whereby individuals may be able to improve their emotional functioning — their mood, their anxiety, their experience of depression — not only by directly addressing those phenomena, but also by indirectly improving their general cognitive functioning,» said Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke.
«Fight or flight is pointless if you are tiny,» said developmental neuroscientist Nim Tottenham of Columbia University, who presented the work March 26 at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.
This classical account was elaborated on by a recent study from Michel Desmurget and his colleagues at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France, that was published in the international journal Science.
The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.
Scientists from the department of social neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) together with colleagues from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) explored the question at what age we develop the motivation to watch, from our perspective, a deserved punishment and if this feature also exists in our closest relatives — chimpanzees.
One year into her Ph.D. in Blanke's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Lenggenhager helped develop an experimental concept aimed at recreating out - of - body experiences in healthy subjects as a way to study distorted self - consciousness.
«For over 10 years, language scientists and neuroscientists have been guided by a high impact study published in Nature Neuroscience showing that these predictions by the brain are very detailed and can even include the first sound of an upcoming word,» explains Mante Nieuwland, cognitive neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the University of Edinburgh.
«Other studies have evaluated the effects on older athletes, such as retired NFL players, but no one has studied 20 - year - olds until now — and the results were remarkable and surprising,» said Patrick S.F. Bellgowan, director of cognitive neuroscience for LIBR and a faculty member at TU.
«The goal of our research is to understand the neurodynamics of real - world social interactions, and we used the classroom as a real - world social neuroscience lab,» says Suzanne Dikker of NYU and Utrecht University, who is presenting this new research at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual confeneuroscience lab,» says Suzanne Dikker of NYU and Utrecht University, who is presenting this new research at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual confeNeuroscience Society (CNS) annual conference today.
«There is an intimate relationship between face recognition and the reward system,» said Rypma, associate professor of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Research led by Hannah Foy, a 2nd year PhD student in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, is looking at whether future interventions could prioritise the use of driving simulators to make us safer at the wheel and our roads a safer place to be.
To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.
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