Sentences with phrase «cognitive science at»

Ben is from Wilmette, Illinois, and studied psychology and cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania before entering DU's Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2008.

Jeff MacSwan is a professor in Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry (LLSI) and in the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science at the University of Maryland.

«To do this successfully, we are reaching out to younger student populations far more than we used to,» says Sasha Barab, professor of learning sciences, IST, and cognitive science at Indiana University.

Anne Castles is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.

I'm the McClatchy Chair in Communications and Founding Faculty in Cognitive Science at UC Merced.

in Cognitive Science at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, where he was supervised by Dr. Kevin Munhall and Dr. Susan Lederman for his honours thesis project.

We found that corvid birds performed as well as great apes, despite having much smaller brains,» said Can Kabadayi, doctoral student in Cognitive Science at Lund University in Sweden.

«In earlier work, we found that girls start to associate «smartness» with boys by the time they are 6 years old,» said co-author Leslie, the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and director of the Program in Linguistics and the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University.

«There's a certain kind of computation we can now say both children and adults do,» says Raj Singh PhD» 08, an associate professor of cognitive science at Carleton University and the lead author of the new report.

Professor emeritus of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego, Norman is president of UNext Learning Systems.

«When we analyse a scene, the eyes perform very fast miniature movements in order to register the fine details,» explains Nora Nortmann, postgraduate student at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück and the RUB work group Optical Imaging.

«Although such systems are capable of understanding many words, they are often tripped up by creative uses of words that go beyond their existing, pre-programmed vocabularies,» said study lead author Yang Xu, a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics and cognitive science at UC Berkeley.

Barry Gordon, professor of neurology and cognitive science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, replies:

Professor Kim Plunkett, Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford, and a collaborator on the project, said: «Tapping into a parent's knowledge of their own child's development has become an invaluable component in the developmental psychologist's assessment toolkit in recent years.

While working on his Ph.D. in cognitive science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became frustrated by the fact that his work would be seen and appreciated by such a small audience.

«Children who have profound visual deficits often expend a disproportionate amount of effort trying to see straight ahead, and as a consequence they neglect their peripheral vision,» said Duje Tadin, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Rochester.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2000, Maye spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in New York, where she began conducting experiments on how babies learn.

The finding suggests that this type of scan could be used to identify children whose risk was previously unknown, allowing them to undergo treatment before developing depression, says John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.

In the spring of 2003, A research assistant in cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester named Shawn Green began helping cognitive science professor Daphne Bavelier with a project investigating visual perception.

«That is, after imagined speaking in your mind, the actual sounds you hear will become softer — the louder the volume during imagery, the softer perception will be,» explains Tian, assistant professor of neural and cognitive sciences at NYU Shanghai.

«Like GPS, our visual ability, although quite impressive, has many limitations,» said the study's coauthor, Duje Tadin, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.

Kashi completed her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences at BGU, and is now embarking on her graduate studies in the lab.

Led by Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, the researchers described the protein in the June 29 issue of Nature Neuroscience.

The project is a collaboration between the labs of Ed Boyden, the Benesse Career Development associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Craig Forest, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech.

A recent interview between free - range parenting expert Lenore Skenazy and Barbara Sarnecka, an associate professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California - Irvine, who co-authored a fascinating study in 2016 on how moral judgements shape perceptions of risk for children, provides some excellent perspective on how ridiculous it is to get worked up over things like leaving kids unattended in cars (for short periods of time) and allowing them to walk alone.

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He doesn't mention data science at all, but the book is about cognitive bias.

«At almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business InsideAt almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insideat some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insideat others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insideat how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insider.

At Stanford, I majored in symbolic systems, which is a combination of artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

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.

Based on decades of cognitive science research at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute, the quick and accessible Cogniciti brain health assessment (www.cogniciti.com) is designed as a series of game - like tests that tap into cognitive abilities (such as memory and attention).

I have been concerned to show, elsewhere, 6 that the same set of epistemological limitations encountered at the transition to the life sciences and cognitive psychology are evident at the level of chemical theory and its dependence upon the quantum theory relevant to nucleic and electronic constituents.

Look up «Psychological Projection» and then you'll get a hint at the total made - up absurdities that humans have created over thousands of years in order to understand something that is beyond understanding along with their minds over rationalizing events that in a time without the understandings of basic science, they used imagination to ease their fear based cognitive dissonance.

And did you know that cognitive science proves that laughing increases one's living days??? So it means if the spuds have been laughing at us and still will be, then they will live longer and soon there will be more spuds fans than arsenal fans.

Norman Weinberger, a cognitive sciences and psychology professor at the University of California at Irvine, says in one study, babies as young as four months old seemed to know when researchers played the «Happy Birthday» song incorrectly.

«They learn cognitive literacy skills, negotiation skills, science and math skills... and these are all the skills that are so important for a child to be learning at this age.»

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

Understanding similarities in the cognitive and moral capacities of humans with animals can make humans better conservationists, speakers told journalists at an event organized by AAAS» program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.

That might explain why children often use inappropriate colours in their drawings, says Simmering, who will present her results at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Amsterdam at the end of July.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

She studied cognitive science and comparative literature at the University of Georgia before setting out in search of the vague job description «learn and explain things.»

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.

Early in her graduate school career at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Maye (pictured right) decided she wanted to focus on psycholinguistics, a relatively new branch of linguistics that draws on cognitive sciences, including psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, speech and hearing, and neural imaging to explain how humans learn language.

I lay out what science tells us: rattlesnakes have what we have in terms of emotional and cognitive capacities, and then look at rattlesnake natural history through that lens.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

During the Cold War, the U.S. military became convinced it was losing the «mind race» against the Soviet Union, and as recently as the late 1980s was investigating a range of paranormal phenomenon and their potential uses in espionage and combat, says Jonathan Moreno, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who studies military applications of cognitive science.

Because the results represent just one sleep cycle, however, it is unclear whether the left side of the brain is always tasked with maintaining attentiveness, explains the study's senior author Yuka Sasaki, a cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences researcher at Brown.

«It's a uniquely exciting time to be working at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI,» he says.

Auriel Willette, a researcher in food science and human nutrition at Iowa State University, found evidence that an elevated presence of a protein called neuronal pentraxin - 2 may slow cognitive decline and reduce brain atrophy in people with Alzheimer's disease.

Olivier Morin, a cognitive anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, analyzed the features of 116 writing systems across 3000 years of history.

The research team included researchers in MIT's chemistry, biological engineering, nuclear science and engineering, brain and cognitive sciences, and materials science and engineering departments and its program in Health Sciences and Technology; and at the University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf; Brown University; and the Massachusetts General Hospital.