Sentences with phrase «cognitive neuroscience researcher»
AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.
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So she put her researcher hat on and read up on every aspect of ASD and cognitive neuroscience.
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.
Recognizing rhythms doesn't involve just parts of the brain that process sound — it also relies on a brain region involved with movement, researchers report online January 18 in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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.
Until recently, such topics would have been out of the reach of cognitive neuroscience for lack of methods; today, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to watch the brain «in action» as normal human participants make decisions about responsibility and punishment.
Bumps and drops in testosterone levels in response to competition in a variety of species can help both winners and losers, explains researcher Steven Stanton of the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience — victors may get motivated to pursue further gains, whereas also - rans are encouraged to back down so as not to press onward and potentially get injured.
These new findings, appearing online October 21 in PLoS ONE, reveal that politics can influence testosterone in men «just as if they directly engaged head - to - head in a contest for dominance,» says researcher Kevin LaBar of the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Brain scans show that this combination occurs in psychopathic criminals, say researchers from Nijmegen in an article in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
The analysis suggests, but does not prove, that consuming DHA and EPA, two omega - 3 fatty acids found in fish, enhanced cognitive flexibility in these adults in part by beefing up the anterior cingulate cortex, the researchers report in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
The change will impose new requirements that many researchers say don't make sense and could stifle cognitive neuroscience.
SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers are hoping their children won't hear about the results of a study presented here at a meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society on 15 April.
The researchers from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, which studies cognitive brain mechanisms, and Center for Neuroscience, which studies molecular, cellular and system - level brain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative study.
«Researchers in the field of cognitive neuroscience have been wondering for a long time how it was possible that some birds, such as crows or parrots, are smart enough to rival chimpanzees in terms of cognitive abilities, despite their small brains and their lack of a cortex,» says Letzner.
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 study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, has the potential to radically reframe how researchers think about ADHD.
Researchers who also contributed to the work include A. Yam, a former research assistant at the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Alan Lincoln, Ph.D., professor at the Alliant International University in San Diego.
A.M. Barrett, MD, a cognitive neurologist and clinical researcher, studies brain - behavior relationships from the perspectives of cognitive neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive neurorehabilitation.
According to a recent study published in the Journal of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers may have discovered a new truth about the mechanics behind self - perception.
In a 2014 study in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers examined 15 participants with no prior meditation experience.
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.
Professor Ross Cunnington is a Chief Investigator at the Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC)-- an Australia - wide collaboration bringing together researchers from the fields of education, neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
In the first half of the study (soon to be published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience) the brain activity of fifteen canines was monitored by researchers.