Sentences with phrase «cognitive scientists do»

Cognitive scientists don't often get a chance to save lives.

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I did not «cast off» my empirical upbringing when I became a believer; for me (as for so many others, including many scientists), there is no cognitive dissonance between reason and faith, nor any «war» between science and religion.
Daniel T. Willingham, author of Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Cognitive scientists are trained to understand the limits of human mental processing - it's what we do!
Wolfe has taken it upon himself to explain various aspects of science — having to do with biological evolution, linguistics, psychology and cognitive neuroscience — to scientists, in the process disparaging titans in their fields such as Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky.
Zenon Pylyshyn, a cognitive scientist at Rutgers University, doesn't think mental images are essential to figuring such things out.
«We think that if we look at something enough, especially if we have to pay attention to its shape as we do during reading, then we would know what it looks like, but our results suggest that's not always the case,» said Johns Hopkins cognitive scientist Michael McCloskey, the senior author.
«They don't count and they have no number words,» says MIT cognitive scientist Edward Gibson, who headed a study published in the journal Cognition [pdf].
«The idea is that this is the mechanism that allows you to find things when you know what they are but you don't know where they are,» says John Serences, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and co-author of one of the new reports.
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.
Rafael Núñez, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who has studied the mental and social process of doing mathematics, points out that problem solving is just another human activity.
Positron - emission tomography images taken by cognitive scientists at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, for example, have shown that even when doing basic recognition or memorization exercises, seniors exploit the left and right brain more extensively than men and women who are decades younger.
Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi does not bother with how the brain accomplishes a task, but rather why it performs the function in the first place.
«We still don't understand why it occurs or whether you can get used to it, and people don't necessarily agree it exists,» said Ayse Saygin, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego.
«Other species had similar challenges and had much longer to develop human - like intelligence but didn't,» said Steven Piantadosi, a cognitive scientist at the University of Rochester.
It has also been scientifically proven to enhance cognitive function and hGH, although there are no established mechanisms and scientists don't exactly know how it works although it is known to work and devoid of side effects.
Daniel Willingham, a cognitive scientist, wrote one of my favorite books, Why Don't Students Like School?
Tina Grotzer, a cognitive scientist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, does work that explores the notion of complex...
Daniel Willingham Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom
«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?
Dan Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Ccognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Ccognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Cscientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The CCognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The CScientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom.
«A dominant metaphor for young children's cognitive development is that the child is a scientist who does handson experiments, such as with things that float versus sink, and revises his or her ideas about the world like a scientist,» Harris says.
These Games Will Do it for You Smithsonian.com, 7/21/14 «I was initially not sold on the idea of augmented reality,» said cognitive scientist Tina Grotzer, a professor in Harvard's graduate school of education and the co-principal investigator for both the EcoMUVE and EcoMobile projects.
For the moment, though, these findings serve as a reminder that there is no such thing as a dumb question, because as cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham notes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?
That prompted Dan Willingham, a University of Virginia cognitive scientist, to observe, «Rarely does a policymaker as much as say, «Screw the data, I'm doing what I want.
Memory is the residue of thought — Daniel Willingham, Cognitive Scientist and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»
Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham critiques a popular video that insists that we «do not simply need to fix or improve our schools but to completely rethink how they operate.»
Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about «mind - wandering» — or zoning out of what you are doing — and how it affects students at school.
My guest is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»
My guest today is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»
Here's the second part of cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham's article on how students end up thinking they know something when they don't.
Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about why parents should listen to their child's teachers — especially when they don't like what they hear.
My guest is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a pyschology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»
My guest today is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»
Some scientists believe that we don't have the cognitive capacity to consciously process 100 % of the information we take in.
If a climate scientist of the activist / advocate stripe doesn't feel some cognitive dissonance over their own personal carbon footprint, well it is difficult to defend against a charge of hypocrisy.
Note: Story is such an excellent way to communicate that Daniel Willingham devotes several pages to it in his book Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom.
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