Sentences with phrase «for cognitive neuroscientist»

For cognitive neuroscientist Atsushi Sekiguchi, who was studying the neural underpinnings of stress at Tohoku University in Sendai, the earthquake was a rare opportunity to tease apart cause and effect.

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It's an important move, one that will have a ripple effect across the lucrative «brain game» industry that — despite concerns from prominent psychologists, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists — has been operating without much regulatory oversight for years.

Technological advancements — for example, more portable electroencephalography (EEG) and electrophysiology set - ups and - are allowing cognitive neuroscientists to study music in a variety of situations, from mother - child interactions to live concert halls.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

«While gender differences in cognitive function are small, the differences in vulnerability for diseases are spectacular,» says Geert J. de Vries, a neuroscientist at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

In one such study, Jordan Grafman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, and Jorge Moll, a neuroscientist at the D'Or Institute for Research and Education in Rio de Janeiro, dangled a pot of $ 128 in front of 19 subjects and gave them the opportunity to receive the money or to donate a portion to various social causes.

Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in everyone, synesthete and non-synesthete alike.

Back at MIT, cognitive neuroscientists Liane Young and Rebecca Saxe have been studying the right temporal parietal junction, a brain region used for reasoning about others» intent.

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.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

Using such tools, a group in Paris led by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France has argued for several years that a hallmark of conscious visual perception is a particular type of electric wave, called P300, that occurs whenever an adult subject is attending to a consciously perceived picture or a sound.

«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 EdinburFor 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 Edinburfor Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the University of Edinburgh.

It is thrilling for me as a cognitive neuroscientist, who has previously studied age - related cognitive decline, to find that cognitive training has the potential to strengthen the aging brain to function more like a younger brain.»

«The human sense of smell is far better at guiding us through our everyday lives than we give it credit for,» said senior author Johan Lundström, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist at Monell.

For this experiment Kapogiannis is working with cognitive neuroscientist Jordan Grafman.

It is one of a slew of novel cognitive training programs being marketed by neuroscientists for the purpose of rejuvenating aging brains.

At this point, a genetic test for these variants won't be much help in the clinic, says Faraneh Vargha - Khadem, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at University College London who was not involved with the work.

Cognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalCognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalcognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animals.»

Cognitive neuroscientist Merle Fairhurst of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues hypothesized that this type of response might emerge as early as infancy.

The birds we prize most for their songs sound most like the human voice, says Robert Zatorre, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who was not involved in the study.

Director of the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, Professor Peter Morris, said: «Functional magnetic resonance imaging is the main tool available to cognitive neuroscientists for the investigation of human brain function.

The Symposium convenes distinguished neuroscientists to discuss the latest advances in brain research.Among the speakers are Dr. Donald T. Stuss of the Ontario BrainInstitute, Dr. Stephen M. Rao of the Schey Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging at ClevelandClinic, Dr. Arthur Kramer of the University of Illinois Campus NeuroscienceProgram, Dr. Leah A. Krubitzer of the Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis, Dr. Earl K. Miller Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Michael P. Alexander at Harvard Medical School and the Rotman Research Center.

Neuroscientists at University College, London, recently discovered a fascinating connection between an antioxidant enzyme system called CAT (for catalase) and several major markers of high cognitive functioning.

So as neuroscientists continue to discover the inner workings of the brain, as cognitive psychologists continue to look for explanations of learning behaviour and as educators continue to apply research to improve their teaching, this new field will greatly improve the quality and effectiveness of the educational experiences for children.

Cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and educators have studied how learning occurs for nearly a century.

She points to the work of the cognitive neuroscientist Daphne Bavelier as an exception: Bavelier found that playing an action game such as Call of Duty for 10 hours will improve a person's detail vision and multitasking skills, and almost double their capacity for tracking moving objects even five months later.

My fellow participants on the panel included James Giordano, a neuroscientist, neuroethicist, and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, VA; Monica Lopez - Gonzalez, postdoc fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty, Visual Cognitive Neuroscience, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; and Jonathan Peck, futurist and Director of the Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA..

«A richer mode of communication is possible right after making eye contact,» says Dr. Atsushi Senju, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at University ocognitive neuroscientist at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at University oCognitive Development at University of London.