Sentences with phrase «many cognitive psychologists»

«Everything you think is influenced by years of experience and cultural upbringing,» says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist at University of Texas at Austin and author of Smart Thinking (Perigee Trade, 2012).

In the 1950s, cognitive psychologist George Miller put forward the idea that humans can only «hold» seven things (plus or minus two) in their short - term memory (STM) at one time.

«What your memory is really for is giving you information about what to expect in the world and how to solve problems in those situations,» says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist and author of Smart Thinking (Perigee Trade, 2012).

Steven Pinker, an American cognitive psychologist and linguist also points out...

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Here a good example of a solid critique by Daniel Willingham, renowned cognitive psychologist from UVA:

The maze manages to be challenging (I'm still stuck on track section 2) yet doable (Laurel has already figured out track section 2), and the cognitive psychologist in me wonders whether the lasting enjoyment of this game relates to the fact that you're so concentrated on the track as you rotate that you rarely look at the big picture — meaning, the maze always seems to look new and different when you approach it.

Most cognitive psychologists believe that kids really start to have dreams with a real plotline when they are about 5 to 7 years old, about the time they develop a sense of self, which is necessary to insert themselves into dreams.

With the help of cognitive psychologists, people are often able to find ways to cope and even overcome such difficulties.

Extra napping time «may go some way to offset the disturbed nighttime sleep, but the total sleep time of high users is still less than low users,» says study coauthor Tim Smith, a cognitive psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London.

Your visual system helps you make such decisions by warping and stretching the things you look at according to your physical traits or abilities, says Jessica Witt, a cognitive psychologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

«It's very exciting,» says Romke Rouw, a cognitive psychologist who studies synesthesia at the University of Amsterdam but who wasn't involved in the study.

Cognitive psychologists coined the term in 1960 as they tried to explain the fundamental structure of the human thought process.

«Hearing language is particularly important for understanding others, while other kinds of experience, such as the visual modality, are less important,» says Alison Gopnik, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer.

Cognitive psychologists, in contrast, argue that early memories are simply not stored in any format that we can access.

They live in what cognitive psychologists call explicit memory.

Cognitive psychologists are interested in how people understand, diagnose, and solve problems, concerning themselves with the mental processes which mediate between stimulus and response.

«I can say broadly when people have strong beliefs about something, it's difficult to unwind those beliefs, regardless of how strong the evidence is,» says Eryn Newman, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles..

Mary Czerwinski, a cognitive psychologist, has spent her career doing both basic and applied research in the technology industry

In 1995 Timothy Rickard, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California at San Diego, evaluated a 40 - year - old man with a mental age of 5 who could assign a day of the week to a date with 70 percent accuracy.

Paul Atchley, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, says having a remote conversation and driving a car means performing two tasks at once, what some people consider multitasking.

Similarly, cognitive psychologist Janet Metcalfe of Columbia University found that schizophrenic subjects had trouble knowing how much control they had over their own actions.

Make full use of university databases that detail researchers» interests, suggests cognitive psychologist Dennis Proffitt of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, who has received funding from several industry sources.

Cognitive psychologists call this the «regime of competence» principle.

The study — published in Scientific Reports — was the first to challenge a growing trend among cognitive psychologists over the past 20 years that has attempted to show that believing in the supernatural is something that comes to us «naturally» or intuitively.

A few years ago, cognitive psychologist Axel Cleeremans of the Université Libre de Bruxelles attempted to replicate a classic study by John Bargh of Yale University, in which some participants were primed, without realizing it, with concepts associated with old age.

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.

Results of a new study by cognitive psychologist and speech scientist Alexandra Jesse and her linguistics undergraduate student Michael Bartoli at the University of Massachusetts Amherst should help to settle a long - standing disagreement among cognitive psychologists about the information we use to recognize people speaking to us.

Mary Czerwinski is a cognitive psychologist based at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond, Washington.

In a 2010 study, cognitive psychologists Melissa Libertus and Elizabeth Brannon, then both at Duke University, found that infants gazed longer at images of black circles when the number of circles changed, compared with when the quantity was always the same, as long as the ratio between the number of circles was always at least 2 - to - 1.

«These state - of the - art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting's brain organizes music,» says lead author Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist at McGill University.

And Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies how infants learn language and was only an infant himself when Chomsky first outlined his theory, has attempted to explain this ambitious quest in a provocative book, The Language Instinct (Review, 26 February).

The study provides a «better understanding of the why and how of sponging» by the Shark Bay dolphins, says Louis Herman, a cognitive psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

But Laurie Santos, a cognitive psychologist at Yale University who has shown that rhesus macaques lack an understanding of false belief, thinks the «paper raises more questions than it provides answers,» especially because there have been «so many past results showing that chimpanzees and other primates lack this capacity.»

Cognitive psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who studies childhood learning, writes that although «it's nice to be exempted from the regulatory burden,» she worries that if her research isn't considered health - related, «will there later be criticism of funding from NIH?»

We've known this since cognitive psychologist Ulric Neisser studied memories of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Co-led by Phil McAleer and Pascal Belin, cognitive psychologists at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, the researchers created a model voice based on the average acoustical characteristics of the eight voices the 2014 study had rated as most and least trustworthy.

To test this, Vittorio Girotto, a cognitive psychologist at the University IUAV of Venice, Italy, and his colleagues sought out rural Maya villagers in Guatemala who had no formal education.

«We're actually reading words much like we identify any kind of visual object, like we identify chairs and tables,» says study author Jonathan Grainger, a cognitive psychologist at France's National Center for Scientific Research, and Aix - Marseille University in Marseille, France.

The results support the idea that primates have built - in mechanisms for recognizing a very specific threat based on its shape, says Isabelle Blanchette, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Quebec, Trois - Rivières, in Canada who studies the role of emotion in how we process information.

«It seems that smell is integrated at a very early stage,» says cognitive psychologist Jonas Olofsson, who led the new study, published November 5 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Veronique Izard, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, demonstrated this in a recent study of newborns.

Michael Kane, a cognitive psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, says that daydreaming can be beneficial or harmful, depending on the context and the daydreamer's own goals at the time.

Without consensus on how, and when, to teach science, cognitive psychologists and education researchers differ regarding what aspects of the research are most important.

But that does not rule out the notion that both syntax and math abilities derive from a deeper common architecture, says cognitive psychologist Stanislas Dehaene of the Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot in Orsay Cedex, France.

Instead it looks like at least some of the processes that cognitive psychologists and linguists have historically attributed to the application of rules may instead emerge from the association of speech sounds with words we already know,» says David Gow, PhD, of the MGH Department of Neurology.

Now, in a study published this past January in Science, a team of researchers at the University of Trento in Italy, led by cognitive psychologist Rosa Rugani, has shown that infants of a different species altogether also prefer to see bigger numbers on the right.

Job titles in this area might include cognitive psychologist, comparative psychologist, experimental psychologist, research psychologist, and social psychologist.

Cognitive psychologists tell us that we deal better with discrete entities and integers, but the world (and particularly the world of probability) is more continuous... my soapbox argument against limiting discussion to values that are «convenient».