Sentences with phrase «university cognitive scientists»
Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser is on year - long leave following a university investigation that found evidence of misconduct in his lab, The Boston Globe reports today.
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The Boston Globe reports today that Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser, who is on leave after a university investigation found evidence of research misconduct in his lab, will not be allowed to teach at the university next year.
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A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University.
A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University.
In a research project published in November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own mothers.
«Richard Thaler has pioneered the analysis of ways in which human decisions systematically deviate from traditional economic models,» says cognitive scientist Peter Gӓrdenfors of Lund University, Sweden, a member of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.
«There's a lot of research that tells us people have a hard time remembering negations,» says Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol in England.
In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.
«We know a lot about how to educate people on facts, but we know almost nothing about how to educate people on acquiring perceptual skills other than lots of repetition, which can be very time - consuming and expensive,» says cognitive scientist Robert A. Jacobs of the University of Rochester.
The academic community quaked last August when Harvard confirmed that it had found Marc Hauser, a cognitive scientist at the university, «solely responsible» for eight cases of scientific misconduct.
That's when geneticist Adam Wilkins of Humboldt University of Berlin, primatologist Richard Wrangham of Harvard University and evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist W. Tecumseh Fitch of the University of Vienna introduced a new hypothesis.
«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 Edinburgh.
Zenon Pylyshyn, a cognitive scientist at Rutgers University, doesn't think mental images are essential to figuring such things out.
A 2010 study by William Jarrold, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Davis, suggests that an automated system that analyzes speech patterns on phone calls can potentially pick up on cognitive impairment and clinical depression or determine if someone is in the very early stages of Alzheimer's.
Scientists of the Transfaculty Research Platform «Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences» (MCN) at the University of Basel and the Psychiatric University Clinics have now described a network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is related to working memory, brain activity and schizophrenia.
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.
Creators of machine - learning systems «used to be able to look at the source code of our programs and understand how they work, but that era is long gone,» says Simon DeDeo, a cognitive scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Itiel Dror of the JDI Center for the Forensic Sciences at University College London spoke about his research on «cognitive forensics» — how cognitive biases affect forensic scientists.
Steven Pinker, Cognitive scientist 142,000 followers @sapinker Citations: 49,933 K - index: 103 Total number of tweets: 1,612 Harvard University, United States
«This is the kind of study where you think «Yes, I can believe these results,»» because they fit well with what scientists know about fetal brain development, says cognitive scientist Karin Stromswold of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.
Fun, engrossing activities are strongly encoded in memory because they engage our emotions, according to James Gee, a cognitive scientist at Arizona State University.
A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Sanders - Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky have identified an interesting connection between the health of the brain tissue that supports cognitive functioning and the presence of dementia in adults with Down syndrome.
«I think she might be the most interesting amnesic to have been studied in this level of detail,» cognitive scientist Michael McCloskey of Johns Hopkins University is quoted as saying.
«Findings like those reported in this paper provide significant evidence of the value and need for continued behavioral, cognitive and neurogenomic work with this important species,» said William D. Hopkins, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Georgia State and associate research scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.
-- cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Two cognitive scientists, Helena Miton of Central European University in Budapest and Hugo Mercier of the Cognitive Sciences Institute in Bron, France, proposed this scenario in the November 2015 Trends in Cognitive cognitive scientists, Helena Miton of Central European University in Budapest and Hugo Mercier of the Cognitive Sciences Institute in Bron, France, proposed this scenario in the November 2015 Trends in Cognitive Cognitive Sciences Institute in Bron, France, proposed this scenario in the November 2015 Trends in Cognitive Cognitive Sciences.
In a study published today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent trail.
New research by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh provides an unprecedented level of resolution and insight into disturbances in cortical GABAergic microcircuits, which are thought to underlie cognitive impairments in schizophrenia.
«When they need a new word, they invent one,» says Janet Wiles, a cognitive scientist at the University of Queensland who leads an interdisciplinary team on the project.
«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.
He described his work June 29 in a keynote address to a conference in Vancouver.The cognitive scientists in the Virtual Environment Navigation lab at Brown University are not only advancing a frontier of behavioral research but also of technology.
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.
Uta Frith, Cognitive scientist 13,000 followers @utafrith Citations: 49,700 K - index: 9 Total number of tweets: 3,645 University College London, United Kingdom
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.
Although scientists have long considered the brain systems that govern these two types of deficits as separate, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are actually deeply intertwined, says Patricia Kuhl, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and lead author of the new study.
Damian Bailey, a physiologist at the University of South Wales, Pontypridd, in the United Kingdom and the project's lead scientist, hopes the risky experiment will yield new information about how the human body responds to low - oxygen conditions, and how similar mechanisms might drive cognitive decline with aging.
Twenty years ago, a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge developed a test of «cognitive empathy» called the «Reading the Mind in the Eyes» Test (or the Eyes Test, for short).
In defense, Chopra sent me a 2008 paper published in Mind and Matter by University of California, Irvine, cognitive scientist Donald D. Hoffman: Conscious Realism and the Mind - Body Problem.
Cognitive scientist Otto Lappi's dissertation at the University of Helsinki's Faculty of behavioral Sciences reveals new crucial aspects of eye movements in curve driving.
That makes the journal a «mishmash... neither an unrefereed proposal platform nor a refereed journal,» says OA advocate Stevan Harnad, a cognitive scientist at the University of Quebec, Montreal, in Canada.
«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.
A second study, led by scientists at the University of Manchester in England and published online this past May, looked at vitamin D levels and cognitive performance in more than 3,100 men aged 40 to 79 in eight different countries across Europe.
No, says cognitive scientist Rafael Nunez of the University of California San Diego.
Daniel Ansari, a cognitive scientist at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, says that while the new findings appear to disagree, both studies suggest «that the left parietal lobe is more finely tuned to the symbolic representation of numerical magnitude.»
Real - world testing is needed to confirm that the benefits in the game will translate to real life, but for now the game's designer, University of Helsinki cognitive scientist Esko Lehtonen, says the game may be especially useful for kids, who aren't familiar with the rules of the road and still have developing brains.
«There are automatic guns in the demilitarized zone that can target and fire without human decision,» says Colin Allen, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University and coauthor of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.
Scientists from the Sports Medicine, Prevention, and Rehabilitation division at the Institute of Sports Science and the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and from the Department of General Psychology and the Department of Sports Medicine at Eberhard Karls University in Tubingen took part in the study entitled «Associations between physical and cognitive doping — a cross-sectional study in 2.997 triathletes.»
«Findings like those reported in this paper provide significant evidence of the value and need for continued behavioural, cognitive and neurogenomic work with this important species,» said Dr. William D. Hopkins, professor of neuroscience at Georgia State and associate research scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.
I'm Francys Subiaul, a Cognitive Scientist and Associate Professor in the George Washington University.
A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment leader Hasbro to design a smart robotic companion capable of assisting older people with simple but sometimes challenging tasks of everyday living.