Sentences with phrase «advanced cognition»

As hunter - gatherers endowed with advanced cognition and a proclivity to cooperate, we were able to make it through this disaster, and we were very resilient,» said Marean, who led the study published in the journal Nature.

And the students who were calling out the correct answers had rewired their brain to such an extent that they had created a much more complex brain, with associated brain map advancements, that provided the neurobiological means for more complex neurological firings to take place, which then provided the means for advanced cognition and intellectual insights to transpire.

When you combine this motivation with the more advanced cognition of our ape brains, you begin to have the propagation of the complex skills that have marked human civilisation, van Schaik claims.

Marino, whose own work indicated that dolphins were capable of self - awareness and other types of advanced cognition, felt that keeping these social, intelligent animals in marine parks did not justify what could be learned from them.

The discovery of specialist stem cells responsible for our most advanced cognition could pave the way for new treatments for autism and schizophrenia

What was once considered a sharp line separating humans from all other animals is becoming a blurry gray area, with various animals possessing certain parts of the skill set considered to be advanced cognition.

With their unusually large brains relative to their body size and advanced cognition, parrots live in a complex social environment — not merely in a large population of cooperating creatures, such as bees or ants, but in a dynamic setting of alliances and competitors.

There is still no explanation for the spontaneous origin of the universe, as well as the advanced cognition of the brain (chemicals and genetics reveal general trends, but no one knows how complete thoughts are actually formed, nor emotions or personalities); creation and the human conscious, the two fundamental focuses of religion.

Not exact matches

Second, AI capabilities are rapidly advancing across perception and cognition fueled by data and knowledge of the world.

Further research is needed, however, to determine if baby sign language promotes advanced language, literacy or cognition.

Cognition is an abstract property of advanced living organisms; therefore, it is studied as a direct property of a brain or of an abstract mind on subsymbolic and symbolic levels.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

Implicit in my assertion that computers will eventually be capable of the same kind of perception, cognition and thought as humans is the idea that a sufciently advanced and sophisticated articial system — for example, an electronic one — can be made and programmed to do the same thing as the human nervous system, including the brain.

«Preterm infants fare well in early language development: Study advances understanding of earliest link between language and cognition in vulnerable population.»

Jeremy Henley, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience in the University's School of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, said: «These discoveries represent a significant advance and will have far - reaching implications for the understanding of memory, cognition, developmental plasticity and neuronal network formation and stabilisation.

Their literature review, published in the journal Visual Cognition, scoured published data (including advance online publications) up to May 2013 and encompassed papers on the presence and magnitude of:

Recent advances in the field of reptile cognition have found evidence of sophisticated abilities in this group.

Covering for four sabbaticals (including Floody's) over 2 years, she strengthened and broadened her repertoire, teaching courses and labs in sensation and perception, learning theory, cognition, and physiological psychology, all while developing an advanced seminar on forgetting.

But now, thanks to advances in brain imaging techniques and improved understanding of numerical cognition in general, new insights into the disorder have begun to emerge.

IBS has announced that the Bio-imaging Research Group, led by Won Do Heo, both a group leader from the Center for Cognition and Sociality, and a professor at the College of Life Science and Bioengineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), has developed the Light - Activated Reversible Inhibition by Assembled Trap (LARIAT).

According to her model, early in their evolution humans added cooperative breeding behaviors to their already existing advanced ape cognition, leading to a powerful combination of smarts and sociality that fueled even bigger brains, the evolution of language, and unprecedented levels of cooperation.

«Advanced artificial intelligence could encapsulate the various components of human cognition and reassemble those components into something that is no longer human — and that would render us obsolete.»

The findings, published by researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh and the joint CMU / Pitt Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) are available as an Advance Online Publication on Nature Neuroscience's website.

Researchers at the Lifelong Brain and Cognition Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois have utilized the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities available in Beckman's Biomedical Imaging Center to measure the moment - to - moment variability in brain activity, more specifically in the blood oxygenation level - dependent (BOLD) signal.

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

«Intergroup perception and cognition: An integrative framework for understanding the causes and consequences of social categorization» in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

«With her experience, Kessler Foundation is confident that our stroke rehabilitation research will continue to make advances that will help improve cognition and function for the millions of stroke survivors across the nation.»

Foundation scientists conduct rehabilitation research in mobility and cognition that advances the care of people with multiple sclerosis, brain injury, stroke and spinal cord injury.

John Shea is a noted archaeologist and iconoclast, arguing «advances» in stone tool technology were responses to particular needs and not necessarily evidence of increased cognition.

Kessler Foundation, the largest public charity in the field of disability, conducts rehabilitation research in mobility and cognition that advances the care of people with multiple sclerosis, brain injury, stroke and spinal cord injury.

IARPA sponsors several applied research programs that use multidisciplinary approaches to advance our understanding of cognition and computation in the brain.

Boeckle said that the determinations advance «our understanding of complex cognition, as we did not have evidence in any (non-human) animal that future planning is flexibly used across behaviors.»

Central to the initiative is the creation of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, where research investigations will span a continuum, from deciphering the basic biology of the brain to understanding sensation, perception, cognition, and human behavior, with the goal of making transformational advances that will inform new scientific tools and medical treatments.

The ultimate goal of the Institute is to improve life and health by advancing the science of human cognition.

In this post, we will explore these new advances and how they translate to the positive influence on cognition and brainpower.

It can also impair cognition, judgment and listening skills, according to Dr. Michael Mantell, Ph.D., an Advanced Behavior Coach.

Through our investment strategy and the donations made by our subsidiary, Cognition Education Ltd, we invest in educational initiatives, interventions and projects that measurably advance education in New Zealand.

Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

His research has focused on characterizing cognition, understanding how cognition develops early in life, how it changes with advanced age and whether it can be modified with the use of drugs, nutritional supplements, or behavior interventions.

As Tyler Langdon of Cognition LLP pointed out, external counsel's perspective should be that advancing alternatives to the billable hour will: «strengthen relationships, increase market share, improve business opportunities and actually enhance profit.»

Designing intelligent tools that leverage visual cognition and leading trends in interaction design to advance usability and discoverability resources for an industry that's sorely lacking.

Facial Attractiveness: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives (Advances in Visual Cognition, V. 1).

Children with a more developed social cognition tend to be better communicators, socially competent, popular with peers, happier at school, and academically more advanced.

Asserting that the body has been left out of the «talking cure,» she offers a scholarly review of very recent advances in the trauma, neurobiology, developmental, and psychodynamic literatures that strongly suggests that bodily - based behaviors, affects, and cognitions must be brought to the forefront of the clinical encounter.»

She finds that the most important issue about the mode concept is the congruent relationship with advances in neuroscience, understanding how the brain processes emotion, cognition, and behavior.

His seminal work showed how cognitive and motivational processes shape our conceptions and memories of ourselves, as exemplified by his classic 1979 JPSP with Fiore Sicoly, helped set the intellectual stage for the explosion of motivated social cognition research that has advanced our understanding of self - esteem, relationships, and social judgment in the decades that followed.