Sentences with phrase «brain and cognitive»

Rebecca Saxe, associate professor of cognitive neuroscience in MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, has devoted her entire career to studying a single part of the human reptilian brain called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ).

I hold doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology and in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and approach research on child development from both basic science and applied, public health perspectives.

«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 of London.

It's also rich in DHA for brain and cognitive development, making training easier.

While at Harvard, where she also earned an A.B., Hostetter researched reading - related development and disabilities in the Gabrieli Laboratory of M.I.T.'s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Trauma impacts a child's brain and cognitive processes, making critical thinking and problem solving more difficult and emotional outbursts more likely.

Professor Nelson's research interests are broadly concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field concerned with the intersection of brain and cognitive development.

Effects of music training on the child's brain and cognitive development.

Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., a brain and cognitive scientist and author of Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin and Free (Hay House, March 2017) offers five key steps to manage holiday eating.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA BS in Brain and Cognitive Science / Systems Neuroscience

Extensive research has documented the health benefits of EPA and DHA which include not only a healthy heart, but brain and cognitive function; joint mobility; eye health; pregnancy and lactation; healthy skin and hair; and a normally functioning immune response.

Brain and Cognitive Science and tenured professor who teaches The Psychology of Eating) shows the neuroscience on how we can implement dietary changes long - term.

If you have hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's you have likely already experienced in many different ways how they affect your brain and cognitive function.

Both soluble forms are thought to offer health benefits by way of supporting the brain and cognitive function, clear eyesight, energy levels, and blood glucose metabolism.

What's the mechanism of Candida or these yeasts uhm — causing neurological and brain and cognitive issues?

Omega - 3 Fatty Acids and Omega -6 Fatty Acids These fatty acids are essential to optimum health from pre-birth throughout our lives, and adequate intake will help reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, chronic inflammation, allergy and cancer while enhancing brain and cognitive function.

In 1994, she was named Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and in 2001 was promoted to Investigator at the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Dr. Mehrdad Jazayeri, Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - October 2016

Volunteers are encouraged to return to the site for additional assessments every 3 - 6 months over their lifetime, which will provide researchers with information about how the human brain and cognitive abilities change over time.

The project is a collaboration between the labs of Ed Boyden, the Benesse Career Development associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Craig Forest, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech.

Topics: Brain and cognitive sciences, Collaboration, McGovern Institute, Media Lab, Neuroscience, Research, Robots

Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and W. M. Keck Career Development Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has been named a recipient of the 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award — Canada's most prestigious scientific prize — for his role in developing the CRISPR - Cas9 gene - editing system.

Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will be presenting a talk titled, «A System Identification Approach to Infer Neural Codes from Neural Dynamics» at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 3:30 pm.

Dr. Luo received PhD in brain and cognitive sciences and postdoc training in endocrinology at the University of Southern California.

Topics: Optogenetics, Brain and cognitive sciences, Bioengineering and biotechnology, McGovern Institute, Research

«Our ultimate goal is to help people with learning difficulties and memory deficits,» said Earl K Miller, senior author of the paper and the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Development of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Dr. Gaab and her staff are interested in brain and cognitive development in typically developing infants and children, as well as children diagnosed with, or at risk for, dyslexia.

Feng Zhang, PhD, Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, MIT; Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation; James and Patricia Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Led by Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, the researchers described the protein in the June 29 issue of Nature Neuroscience.

Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»

Topics: Awards, honors and fellowships, Faculty, McGovern Institute, Media Lab, Brain and cognitive sciences, Biological engineering, Mathematics, Physics, School of Science, School of Engineering, School of Architecture and Planning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (salaries already exceeded FLSA minimum and negotiated by postdocs already).

The paper's other first author is Jakob Voigts, an MIT graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences.

«During sleep, maybe specific brain regions have slow waves at the same time because they need to exchange information with each other, whereas other ones don't,» says Laura Lewis, a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal eLife.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

Because these networks are based on neuroscientists» current understanding of how the brain performs object recognition, the success of the latest networks suggest that neuroscientists have a fairly accurate grasp of how object recognition works, says James DiCarlo, a professor of neuroscience and head of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the senior author of a paper describing the study in the Dec. 11 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.

This is the first major study to suggest that infections can also affect the brain and the cognitive ability in healthy individuals.»

«People want words that are related to each other in a sentence to be close together,» says Richard Futrell, a PhD student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and a lead author of a new paper detailing the results.

The researchers found that they experience brain and cognitive changes «on a minority of measures» in brain imaging and psychological tests.

Also, research in other animal models, such as rodents, has shown anesthesia exposure early in life can lead to cell death in the brain and cognitive impairments.

But eating turkey does not translate to amplified serotonin production in the brain, says neuropharmacologist Richard Wurtman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in Cambridge, Mass..

The research team included researchers in MIT's chemistry, biological engineering, nuclear science and engineering, brain and cognitive sciences, and materials science and engineering departments and its program in Health Sciences and Technology; and at the University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf; Brown University; and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

If someone had blindfolded me on Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led me into Building 46 on the campus of MIT, past the sign that says Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, taken me up in the elevator to the fifth floor and whisked off the blindfold in Seung's lab, I still wouldn't have guessed he had anything to do with brains.

Steven Piantadosi and Celeste Kidd, assistant professors in brain and cognitive sciences, developed a novel evolutionary model in which the development of high levels of intelligence may be driven by the demands of raising offspring.

Every language has this amazing similar ordering of colors, so that reds are more consistently communicated than greens or blues,» says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the first author of the study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Sept. 18.

James DiCarlo is a professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT who researches visual object recognition in primates.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

«Like GPS, our visual ability, although quite impressive, has many limitations,» said the study's coauthor, Duje Tadin, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.

Fanuel Muindi Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Given that the brain and cognitive capabilities of rhesus monkeys are similar to those of humans, mixed selective neurons should also be important in our own brains.