Sentences with phrase «by cognitive neuroscientist»
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.
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It's published by neuroscientist Vaughan Bell and cognitive scientists Tom Stafford.
A cognitive neuroscientist explains his quest to understand how reading works in the mind — and how the brain is changed by education and culture
Two cognitive neuroscientists explored the boundaries of body perception by reproducing an out - of - body experience in the lab.
Cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth of the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, is impressed by the work, but also circumspect about what it says about free will.
«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.
In The 5 Essentials: Using Your Inborn Resources to Create a Fulfilling Life (Penguin Group / Hudson Street Press, 2013), cognitive neuroscientist Bob Deutsch, with writer Lou Aronica, contends that we can overcome this impediment by developing certain innate abilities, such as curiosity and openness.
The artificial neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function.»
Was it a rational decision learned in childhood, or was it — as Harvard evolutionary biologist and cognitive neuroscientist Marc Hauser claims — based on instincts encoded in our brains by evolution?
It is one of a slew of novel cognitive training programs being marketed by neuroscientists for the purpose of rejuvenating aging brains.
A much cited commentary that appeared in Nature in December 2008 — an article co-authored by neuroscientists and ethicists — raised the prospect of routine use of «cognitive enhancement» drugs by the general public if they could be proved safe.
Recently, cognitive neuroscientist Marlene Behrmann at Carnegie Mellon University and her colleagues gathered some important clues to this puzzle by comparing the brains of individuals who are face - blind to those who are face - sighted.
The treatment - developed by a speech therapist and cognitive neuroscientists at The University of Manchester - uses special software which gradually makes patients produce words increasingly quickly.
Akili was co-founded by entrepreneurs, leading cognitive neuroscientists, and top - tier entertainment software creators.
The genes in BGEM were selected in part by groups of neuroscientists with expertise in neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, receptors and channels, and cognitive neuroscience.
More educators, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists are embracing the goal of improving teaching by basing it on evidence.
There is mounting evidence from cognitive neuroscientists that financial gain affects the same pleasure centers of the brain that are activated by certain narcotics.
As the neuroscientist Antonio D'Amasio made clear in 1994 in «Descartes Error, Emotion, Reason, and The Human Brain» (review by Daniel Dennett here), the «thinking» cognitive cortex needs input from the limbic «feeling» parts of the brain to make sense of any factual information.
It is presented by Dr. Christian Jarrett, a cognitive neuroscientist, editor of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest, and author of the upcoming book, PERSONOLOGY, Using the Science of Personality Change to Your Advantage.
The development of the human ability to understand the mental states of oneself and of others has been studied by philosophers (e.g., Brentano, 1924; Dennett, 1987; Fodor, 1987), cognitive and developmental psychologists (e.g., Baron - Cohen et al., 1985; Dunn, 1988; Gopnik and Astington, 1988), and neuroscientists (e.g., LeDoux, 1996).