Sentences with phrase «cognition by»

Enhancing social cognition by training children in emotion understanding: A primary school study.J Exp Child Psychol.

Pioneering research on this subject by Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, and others, vast research on human cognition by Daniel Kahneman and colleagues, and research on the brain's fear response by neuroscientists Joseph LeDoux, Elizabeth Phelps, and others, all make abundantly clear that the perception of risk is not simply a matter of the facts, but more a matter of how those facts feel.

What their work has in common is an immersion in the present and the displacement of cognition by experience.

L - Pyroglutamate, or L - pyroglutamic acid, an uncommon amino acid contained in GenFX, has been shown in third party tests to increase cognition by increasing survival of neuronal cells (* Oono et al. 2009).

Next I will outline two of the main changes that cause increased cognition by exercising.

In another recent study, Santa Barbara researchers measured creative cognition by asking participants to generate unusual uses for a common object (such as a brick).

These, such as verapamil, diltiazem, nifedipine, nitrendipine and nimodipine are not only widely used to treat hypertension, and hence might affect cognition by increasing cerebral blood flow, but also block the entry of calcium ions into neurons.

«They suggest that different patterns of polyunsaturated fats promote specific aspects of cognition by strengthening the underlying neural circuits that are vulnerable to disease and age - related decline.»

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

Engert, an associate professor in Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, studies vision and cognition by monitoring brain activity in zebrafish.

They found that exercise may help cognition by increasing blood and oxygen to the brain, increasing levels of norepinephrine, and endorphins to decrease stress and improve mood, and increasing growth factors that help create new nerve cells and support synaptic plasticity.

But what is not necessarily excluded is another kind of cognition by which we leave ourselves open to being grasped by whatever higher or deeper ordering influence there may be.

It is a resource for consumers and clinicians who must confront these negative cognitions by outlining what these thoughts are, why they are there, and what can be done about them.

However, you can encourage them to evaluate their current cognitions by challenging their assumptions.

Results of the backward multiple regressions predicting smoking - related cognitions by anti-smoking parenting practices at T1, T2 and longitudinally are shown in Tables I, II and III, respectively.

Not exact matches

Gazzaley and Rosen say some activities may boost cognition and attention by stimulating the brain's ability to strengthen and reorganize existing neural connections, a process called neuroplasticity.

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

Moreover, the earlier concept of a collapse of the millions of years of phylogeny, or the lifespan of ontogeny, into the milliseconds of a cognition, or the idea of a process that continued over evolutionary, lifespan and cognitive durations was replaced by the concept of an iteration of a single process or pattern that binds together the different time frames.

Traditionally experience was understood as meaning the direct knowledge acquired by (or type of cognition utilized by) our five senses.

For the substance - dependent person, each act of use involves a series or chain of choices and behaviors mediated by a variety of cognitions (automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions, permission - giving beliefs, core beliefs / early maladaptive schemas, etc.), which interact with emotional states and past learning, strongly reinforcing «self - medicating» for emotional and existential pain.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.

Man's cognition thereby corresponds to the hylomorphic structure of reality [i.e. to the way in which physical objects aredefined by a combination of matter and form].

But equally far from the subjectivism of the romantic or the «I believe because it is absurd» of the mystic, that sacrifice is called for precisely in the name of objective truth comprehended through the «clear, logical cognition» exemplified by the modern scientist.

• Justify my behavior by adding new cognitions.

• Justify my behavior by changing the conflicting cognition.

Theo Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is casually determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.

«Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is casually determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences» ----------- Sure, I'll buy that.

Unlike Kant, writes Buber, Feuerbach postulates the whole man and not cognition as the beginning of philosophizing, and by man he «does not mean man as an individual, but man with man — the connection of I and Thou.»

Animal cognition is a touchy subject, but for the most part they seem to live in an eternal now, their lives almost certainly determined by what is going on around them in the present moment.

The «highest» value - modality is the holy (characterized positively by the holy, negatively by the unholy); the next «highest» is the spiritual (characterized positively by the beautiful, the right, and the pure cognition of truth and negatively by the ugly, the wrong, and the positivistic quest of truth in terms of controlling nature); the third «highest» of the value - modalities is the vital (characterized positively by the noble and negatively by the vulgar); the next «highest» region is the useful (characterized positively by the useful and negatively by the nonuseful); and the «lowest» region is the.

Translated by Carolyn Wolf Spanier and John M. Sweeney The present paper is an attempt to investigate connections between Whitehead's work on ontological theory and Piaget's genetic theory of cognition.

Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

It is apparent from the very point of origin of human cognition (though it has only been possible to indicate this briefly), that spirit is a reality that can only be understood by direct acquaintance, having its own proper identity derived from no other.

The particular subject - matter of knowledge is supplied by experience in each case and is the norm and limit of cognition.

All knowledge of God that is recognition — and not merely cognition — of His reality, is a gift which is given by the working of God Himself in our life.

The attempt might even be made positively to recommend this fixing of a terminological starting - point, by recalling that for Christian scholastic philosophy, too, in contrast to Platonic and Idealist philosophy, what first meets man's cognition and what he therefore rightly takes as the starting - point and model case of possible objects of his knowledge, is what is experienced by the senses and to that extent material.

And all the transcendental properties of each and every existent can only be known as necessarily belonging to every being, in an analogous and hierarchical manner, because they are implicitly affirmed in every act of cognition as necessarily belonging to every possible object of knowledge by reason of the very character of a knowing subject.

Furthermore, human sense perception is only to be understood as a condition of the possibility of intellectual cognition, posited by spirit in contradistinction to itself but for itself, and consequently once again affirms the kinship of spirit and matter.

But I have also sometimes argued that we can conceive our own form of knowing, say, by introducing qualifications into what we know of divine cognition.

The distinction Hartshorne insists on making here as applied to our present question can be expressed by saying that, whereas mere experience or feeling of God can be not only direct but immediate, high - level thought or cognition of God, being mediated, as it is, by the conscious judgment or interpretation of such feeling, is of necessity mediate.

Not only because they can only be known if they are brought together by this one cognition under definite common formal principles, but also9 because cognition rightly understood is not simply the conscious taking cognizance by a knower of an object which confronts the process of cognition in a completely external and uninvolved way.

It is, nevertheless, Cartesian in dividing the world into a purely physical realm, which is ruled by efficient causation, and a purely mental realm, in which there is only final causation, so that the mind is constrained only by «the norms and rules that guide actions and decisions, and form the basis of rational evaluations of our motives, cognitions, and emotions» (SM 211).7

Nevertheless, it is important to emphasize that the genetic theory of cognition — in the form proposed by Piaget (IEG)-- was not applied, at least not primarily, to ontological issues.

In the living organism he saw the key to a genetic structuralism; what the genetic theory of cognition wants to analyze by the term psychogenesis is specifically the emergence of the so - called knowing, intelligent subject from the preliminary stages of biological organization; that is, the step - by - step ensuing construction of symbolic conceptual structures and thinking structures, following from the sensori - motor performance basis of cognition.

Also because the cognitive forms of the subject are the foundations of possibility of its cognition, Piaget could say that the cognition's «Being» is constituted by its «becoming.»

In any occasion of cognition, that which is known is an actual occasion of experience, as diversified by reference to a realm of entities which transcend that immediate occasion in that they have analogous or different connections with other occasions of experience.

Human cognition, whether scientific or religious, can work only by being selective.

In the tradition of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas worked out precisely how every appetition is directed by a form as by its determining principle, whether this form really belong to a [235] being or be acquired in the act of knowing.8 Thus the kind of appetition peculiar to cognizant beings could be explained as an effect of their cognition.

Judging from the history of the concept of spirit and of cognition, at least for all thinkers of a Platonic bent, specifically Aristotle himself, 4 it becomes clear that the problem of consciousness by no means lies in the foreground.

It is worth noting here that in the Christian metaphysics of creation too, to which Thomas Aquinas can once again serve as an example, the process of nature is regarded as ultimately determined by spirit and by cognition in virtue of its fundamental goal - directedness.9 But in this tradition it is exclusively the creative spirit of God that as First Cause is operative in creatures and gives direction to their becoming, instead of a spiritual principle belonging to the natural beings themselves.