Sentences with phrase «cognitive neuroscientist»

At this point, a genetic test for these variants won't be much help in the clinic, says Faraneh Vargha - Khadem, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at University College London who was not involved with the work.

«There's a terrifying statistic that shows that the ratio of papers on dyslexia to those on dyscalculia is 14 to 1,» says cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Ansari of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Whatever its etiology, synesthesia provides cognitive neuroscientists with a unique opportunity to learn more about how the brain creates our perceptual reality.

In a response befitting the self - correcting nature of science, Iacoboni's U.C.L.A. colleague Russell Poldrack and 16 other neuroscientists from labs around the world published a response three days later in the Times, explaining: «As cognitive neuroscientists who use the same brain imaging technology, we know that it is not possible to definitively determine whether a person is anxious or feeling connected simply by looking at activity in a particular brain region.

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.

Dartmouth had an exceptionally strong group of cognitive neuroscientists and was the first institution in the United States to acquire a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine dedicated to research.

For cognitive neuroscientist Atsushi Sekiguchi, who was studying the neural underpinnings of stress at Tohoku University in Sendai, the earthquake was a rare opportunity to tease apart cause and effect.

«Most cognitive neuroscientists focus on the signals themselves, on the words, gestures and their statistical relationships, ignoring the underlying conceptual ability that we use during communication and the flexibility of everyday life,» he said.

Luna, the developmental cognitive neuroscientist, compares it to an artist who begins with a block of granite and carves away any unneeded stone to create a sculpture.

So cognitive neuroscientist Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester in New York and then - undergraduate Shawn Green were surprised to find that Green and some of his video - game - playing friends aced a perception test, spotting briefly flashed circles even at the very edges of their visual fields.

Collège de France cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene and his colleagues have identified some of these changes.

«I looked at people like [cognitive neuroscientist] Stanislas Dehaene, whose research illustrated the value of using neuroscience to ask questions about numerical cognition and knowledge acquisition, and I said, «I want to do this too.»»

«People freely admit at dinner parties that they are poor at math, while few would admit that they are a poor reader,» notes cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Ansari of the University of Western Ontario.

In a new study, cognitive neuroscientists found that lullabies soothe both moms and babies simultaneously, while playsongs increase babies» attention and displays of positive emotion toward their mothers.

RECENTLY DEVELOPED powerful, yet also delicate and refined, genetic tools can invasively probe nervous systems of animals, far surpassing the safer but much cruder techniques that psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists use to observe the human brain.

Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Anderson, who runs a memory lab at the University of Oregon, believes he's got the goods.

Often, «the learner's emotional reaction to the outcome of his efforts... shapes his future behavior,» write cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist Mary Helen Immordino - Yang and Harvard doctoral candidate Matthias Faeth in Mind, Brain, and Education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom.

I'm a former cognitive neuroscientist who is married to a licensed mental health counselor.

Technological advancements — for example, more portable electroencephalography (EEG) and electrophysiology set - ups and - are allowing cognitive neuroscientists to study music in a variety of situations, from mother - child interactions to live concert halls.

Two cognitive neuroscientists explored the boundaries of body perception by reproducing an out - of - body experience in the lab.

Cognitive neuroscientist John Gabrieli, then at Stanford University, taught her about neuroimaging and helped her understand how to integrate her various research interests and results.

Cognitive neuroscientists tend to have a background in experimental psychology, neurobiology, neurology, physics, and mathematics.

Not so fast, says cognitive neuroscientist Hickok.

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.

Back at MIT, cognitive neuroscientists Liane Young and Rebecca Saxe have been studying the right temporal parietal junction, a brain region used for reasoning about others» intent.

«This is a very exciting finding,» says cognitive neuroscientist Randy Buckner of Washington University in St. Louis.

Cognitive neuroscientist Frederique Liegeois of University College London is using fMRI scans to compare the brain activity of members of the KE family who have a mutated copy of FOXP2 with those who have a normal version.

Participants also tended to estimate later button pushes even in the few cases when no tone was emitted, revealing that the subjects were predicting they would hear the sound, says psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist Martin Voss of Charité University Hospital and St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin.

The work is «a real technical feat,» says cognitive neuroscientist James Haxby, chief of the Section on Functional Brain Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health.

In the study cognitive neuroscientist Marjolein Kammers of University College London and her colleagues asked blindfolded participants to place their index and ring fingers in tubs of warm water while their middle fingers rested in cool water, a common experimental trick that creates the illusion that the middle fingers are burning hot.

, cognitive neuroscientist Weems divulges the answer to this question, along with many other scientifically backed factoids on the nature of humor.

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 fundamental questions cognitive neuroscientists and computer scientists seek to answer are similar,» says Aude Oliva of MIT.

And as will be presented today at the 25th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), cognitive neuroscientists increasingly are using those emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.

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?

For this experiment Kapogiannis is working with cognitive neuroscientist Jordan Grafman.

«A lot of people say, «I'm not good at math» because they couldn't handle pre-calculus or something,» says cognitive neuroscientist Edward Hubbard of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«It's a primitive early step in understanding how we bring things into mind,» says UW cognitive neuroscientist Bradley Postle, a study co-author.

Cognitive neuroscientist Nathan Rose and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison initially had subjects watch a series of slides showing faces, words, or dots moving in one direction.

Now University of California at San Diego cognitive neuroscientist Scott Makeig has created a mobile system using electroencephalography, or EEG, that can isolate and record brain activity and its relationship to the body while the wearer moves around naturally.

The group, led by cognitive neuroscientist Katherina Hauner, first created fearful memories in 15 volunteers.

«It's very interesting work,» says cognitive neuroscientist Marcia Grabowecky of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

«The challenge is to figure out just what this tells us about the organization of the cortex,» adds cognitive neuroscientist Larry Snyder of Washington University in St. Louis.

Cognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animals.»

Wanting to learn more about how the brain copes with donor hands, cognitive neuroscientist Angela Sirigu of the French National Research Agency in Lyon and colleagues looked at two right - handed men, one age 20 and the other 42, who recently had left and right hand transplants to replace hands amputated following work injuries 3 to 4 years ago.

«I think this work is very promising,» said cognitive neuroscientist Roi Cohen Kadosh of the University of Oxford.

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.