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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.
«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.
The daytime events feature performances and appearances from jazz saxophonist Peter King, pianist and recording artist Rosey Chan, Fashion designer Alber Elbaz, choreographer Ann Van Der Broek, cognitive neuroscientist Professor Vincent Walsh, contemporary art curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist, Film director and actor Elia Sulieman, sculptor Richard Wentworth, journalist and presenter Jon Snow and English pop artist Peter Blake among others as they present their provocations around the theme of Truth.
She points to the work of the cognitive neuroscientist Daphne Bavelier as an exception: Bavelier found that playing an action game such as Call of Duty for 10 hours will improve a person's detail vision and multitasking skills, and almost double their capacity for tracking moving objects even five months later.
According to the interview, «I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in - depth processing,» said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
Cognitive neuroscientist Dr Jared Cooney Horvath explains the science behind it all.
Seidenberg is a University of Wisconsin cognitive neuroscientist who has been studying reading «since the disco era.»
Teachers work with a cognitive neuroscientist and Flinders University staff who help translate the theory into effective classroom practice in mathematics.
«Simply put, the brain likes novelty, new things,» says Michael Posner, cognitive neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon.
«Our findings confirm that the sense of smell is a key aspect of overall health in the aging population,» said Johan Lundström, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist and senior Monell author on the study.
Washington University cognitive neuroscientist Jeffrey Zacks studies how the brain processes visual imagery, including what we see on film.
As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, Luna studies those changes that occur in the brain as children develop into adults.
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.
Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist focusing on the biomarkers of trauma - spectrum disorders as an assistant neuroscientist in the laboratory of Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD.
Professor Matthew Lambon Ralph who is a cognitive neuroscientist said: «This is a novel approach: we had not really considered before that speed of naming seems to play an important part in speech therapy.»
The birds we prize most for their songs sound most like the human voice, says Robert Zatorre, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who was not involved in the study.
Still, cell phone bans may save lives, says David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Cognitive neuroscientist Sheng He of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues gathered groups of heterosexual men, heterosexual women, homosexual men and bisexual women numbering 10 each.
Cognitive neuroscientist Juan R. Vidal of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center in France applauds the authors» use of multiple methods and says the study is the first to prove that the fusiform gyrus plays a causal role in face perception.
Howard Eichenbaum, a cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University, hails the study as «a breakthrough.
Taking the findings further, cognitive neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson, who heads the Karolinska Institute's Brain, Body and Self Laboratory in Stockholm, showed the brain could fully accept ownership of three hands at once.
The way to do so occurred to Olaf Blanke — a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the Brain - Mind Institute, part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland — a decade ago while he worked with an epilepsy patient, a 43 - year - old woman with drug - resistant seizures who had to be treated with surgery.
Although scientists have long considered the brain systems that govern these two types of deficits as separate, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are actually deeply intertwined, says Patricia Kuhl, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and lead author of the new study.
post-behavioral or neural measures,» says Rajeev Raizada, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in New York.
Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.
«Space is a parameter that unifies the different senses; it allows us to merge information from, say, vision and audition when the spatial location of the source matches,» says Leon Deouell, a cognitive neuroscientist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and co-author of the report published in Neuron.
Cognitive neuroscientist Merle Fairhurst of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues hypothesized that this type of response might emerge as early as infancy.
It focuses on the ability to hone in on a task and ignore distractions, which «leverages every single thing we do,» says cognitive neuroscientist Helen Neville at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
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«If you put your hand over your mouth and speak, that's very similar to the situation the fetus is in,» says cognitive neuroscientist Eino Partanen of the University of Helsinki.
Cognitive neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese of the University of Parma in Italy, who is also exploring how the brain responds to works of art, finds the new link between real and fictional worlds exciting, but is skeptical of the distinction between literary and mainstream fiction.
One potential obstacle to further research on near - death experiences will be analyzing them experimentally, says cognitive neuroscientist Olaf Blanke at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland, who has investigated out - of - body experiences.
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.
«That was a big nod and a recognition that this is a really important aspect of autism,» says Kevin Pelphrey, a cognitive neuroscientist at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the work.
«When I'm talking to you, my voice is coming on and off in bursts as I open and close my lips, that's very dynamic, while white noise is very static,» says Shihab Shamma, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Maryland and an author on the study.
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.
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.»
«It didn't affect their IQ at all; it affected their performance on an IQ test,» says Bob Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University.
«It's very interesting work,» says cognitive neuroscientist Marcia Grabowecky of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
«It's really impressive to work with children this young, who are not often looked at,» says Aniruddh Patel, a cognitive neuroscientist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, who was not involved with the research.
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.
Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, thinks the findings are potentially important.
The latest work paints a picture of LSD and some other hallucinogens as drugs that can decrease modularity and connectivity within brain networks while enhancing the brain's overall connectivity, explains Frederick Barrett, a cognitive neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who has studied hallucinogenic drug effects but was not involved in the research released this week.
«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.
«It's a primitive early step in understanding how we bring things into mind,» says UW cognitive neuroscientist Bradley Postle, a study co-author.
For this experiment Kapogiannis is working with cognitive neuroscientist Jordan Grafman.
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?
«The human sense of smell is far better at guiding us through our everyday lives than we give it credit for,» said senior author Johan Lundström, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist at Monell.
It is thrilling for me as a cognitive neuroscientist, who has previously studied age - related cognitive decline, to find that cognitive training has the potential to strengthen the aging brain to function more like a younger brain.»
says Elizabeth Brannon, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the lead author on the original rhesus monkey study.
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