Sentences with phrase «cognitive neuroscientist at»

«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 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.

Howard Eichenbaum, a cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University, hails the study as «a breakthrough.

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.

«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.

«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 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.

«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.

says Elizabeth Brannon, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the lead author on the original rhesus monkey study.

Faraneh Vargha - Khadem, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London who was not involved with the work, also applauds the study but is not sure how relevant the findings are to speech in particular.

«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.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, has found that such supertaskers do exist, but comprise only 2.5 percent of people tested.

If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, the technology could augment traditional forms of study, says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.

«Outcomes that are novel, or eye - catching are generally seen as more attractive and competitive than those that are null or ambiguous,» putting researchers under much career pressure to produce attractive results, says Chris Chambers, a cognitive neuroscientist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom who became one of the founders of the Registered Reports concept a couple of years ago, in the Royal Society's announcement.

«If this is suggested as a [single] test to decide whether a person is conscious or not, then we need [signs] that are very strong and not just an indication of consciousness,» says Morten Overgaard, a cognitive neuroscientist at Aalborg and Aarhus Universities in Denmark.

Nadine Gaab, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, is working on dyslexia.

In one such study, Jordan Grafman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, and Jorge Moll, a neuroscientist at the D'Or Institute for Research and Education in Rio de Janeiro, dangled a pot of $ 128 in front of 19 subjects and gave them the opportunity to receive the money or to donate a portion to various social causes.

«There is a bias in the public perception» against stress, says Claus Lamm, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Vienna in Austria.

She isn't yet five months old, but according to Laura - Ann Petitto, a cognitive neuroscientist at Dartmouth College, she is already using the parts of her brain involved in language.

«It's a clever idea,» says Giorgio Ganis, a cognitive neuroscientist at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom.

«It likely combines several features, such as brightness, breathiness, purity or nasality,» says study coauthor Elise Piazza, a cognitive neuroscientist at Princeton University.

«People assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty,» Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, told The Wall Street Journal.

Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, examined brain activity during daydreaming and told the paper that, «people assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty.

Cognitive neuroscientists at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke sought the answer through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI.

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.

Not exact matches

Because I'm a data nerd (note former career as a cognitive neuroscientist) and in order to keep myself accountable, at the beginning of the challenge I started a log of my daily driving (drive to get Violet from school, drive kids to soccer, drive to business meeting, drive to grocery store, drive to meet Mom... these were highly repetitive themes) and included a «DONE!»

«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.»»

Stanislas Dehaene, chair of experimental cognitive psychology at the College of France, and neuroscientist Mariano Sigman of the University of Buenos Aires wondered where along these steps the traffic jam arises.

«While gender differences in cognitive function are small, the differences in vulnerability for diseases are spectacular,» says Geert J. de Vries, a neuroscientist at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

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.

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.

«Fight or flight is pointless if you are tiny,» said developmental neuroscientist Nim Tottenham of Columbia University, who presented the work March 26 at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.

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.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

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.

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«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.

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.

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.

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.