Sentences with phrase «cognitive neuroscientists found»

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Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Carmen Simon found that when your message stays consistent over time, people's brains store it in their «place cells.»

Cognitive neuroscientists have studied this distinction with brain imaging techniques and the findings — unsurprisingly — tell us a lot about our increasingly polarised world today and the ways our brains process the distinction between us and «others».

Some of the findings of the cognitive neuroscientists studying the brain scans of individuals from different political parties seem to suggest some interestingly patterns.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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.»

The Reconsolidated Life While neuroscientists were skeptical of Nader's findings, cognitive scientists were immediately fascinated that memory might be constantly revamped.

Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, thinks the findings are potentially important.

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.

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.

«This article makes big claims out of a single negative finding,» says Torkel Klingberg, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and founder of a company that makes computer brain - training programs to improve working memory and other cognitive functions.

«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.

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.