Sentences with phrase «cognitive neuroscientists who»

Seidenberg is a University of Wisconsin cognitive neuroscientist who has been studying reading «since the disco era.»

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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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

«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 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.

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.

«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.

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 animalCognitive 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 animalcognitive 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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.»

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.

Teachers work with a cognitive neuroscientist and Flinders University staff who help translate the theory into effective classroom practice in mathematics.