Sentences with phrase «cognitive psychologist at»

Stephan Lewandowsky, cognitive psychologist at the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol

Here's the abstract of the paper, followed by a brief interview with one author, Diana Reiss, a cognitive psychologist at Hunter College who was an adviser on the documentary and has made no secret of her campaign to end cruelty to this species:

When a challenge arises, our natural response is to «pull a known solution from [y] our memory,» says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Austin, Texas and author of Smart Thinking (Perigee Trade, 2012).

Most parents understand that to help their children develop academically they should read to them, says Sian Beilock, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois and an author of the new study.

Dan Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom.

A few weeks ago Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, wrote a belated review of Paul Tough's 2012 best - seller, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character.

Michael Kane, a cognitive psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, says that daydreaming can be beneficial or harmful, depending on the context and the daydreamer's own goals at the time.

Veronique Izard, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, demonstrated this in a recent study of newborns.

The results support the idea that primates have built - in mechanisms for recognizing a very specific threat based on its shape, says Isabelle Blanchette, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Quebec, Trois - Rivières, in Canada who studies the role of emotion in how we process information.

«We're actually reading words much like we identify any kind of visual object, like we identify chairs and tables,» says study author Jonathan Grainger, a cognitive psychologist at France's National Center for Scientific Research, and Aix - Marseille University in Marseille, France.

To test this, Vittorio Girotto, a cognitive psychologist at the University IUAV of Venice, Italy, and his colleagues sought out rural Maya villagers in Guatemala who had no formal education.

But Laurie Santos, a cognitive psychologist at Yale University who has shown that rhesus macaques lack an understanding of false belief, thinks the «paper raises more questions than it provides answers,» especially because there have been «so many past results showing that chimpanzees and other primates lack this capacity.»

And Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies how infants learn language and was only an infant himself when Chomsky first outlined his theory, has attempted to explain this ambitious quest in a provocative book, The Language Instinct (Review, 26 February).

«These state - of the - art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting's brain organizes music,» says lead author Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist at McGill University.

Paul Atchley, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, says having a remote conversation and driving a car means performing two tasks at once, what some people consider multitasking.

In 1995 Timothy Rickard, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California at San Diego, evaluated a 40 - year - old man with a mental age of 5 who could assign a day of the week to a date with 70 percent accuracy.

«I can say broadly when people have strong beliefs about something, it's difficult to unwind those beliefs, regardless of how strong the evidence is,» says Eryn Newman, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles..

«Hearing language is particularly important for understanding others, while other kinds of experience, such as the visual modality, are less important,» says Alison Gopnik, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Your visual system helps you make such decisions by warping and stretching the things you look at according to your physical traits or abilities, says Jessica Witt, a cognitive psychologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Extra napping time «may go some way to offset the disturbed nighttime sleep, but the total sleep time of high users is still less than low users,» says study coauthor Tim Smith, a cognitive psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London.

«Everything you think is influenced by years of experience and cultural upbringing,» says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist at University of Texas at Austin and author of Smart Thinking (Perigee Trade, 2012).

Co-led by Phil McAleer and Pascal Belin, cognitive psychologists at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, the researchers created a model voice based on the average acoustical characteristics of the eight voices the 2014 study had rated as most and least trustworthy.

Not exact matches

Odds are, each of these executives at some point underwent a leadership evaluation — a combination of interviews and psychometric tests, typically conducted by industrial - organizational psychologists, to gauge candidates» behavioural, cognitive and personality traits.

In the 1950s, cognitive psychologist George Miller put forward the idea that humans can only «hold» seven things (plus or minus two) in their short - term memory (STM) at one time.

The 2011 study, conducted by a team of psychologists at Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison and Harvard universities, put groups of students through four cognitive and computer - based experiments designed to test recall and word recognition.

Psychologists also tested children's cognitive abilities, language skills and motor development at 18 months.

The maze manages to be challenging (I'm still stuck on track section 2) yet doable (Laurel has already figured out track section 2), and the cognitive psychologist in me wonders whether the lasting enjoyment of this game relates to the fact that you're so concentrated on the track as you rotate that you rarely look at the big picture — meaning, the maze always seems to look new and different when you approach it.

If psychologists could help people expand their working - memory capacity or make it function more efficiently, everyone could benefit, from chess masters to learning - disabled children, says Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD, an assistant cognitive neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

The few good books about babies tend to be highly focused: they look at babies through the lens of a cognitive scientist, say, or a developmental psychologist.

«It's very exciting,» says Romke Rouw, a cognitive psychologist who studies synesthesia at the University of Amsterdam but who wasn't involved in the study.

At the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2010 annual meeting in Montreal, psychologist Mara Mather of the University of Southern California and her colleagues asked male and female volunteers to place their hand in ice water, which makes the stress hormone cortisol shoot up.

But whether those associations are inborn, something known as the nativist position, or learned is still up for grabs, says Clarissa Thompson, a cognitive developmental psychologist at Kent State University in Ohio who wasn't involved in the study.

Psychologist Sid Kouider of the Laboratory of Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, together with Dehaene and other French and Danish researchers, undertook the difficult task of measuring brain waves in 80 infants.

And that means that auditory information is a big part of their cognitive repertoire,» says Rachael Shaw, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led the new study while a graduate student in comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton's lab at Cambridge.

Professor Kim Plunkett, Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford, and a collaborator on the project, said: «Tapping into a parent's knowledge of their own child's development has become an invaluable component in the developmental psychologist's assessment toolkit in recent years.

Krueger remembers a popular debate among social psychologists over which metaphor best drives home the depth of the mind's failings: Should researchers view the mind as a «cognitive miser,» emphasizing our limited resources and reliance on irrelevant clues, or is the mind more accurately depicted as a «totalitarian ego,» pursuing self - esteem at the cost of self - deception?

To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.

Results of a new study by cognitive psychologist and speech scientist Alexandra Jesse and her linguistics undergraduate student Michael Bartoli at the University of Massachusetts Amherst should help to settle a long - standing disagreement among cognitive psychologists about the information we use to recognize people speaking to us.

Mary Czerwinski is a cognitive psychologist based at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond, Washington.

In a 2010 study, cognitive psychologists Melissa Libertus and Elizabeth Brannon, then both at Duke University, found that infants gazed longer at images of black circles when the number of circles changed, compared with when the quantity was always the same, as long as the ratio between the number of circles was always at least 2 - to - 1.

The study provides a «better understanding of the why and how of sponging» by the Shark Bay dolphins, says Louis Herman, a cognitive psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Written by Lynne Murray, a developmental psychologist at the University of Reading, UK, the book promises a detailed account of the psychological development of children from birth to the age of 2, spanning their social, emotional and cognitive development.

«It seems that smell is integrated at a very early stage,» says cognitive psychologist Jonas Olofsson, who led the new study, published November 5 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

«Our study is only a first step to investigate a cognitive mechanism that might be crucial for impulsive behavior,» says lead study author Marcel Brass, an experimental psychologist at the Ghent University in Belgium.

«The dream of cognitive neuroscience is going from molecules to behavior by way of the brain,» says Gary Marcus, a psychologist at New York University, and author of Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning.

Instead it looks like at least some of the processes that cognitive psychologists and linguists have historically attributed to the application of rules may instead emerge from the association of speech sounds with words we already know,» says David Gow, PhD, of the MGH Department of Neurology.

At the ages of six and eight, cognitive and motor development as well as behaviour problems were assessed by psychologists and paediatricians with standard assessments.

Now, in a study published this past January in Science, a team of researchers at the University of Trento in Italy, led by cognitive psychologist Rosa Rugani, has shown that infants of a different species altogether also prefer to see bigger numbers on the right.

«Scientists now know that there's much more plasticity of the brain than we previously thought,» explains Elizabeth Zelinski, PhD, a cognitive psychologist and Nintendo consultant who's also dean of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.

According to a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and Dominique Lippelt at Leiden University meditation can promote both creativity and divergent thinking, two skills needed to write anything well.