Sentences with phrase «cognitive psychologists in»

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.

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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 timIn 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 timin their short - term memory (STM) at one time.

«What your memory is really for is giving you information about what to expect in the world and how to solve problems in those situations,» says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist and author of Smart Thinking (Perigee Trade, 2012).

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

Since 1957 psychologists have begun to define an instinctual process of rationalization in the human mind, sometimes labeled the theory of cognitive dissonance.

«By age 3 or so, children have the language and cognitive skills to understand consequences,» says Traci B. Pitts, a child psychologist in Reno, Nevada.

According to an article in Psychology Today by clinical psychologist and sleep disorder specialist Michael J Breus, a 2011 study showed that bed - sharing does not negatively affect cognitive or behavioral development in young children.

Learn more about how playing with dolls teaches kids cognitive, fine motor, self - help, speech - language, and social - emotional skills in this post written in collaboration with a speech therapist and clinical psychologist who specializes in children and play therapy.

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.

«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.

Cognitive psychologists coined the term in 1960 as they tried to explain the fundamental structure of the human thought process.

Our moral reasoning is based on cognitive glitches — we need to rethink it for the world we live in now, says moral psychologist Joshua Greene

Psychologist Anne McLaughlin can't remember exactly how she found out that her work on improving older adults» cognitive function with video games had been featured in Summertime Blues, a 2010 report by senators Tom Coburn (R - OK) and John McCain (R - AZ) about projects that «give taxpayers the blues.»

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.

In recent years, psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists have revealed the distinct parts of our brain that allow us to interact, collaborate and communicate with each other.

Cognitive psychologists, in contrast, argue that early memories are simply not stored in any format that we can access.

They live in what cognitive psychologists call explicit memory.

Cognitive psychologists are interested in how people understand, diagnose, and solve problems, concerning themselves with the mental processes which mediate between stimulus and response.

A subsequent study in 2003 showed such stimulation could improve a cognitive ability psychologists call motor sequence learning — the process of training the brain in the precisely sequenced steps required to interact with the world via means such as listening or executing a movement.

«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..

Although blink suppression was a well - known cognitive phenomenon, just how it occurs in the brain was not, says psychologist David Burr of the University of Firenze in Italy.

Mary Czerwinski, a cognitive psychologist, has spent her career doing both basic and applied research in the technology industry

Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in everyone, synesthete and non-synesthete alike.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The psychologists also found that individuals were consistent in their cognitive style.

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.

The study — published in Scientific Reports — was the first to challenge a growing trend among cognitive psychologists over the past 20 years that has attempted to show that believing in the supernatural is something that comes to us «naturally» or intuitively.

A few years ago, cognitive psychologist Axel Cleeremans of the Université Libre de Bruxelles attempted to replicate a classic study by John Bargh of Yale University, in which some participants were primed, without realizing it, with concepts associated with old age.

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.

In a Review published on March 20 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologists Ike Silver and Alex Shaw consider how our fascination with social status begins around age five, when kids begin to consider how they are viewed by others and behave in ways that cultivate positive reputationIn a Review published on March 20 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologists Ike Silver and Alex Shaw consider how our fascination with social status begins around age five, when kids begin to consider how they are viewed by others and behave in ways that cultivate positive reputationin the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologists Ike Silver and Alex Shaw consider how our fascination with social status begins around age five, when kids begin to consider how they are viewed by others and behave in ways that cultivate positive reputationin Cognitive Sciences, psychologists Ike Silver and Alex Shaw consider how our fascination with social status begins around age five, when kids begin to consider how they are viewed by others and behave in ways that cultivate positive reputationin ways that cultivate positive reputations.

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

In a recent study, psychologists show that low cognitive ability (i.e., intelligence, verbal ability) was not a consistent predictor of prejudice.

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.

«I think this is going to end up being a really classic paper in the literature,» says psychologist Lee Thompson of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who has studied the genetics of cognitive skills and who was not involved in the work.

Their work was published in an article, «New Evidence About Language and Cognitive Development Based on a Longitudinal Study: Hypotheses for Intervention» in the online edition of the American Psychologist.

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).

Medical psychologist Jack D. Edinger of Duke University and his colleagues conducted a two - and - a-half-year study of 75 adults suffering from sleep maintenance insomnia in order to assess the efficacy of a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as compared with relaxation therapy and placebo therapy.

In 2008 Moulton and his advisor, psychologist Stephen Kosslyn, published the results in the Journal of Cognitive NeurosciencIn 2008 Moulton and his advisor, psychologist Stephen Kosslyn, published the results in the Journal of Cognitive Neurosciencin the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Cognitive psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who studies childhood learning, writes that although «it's nice to be exempted from the regulatory burden,» she worries that if her research isn't considered health - related, «will there later be criticism of funding from NIH?»

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.

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

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