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The omnibus provides $ 146.9 million for neuroscience and cognitive science research in NSF's Understanding the Brain (UtB) activity, which includes the BRAIN Initiative, as requested by the Administration.

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Facebook acknowledged that it allowed Kogan — a University of Cambridge researcher in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience who obtained the data through his role at a company called Global Science Research — to collect that information with user permission.

Then again, the business of academic research endowments, especially in fields as conceptually confused as artificial intelligence or cognitive science, really is all about exploiting the credulity of wealthy foundations and corporations and private donors (sometimes with devious cynicism, sometimes in deluded innocence).

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Second, a cognitive psychology approach is needed to conduct basic science research on the mental representations and operations that may be uniquely challenged in the investigation of nanomaterials.»

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

They are active research areas, drawing on theory in information graphics, computer graphics, human - computer interaction and cognitive science.

We're taking them on a neuroanatomical detour that seems to go with real gains in reading ability,» says Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the study.

Research in cognitive science and psychology shows that testing, done right, can be an effective way to learn.

Research in cognitive science and psychology shows that testing, done right, can be an exceptionally effective way to learn.

In the spring of 2003, A research assistant in cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester named Shawn Green began helping cognitive science professor Daphne Bavelier with a project investigating visual perceptioIn the spring of 2003, A research assistant in cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester named Shawn Green began helping cognitive science professor Daphne Bavelier with a project investigating visual perceptioin cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester named Shawn Green began helping cognitive science professor Daphne Bavelier with a project investigating visual perception.

And in some of the most dramatic evidence of the technique's potential, a research team reports this week in Science Translational Medicine that they used it to rid mice of abnormal brain clumps similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, restoring lost memory and cognitive functions.

The research, which was published in Cognitive Science, found parents can offer explicit cues to help distinguish between joke and pretend intention contexts and children, even as young as 16 months old, pick up on those cues.

The research team included researchers in MIT's chemistry, biological engineering, nuclear science and engineering, brain and cognitive sciences, and materials science and engineering departments and its program in Health Sciences and Technology; and at the University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf; Brown University; and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

For the study, Range and her colleagues from the Department of Comparative Cognitive Research tested 13 crossbreed dogs raised at the Wolf Science Center in Ernstbrunn.

«We weren't looking to explain anything about choice bias to start off with,» said lead author Jeffrey Cockburn, a graduate student in the research group of senior author Michael Frank, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences.

Breakthrough research using virtual reality has revealed significant differences in how the brains of sleepwalkers and non-sleepwalkers control and perceive body movement — a first in cognitive science.

In these test settings, various science curricula were revamped to get them to jibe with the latest cognitive science research on effective learning, which points to more interactive approaches that include immediately and repeatedly putting new information to use.

Their Boise, Idaho - based research institute, funded via technology spin - offs coming out of their work, aimed at solving foundational problems in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Co-author Julia C. Basso, PhD, post-doctoral research fellow, Center for Neural Science at New York University, commented, «The studies presented in this review clearly demonstrate that acute exercise has profound effects on brain chemistry and physiology, which has important implications for cognitive enhancements in healthy populations and symptom remediation in clinical populations.»

Among the biomedical research areas identified in the announcement are neurobiology and cognitive science.

A group of compounds derived from hops can likely improve cognitive and other functions in people with metabolic syndrome, new research at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University suggests.

The project's fundamental research in cognitive science will inform the design of software and tools to help those viewing the data and make information of interest or trends easier to uncover.

He adds that South University is currently searching for experts in the fields of neural and cognitive sciences, biology and gene engineering, physics, nanotechnology, environmental sciences, large - scale computational research, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

«We had been talking about doing a company for a while in order to optimize the technology in the commercial setting, but I'm an academic and I'm an assistant professor and 99.9 percent of my time is teaching and research,» said Serre, who is based in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences and (along with Bath) is a faculty affiliate in the Brown Institute for Brain Science.

The Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation, together with other NSF programs, has an important role in supporting cognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaborationCognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation, together with other NSF programs, has an important role in supporting cognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaborationcognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaboration efforts.

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NIMH's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit, the Delaware Project, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) conduct the second webinar in a series examining the science - to - service pipeline in psychology and psychiatry.

Neuroscience research at Bordeaux University covers broad areas in the field, including molecular, cellular, systems, experimental neurosciences, clinical neurosciences, psychiatry and cognitive sciences...

Michelucci received a joint PhD in cognitive science and mathematical psychology from Indiana University, and has been advising federal research agencies since 2006.

AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

It is currently the largest dog research group in the world, has over 100 publications in peer - reviewed journals, with several papers in the highest ranking scientific journals such as Science, Current Biology and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

It may be that attending a school that employs them enhances those basic cognitive skills — such as processing speed, working memory, and reasoning — that research in psychological science has shown contribute to success in the classroom and later in life.

His research in cognitive science is around the processes of decision, organization and auto - organization.

Cognitive science research supports the value of using comparison and contrast to promote general learning: identifying similarities and differences in multiple examples has proven to be a critical and fundamental pathway to flexible, transferable knowledge.

Recent research in cognitive science, often with education in mind, suggests that creativity is an ability that we all have and can cultivate with practice.

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He is a member of the Science of Learning Research Centre in Australia with research interests in Piagetian programs and Cognitive AccelResearch Centre in Australia with research interests in Piagetian programs and Cognitive Accelresearch interests in Piagetian programs and Cognitive Acceleration.

They work for state departments of education helping to draft policies that are supported by research in the cognitive sciences.

Similarly, instead of quoting a single cognitive scientist about the deficiencies of project - based learning, Pondiscio should examine the National Research Council's 2005 volume on «How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom» or the excellent research synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning SResearch Council's 2005 volume on «How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom» or the excellent research synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sresearch synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences.

Indeed, in the past two decades, neuroscience and cognitive science research have provided increasing evidence that correlates creativity with academic, social, and emotional intelligence.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

Under the auspices of NBU, the Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science conducts interdisciplinary research on the human mind and seeks to further challenge and change the education system in Bulgaria.

They are joined by colleagues with a wealth of expertise in cognitive science, reading, technology, and practice at HGSE, MITili, and Florida Center for Reading Research and College of Communication and Information at Florida State University.

Applied Learning: Abundant research from cognitive science and education, added to what we know from our own experience about how we've grasped or mastered complex ideas and skills ourselves, makes it clear that application of new knowledge is required in order to truly understand and retain it (use it or lose it).

prepares experienced educators for system - level leadership roles in school districts, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and beyond; and the Doctor of Philosophy in Education (Ph.D.) empowers cutting - edge interdisciplinary research informed by the cognitive sciences, economics, medicine, the humanities, and more.

Mr. Coleman, who was asked to speak at the university in 1999, became interested in its research in cognitive science.