Sentences with phrase «cognitive scientist»

But, as cognitive scientists have shown, the ability to understand a given text depends a lot on whether you're already familiar with the words and concepts it contains.

This has led cognitive scientists to claim that using spatial concepts to talk and think about time is a universal characteristic of the human mind.

Actually, some of the nation's top cognitive scientists have shown that frequent testing improves learning.

For decades cognitive scientists knew people could remember lots of images stretching back decades.

Cognitive scientists don't often get a chance to save lives.

The study gives cognitive scientists more tools to study the origins of emotion in the brain.

Positron - emission tomography images taken by cognitive scientists at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, for example, have shown that even when doing basic recognition or memorization exercises, seniors exploit the left and right brain more extensively than men and women who are decades younger.

About 50,000 years ago we started to mash up incompatible concepts — and everything from science to fashion is the result, says cognitive scientist Mark Turner

University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham calls that «a terrible idea» here and he is exactly right.

The problem is dumb teacher training,» University of Virginia cognitive scientist Dan Willingham recently wrote in the New York Times.

This has been brilliantly and devastatingly explicated by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, as well as by organizations such as Common Core, education thinkers like E.D. Hirsch and Diane Ravitch, and veteran education watchers such as Jay Mathews.

Today, the question has been taken up by cognitive scientists who want to link facial expressions to emotions in order to track the genes, chemicals, and neural pathways that govern emotion in the brain.

Johns Hopkins University cognitive scientists say the sharp contrasts in this patient's memory profile — her inability to remember facts about pursuits once vital to her life as an artist, musician and amateur aviator, while clearly remembering facts relevant to performing in these domains — suggest conventional wisdom about how the brain stores knowledge is incorrect.

«They don't count and they have no number words,» says MIT cognitive scientist Edward Gibson, who headed a study published in the journal Cognition [pdf].

He described his work June 29 in a keynote address to a conference in Vancouver.The cognitive scientists in the Virtual Environment Navigation lab at Brown University are not only advancing a frontier of behavioral research but also of technology.

In collaboration with cognitive scientist Michael Cole, the Reverse Color Organ is being developed into an app and website to put this synaesthetic tool into peoples» hands to be used not only to expand the language of color, but also as a crowd - sourced musical instrument.

Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser is on year - long leave following a university investigation that found evidence of misconduct in his lab, The Boston Globe reports today.

In collaboration with cognitive scientist Michael Cole and programmer Joshie Fishbein, the Reverse Color Organ is being developed into a web based app that places this synaesthetic tool into peoples» hands to be used not only to expand the language of color, but also as a crowd - sourced musical instrument.

«The level of hostility and ignorance about evolution that was unabashedly expressed by eminent cognitive scientists on that occasion shocked me,» he recalls.

First, everyone has a different aptitude — or what cognitive scientists refer to as «working memory» capacity, meaning the ability to absorb and work actively with a given amount of information from a variety of sources, including visual and auditory.

Bill Moyers interviews Daniel Dennett, an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, science & biology.

Spurred on by the controversy over recovered memory, other cognitive scientists found that false memory is a normal phenomenon.

Cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo considers new research on the «IKEA effect.»

Few of the expletives discussed in cognitive scientist Benjamin Bergen's new book can be spelled out in this review.

Plenty of research shows that people are more likely to believe news if it confirms their preexisting political views, says cognitive scientist David Rapp of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

In it, cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues survey and analyze the outcry generated on climate skeptic blogs to their earlier work on climate denial.

By creating a virtual problem landscape, IU cognitive scientists explored the dynamics, advantages and disadvantages of «social learning» — the act of learning about the world by observing or imitating others.

«We think that if we look at something enough, especially if we have to pay attention to its shape as we do during reading, then we would know what it looks like, but our results suggest that's not always the case,» said Johns Hopkins cognitive scientist Michael McCloskey, the senior author.

«Richard Thaler has pioneered the analysis of ways in which human decisions systematically deviate from traditional economic models,» says cognitive scientist Peter Gӓrdenfors of Lund University, Sweden, a member of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.

Lawsuit alleges the institution mishandled complaints about cognitive scientist Florian Jaeger

«We thought at first it would be better to have innovators around you,» said IU cognitive scientist Robert Goldstone, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

These primates possess the vocal equipment to speak much as people do, say evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist W. Tecumseh Fitch of the University of Vienna and colleagues.

Music and melody seem to have a unique place in memory, Amherst College cognitive scientist Matthew Schulkind suggests.

According to Sandia National Laboratories cognitive scientist Mike Trumbo, learning a language or an instrument or going dancing is the best way to keep your brain keen despite the ravages of time.

Working memory is the amount of information you can hold and manipulate in your mind at one time, said cognitive scientist Laura Matzen.

So it was with some satisfaction that a group of MIT cognitive scientists described a computational model that simulates some of the reasoning abilities of a 1 - year - old.

«Analyzing the language of color: Cognitive scientists find that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones.»

Harvard University cognitive scientist Steven Pinker sets the tone in the introduction: «Science in particular has always been a source of heresy, and today the galloping advances in touchy areas like genetics, evolution, and the environmental sciences are bound to throw unsettling possibilities at us,» he writes.

Second, everyone has different levels of background knowledge — or what cognitive scientists refer to as «long - term memory.»

From the transformation of «normal» words into profanities to a host of conditions that cause uncontrollable cursing, cognitive scientist Bergen explores the science and history behind our species's ubiquitous profanity.

books.google.ru - Easy - to - apply, scientifically - based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning.

Cognitive scientist George Miller is famous for his Miller's law that supports the idea that the number of objects a person can usually hold in working memory is seven — plus or minus two.

But according to author and cognitive scientist Guy Claxton the two abilities are actually intimately interrelated, but not in the way you might imagine.

One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.

In her book On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz describes how she walked around her local city block with various professionals.

Or, as cognitive scientist Stephanie Braccini and colleagues put it in a Journal of Human Evolution study, «a strengthening of individual asymmetry [may have] started as soon as early hominins assumed a habitual upright posture during tool use or foraging».

Her new book Choke, which is based on her own studies as well as research by other cognitive scientists around the globe, explains why stress causes us to screw up.

It's published by neuroscientist Vaughan Bell and cognitive scientists Tom Stafford.