Sentences with phrase «cognitive scientists»

Plan Your First Impression Cognitive scientists say it can take up to 200 times the amount of information to undo a first impression as it takes to make one.

The core innovation they have introduced has been to add a quantitative dimension based on the latest research by cognitive scientists and the work of coding engineers who have helped them develop proprietary algorithms which can quantify meaningful metrics of expertise.

Let cognitive scientists explore that idea.

As contemporary cognitive scientists and linguists argue, language is instinctual, not learned.

In a 2011 article published in The Chronicle for Higher Education, we learn that in the late 20th century, the study of metaphor became increasingly popular with «philosophers, linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and others...» Some believe that metaphor is «the concept at the crux of all thought, and maybe all human understanding.»

The article, which described the extreme simplicity of the tribe's living conditions and culture, created furious debate with linguists, cognitive scientists, and evolutionary biologists.

But cognitive scientists tell us that we are our own Muses.

Developed through decades of research by leading language and cognitive scientists, Pearson's automated scoring engines provide consistent, accurate, and timely feedback on automated tests.

More recently, Willingham and other cognitive scientists have buttressed that theory with research.

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.

As cognitive scientists have long known, that way lies disaster — the kind of disaster NPR has uncovered at Ballou.

Putting students in charge of how fast they learn worries some cognitive scientists.

Through this grant, PowerMyLearning will receive $ 150,000, advisory support, and access to a team of world - class cognitive scientists focused on applying the latest in learning sciences to product design.

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

A Cognitive Scientists Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom and When Can You Trust the Experts?

Social learning is an age - old learning and teaching strategy, backed by many cognitive scientists.

Although academics, including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and education researchers, have waged fierce debates about what these different needs are — some talk about multiple intelligences and learning styles whereas others point to research that undermines these notions — what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace.

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

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.

Cognitive scientists describe comprehension as domain specific.

And when it comes to rote learning of facts and knowledge, cognitive scientists have proved beyond question that it's impossible to think effectively about any given subject without a vast inventory of knowledge which can be recalled whenever needed.

That's because the Core Knowledge Sequence is built on the principle, firmly established by cognitive scientists, that we learn new knowledge by building on what we already know.

How much text should be on screen, what the optimal narration is, and how graphics should appear are all questions that cognitive scientists have studied.

«Genius Means Struggle,» a chapter in my book, brings in psychologists and cognitive scientists on the importance of perseverance when it comes to tackling «difficult» subjects such as math and science.

Cognitive scientists» skepticism of grouping students stems, in large part, from the emergence of various theories on «learning styles.»

Some cognitive scientists suggest that teachers may subtly communicate different academic expectations of boys and girls and these biased expectations may become self - fulfilling.

That is because they produce conditions that cognitive scientists say are ideal for learning.

Astonishingly, no teachers, professional educators, cognitive scientists, or learning experts were invited.

Traditionally, cognitive scientists have emphasized the role of the executive network in serving our more immediate goals.

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

Cognitive scientists are expert at pinpointing all the ways we can make symbolic interpretations or be completely fooled.

«Cognitive scientists ID mechanism central to early childhood learning, social behavior.»

Although it is more than two millennia since Aristotle wrote that «repeatedly recalling a thing strengthens the memory», cognitive scientists have only recently come to appreciate the effectiveness of so - called «retrieval practice».

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.

Investigating further, Wieman learned what cognitive scientists have proven repeatedly in recent years: Humans don't learn concepts very well by having someone blab on about them.

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.

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.

Until now, cognitive scientists have confined their studies to six basic emotions — happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised and disgusted — mostly because the facial expressions for them were thought to be self - evident, Martinez explained.

Cognitive scientists live on too abstract a plane to investigate love but probably think it's due to how my neural networks connect with Harriet's.

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.

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

Two cognitive scientists, Helena Miton of Central European University in Budapest and Hugo Mercier of the Cognitive Sciences Institute in Bron, France, proposed this scenario in the November 2015 Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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.

In the August issue of Nature Neuroscience, cognitive scientists report that certain lower level brain areas appear to play a role.

The cognitive scientists fitted skullcaps with 128 electroencephalographic (EEG) electrodes to the heads of eight long - term Buddhist practitioners and 10 student volunteers.

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

Cognitive scientists suspected that some of these memories were bogus, the unwitting product of suggestion by the therapist.

The Reconsolidated Life While neuroscientists were skeptical of Nader's findings, cognitive scientists were immediately fascinated that memory might be constantly revamped.

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

Cognitive scientists estimate that nearly half the information we assimilate enters through our eyes, and as we grow older, our ability to pay attention to things on the periphery declines.