Sentences with phrase «cognitive scientists at»

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.

«There's a lot of research that tells us people have a hard time remembering negations,» says Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol in England.

The academic community quaked last August when Harvard confirmed that it had found Marc Hauser, a cognitive scientist at the university, «solely responsible» for eight cases of scientific misconduct.

«Our results show that there is a profound cultural difference» in the way people respond to consonant and dissonant sounds, says Josh McDermott, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and lead author of the paper.

Zenon Pylyshyn, a cognitive scientist at Rutgers University, doesn't think mental images are essential to figuring such things out.

A 2010 study by William Jarrold, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Davis, suggests that an automated system that analyzes speech patterns on phone calls can potentially pick up on cognitive impairment and clinical depression or determine if someone is in the very early stages of Alzheimer's.

Creators of machine - learning systems «used to be able to look at the source code of our programs and understand how they work, but that era is long gone,» says Simon DeDeo, a cognitive scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Fun, engrossing activities are strongly encoded in memory because they engage our emotions, according to James Gee, a cognitive scientist at Arizona State University.

«Thinking outside the box might be facilitated by having a somewhat less intact box,» writes lead author Fredrik Ulln, a cognitive scientist at Karolinska.

«When they need a new word, they invent one,» says Janet Wiles, a cognitive scientist at the University of Queensland who leads an interdisciplinary team on the project.

«The idea is that this is the mechanism that allows you to find things when you know what they are but you don't know where they are,» says John Serences, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and co-author of one of the new reports.

Rafael Núñez, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who has studied the mental and social process of doing mathematics, points out that problem solving is just another human activity.

That makes the journal a «mishmash... neither an unrefereed proposal platform nor a refereed journal,» says OA advocate Stevan Harnad, a cognitive scientist at the University of Quebec, Montreal, in Canada.

«We still don't understand why it occurs or whether you can get used to it, and people don't necessarily agree it exists,» said Ayse Saygin, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

Daniel Ansari, a cognitive scientist at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, says that while the new findings appear to disagree, both studies suggest «that the left parietal lobe is more finely tuned to the symbolic representation of numerical magnitude.»

«There are automatic guns in the demilitarized zone that can target and fire without human decision,» says Colin Allen, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University and coauthor of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.

«Other species had similar challenges and had much longer to develop human - like intelligence but didn't,» said Steven Piantadosi, a cognitive scientist at the University of Rochester.

«I was struck by the exceptional magnitude of similarity among friends,» Carolyn Parkinson, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said, adding, «our results suggest that friends might be similar in how they pay attention to and process the world around them... that shared processing could make people click more easily and have the sort of seamless social interaction that can feel so rewarding.»

Tina Grotzer, a cognitive scientist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, does work that explores the notion of complex...

I am a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol.

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All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University.

A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University.

In a research project published in November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own mothers.

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.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig found out that the new fitness technology called Jymmin makes us less sensitive to pain.

A new alternative to painkillers or heat therapy could be Jymmin, a mixture of working out on gym machines and free musical improvisation, jamming, developed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig.

In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

Scientists from the department of social neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) together with colleagues from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) explored the question at what age we develop the motivation to watch, from our perspective, a deserved punishment and if this feature also exists in our closest relatives — chimpanzees.

«For over 10 years, language scientists and neuroscientists have been guided by a high impact study published in Nature Neuroscience showing that these predictions by the brain are very detailed and can even include the first sound of an upcoming word,» explains Mante Nieuwland, cognitive neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the University of Edinburgh.

Scientists in the U.S., U.K., Israel and New Zealand looking at the Dunedin data used it to track 18 biological measures, including liver and kidney function, blood sugar and cholesterol levels, balance, cognitive ability, cardiovascular fitness and even gum recession in 954 study participants.

Until now, scientists haven't understood why about a third of patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery experience some kind of cognitive impairment — such as memory loss — at hospital discharge.

«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.

Scientists of the Transfaculty Research Platform «Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences» (MCN) at the University of Basel and the Psychiatric University Clinics have now described a network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is related to working memory, brain activity and schizophrenia.

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.

Itiel Dror of the JDI Center for the Forensic Sciences at University College London spoke about his research on «cognitive forensics» — how cognitive biases affect forensic scientists.

The Boston Globe reports today that Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser, who is on leave after a university investigation found evidence of research misconduct in his lab, will not be allowed to teach at the university next year.

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Sanders - Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky have identified an interesting connection between the health of the brain tissue that supports cognitive functioning and the presence of dementia in adults with Down syndrome.

Together with colleagues at IBM led by Scott Spangler, principal data scientist at IBM, the team initiated a research project to develop a knowledge integration tool that took advantage of existing text mining capabilities, such as those used by IBM's Watson technology (cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer.)

«We looked specifically at the relationship between individuals «self - reported fatigue and objective measures of cognitive fatigue using state - of - the - art neuroimaging,» explained Helen M. Genova, Ph.D., research scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation.

In January, cognitive scientist Aude Oliva's team set up a refined reworking of a 1970s experiment: Over four hours researchers showed 14 people nearly 3,000 images (at three seconds per image) and then immediately asked the subjects to point out what they had seen.

«I am especially excited about the improvements we observed in cognitive and behavioral dysfunctions because these abnormalities are particularly hard on the kids — and their parents,» said first author Ania Gheyara, MD, PhD, a staff scientist at Gladstone who is also affiliated with the UCSF Department of Pathology.

«Findings like those reported in this paper provide significant evidence of the value and need for continued behavioral, cognitive and neurogenomic work with this important species,» said William D. Hopkins, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Georgia State and associate research scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music.

We found a strong consistency in how people move their facial muscles to express 21 categories of emotions,» said Aleix Martinez, a cognitive scientist and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State.

«Although cognitive status was worse in the TBI group,» said Dr. Sumowski, senior research scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, «higher education attenuated the negative effect of TBI on cognitive status, such that persons with higher education were protected against TBI - related cognitive impairment.»

In a study published today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent trail.

New research by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh provides an unprecedented level of resolution and insight into disturbances in cortical GABAergic microcircuits, which are thought to underlie cognitive impairments in schizophrenia.

Meanwhile cognitive scientist Gadi Geiger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that people with dyslexia could attend to multiple auditory inputs at once.

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.