Sentences with phrase «cognitive scientists knew»

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

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Cognitive scientists have known for more than a century that the best way to secure memories for the long term is to impart them in repeated sessions, distributed across time, with other material interleaved in between.

«We know a lot about how to educate people on facts, but we know almost nothing about how to educate people on acquiring perceptual skills other than lots of repetition, which can be very time - consuming and expensive,» says cognitive scientist Robert A. Jacobs of the University of Rochester.

Cognitive scientist Matthew Schulkind knows «earworms» inside and out — especially those spawned by the Wiggles.

«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.

«This is the kind of study where you think «Yes, I can believe these results,»» because they fit well with what scientists know about fetal brain development, says cognitive scientist Karin Stromswold of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

Because scientists know Neandertals and modern humans mated with each other, «is it possible that the «modern» DNA these late Neandertal groups picked up included genes for enhanced cognitive abilities?»

«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.

No, says cognitive scientist Rafael Nunez of the University of California San Diego.

During certain cognitive processes a category of brain waves known as gamma oscillations (30 - 80 Hz) increases in prefrontal cortex, and when the scientists activated the PV cells at gamma frequencies the animals solved the task more times.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists have long known that the protein tau is involved in dementia, but how it hinders cognitive function has remained uncertain.

«Scientists now know that there's much more plasticity of the brain than we previously thought,» explains Elizabeth Zelinski, PhD, a cognitive psychologist and Nintendo consultant who's also dean of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.

Scientists now know that memory loss and cognitive decline are not an inevitable part of growing older.

It has also been scientifically proven to enhance cognitive function and hGH, although there are no established mechanisms and scientists don't exactly know how it works although it is known to work and devoid of side effects.

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.

Huynh explained that he and his colleagues at We Want To Know, the Norwegian game company he'd co-founded with French cognitive scientist Patrick Marchal, had been trying to decide whether to sell the game to schools, which were beginning to buy iPads at a steady clip.

Here's the second part of cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham's article on how students end up thinking they know something when they don't.

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