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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.

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It is important for physicians and scientists to understand the unique pathology of HS - AGING, and to be able to differentiate it from other diseases, as it is only by making an accurate diagnosis that clinicians can hope to treat people who present with signs of cognitive decline.

Following the performance, psychiatrist and author Richard Restak, and Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez - Conde, scientists who study various aspects of visual, sensory and cognitive neuroscience, discussed the science underlying what the audience had just experienced.

One day last year, cognitive scientists Joshua Greene and Fiery Cushman, who designed the study, pulled up a series of brain scans taken as volunteers resolved the dilemma while inside an MRI machine.

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.

This is the first time that a team of scientists has studied the potential impact on cognitive development of exposure to air pollution in children who walk to school.

«If we want to make an impact in the cognitive systems era, we need to understand how the brain works,» said Matthias Kaiserswerth, a computer scientist who's director of IBM Research in Zurich, speaking during a media tour of the labs on Wednesday.

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.

«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].

«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.

«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.

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.

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.

Real - world testing is needed to confirm that the benefits in the game will translate to real life, but for now the game's designer, University of Helsinki cognitive scientist Esko Lehtonen, says the game may be especially useful for kids, who aren't familiar with the rules of the road and still have developing brains.

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«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.

At least half the cast might be scientists but it's Tolan who finds them a usable vehicle for their ghostbusting and Tolan who figures out, or remembers from the first Avengers film, that possession requires «cognitive recalibration» to correct.

«A dominant metaphor for young children's cognitive development is that the child is a scientist who does handson experiments, such as with things that float versus sink, and revises his or her ideas about the world like a scientist,» Harris says.

In a recent speech on anti-poverty initiatives, British Prime Minister David Cameron cited the work of University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, who argues that expanding the knowledge base of disadvantaged students is key to improving their reading... [Read more...]

Similarly, scientists who are immersed in researching a particular question for an extended period of time almost always develop cognitive prejudices, including preconceptions about the results of future experiments.

Lewandowsky, who has now moved from Australia to be the Chair in Cognitive Psychology in the School of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Bristol, has been given the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award — a scheme designed «for outstanding scientists who would benefit from a five year salary enhancement to help recruit them to or retain them in the UK».

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.

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