Sentences with phrase «cognitive studies»

But cognitive studies suggest primates use tools mainly by trial and error, whereas humans understand the principles at work — such as gravity and force — and exploit them to make novel tools.

Dr. Dennett is a professor and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.

Neuroscience has been particularly authoritative in the wider field of cognitive studies and in the examination of emotions and moral reasoning.

The work of Rumiati and colleagues comes from a need to expand knowledge on the subject: «It seems strange, but there are not many cognitive studies on food, and it has only been in recent years that the topic has attracted more attention from the scientific community.»

«Neuroscience research reveals that humor systematically activates the brain's dopamine reward system,» says Henderson, «and cognitive studies show that dopamine is important for both goal - oriented motivation and long - term memory, while educational research indicates that correctly used humor can be an effective intervention to improve retention in students from kindergarten through college.»

So, inevitably, the researchers at Monash will produce just another large body of comparative cognitive studies — humans are better than cephalopods at crossword puzzles, no photodiodes can play chess but many Belgians can... that sort of thing — all meretriciously tricked out in the useless patois of Integrated Information Theory.

Chalmers argued that some problems associated with cognitive studies are relatively «easy» to solve.

fMRI and cognitive studies reveal that the brain «evaluates» the probability of effort resulting in success before expending the cognitive effort in solving mental problems.

Although most cognitive studies focus on clinically low birthweight groups, confirmation of this association across the full birthweight range in the normal population is of particular interest, since this would imply that explanatory factors are similarly distributed in the general population.

For many years, I have been carrying out several cognitive studies as the person in charge of the Italian Center for Eating Disorders (CIDA — Centro Italiano Disturbi Alimentari).

Some modern defenders of Darwin — like Daniel Dennett, director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and professor of philosophy at Tufts University — argue that it is just such a notion of God that has to be discarded in view of evolutionary science.

«The Ed School has been a dream come true, a way for me to pursue my love of cognitive studies (neuroscience and psychology), complex systems, and philosophy, to name just a few, all under the guise of reshaping my professional identity.

Neuroscience research reveals that humor systematically activates the brain's dopamine reward system, and cognitive studies show that dopamine is important for both goal - oriented motivation and long - term memory, while educational research indicates that correctly - used humor can be an effective intervention to improve retention in students from kindergarten through college.

In another cognitive study on doodling, individuals who kept their brain active through doodling while listening to lists were able to recall the lists 29 % better than participants who did not.

Dan Dennett is currently the Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

M: There is a wonderful person named Gottfried Schlaug, who has probably the best lab around that does imaging studies and cognitive studies for musical behavior.

His has done behavioral and cognitive studies of both chimpanzees and bonobos living in African sanctuaries.

But then he heard that Jackendoff had just moved from Brandeis to Tufts to direct its Center for Cognitive Studies.

He also regularly teaches an undergraduate course about China for the Legal Studies Department, and offers freshmen seminars about law and cognitive studies.

Journal of Cognitive Studies, 11, 23 - 28.

As far as my University career is concerned, in 2003 I graduated in Psychology at the University of Parma and, in 2009, I specialized in Cognitive - Behavioral Psychotherapy at the Scuola Quadriennale Studi Cognitivi (Cognitive studies four - year School).