Sentences with phrase «for cognitive neuroscience»
Another survey done by Brian Hare, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, which is a division of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
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Some pit bulls are more reactive to new dogs, but they are less reactive than miniature schnauzers according to Brian Hare an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, which is a division of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
David J.M. Kraemer is a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Affiliation Department of Biopsychology, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr - University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
My training includes a five - year undergraduate degree in animal physiology from one of Germany's leading universities for biology (University of Tübingen, Germany), training in the conduct of human psychophysical experiments and in cognitive neuroscience from one of the world's major centres for cognitive neuroscience (Masters on human face recognition at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under Profs. Nico Troje, Heinrich Bülthoff and Dezsö Varjú) and training in coral reef biology and ecology from the University of Queensland (PhD on visual ecology of reef fish) under Prof. Justin Marshall and Prof. Jack Pettigrew).
He was the Speaker of the Donders Graduate School for Cognitive Neuroscience (2012 - 2015) and actively supports the careers of next - generation scientists.
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5...
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.
Researchers who also contributed to the work include A. Yam, a former research assistant at the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Alan Lincoln, Ph.D., professor at the Alliant International University in San Diego.
She and her colleague, Greg Siegle, Ph.D., the director for the cognitive neuroscience program at University of Pittsburgh, have come up with an academic description for it: «voluntary engagement with negative high - arousal stimuli.»
«I find some people way too quick to pooh - pooh the idea of an impending Singularity,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
«Where the eyes go and how much visual information gets in seems to be telling us a lot about what's going on inside the brain,» said Michael Platt, director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, says it is crucial to figure out what neural circuitry is behind «free won't,» as she refers the ability to control impulses, because it is one «of the many psychiatric disorders for which self - control problems figure prominently.»
This classical account was elaborated on by a recent study from Michel Desmurget and his colleagues at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France, that was published in the international journal Science.
These new findings, appearing online October 21 in PLoS ONE, reveal that politics can influence testosterone in men «just as if they directly engaged head - to - head in a contest for dominance,» says researcher Kevin LaBar of the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Bumps and drops in testosterone levels in response to competition in a variety of species can help both winners and losers, explains researcher Steven Stanton of the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience — victors may get motivated to pursue further gains, whereas also - rans are encouraged to back down so as not to press onward and potentially get injured.
«Not only can people with autism socialize more under the effect of oxytocin, they can understand the behaviors of others and respond accordingly,» explains study co-author Angela Sirigu, director of research at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France.
Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State University.
«It has long been thought that the stress of a mother during her pregnancy may imprint on the brain of her developing child,» says Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University who is presenting this new work at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston today.
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Best Quote: «Today, cognitive neuroscience is proving that humans make decisions irrationally, perception is illusory, and our minds are designed for self - deception.
But research published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that «when people viewed pictures of others being loved or cared for, their brains» threat response became muted,» writes Inc.com's Jill Krasny.
Contemporary research at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience and genetics demonstrates that children develop the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and overall mental health when caregivers respond to the meaning of behavior rather than the behavior itself.
Founded by an evolutionary anthropologist, this parenting resource is for critical thinkers — people who want to understand child development from the perspectives of psychology, anthropology, evolution, and cognitive neuroscience.
John Colombo, PhD, professor of psychology, University of Kansas; associate director of cognitive neuroscience, Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Another way that neuroscience is relevant for policy and theory is by looking into studies conducted in cognitive neuroscience, which helps explain some of the reasons for patterns of cooperation and enmity in international relations.
Ay 10:30 a.m., sen. David Carlucci, Rep. Steve Israel, Rep. Nita Lowey, and Assemblyman Charles Lavine will hold an Alzheimer's Disease and Neuroscience Research Roundtable with experts from the Nathan Kline Institute, Feinstein Institute, Mount Sinai Center for Cognitive Health and the Alzheimer's Association of the Hudson Valley, Ellipse Lecture Hall, Rockland Community College, 145 College Rd., Suffern.
The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»
Centre for Educational Neuroscience and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Psychological Sciences, Melbourne University, Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia.
The DMN constantly vies with the attention network for resources, notes Daniel Weissman of the University of Michigan, who specializes in the cognitive neuroscience of attention.
«This gives us evidence of the mechanisms by which nutrition affects intelligence and motivates promising new directions for future research in nutritional cognitive neuroscience.»
The title of the study is «Demystifying cognitive flexibility: Implications for clinical and developmental neuroscience.»
Until recently, such topics would have been out of the reach of cognitive neuroscience for lack of methods; today, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to watch the brain «in action» as normal human participants make decisions about responsibility and punishment.
The study — «Pharmacologically Increasing Sleep Spindles Enhances Recognition for Negative and High - arousal Memories» — appears in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.
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.
The research was conducted in the Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at GUMC, led by Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD.
«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 EdinburFor 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 Edinburfor Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the University of Edinburgh.
«Young students of cognitive neuroscience are lucky to be in the midst of a new era where we have access to amazing new tools of science for eavesdropping on the population of cells with a superb temporal resolution,» Parvizi says.
«Other studies have evaluated the effects on older athletes, such as retired NFL players, but no one has studied 20 - year - olds until now — and the results were remarkable and surprising,» said Patrick S.F. Bellgowan, director of cognitive neuroscience for LIBR and a faculty member at TU.
«An interesting aspect is the typical hyper - social predisposition,» said study co-author Ursula Bellugi, EdD, director of the cognitive neuroscience lab at Salk and an adjunct professor at UC San Diego who has studied WS for years.
«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
«Cognitive neuroscience research is being carried out on the brain processes that make it possible for us to cherish our loved ones and reflect on ourselves.
«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.
The study, conducted by Francesca Filbey, Ph.D., Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Research of Addictive Behaviors at the Center for BrainHealth and her colleagues, shows that risk - taking teens exhibit hyperconnectivity between the amygdala, a center responsible for emotional reactivity, and specific areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with emotion regulation and critical thinking skills.
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.
Combining established cognitive psychology with advanced neuroscience, the technique opens up new possibilities for research.
Postdoctoral scholar Farran Briggs worked with Mangun and Professor Martin Usrey at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience to measure signaling through single nerve connections, or synapses, in monkeys while they performed a standard cognitive test for attention: pressing a joystick in response to seeing a stimulus appear in their field of view.
The researchers from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, which studies cognitive brain mechanisms, and Center for Neuroscience, which studies molecular, cellular and system - level brain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative study.
«Researchers in the field of cognitive neuroscience have been wondering for a long time how it was possible that some birds, such as crows or parrots, are smart enough to rival chimpanzees in terms of cognitive abilities, despite their small brains and their lack of a cortex,» says Letzner.
Today, the field boasts two scientific societies (the Society for Social Neuroscience and the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society), and two specialist journals (Social Neuroscience and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience).