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The study gives cognitive scientists more tools to study the origins of emotion in the brain.
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One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.
Besides carefully mapping the participants» specific symptoms, the scientists also tested their cognitive abilities and measured levels of different proteins in their blood and CSF, a fluid that surrounds the brain and that thus gives a good indication of its chemistry.
Patients were then given memory and other cognitive tests to measure brain function, allowing scientists to establish strong correlations between exercise, brain health, and cognition.
Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»
And when it comes to rote learning of facts and knowledge, cognitive scientists have proved beyond question that it's impossible to think effectively about any given subject without a vast inventory of knowledge which can be recalled whenever needed.
First, everyone has a different aptitude — or what cognitive scientists refer to as «working memory» capacity, meaning the ability to absorb and work actively with a given amount of information from a variety of sources, including visual and auditory.
But, as cognitive scientists have shown, the ability to understand a given text depends a lot on whether you're already familiar with the words and concepts it contains.
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».