Sentences with phrase «how cognition»

Paulo Nazareth is a Brazilian artist who aims to reverse Western standards and the preconceived notion of knowledge flowing southwards, offering an alternative reading of who we are, how cognition is constructed, and by whom.

His research has focused on characterizing cognition, understanding how cognition develops early in life, how it changes with advanced age and whether it can be modified with the use of drugs, nutritional supplements, or behavior interventions.

The researchers wanted to understand how cognition is impacted by diet throughout life.

Despite the importance of cognitive performance for mission success, little is known about how cognition is affected by prolonged spaceflight, and what aspects of cognition are primarily affected.

Few studies, «some very old and all inconclusive,» have probed how cognition changes in aging chimps, says behavioral neuroscientist Agnès Lacreuse at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

He missed entirely the epistemological problem of explaining how cognition is initially in contact with reality.

The argument leaves untouched the question of how a cognition is ever in contact with reality and not just with previous cognitions.

The basis on which the genetic cognitive theory stands and which actually gives the genetic question its meaning is consequently nothing more than a specification of Whitehead's process principle: how cognition becomes constitutes what cognition is, so that both analyses, relative to cognition, ultimately include one another.

From a scientific perspective too, more emphasis in prevention research on intrapersonal, cognitive processes is needed to experimentally test theoretical propositions regarding how cognitions influence parenting.

Not exact matches

Scientists know how to make fruit flies and mice smarter, and efforts to come up with a treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders are leading to drugs that enhance memory and cognition in humans.

In their February 2010 article entitled «Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus», Dan Kahan, Hank Jenkins - Smith and Donald Braman examine the tendency of individuals to perceive risk with biases congenial to their visions of how society should be organized.

«The developing brain is a vulnerable brain,» said Anthony Feinstein, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto who studies multiple sclerosis and how cannabis impacts cognition.

How would you define good in terms of behavior and cognition?

How would you define evil in terms of behavior and cognition?

There is still no explanation for the spontaneous origin of the universe, as well as the advanced cognition of the brain (chemicals and genetics reveal general trends, but no one knows how complete thoughts are actually formed, nor emotions or personalities); creation and the human conscious, the two fundamental focuses of religion.

Further, we pose the question of how the research results of Piaget's genetic theory of cognition could be significant for a critical review of Whitehead's position on the origin and range of ontological concepts.

In the tradition of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas worked out precisely how every appetition is directed by a form as by its determining principle, whether this form really belong to a [235] being or be acquired in the act of knowing.8 Thus the kind of appetition peculiar to cognizant beings could be explained as an effect of their cognition.

Copiously illustrated, this book shows how the conscious development and training of the hands in the Waldorf curriculum, from Kindergarten through the high school, lead through the heart forces to enhanced cognition in students.

This workbook also functions as a layperson's primer on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helping parents teach kids how to reframe their cognitions and change their behaviors to feel more calm and in control.»

To preserve the young athlete's head health, mental cognition and ability to succeed, it is critical that coaches, players and parents are aware of the inherent dangers and how to properly perform a concussion evaluation.

Paul Tough's new book, «How Children Succeed,» examines whether character is more important than cognition and what is possible through ideas and innovation.

But scientists know little about how smell and cognition are linked in animals that rely heavily on smell — such as dogs, elephants, and rats.

«Working with children who have tremendous difficulties across a number of domains, including numerical cognition, you start to wonder: How does my science matter?

That work revealed how the loss of Shank 3 disrupts neuronal communications by affecting the function of the NMDA (n - methyl - D - aspartate) receptor, a critical player in regulating cognition and emotion, leading to deficits in social preference that are common in ASD.

As part of the limbic system, it plays an important role in memory processing and spatial cognition, including how mammals learn to understand and navigate their environment.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

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.

You say that in studying certain aspects of how children acquire language — specifically, how they learn to use verbs — you fell, like Alice, down a rabbit hole into a hidden world where you viewed the deeper structures of cognition.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

«Cultural cognition can influence everything from what people believe they have seen with their own eyes to how they perform a mathematical calculation,» he told me.

This provides strong evidence about infants» earliest links between language and cognition and how they unfold.

AS SCIENCE exposes the gears and sprockets of moral cognition, how will it affect our laws and ethical norms?

Before neuroscience could tackle its biggest question — how the brain transforms chemical reactions and electrical pulses into cognition — it had to wrestle with the tiny.

New research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas published online today in Brain and Cognition illustrates how fear arises in the brain when individuals are exposed to threatening images.

Seidler said the brain changes could reflect new connections between neurons, and she's leading another long - term study that will help determine the repercussions on cognition and physical performance, as well as how long the brain changes last.

«A big question in development, and also in cognition in general, is how separate our mental faculties actually are,» said lead author Sarah Creel of the Department of Cognitive Science in UC San Diego's Division of Social Sciences.

Zanesco believes this has broad implications for meditation and mindfulness - based approaches to cognitive training and raises important questions regarding how much meditation can, in fact, influence human cognition and the workings of the brain.

The eventual goal is to gain a better understanding of how signaling between different types of neurons controls memory and cognition.

Over the years, many neurobiologists have investigated musical ability, exploring how and why we create music, the relationships between song and language, and other mysteries of musical cognition.

«Speculation about animals» mental experiences happens to be the main quest of this book,» Safina writes, as he skillfully weaves together research on animal behavior and cognition with tales of his journey across the globe to observe how different animals live.

Benefits from meditation appeared to have plateaued after the retreats, even in participants who practiced the most: This could have implications for how much meditation can, in fact, influence human cognition and the workings of the brain, he said.

«We were most interested in understanding how children's cognitions and emotions worked together to predict whether child - friend interactions were more cooperative and positive or more negative and conflictual,» says Nancy McElwain, a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at U of I.

Young children who play the game do show improvements on basic numerical cognition, but it's unclear how long these improvements last.

«Where you are is who you are: How enclosed and open spaces affect cognition: Good built environments are fundamental for our well - being.»

In the process, it provides convincing evidence about an important question concerning cognition: how we form beliefs.»

Whether, how, and when the process of transitioning through menopause affects cognition have been debated.

Now an associate professor at Yale and head of the university's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Santos explains to DISCOVER how she learned to think like a monkey — and, in the process, came to understand more about how humans think too.

If we see the same cognition in lemurs that we also see in macaques, capuchins, and chimpanzees, it allows us to learn more about how old that kind of cognition is.

This matters a lot when you know how important the hippocampus is for a healthy cognition,» explains co-author Dr. Véronique Bohbot, researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and associate professor at McGill University.

[For more on how a negative mood boosts cognition, see «Depression's Evolutionary Roots,» by Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson; Scientific American Mind, January / February 2010.]