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Being nice «The great complexity of human social interactions and the huge variation in what we find rewarding compared with other primates prompts questions about whether the anterior cingulate gyrus operates similarly in the human brain,» Matthew Apps and Narender Ramnani, who work on neuroimaging and human cognition at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, told Nature in an email.

Not exact matches

«We're less likely to pay attention to the negative,» said Nathan Spreng, director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at Cornell University's Department of Human Development.

We both accept, I think, these four related things about human knowing: (1) sentient experience of «physical things» is intrinsically infused with objective meaning, purposefulness and value; (2) flowing out, of this and intertwined with it is, at least for humans, «cognition» of the physical, and moral experience of such value; (3) this moral experience and engagement reveals the spiritual realm as something foundational to and «abstractly distinguishable» from the physical realm — values for Ward, mind for me; and (4) one piece of evidence for making such a distinction is the uniquely «publicly....

But at the same time, rightly enough, it would be insisted that Whitehead's immediate experience can not be conflated with Bradley's; for in Whitehead, immediate experience operates as foundational only within the limited area of animal or human cognition and can not, as in Bradley's idealist metaphysic, be identified with the substratum itself.

Scientists at the NRC will focus on cognition, including mapping the wiring diagram of the human brain.

We take for granted our ability to reason using analogies, but the skill is at the core of human cognition, argue Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

- 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.

«Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture,» says Joanne Yager, doctoral student at Lund University.

At 3 months old, listening to both human and nonhuman primate (lemur) vocalizations supports infants» ability to form categories, a building block of cognition.

«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.

«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute, one of six teams of robotics researchers (along with the Florida University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped robot platform, built for them by Boston Dynamics.

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.

The study helps explain a distinctly human mechanism of cognition, said the lead researchers at Brown University, and could be applied to studying and treating reward - seeking or punishment - avoidance conditions such as addiction or obsessive - compulsive disorder.

Evan MacLean, director of the Arizona Canine Cognition Center at the University of Arizona, found that dogs and 2 - year - old children show similar patterns in social intelligence, much more so than human children and one of their closest relatives: chimpanzees.

«This is the greatest tactile sensitivity that has ever been shown in humans,» said Darren Lipomi, a professor of nanoengineering and member of the Center for Wearable Sensors at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, who led the interdisciplinary project with V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology at UC San Diego.

«Stress, including the stress of racial discrimination, affects cortisol levels and sleep, which are important for cognition and learning,» said study senior author Emma Adam, a professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research.

The field of «embodied» cognition is still very much in its infancy but has profound implications for how we look at human relations.

Put another way, with complicated, highly social human thought — and the complicated genetics at the root of higher cognition — perhaps there is just more that can go wrong: complex function begets complex malfunction.

Still, Dudley feels that evolutionary genetic analysis can help identify the most relevant genes and pathological mechanisms at play in schizophrenia and possibly other mental illnesses that preferentially affect humans — that is, neurodevelopmental disorders related to higher cognition and GABA activity, including autism and attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder.

Scientists at the University's Dog Cognition Centre are the first to find clear evidence dogs move their faces in direct response to human attention.

The results, reported May 8 in the journal Nature Human Behavior, place the appearance of human - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 yHuman Behavior, place the appearance of human - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 yhuman - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 yhuman first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 years.

Program 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 time.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

This includes proposals that address mechanisms of memory or cognition at the synaptic, cellular, molecular, genetic or behavioral level in animals, including humans.

Central to the initiative is the creation of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, where research investigations will span a continuum, from deciphering the basic biology of the brain to understanding sensation, perception, cognition, and human behavior, with the goal of making transformational advances that will inform new scientific tools and medical treatments.

Unlike most supplement companies, ClariMem Health sought to determine whether ClariMem ® is truly effective at improving cognition in humans.

Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition.

Available at all times, usable in all contexts, with situational awareness, access to vast quantities of information, and human language cognition abilities to interpret that data — it will make an awesome learning tool.

Dr. Clive Wynne will be discussing all aspects of the research being carried at the Canine Science Collaboratory, including research in social reinforcement, odor discrimination in learning and the effects of odor on behavior, as well as gesture studies Canine cognition, domestic dogs and human gestures, domestic dogs, human speech and more.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

pp. 230 - 250 in Tools, Language, and Cognition in Human Evolution, edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Tim Ingold (Cambridge University Press 1993) at http://WilliamCalvin.com/1990s/1993Unitary.htm.

Certain PLA thinkers even anticipate the approach of a «singularity» on the battlefield, at which human cognition can no longer keep pace with the speed of decision - making and tempo of combat in future warfare.

Cognition also rests at the forefront of human enhancement.