Sentences with phrase «human learning and memory»

(Instructional Technology) and a BA in Psychology (emphasis in human learning and memory).

His research focuses on human learning and memory, and on the implications of the science of learning for instruction and training.

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The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Studies done of neglected children who did not receive adequate affection from another human being showed that these poor babies often suffered from chronic stress, a condition which may negatively effect the parts of the brain responsible for memory, focus and learning.

As sleep declined, rapid - eye movement, or REM — sleep linked to learning and memory (SN: 6/11/16, p. 15)-- came to play an outsize role in human slumber, the researchers propose.

«Protein's role in human memory and learning: Deficiency in SNX27 could explain the learning difficulties in Down's syndrome.»

Recently, it was found that the human hippocampus, linked with learning and memory, produces new neurons throughout life.

Nor can such machines equal the human brain's capacity to learn from experience and make predictions based on memory.

She notes that a few of the genes the team identified code for glutamate receptors, which play a key role in learning and memory and may have been selected in humans as well.

He has measured brain waves in sleeping fruit flies, identified genes that are active in humans during sleep, and demonstrated that sleep enhances learning and memory.

Because the poisoned sea lions also have seizures, neuroscientists can learn more about epilepsy and memory loss in humans by studying these marine mammals, he says.

A team of researchers has built a mathematical model that describes the molecular events associated with the beginning stage of learning and memory formation in the human brain.

These neurons encode a memory of learned vocal sounds and form a crucial (and hitherto only theorized) part of the neural system that allows songbirds to hear, imitate, and learn its species» songs — just as human infants acquire speech sounds.

She and colleagues examined DNA from individual brain cells taken from three donated human brains and tested bulk samples from the hippocampus (an area important for learning and memory) and the frontal cortex (where most thinking and decision making is thought to happen).

We'd like to pinpoint learning and memory pathways to understand how they may lead to human disease.»

But he adds that the study does not show that human astrocytes are genetically normal when engrafted into the mouse brain, and it does not rule out the idea that the improved learning and memory «could be due to the persisting progenitor cells.»

The parasite could also directly alter neurons involved in memory and learning, or it could trigger a damaging host response, as in many human autoimmune diseases.

In addition, we have provided recommendations for selecting performance measures and sample sizes to make these assays sensitive to learning and memory deficits in humans with MCI - AD and in mouse models.

Here, we examined the extent to which performance in the Morris water maze — the most frequently used behavioral assay of spatial learning and memory in rodents — translates to humans.

These advances have provided a molecular framework for understanding some of the most devastating disorders that afflict humans as well as normal functions such as learning and memory.

from Scientific American Memory Experiments from Eric H. Chudler's Neuroscience for Kids Memory and Learning from Bruno Dubuc, McGill University Mapping Memory in 3 - D from National Geographic How Human Memory Works from HowStuffWorks.com Working Memory from Thinker: A Cognitive Psychology Resource

Discovered that aberrant patterns of neuronal network activity result in profound anatomical and physiological alterations of learning and memory centers and may contribute to cognitive deficits in humans with AD and related mouse models.

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.

This year «s Young Scientist Award on human health sciences research, presented at the EUROTOX annual meeting, has been awarded to Amy Zmarowski of NOTOX, Netherlands, for her poster presentation: «Differential effects of methylazoxymethanol and MK - 801 administration on learning and memory impairment in Sprague Dawley and Wistar Han rats ``.

Recently, he and collaborators identified an important protein, Neto1, required for learning and memory, and established that it is possible to correct an inherited learning defect in mice with a drug, a finding with important implications for human learning disability.

But one glimpse came in 2013, when scientists transplanted human neural stem cells into the brains of mice which had damage in regions responsible for learning and memory.

Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

With such knowledge, it may be possible to stimulate these nerve cells by artificial means, for example by selective nicotine - like drugs, to improve memory and learning in humans.

«We found that mice that had been genetically engineered to produce human apoE4 lost a specific kind of cells and that loss of these cells correlated with the extent of learning and memory deficits,» said Yaisa Andrews - Zwilling, PhD, postdoctoral fellow and lead author of the study.

It's not yet clear exactly how Tet2 levels drive improved learning and memory in the mouse brain, or whether these improvements will translate to humans, Villeda cautions.

We are also interested in the human diseases that affect learning and memory, including Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD.

«We've learned a lot about the brain from mice, but I think we can all agree that mice and humans are very different,» says Li - Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist at the Picower Institute for Memory and Learning at MIT who studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease.

The hope is that such studies in Drosophila will one day clarify the role neurexin plays in learning and memory, ultimately leading to a better understanding of how defects in this protein can lead to human disorders such as autism, Bhat said.

The study sheds light on the relationship of theta oscillations to human learning and exploration — and it could help inform future research on therapies for patients with memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease.

In both humans and mice, learning and memory requires effective communication between brain cells called neurons.

Huperzine A (from the Chinese club moss Huperzia serrata): improves memory and learning in healthy humans as well as those with dementia.

He studies the basic neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly emotional learning, in both human and animal subjects, using functional neuroimaging, electrophysiology and immunohistochemistry.

In 1973, Anderson and Bower developed the model called «human associative memory or HAM» wherein learning is based on memory of «facts, time, predicate (or subject), and objects (or relationships)» (Saettler, 2004, p. 327).

As I explained last month, Dr. Sweller, an educational psychologist who has extensively researched memory and learning describes perception and memory impacting learning and calls the process human cognitive architecture.

In fact, an article in Training Industry discusses the «forgetting curve» and estimates that humans tend to halve their memory of newly learned knowledge in a matter of days or weeks unless they consciously review the learned material.

Recent years have seen an explosion of new research into the human brain, cognition, memory, information processing, and learning.

Even if it did not, the notion of learning and immediately demonstrating ability flies in the face of well - established research on human's limited working memory capacity.

Cognitive behavior issues include difficulties with spatial orientation (a sense of direction while moving around); problems with memory, learning, housetraining; and difficulty in recognizing and reacting to human family members.

We know from human athletes how important muscle memory is to fast and effective learning of physical skills.

Cognitive behavior includes spatial orientation; problems with memory, learning, housetraining; and recognizing and reacting to human family members.

Some animals may have very negative memories of humans who mistreated them, and need extra time to adjust and to learn to trust.

Inspired by an old Japanese game show (e.g. Human Tetris), an electronic game of memory (Simon) and a physical game of timing (Dance Dance Revolution), this game was built upon a simple concept that is approachable to anyone, easy to learn, and difficult to master.

Until Now, Daniel's second solo exhibit with A.D., portrays recently made memories: learning he's about to become a father, the way friendships seem to bloom and wilt, fantastic explanations for death, split personalities, and the various forms of escapism we engage, all within Daniel's view of the basic softness and vulnerability of the human being.

Studying animals — for example, how they perceive time and the way they form memory — not only helps scientists learn more about animals, it helps them learn more about humans and how our brains work compared to animals.

Keeping aside the figurative incongruity (empathy and machines), humans have made great progress in building functional pieces of the human brain — from machines that can handle computation, memory storage and retrieval to probabilistic reasoning, pattern recognition, natural language processing, classification, learning, etc..