Sentences with phrase «in cognitive»

«We managed to provoke an illusion: the illusion that the subject's legs were being lightly tapped, when in fact the subject was actually being tapped on the back, above the spinal cord lesion,» explains Blanke, lead author of the study and holder of the Foundation Bertarelli Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics.

Co-authors are Philip Robbins, of the department of philosophy at the University of Missouri, Jared P. Friedman, who just graduated with a BA in cognitive science and philosophy from Case Western Reserve, and Chris D. Meyers, of the department of philosophy at the University of Southern Mississippi.

«Because both slightly lower serum sodium levels and mild changes in cognitive function are common occurrences with advancing age, future research on this topic is important — including determining whether correcting lower sodium levels affects cognitive function.»

Led by researchers at NYU Langone's Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, the new study reports that participants with MS who used tDCS while playing the cognitive training computer games designed to improve information processing abilities showed significantly greater gains in cognitive measures than those who played the computer games alone.

Writing in the June 2017 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.

Kashi completed her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences at BGU, and is now embarking on her graduate studies in the lab.

«We went from a slow, average depiction of brain activity in a cognitive challenge to a quick test that is significantly easier for children to do than spend hours under observation,» Montague said.

«Accelerated aging in young adults predicts the symptoms of advanced aging that we see in older adults: deficits in cognitive and physical functioning, feelings of ill - health, and even an older appearance.

Spelke, an expert in cognitive development among children, notes that around age 5, children «transition from developing knowledge in a common - sense, spontaneous manner, to going to school, where they have to start grappling with formal subjects and building formal skills.»

«Stroke in old age can be caused by poor cognitive function; whereas, faster decline in cognitive function can be caused by stroke,» Rajan said.

Professor Baron - Cohen says: «We are excited by this new discovery, and are now testing if the results replicate, and exploring precisely what these genetic variants do in the brain, to give rise to individual differences in cognitive empathy.

«In earlier work, we found that girls start to associate «smartness» with boys by the time they are 6 years old,» said co-author Leslie, the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and director of the Program in Linguistics and the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University.

A new study led by a Stanford University School of Medicine researcher shows that decreased estrogen levels after menopause are largely unrelated to changes in cognitive ability and mood.

This highlights a potential role for ecRNAs in cognitive function of the brain.

Mu - Ming Poo of the University of California, Berkeley, agrees, describing the findings as «a very bold link of a molecular defect with a defect in cognitive function.»

They compared and analyzed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain images of 1,680 healthy individuals and 884 patients with schizophrenia from 11 research institutes participating in Cognitive Genetics Collaborative Research Organization (COCORO), and examined the differences between schizophrenia and healthy controls in the subcortical regional volumes and their asymmetries.

Short - term effects of cannabis are transient impairments in motor function and working memory, planning, and decision - making, while possible long - term health effects of heavy cannabis use include physical and psychological dependence, permanent reductions in cognitive performance, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and some cancers (WHO).

Lewandowski noted that further research is needed to determine how the improvements in these cognitive skills impact work and leisure activities and daily functioning in patients with bipolar disorder.

Yet there are recent signs of convergence, notably in cognitive science and neuropsychology.

Their Boise, Idaho - based research institute, funded via technology spin - offs coming out of their work, aimed at solving foundational problems in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

The day when EIT will be used in cognitive neuroscience is still a long way off.

He argues that developments in the cognitive sciences and behavioural ecology challenge the assumption that the pursuit of scientific knowledge demands an abandonment of values.

In a paper publishing online December 15 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers explain how they have used the brain's ability to bring together information from different senses to make white people feel that they were inhabiting black bodies and adults feel like they had children's bodies.

Mobbs and Caroline Watt at the University of Edinburgh detailed this research online August 17 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

As a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, he began developing large - scale models of the brain that could be used to understand neural mechanisms.

A case in point is the rare but severe psychomotor disease Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome (AHDS), a congenital condition that affects only males and starves the developing brain of thyroid hormone, resulting in cognitive impairment and atrophied muscles and motor skills.

A small minority of youngsters jump quickly from always failing to always passing these tests, the scientists report October 20 in Cognitive Psychology.

The most tantalizing result of Cohn's study (recently published in Cognitive Psychology) emerged when he showed subjects panels arranged so that they had a narrative arc but didn't add up to a meaningful story.

Breakthrough research using virtual reality has revealed significant differences in how the brains of sleepwalkers and non-sleepwalkers control and perceive body movement — a first in cognitive science.

Recent studies have hinted that a specific part of the brain — a central region called the insular cortex — may also play an important role in the cognitive and emotional processes that facilitate drug and tobacco use.

There was also a rapid reversal in cognitive deficits (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1217697).

We show that both capacities become functional between the ages of 3 and 5 years, which provides empirical support for the contention that deep conceptual structures play an important role in cognitive development.

The group's findings were published in Cognitive Psychology in an article titled «Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium.»

«Fecal microbiota transplantation produces sustained improvements in cognitive and clinical outcomes.»

Walkers saw a 9 percent drop in cognitive processing speed, attention and working memory and a 13 - word - per - minute drop in typing.

The study has been published in the current edition of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

The FMT arm also demonstrated sustained and significant improvements in cognitive function at 1 year compared with both baseline and SOC.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

«A stream of research in cognitive psychology has shown and claims that people who have faith (i.e., are religious or spiritual) are not as smart as others.

The researchers recommended that future studies should collect information on the number of past TBIs (including mild TBIs, as well as exposure to sub-concussive trauma through contact sports and other activities) along with time since TBI, which may play a significant role in cognitive change.

Two cognitive scientists, Helena Miton of Central European University in Budapest and Hugo Mercier of the Cognitive Sciences Institute in Bron, France, proposed this scenario in the November 2015 Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

«Most students have disappeared at the level of the master or Ph.D. thesis, and the ones that survived are as good as those from other educational directions,» says Emanuel Dupoux, a researcher in cognitive and brain science at the ENS.

«In cognitive science, we have this basic assumption that the brain is a computer.

«Whether differences in cognitive abilities play a role in drinking initiation or frequency — in contrast to severe problems — is not so clear.

They also were significantly more likely than children exposed to low levels to experience attention problems and delays in cognitive and motor skills [PDF].

Annemarie van Stee is a philosopher who also did a research master's in cognitive neurosciences.

In contrast to the results of slower decline with higher MIND diet score, stroke survivors who scored high on the Mediterranean and DASH diets, did not have significant slowing in their cognitive abilities.

«These findings extend our present knowledge of functional brain connectivity, specifically linking brain regions previously established to function in self - referential cognition to regions indicated in the cognitive process of self - disclosure.»

He is also unconvinced by the team's assertion that most studies fail to take account of fluctuations in our cognitive prowess that happen over a period of hours or days and might affect results more than a short sharp zap in the head.

In fact, it is generally accepted that a loss of synaptic connections leads to a loss in cognitive skills.