Sentences with phrase «in cognitive neuroscience research»

Until recently, her background has primarily been in cognitive neuroscience research, so she's excited to begin doctoral work in clinical and couples psychology in the fall of 2012 as part of the Center for Marital and Family Studies Lab at DU.
Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood to adulthood has proven difficult.

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But research published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that «when people viewed pictures of others being loved or cared for, their brains» threat response became muted,» writes Inc.com's Jill Krasny.
But there may be a way to push those feelings aside, according to new research published in the journal Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Some neuroscience research has also shown that making choices is exhausting and can hurt cognitive abilities in other areas.
Facebook acknowledged that it allowed Kogan — a University of Cambridge researcher in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience who obtained the data through his role at a company called Global Science Research — to collect that information with user permission.
In a research project published in November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own motherIn a research project published in November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own motherin November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own motherin Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own mothers.
The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»
I'm not familiar with your research field, but given your obvious enthusiasm and (presumably) relatively young age, I would consider a second postdoc in cognitive neuroscience.
Marilyn Albert is the Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
Recent research in cognitive and developmental neuroscience is providing a new approach to the understanding of dyscalculia that emphasizes a core deficit in understanding sets and their numerosities, which is fundamental to all aspects of elementary school mathematics.
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 UnCognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State Uncognitive psychology at Colorado State University.
«This gives us evidence of the mechanisms by which nutrition affects intelligence and motivates promising new directions for future research in nutritional cognitive neuroscience
«Not only can people with autism socialize more under the effect of oxytocin, they can understand the behaviors of others and respond accordingly,» explains study co-author Angela Sirigu, director of research at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France.
Students interested in doing a Ph.D. and pursuing a research career in the field of MBE typically complete degrees in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, educational psychology, or education — with significant training in the complementary fields mixed in.
Hearing certain sounds during slumber can spur learning, according to research detailed at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting in Montreal
By applying his different kinds of training to study the cognitive neuroscience of aging, Gazzaley has carved out an independent research program in an area «that is just raring to expand,» says Morrison.
The research was conducted in the Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at GUMC, led by Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD.
Research led by Hannah Foy, a 2nd year PhD student in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, is looking at whether future interventions could prioritise the use of driving simulators to make us safer at the wheel and our roads a safer place to be.
To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.
«We looked specifically at the relationship between individuals «self - reported fatigue and objective measures of cognitive fatigue using state - of - the - art neuroimaging,» explained Helen M. Genova, Ph.D., research scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Fouresearch scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler FouResearch at Kessler Foundation.
«A central goal of research in nutritional cognitive neuroscience is to understand how these nutrients affect brain health,» Zamroziewicz said.
James DiCarlo is a professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT who researches visual object recognition in primates.
«Distraction is a leading cause of injury and death in driving and other high - stakes environments, and has been associated with attentional deficits, so these results have important implications,» says McDonald, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience.
«Findings like those reported in this paper provide significant evidence of the value and need for continued behavioral, cognitive and neurogenomic work with this important species,» said William D. Hopkins, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Georgia State and associate research scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory Uniresearch scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory UniResearch Center, Emory University.
Her PhD research in Leiden focused on the question of where philosophy and cognitive neurosciences meet.
Annemarie van Stee is a philosopher who also did a research master's in cognitive neurosciences.
«Although cognitive status was worse in the TBI group,» said Dr. Sumowski, senior research scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, «higher education attenuated the negative effect of TBI on cognitive status, such that persons with higher education were protected against TBI - related cognitive impairmentresearch scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, «higher education attenuated the negative effect of TBI on cognitive status, such that persons with higher education were protected against TBI - related cognitive impairmentResearch at Kessler Foundation, «higher education attenuated the negative effect of TBI on cognitive status, such that persons with higher education were protected against TBI - related cognitive impairment.»
This multisensory perception study is part of the research being carried out at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Faculty of Biology.
A SISSA research study published in a special issue of the journal Brain and Cognition, completely dedicated to the cognitive neuroscience of food, analyzes the lexical - semantic deficits of the food category in patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Cognitive neuroscientist Juan R. Vidal of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center in France applauds the authors» use of multiple methods and says the study is the first to prove that the fusiform gyrus plays a causal role in face perception.
The omnibus provides $ 146.9 million for neuroscience and cognitive science research in NSF's Understanding the Brain (UtB) activity, which includes the BRAIN Initiative, as requested by the Administration.
A key subproject in cognitive neuroscience, whose removal from the core research program accelerated the attacks against the HBP last year, has been reinstated.
The merging of research in these various fields coalesced into a new discipline that we now call cognitive neuroscience.
Here, we provide information about our current research studies, what's happening with our labs in the news, and other relevant news and updates within the fields of child development and cognitive neuroscience!
During his time as an undergraduate student, he was a member of two cognitive neuroscience laboratories, where he worked on research studies examining how structural differences in the brain correlate with performance on cognitive tests.
John DeLuca, PhD, VP of Research & Training chairs Workshop 6: Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional activity.
«Findings like those reported in this paper provide significant evidence of the value and need for continued behavioural, cognitive and neurogenomic work with this important species,» said Dr. William D. Hopkins, professor of neuroscience at Georgia State and associate research scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory Uniresearch scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory UniResearch Center, Emory University.
Neurophysiology and cognitive neuroscience are among the primary areas of interest in Life Sciences Division (Research Area 8.4), specifically neurophysiological bases of perception and cognition, covering areas such as neuronal cell physiology and biophysics, psychophysiology, sensory and perceptual physiology, computational neurobiology, neuropsychology, and integrative neurobiology.
Julio Martinez - Trujillo, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a Robarts Research Institute scientist, and his collaborators Roberto A. Gulli and Guillaume Doucet from the Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, recently published an account of the new toolbox in Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
Feng Zhang, PhD, Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, MIT; Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation; James and Patricia Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
Under the leadership of John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP for Research & Training, and Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, scientists have made important contributions to the knowledge of cognitive decline in MS. Clinical studies span new learning, memory, executive function, attention and processing speed, emotional processing, employment and cognitive fatigue.
The Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation, together with other NSF programs, has an important role in supporting cognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaborationCognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation, together with other NSF programs, has an important role in supporting cognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaboratNeuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation, together with other NSF programs, has an important role in supporting cognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaborationcognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaboratneuroscience research in the United States, including international collaboration efforts.
Denise Krch, PhD, and James Sumowski, PhD, research scientists in the Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Laboratory at Kessler Foundation, received a $ 379,000 grant to study cognitive reserve in people with traumatic brain injury.
«Research has shown that even mild cognitive deficits lead to depression, anxiety, decreased participation in society, increased unemployment, and decreased quality of life,» says Dr. Chiaravalloti, director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Kessler Foundation, and project director of the Northern New Jersey TBI System (NNJTBIS).
Researchers who also contributed to the work include A. Yam, a former research assistant at the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Alan Lincoln, Ph.D., professor at the Alliant International University in San Diego.
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Carter uses methods from cognitive neuroscience including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and conducts basic research into the neural mechanisms of cognitive control as well as clinical and translational research in schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
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