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Magda Osman, lecturer in cognitive psychology at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of Controlling Uncertainty, provides insights.

He holds a PhD in cognitive psychology at the University of Western Australia and a Bachelor of Science at the University of Queensland, achieving First Class Honours with a major in physics.

Currently, he is based at the University of Bristol UK, the chair in cognitive psychology at the School of Experimental Psychology, focusing on the public's understanding of science and why people often embrace beliefs sharply at odds with scientific evidence.

Czerwinski earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and then she jumped immediately to industry, doing human - computer interface research for a series of companies while holding a part - time teaching position at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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A version of this article appears in print on August 2, 2012, on Page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: George A. Miller, a Pioneer in Cognitive Psychology, Is Dead at 92.

'' In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.»

Religion is really about psychology, trying to keep cognitive dissonances at bay, ambiguity (in) tolerance, and the need for cognitive closure.

Norman Weinberger, a cognitive sciences and psychology professor at the University of California at Irvine, says in one study, babies as young as four months old seemed to know when researchers played the «Happy Birthday» song incorrectly.

Katelyn completed her M.S. degree in Clinical Behavioral Psychology at Eastern Michigan University, where she focused on behavioral and cognitive - behavioral interventions for children and adolescents.

She completed her Master's degree in Clinical Behavioral Psychology at Eastern Michigan University where she focused on evidence - based behavioral and cognitive behavioral interventions for children and adolescents.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstanceIn the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstancein response to changing circumstances.

Ansari first became interested in numerical processing as a graduate student in cognitive developmental psychology at University College London (UCL).

The study by Alison McLeish, a University of Cincinnati associate professor of psychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Cpsychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual CPsychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Convention.

«Traumatic avoidance symptoms have been shown to have a negative impact on the cognitive and emotional development of children,» said Kristin Valentino, Notre Dame assistant professor of psychology who specializes in the development of at - risk and maltreated children.

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 UPsychology 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 Upsychology at Colorado State University.

«This study provides assurance that whatever obstacles preterm infants face in later language and cognitive development, these are unlikely to reflect difficulties in establishing the foundational link between language and core cognitive processes,» said Danielle Perszyk, the study's first author and a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at Northwestern.

«This new evidence illuminates the central role of early experience as infants specify which signals, from an initially broad set, they will continue to link to core cognitive capacities,» said Danielle R. Perszyk, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

Early in her graduate school career at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Maye (pictured right) decided she wanted to focus on psycholinguistics, a relatively new branch of linguistics that draws on cognitive sciences, including psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, speech and hearing, and neural imaging to explain how humans learn language.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

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.

«Many studies show the integrative function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in relatively simple cognitive tasks, and we believe that this relatively basic process forms the foundation for far more complex forms of behavior and decision - making, such as norm enforcement,» said lead author Joshua Buckholtz, now an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard.

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

To better understand the benefits of a new, family - based cognitive behavioral therapy and how it may work to improve sleep in children with ASD, McCrae and Micah Mazurek, associate professor of health psychology, are conducting a sleep treatment study through the Research Core at the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

The findings «give us a window into understanding memory and, in particular, the issue of encoding new information into memory,» said lead study author Vladimir Sloutsky, professor of psychology at Ohio State and director of the university's Cognitive Development Lab.

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair in Cognitive Psychology and member of the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol, said: «We can understand the implications of uncertainty, and in the case of the climate system, it is very clear that greater uncertainty will make things even worse.

«This new finding is really strong evidence for the multiple evolution of cognitive abilities,» says Helmut Prior, the lead researcher and now a professor of psychology at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany.

«Despite many years of active involvement in both formal and informal learning activities, students do not necessarily employ activities that best foster learning — even though, as our results indicate, those strategies are in their «toolbox» of effective learning strategies,» said co-author Elizabeth Bjork, PhD, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In a study published today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent traiIn a study published today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent traiin the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent trail.

In the current study, Brass and co-author Patrick Haggard, a professor of cognitive neuroscience and psychology at University College London, asked 15 subjects to push a button on a keyboard while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity; participants were instructed to occasionally skip the action.

«Those who see themselves as they truly are — not so funny, a bad driver, overweight — have a greater chance of being diagnosed with clinical depression,» says Julian Paul Keenan, director of the cognitive neuroimaging laboratory and professor of psychology at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

«This research shows that it is possible to promote psychological well - being in middle childhood through an integrated school - based intervention programme informed by concepts of positive psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy,» said first author Dr Michael Pluess from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, who led the research while previously based at University of East London.

Scientists from the Sports Medicine, Prevention, and Rehabilitation division at the Institute of Sports Science and the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and from the Department of General Psychology and the Department of Sports Medicine at Eberhard Karls University in Tubingen took part in the study entitled «Associations between physical and cognitive doping — a cross-sectional study in 2.997 triathletes.»

A Psychology major in my second year at USC, her research interests focus primarily on the cognitive mechanisms that underlie behavior.

Dr Aidan Horner, who conducted the study at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and is now in the Department of Psychology at York, said: «It is particularly exciting to see the involvement of a specific type of neuron whilst people are simply imagining moving through an environment.

The Behavioral Genetics of Addiction Laboratory (PI information: http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/palmer-rohan.html) located in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, is looking for self - motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellows to work on statistical genetics and epidemiological studies of substance use, psychopathology, and their relation to cognitive functioning.

Kirk taught cognitive psychology, statistics and scientific writing to both undergraduate and graduate students at Bowling Green State University in Ohio for more than 20 years.

Her drive to incorporate a more holistic perspective into her work led her to earn a PhD in clinical psychology at Fielding Graduate University, where she specialized in positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mind - body medicine.

Concrete outputs will include at least 7 - 8 empirical journal publications disseminating the results of this research to scientific audiences in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, and 1 - 2 theoretical review articles communicating the findings to a broader audience within psychology and philosophy.

Dana studies cognitive science and education at UC Berkeley where she serves as Editor in Chief of the Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley and works on the Mathematics Assessment Project with Professor Alan Schoenfeld.

He is the director of cognitive - behavioral psychology at the clinical and research program in pediatric psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate clinical professor of psychology in the psychiatry department at Harvard University Medical School.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

He will continue as professor of pediatrics and neuroscience and professor of psychology in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, as well as the Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research at Children's Hospital Boston, where he directs the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Michael Posner, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon's Department of Psychology, in an article entitled «How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition», concurs: «From our perspective, it is increasingly clear that with enough focused attention, training in the arts likely yields cognitive benefits that go beyond «art for art's sake.»

Dana studies cognitive science and education at UC Berkeley where she serves as Editor in Chief of the Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley and works on the Mathematics Assessment...

Harold Pashler is a Professor of Psychology in the Cognitive Science Program at the University of California, San Diego.

She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Visualization Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she has designed and taught courses in Project Management, Instructional Design and Cognitive Psychology.

He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. cum laude from the University of California at San Diego, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Here for the first time in modern psychology, I think it is fair to say, there has appeared at least an approach to a theory of the human personality as a system, in both its cross-sectional and its temporal aspects of extension, with both cognitive and motivational emphases and couched in terms of the action frame of reference.

Written in 2007, it portrays the onset of early Alzheimer's at age 50 of cognitive psychology professor Alice Howland.

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