Sentences with word «neuroscientific»

It's even easier to mislead with statistics than with claims of neuroscientific research «proof.»

A solid grounding in both the conceptual issues involved and the conclusions of neuroscientific research is needed.

The U.S. Supreme Court has recently invoked group - based neuroscientific evidence concerning the immaturity of the adolescent brain to help reach group - wide conclusions about the extent of adolescent liability for criminal behavior.

As neuroscientific studies proliferated and developed more credibility, other disciplines began attempting to integrate its findings.

He also serves as Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience — a national team of scientists, legal scholars, and judges who are jointly exploring both the promise of, and the limits of, using neuroscientific findings in legal contexts.

She has received funding under the Research Council of Norway's national initiative on neuroscientific research (NEVRONOR) to head Norwegian research projects on MS and MG.

And he'd be proud of IDA's success at engaging researchers and providing a platform for researchers and practitioners to conduct, aggregate and share critical knowledge about brain - based disorders and emerging neuroscientific perspectives that impact our understanding of teaching and learning.

The article also discusses how to use neuroscientific research on assessment in classroom practice.

A critical lesson from neuroscientific research concerns human emotionality, which is much more pervasive than initially thought.

This shift in emphasis about where problems with attention may lie, when combined with recent neuroscientific findings, suggests that explicit instruction on regulating students» attention may provide them with a valuable cognitive strategy to support self - directed learning.

We use those obvious questions as stepping - stones toward what we hope is a much more nuanced view of the modern neuroscientific understanding of how the three or so pounds of brain in your head can give rise to the complexities of the human experience.

More recent neuroscientific approaches have shed light on where creative processes emerge within the brain.

He explores the terrain with Hustvedt, whose book The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (Henry Holt, 2010) examines her own seizure disorder from historical, philosophical, and neuroscientific points of view.

Pantheism is, as the scientist claims, sexed - up atheism insofar as it's the theology that corresponds to the science's deterministic or neo-Darwinian or neuroscientific discovery of the unreality of particular persons, including the Creator.

While there is grain of truth in a number of these accounts, contemporary research, and neuroscientific insights in particular, adequately demonstrates that both of these extremes distort what is in fact the case, and that both share a common mistake: underestimating the significance of the neurochemical underpinnings of human nature.

Analyze the applications of recent theoretical innovations as well as neuroscientific and evidence - based findings on the practice of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy.

Sylco Hoppenbrouwers agrees: «As a consequence of our research, some very influential theories that assign prominent roles to fearlessness in the aetiology of psychopathy will need to be reconsidered and made consistent with current neuroscientific evidence.

Neuroscientific explanations that change the way clients feel about themselves and motivate them to engage in the deeper work that needs to be done.

Such characterizations, however, are undermined by neuroscientific evidence that emotions dominate moral decision - making, and that rationality attempts to subsequently validate and make consistent what are in large part emotional judgments.

«What we are faced with is trying to «fit» the round peg of neuroscientific techniques and information into the square hole of the law,» says James Giordano, a neuroethicist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C..

To gain deeper, more accurate insights into customers» motivations, marketers increasingly are using neuroscientific methods in a variety of settings.

The mind - brain question is important because what Johnson does is use new neuroscientific tools to give us insight into how individual minds work.

Contemporary neuroscientific research has confirmed these ideas.

Demonstrations of this include now well - known neuroscientific experiments showing that decisions are often made before the fully conscious (and thus rational) mind knows what is being decided.

What Locke could not sufficiently appreciate, given his lack of neuroscientific understanding, was the way in which the human brain has evolved and come to possess specific predispositions as a consequence of this evolutionary process.

You could think of it as putting the art of food presentation, long practised by restauranteurs, on a more neuroscientific basis, much as molecular gastronomy riffs off the chemical basis of cooking.

These artificial touch experiences were provided to the touch sensor nerves of the skin in the rat, as a kind of neuroscientific playback of information to the brain.

What is needed, Giordano says, is a body of «neuroscience for law» that meets the needs of the courts, «while recognizing the actual capabilities and limitations of current neuroscientific tools.»

With application of neuroscientific principles, educators can pace instruction in ways to plan experiences for sensory input, allow for positive student experiences that support social - emotional connections, and also provide structure for student reflection, a part of the learning cycle.

Careful social science approaches to assessing individual socioeconomic factors must be combined with cutting - edge neuroscientific approaches to measuring precise aspects of brain morphometry.

And if the latter half of the book is in some ways the more extraordinary part of the story, dealing with Allen's life after leaving Microsoft — pro sports franchise owner, private spaceflight pioneer, backer of neuroscientific breakthroughs and multimedia rock»n' roll temples — it's the inside take on Microsoft's growing pains that will be most tantalizing for business readers.

TouchPoints ™ are non-invasive lifestyle wearables that use neuroscientific technology in the form of gentle haptic micro-vibrations to relieve stress by over 70 % in as few as 30 seconds.

New neuroscientific interest in the practice comes largely at the urging of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and politial leader of Tibetan Buddhists, for whom compassion meditation is a time - worn tradition.

Similarly, the way our brains produce moral reasoning and then translate it in the social context can now be studied to some extent in neuroscientific terms.

He sees the real strength of their Medical Neurosciences MD / PhD program is in the fact it is run by a strong neuroscientific community in Berlin.

He heads Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM - 6), a subinstitute working at the interface between neuroscientific research and simulation technology.

«These technology - inspired neuroscientific investigations, using advanced signal processing methods, push the frontier on what we know about functional brain organization and the mind.»

The report blames wishfulness, anxiety and a bias towards simple explanations as typical factors that distort neuroscientific fact into neuromyth.

A best - selling science writer who often tackles neuroscientific issues, Johnson argues against the presumption that popular media undermines our intellect.

To identify the brain regions involved in canceling a decision, the new study recruited 21 subjects for a modified «stop signal task,» a commonly used neuroscientific behavioral test that involves canceling a planned movement.

That can advance neuroscientific research.

Modern neuroscientific data techniques have recently highlighted how the brain spatially organises the portrayal of word sounds, which researchers were able to precisely map by region of activity.

Isbell calls these findings «the first neuroscientific support» for her snake - centric evolutionary theory.

Could there be the possibility to use our better understanding of these processes, to cure such deficits based on neuroscientific progress?

Kelsey primarily works on research which brings neuroscientific methods to classroom studies with the Science of Learning Research Centre.

The research demonstrates that messages from neuroscientific brain research are being lost in translation and misunderstood by educators.

Moving neuroscientific research on assessment into classroom practice faces two barriers.