Sentences with phrase «of cognitive neuroscientists»

Dartmouth had an exceptionally strong group of cognitive neuroscientists and was the first institution in the United States to acquire a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine dedicated to research.

Some of the findings of the cognitive neuroscientists studying the brain scans of individuals from different political parties seem to suggest some interestingly patterns.

She points to the work of the cognitive neuroscientist Daphne Bavelier as an exception: Bavelier found that playing an action game such as Call of Duty for 10 hours will improve a person's detail vision and multitasking skills, and almost double their capacity for tracking moving objects even five months later.

Not exact matches

Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, examined brain activity during daydreaming and told the paper that, «people assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty.

Adding yoga to your routine improves your cognitive skills, according to a team of UCLA neuroscientists.

«People assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty,» Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, told The Wall Street Journal.

Because I'm a data nerd (note former career as a cognitive neuroscientist) and in order to keep myself accountable, at the beginning of the challenge I started a log of my daily driving (drive to get Violet from school, drive kids to soccer, drive to business meeting, drive to grocery store, drive to meet Mom... these were highly repetitive themes) and included a «DONE!»

«I looked at people like [cognitive neuroscientist] Stanislas Dehaene, whose research illustrated the value of using neuroscience to ask questions about numerical cognition and knowledge acquisition, and I said, «I want to do this too.»»

«There's a terrifying statistic that shows that the ratio of papers on dyslexia to those on dyscalculia is 14 to 1,» says cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Ansari of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Technological advancements — for example, more portable electroencephalography (EEG) and electrophysiology set - ups and - are allowing cognitive neuroscientists to study music in a variety of situations, from mother - child interactions to live concert halls.

Cognitive neuroscientists are especially interested in understanding sensitive periods of time when the environment has the largest influence on future brain functions.

Stanislas Dehaene, chair of experimental cognitive psychology at the College of France, and neuroscientist Mariano Sigman of the University of Buenos Aires wondered where along these steps the traffic jam arises.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

Two cognitive neuroscientists explored the boundaries of body perception by reproducing an out - of - body experience in the lab.

In recent years, psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists have revealed the distinct parts of our brain that allow us to interact, collaborate and communicate with each other.

She isn't yet five months old, but according to Laura - Ann Petitto, a cognitive neuroscientist at Dartmouth College, she is already using the parts of her brain involved in language.

Cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth of the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, is impressed by the work, but also circumspect about what it says about free will.

For cognitive neuroscientist Atsushi Sekiguchi, who was studying the neural underpinnings of stress at Tohoku University in Sendai, the earthquake was a rare opportunity to tease apart cause and effect.

«There is a bias in the public perception» against stress, says Claus Lamm, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Vienna in Austria.

In one such study, Jordan Grafman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, and Jorge Moll, a neuroscientist at the D'Or Institute for Research and Education in Rio de Janeiro, dangled a pot of $ 128 in front of 19 subjects and gave them the opportunity to receive the money or to donate a portion to various social causes.

«Fight or flight is pointless if you are tiny,» said developmental neuroscientist Nim Tottenham of Columbia University, who presented the work March 26 at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.

«If this is suggested as a [single] test to decide whether a person is conscious or not, then we need [signs] that are very strong and not just an indication of consciousness,» says Morten Overgaard, a cognitive neuroscientist at Aalborg and Aarhus Universities in Denmark.

«Outcomes that are novel, or eye - catching are generally seen as more attractive and competitive than those that are null or ambiguous,» putting researchers under much career pressure to produce attractive results, says Chris Chambers, a cognitive neuroscientist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom who became one of the founders of the Registered Reports concept a couple of years ago, in the Royal Society's announcement.

Cognitive neuroscientists have recently learned to decode some simple mental states — in essence, a primitive form of mind reading.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, the technology could augment traditional forms of study, says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.

«This is a very exciting finding,» says cognitive neuroscientist Randy Buckner of Washington University in St. Louis.

«Most cognitive neuroscientists focus on the signals themselves, on the words, gestures and their statistical relationships, ignoring the underlying conceptual ability that we use during communication and the flexibility of everyday life,» he said.

David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, has found that such supertaskers do exist, but comprise only 2.5 percent of people tested.

Cognitive neuroscientist Frederique Liegeois of University College London is using fMRI scans to compare the brain activity of members of the KE family who have a mutated copy of FOXP2 with those who have a normal version.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

Using such tools, a group in Paris led by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France has argued for several years that a hallmark of conscious visual perception is a particular type of electric wave, called P300, that occurs whenever an adult subject is attending to a consciously perceived picture or a sound.

«For over 10 years, language scientists and neuroscientists have been guided by a high impact study published in Nature Neuroscience showing that these predictions by the brain are very detailed and can even include the first sound of an upcoming word,» explains Mante Nieuwland, cognitive neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the University of Edinburgh.

Participants also tended to estimate later button pushes even in the few cases when no tone was emitted, revealing that the subjects were predicting they would hear the sound, says psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist Martin Voss of Charité University Hospital and St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin.

The work is «a real technical feat,» says cognitive neuroscientist James Haxby, chief of the Section on Functional Brain Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health.

In the study cognitive neuroscientist Marjolein Kammers of University College London and her colleagues asked blindfolded participants to place their index and ring fingers in tubs of warm water while their middle fingers rested in cool water, a common experimental trick that creates the illusion that the middle fingers are burning hot.

«Neuroscientists identify source of early brain activity: Brain cells that support early structural development also transmit sensory information; discovery could enable early diagnosis of autism and other cognitive deficits.»

The artificial neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function.»

«The fundamental questions cognitive neuroscientists and computer scientists seek to answer are similar,» says Aude Oliva of MIT.

And as will be presented today at the 25th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), cognitive neuroscientists increasingly are using those emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the humCognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), cognitive neuroscientists increasingly are using those emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the humcognitive neuroscientists increasingly are using those emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.

«The human sense of smell is far better at guiding us through our everyday lives than we give it credit for,» said senior author Johan Lundström, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist at Monell.

It is one of a slew of novel cognitive training programs being marketed by neuroscientists for the purpose of rejuvenating aging brains.

«People freely admit at dinner parties that they are poor at math, while few would admit that they are a poor reader,» notes cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Ansari of the University of Western Ontario.

The latest work paints a picture of LSD and some other hallucinogens as drugs that can decrease modularity and connectivity within brain networks while enhancing the brain's overall connectivity, explains Frederick Barrett, a cognitive neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who has studied hallucinogenic drug effects but was not involved in the research released this week.

The Reconsolidated Life While neuroscientists were skeptical of Nader's findings, cognitive scientists were immediately fascinated that memory might be constantly revamped.

Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, thinks the findings are potentially important.

Cognitive neuroscientists at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke sought the answer through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI.

«It's very interesting work,» says cognitive neuroscientist Marcia Grabowecky of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Cognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalCognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalcognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animals.»

Wanting to learn more about how the brain copes with donor hands, cognitive neuroscientist Angela Sirigu of the French National Research Agency in Lyon and colleagues looked at two right - handed men, one age 20 and the other 42, who recently had left and right hand transplants to replace hands amputated following work injuries 3 to 4 years ago.