Sentences with phrase «on cognitive science»

By distilling and organizing the existing research on cognitive science and educational psychology, the reports offer teacher candidates concise summaries of high - impact practices grounded in scientific evidence and professional consensus around PK - 12 learning.

His primary research program draws on cognitive science and embodied cognition perspectives to develop effective instructional designs.

This, as it turns out, is exactly what existing research on cognitive science suggests teachers should be doing.

Students create cue cards using the templates which have been designed based on cognitive science research to encourage deeper learning [I have these pre-cut up on card for students].

Holding a similar position, Grotzer, whose work centers on cognitive science and causal induction, explained her conception of knowledge as «the way people make sense in a complex world.»

I am a member of on the Cognitive Science Society governing board and a standing member of NIH's Language and Communication Study Section (LCOM).

One part of the study was based on cognitive science research about how people learn from diagrams.

«Based on cognitive science, these voters might be mentally committed to a choice — they just aren't able to verbalize it,» he said.

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.

Not exact matches

Woodside robotics and cognitive science adviser Alison Barnes demonstrates a universal robot with an avatar looking on in the background.

Cognitive science has lots of insight to offer on the subject.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

The podcast also incorporates a lot of science, with bits on cognitive bias, reading emotions, meditation and the relationship between kindness and health.

He also has a master's in philosophy, with a focus on biology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind.

The latest science has already shown that it's possible to reverse cognitive decline in the middle - aged brain, and it's possible to rewire your brain as an adult through practice and «deliberate performance,» and learn new skills on the fly.

Jean holds an S.B. from MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Management Science, where she focused on computational cognitive science and finance, respCognitive Sciences and Management Science, where she focused on computational cognitive science and finance, respecScience, where she focused on computational cognitive science and finance, respcognitive science and finance, respecscience and finance, respectively.

Based on decades of cognitive science research at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute, the quick and accessible Cogniciti brain health assessment (www.cogniciti.com) is designed as a series of game - like tests that tap into cognitive abilities (such as memory and attention).

5) Anti-inflammatory Foods — As science becomes more aware of the far - reaching impact that inflammation can have on the human body, impacting everything from cognitive function to immune health, people are making more efforts to reduce these complications.

Industry thought - leaders will voice their opinions on trending topics, including cross-channel marketing, staff and guest engagement, crisis management, advocacy, mobile payments and the science of food pairing with the world's «smartest cognitive computer.»

Experimenting With Babies: 50 Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid shows parents how to recreate landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, social and behavioral development — using their own bundles of joy as the research subjects.

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

Second, a cognitive psychology approach is needed to conduct basic science research on the mental representations and operations that may be uniquely challenged in the investigation of nanomaterials.»

Understanding similarities in the cognitive and moral capacities of humans with animals can make humans better conservationists, speakers told journalists at an event organized by AAAS» program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.

The study is one of few basic science studies conducted to measure the direct effect of a high - fat maternal diet on the cognitive functioning on offspring.

They are active research areas, drawing on theory in information graphics, computer graphics, human - computer interaction and cognitive science.

While working on his Ph.D. in cognitive science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became frustrated by the fact that his work would be seen and appreciated by such a small audience.

This classical account was elaborated on by a recent study from Michel Desmurget and his colleagues at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France, that was published in the international journal Science.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2000, Maye spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in New York, where she began conducting experiments on how babies learn.

We're taking them on a neuroanatomical detour that seems to go with real gains in reading ability,» says Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the study.

«Young students of cognitive neuroscience are lucky to be in the midst of a new era where we have access to amazing new tools of science for eavesdropping on the population of cells with a superb temporal resolution,» Parvizi says.

Professor Kim Plunkett, Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford, and a collaborator on the project, said: «Tapping into a parent's knowledge of their own child's development has become an invaluable component in the developmental psychologist's assessment toolkit in recent years.

We launched a new effort on the diagnostic side, called the research domain criteria, or RDOC, which has awakened the field to the need to bring biology — and for that matter cognitive science and social science — into the process of diagnosis.

The research, which was published in Cognitive Science, found parents can offer explicit cues to help distinguish between joke and pretend intention contexts and children, even as young as 16 months old, pick up on those cues.

Cognitive science, with an emphasis on computer modeling, was the hot new field.

If someone had blindfolded me on Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led me into Building 46 on the campus of MIT, past the sign that says Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, taken me up in the elevator to the fifth floor and whisked off the blindfold in Seung's lab, I still wouldn't have guessed he had anything to do with brains.

Differential performance of English learners on science assessments: The role of cognitive complexity.

«Most of what happens on current engines is entity search — I'm looking for information about a musician, an event or a product,» explains Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science James Hendler, director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Institute for Data Exploration and Applications.

In these test settings, various science curricula were revamped to get them to jibe with the latest cognitive science research on effective learning, which points to more interactive approaches that include immediately and repeatedly putting new information to use.

Co-author Julia C. Basso, PhD, post-doctoral research fellow, Center for Neural Science at New York University, commented, «The studies presented in this review clearly demonstrate that acute exercise has profound effects on brain chemistry and physiology, which has important implications for cognitive enhancements in healthy populations and symptom remediation in clinical populations.»

Without consensus on how, and when, to teach science, cognitive psychologists and education researchers differ regarding what aspects of the research are most important.

De Leeuw will also deliver a tutorial on the use of the program at the 2015 Cognitive Science Society meeting July 22.

We present taxonomy for classifying different types of research on scientific thinking from the perspective of cognitive development and associated attempts to teach science.

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

«The emphasis at NSF,» the announcement says, «will be placed on integration of the cognitive sciences, social and economic sciences, and engineering in service of insights into healthy functions of brain, cognition, and behavior.»

Now, in a study published this past January in Science, a team of researchers at the University of Trento in Italy, led by cognitive psychologist Rosa Rugani, has shown that infants of a different species altogether also prefer to see bigger numbers on the right.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

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«Hasbro did a great job developing a product that can provide comfort and joy for older people,» says Bertram Malle, PhD, a professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences and the principal investigator on the grant.

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