Sentences with phrase «other cognitive scientists»

More recently, Willingham and other cognitive scientists have buttressed that theory with research.

Spurred on by the controversy over recovered memory, other cognitive scientists found that false memory is a normal phenomenon.

Her new book Choke, which is based on her own studies as well as research by other cognitive scientists around the globe, explains why stress causes us to screw up.

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Cognitive scientists have known for more than a century that the best way to secure memories for the long term is to impart them in repeated sessions, distributed across time, with other material interleaved in between.

I did not «cast off» my empirical upbringing when I became a believer; for me (as for so many others, including many scientists), there is no cognitive dissonance between reason and faith, nor any «war» between science and religion.

It is important for physicians and scientists to understand the unique pathology of HS - AGING, and to be able to differentiate it from other diseases, as it is only by making an accurate diagnosis that clinicians can hope to treat people who present with signs of cognitive decline.

Scientists have assumed these tunes are hardwired in their tiny mouse brains and doubted that rodents modify their songs after hearing others — a cognitive feat similar to vocalizations by birds and some mammals, including dolphins, bats and humans.

«We know a lot about how to educate people on facts, but we know almost nothing about how to educate people on acquiring perceptual skills other than lots of repetition, which can be very time - consuming and expensive,» says cognitive scientist Robert A. Jacobs of the University of Rochester.

Previous research conducted by other scientists suggests that beetroot juice can improve oxygen flow to the aging brain and possibly improve cognitive performance.

Because scientists know Neandertals and modern humans mated with each other, «is it possible that the «modern» DNA these late Neandertal groups picked up included genes for enhanced cognitive abilities?»

By creating a virtual problem landscape, IU cognitive scientists explored the dynamics, advantages and disadvantages of «social learning» — the act of learning about the world by observing or imitating others.

Patients were then given memory and other cognitive tests to measure brain function, allowing scientists to establish strong correlations between exercise, brain health, and cognition.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig discovered what happens when two crucial brain regions of our linguistic comprehension are inactive: They observed that failure of some regions can be compensated by the commitment of other areas, whereas others can not.

«Other species had similar challenges and had much longer to develop human - like intelligence but didn't,» said Steven Piantadosi, a cognitive scientist at the University of Rochester.

Scientists believe that damage to the brain likely begins a decade or more before memory loss and other cognitive symptoms arise.

Although academics, including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and education researchers, have waged fierce debates about what these different needs are — some talk about multiple intelligences and learning styles whereas others point to research that undermines these notions — what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace.

In a 2011 article published in The Chronicle for Higher Education, we learn that in the late 20th century, the study of metaphor became increasingly popular with «philosophers, linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and others...» Some believe that metaphor is «the concept at the crux of all thought, and maybe all human understanding.»

This video and sound installation were created by an artist and cognitive scientist to explore the communication of dolphins, featuring spoken - word interpretations of dolphins» interactions with each other.

Nonetheless, being human, scientists» operate with the same cognitive apparatus and limitations as every other person.

Since you and I probably exhibit confirmation bias and expectation bias and other forms of cognitive bias, I'd have a a group of intelligent, non - scientists with no knowledge or expectations look at the temperature trends.