«The fundamental
questions cognitive neuroscientists and computer scientists seek to answer are similar,» says Aude Oliva of MIT.
Not exact matches
«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.»»
Mike Kuhar, a
neuroscientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, introduced the topic of
cognitive enhancers or â $ œsmart drugs.â $ He described one particular class of proposed
cognitive enhancers, called ampakines, which appear to improve functioning on certain tasks without stimulating signals throughout the brain. Kuhar
questioned whether â $ œsmart drugsâ $ pose unique challenges, compared to other types of drugs.
In the past decade, and especially in the past few years, a disparate congregation of economists, educators, psychologists and
neuroscientists have begun to produce evidence that call into
question many of the assumptions behind the
cognitive hypothesis.