Sentences with phrase «says cognitive neuroscientist»
It focuses on the ability to hone in on a task and ignore distractions, which «leverages every single thing we do,» says cognitive neuroscientist Helen Neville at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
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«If you put your hand over your mouth and speak, that's very similar to the situation the fetus is in,» says cognitive neuroscientist Eino Partanen of the University of Helsinki.
One potential obstacle to further research on near - death experiences will be analyzing them experimentally, says cognitive neuroscientist Olaf Blanke at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland, who has investigated out - of - body experiences.
«It's very interesting work,» says cognitive neuroscientist Marcia Grabowecky of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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.
«This is a very exciting finding,» says cognitive neuroscientist Randy Buckner of Washington University in St. Louis.
Not so fast, says cognitive neuroscientist Hickok.
«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.
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.»»
«While gender differences in cognitive function are small, the differences in vulnerability for diseases are spectacular,» says Geert J. de Vries, a neuroscientist at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
«It likely combines several features, such as brightness, breathiness, purity or nasality,» says study coauthor Elise Piazza, a cognitive neuroscientist at Princeton University.
«It's a clever idea,» says Giorgio Ganis, a cognitive neuroscientist at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom.
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.
«There is a bias in the public perception» against stress, says Claus Lamm, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Vienna in Austria.
«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.
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.
«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.
«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.
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.
says Elizabeth Brannon, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the lead author on the original rhesus monkey study.
«The fundamental questions cognitive neuroscientists and computer scientists seek to answer are similar,» says Aude Oliva of MIT.
«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's a primitive early step in understanding how we bring things into mind,» says UW cognitive neuroscientist Bradley Postle, a study co-author.
At this point, a genetic test for these variants won't be much help in the clinic, says Faraneh Vargha - Khadem, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at University College London who was not involved with the work.
«It's really impressive to work with children this young, who are not often looked at,» says Aniruddh Patel, a cognitive neuroscientist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, who was not involved with the research.
«It didn't affect their IQ at all; it affected their performance on an IQ test,» says Bob Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University.
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.»
«When I'm talking to you, my voice is coming on and off in bursts as I open and close my lips, that's very dynamic, while white noise is very static,» says Shihab Shamma, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Maryland and an author on the study.
«That was a big nod and a recognition that this is a really important aspect of autism,» says Kevin Pelphrey, a cognitive neuroscientist at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the work.
One tantalizing possibility is that as these restless bits of DNA drift throughout the genomes of human brain cells, they help create the vibrant cognitive diversity that helps humans as a species respond to changing environmental conditions, and produces extraordinary «outliers,» including innovators and geniuses such as Picasso, says UC San Diego neuroscientist Alysson Muotri.
«Space is a parameter that unifies the different senses; it allows us to merge information from, say, vision and audition when the spatial location of the source matches,» says Leon Deouell, a cognitive neuroscientist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and co-author of the report published in Neuron.
Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.
post-behavioral or neural measures,» says Rajeev Raizada, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in New York.
Although scientists have long considered the brain systems that govern these two types of deficits as separate, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are actually deeply intertwined, says Patricia Kuhl, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and lead author of the new study.
Cognitive neuroscientist Juan R. Vidal of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center in France applauds the authors» use of multiple methods and says the study is the first to prove that the fusiform gyrus plays a causal role in face perception.
«This article makes big claims out of a single negative finding,» says Torkel Klingberg, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and founder of a company that makes computer brain - training programs to improve working memory and other cognitive functions.
Because these networks are based on neuroscientists» current understanding of how the brain performs object recognition, the success of the latest networks suggest that neuroscientists have a fairly accurate grasp of how object recognition works, says James DiCarlo, a professor of neuroscience and head of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the senior author of a paper describing the study in the Dec. 11 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
Still, cell phone bans may save lives, says David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
The birds we prize most for their songs sound most like the human voice, says Robert Zatorre, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who was not involved in the study.
Director of the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, Professor Peter Morris, said: «Functional magnetic resonance imaging is the main tool available to cognitive neuroscientists for the investigation of human brain function.
Professor Matthew Lambon Ralph who is a cognitive neuroscientist said: «This is a novel approach: we had not really considered before that speed of naming seems to play an important part in speech therapy.»
«Our findings confirm that the sense of smell is a key aspect of overall health in the aging population,» said Johan Lundström, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist and senior Monell author on the study.
«Simply put, the brain likes novelty, new things,» says Michael Posner, cognitive neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon.
According to the interview, «I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in - depth processing,» said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
«A richer mode of communication is possible right after making eye contact,» says Dr. Atsushi Senju, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at University ocognitive neuroscientist at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at University oCognitive Development at University of London.
After decades of cognitive and behavioral scientists purposely seeking «to put emotions out of sight and out of mind,» says neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, they're being forced to «relearn that ancient emotional systems have a power that is quite independent of neocortical processes.»