The Kavli Foundation recently held a conversation with the new laureates to learn what led them to study memory and cognition, the challenges they faced in getting the neuroscience community to accept findings that often went against the conventional wisdom of the time, and where
they see cognitive neuroscience as a field headed.
Not exact matches
Indeed, Oliva says; «Human
cognitive and computational
neuroscience is a fast - growing area of research, and knowledge about how the human brain is able to
see, hear, feel, think, remember, and predict is mandatory to develop better diagnostic tools, to repair the brain, and to make sure it develops well.»
Postdoctoral scholar Farran Briggs worked with Mangun and Professor Martin Usrey at the UC Davis Center for
Neuroscience to measure signaling through single nerve connections, or synapses, in monkeys while they performed a standard
cognitive test for attention: pressing a joystick in response to
seeing a stimulus appear in their field of view.
Dr Aidan Horner, who conducted the study at the UCL Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience and is now in the Department of Psychology at York, said: «It is particularly exciting to
see the involvement of a specific type of neuron whilst people are simply imagining moving through an environment.
Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes, «Most of what you
see advertised as educational advice rooted in
neuroscience is bunkum.»
We could
see that the standards conflicted with the research in
cognitive science,
neuroscience and child development that tell us what and how young children learn and how best to teach them.
According to a study published in Social
Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, your ability to find people you
see as similar to yourself will help you form alliances.
For details about the
neuroscience behind the benefits of routine behaviour,
see the article «Reduce communication - related claims by understanding
cognitive biases» in the February 2017 issue of LawPRO Magazine.