Sentences with phrase «studied cognitive psychology»

Prior to attending law school, Jeff studied Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, Irvine.

He is an artist and language fanatic who studied cognitive psychology, computer science, and visual arts and who wears shorts that could be confused for pants, or vice versa.

I'm not sure if collecting examples of such seemingly at - odds viewpoints and studying the cognitive psychology involved could help people See It To Believe It.

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«People have a false assumption that they're more productive working as a group than individually, even though all evidence shows it's the opposite,» explains Nicholas Kohn, co-author of the University of Texas study, published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Recent research in cognitive psychology and communication studies have called into question many of the assumptions on which modern education has been based.

Norman Weinberger, a cognitive sciences and psychology professor at the University of California at Irvine, says in one study, babies as young as four months old seemed to know when researchers played the «Happy Birthday» song incorrectly.

According to an article in Psychology Today by clinical psychologist and sleep disorder specialist Michael J Breus, a 2011 study showed that bed - sharing does not negatively affect cognitive or behavioral development in young children.

The researchers, led by Rana Esseily, who studies emotion, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, studied a group of 18 - month - olds — roughly the age -LSB-...]

According to an April 2016 study published in the Journal of Family Psychology, which studied more than 50 years on data on 160,000 children, children who were spanked are also more likely to exhibit «increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties that last into adulthood.»

With TrulyNet, Ruth enjoys working on social media and writing... and editing... and... Ruth went to the University of Oregon, where she studied music, dance and cognitive psychology (and sleeping very little).

John Colombo, PhD, professor of psychology, University of Kansas; associate director of cognitive neuroscience, Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

Surprisingly these same people are just as affected as everyone else on other tasks that require different cognitive abilities, such as maintaining focus,» said Paul Whitney, a WSU professor of psychology and lead author of the study, which appeared in the journal Scientific Reports.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

In psychology and in artificial intelligence, it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental processes as comprehension, inferencing, decision - making, planning and learning (see also cognitive science and cognitivism).

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

The study by Alison McLeish, a University of Cincinnati associate professor of psychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Cpsychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual CPsychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Convention.

«By understanding how the brain attempts to implement cognitive flexibility in a neurodevelopmental disorder like autism, we can better understand the nature of the disorder,» said Dina R. Dajani, Ph.D. student of psychology in the UM College of Arts & Sciences and first author of the study.

«This study provides assurance that whatever obstacles preterm infants face in later language and cognitive development, these are unlikely to reflect difficulties in establishing the foundational link between language and core cognitive processes,» said Danielle Perszyk, the study's first author and a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at Northwestern.

A study in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that handwriting tests could give polygraphs a challenge for lie detection.

«This new evidence illuminates the central role of early experience as infants specify which signals, from an initially broad set, they will continue to link to core cognitive capacities,» said Danielle R. Perszyk, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

The study of our human nature encompasses a variety of fields ranging from anthropology, primatology, cognitive science and psychology to paleontology, archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics.

However, this new study, published in Cognitive Psychology, demonstrates major flaws in this research supporting the existence of this optimism bias.

As the birthplace of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology, Carnegie Mellon has been a leader in the study of brain and behavior for more than 50 years.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

«Many studies show the integrative function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in relatively simple cognitive tasks, and we believe that this relatively basic process forms the foundation for far more complex forms of behavior and decision - making, such as norm enforcement,» said lead author Joshua Buckholtz, now an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard.

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

To better understand the benefits of a new, family - based cognitive behavioral therapy and how it may work to improve sleep in children with ASD, McCrae and Micah Mazurek, associate professor of health psychology, are conducting a sleep treatment study through the Research Core at the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

The findings «give us a window into understanding memory and, in particular, the issue of encoding new information into memory,» said lead study author Vladimir Sloutsky, professor of psychology at Ohio State and director of the university's Cognitive Development Lab.

For example, in a study of fifth - graders published in Applied Cognitive Psychology in 2011, lead author Hailey Sobel of McGill University reported that students who learned definitions of vocabulary words on a spaced - out schedule remembered three times as many definitions as students who spent the same amount of time learning the material in a single session.

In a study published today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent trail.

The most tantalizing result of Cohn's study (recently published in Cognitive Psychology) emerged when he showed subjects panels arranged so that they had a narrative arc but didn't add up to a meaningful story.

In the current study, Brass and co-author Patrick Haggard, a professor of cognitive neuroscience and psychology at University College London, asked 15 subjects to push a button on a keyboard while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity; participants were instructed to occasionally skip the action.

In one study of this effect, people rated cancer as riskier when told that it «kills 1286 people out of 10,000» than when told it «kills 24.14 people out of 100», even though the second statement equates to almost double the risk (Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol 11, p 495).

Scientists from the Sports Medicine, Prevention, and Rehabilitation division at the Institute of Sports Science and the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and from the Department of General Psychology and the Department of Sports Medicine at Eberhard Karls University in Tubingen took part in the study entitled «Associations between physical and cognitive doping — a cross-sectional study in 2.997 triathletes.»

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.

Also in the department of psychology, Geoffrey Woodman studies how electrical signals recorded from the scalp reveal cognitive processes like attention and short - term memory, and he has extended this to research with monkeys so that he can locate the sources of the signals.

The Behavioral Genetics of Addiction Laboratory (PI information: http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/palmer-rohan.html) located in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, is looking for self - motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellows to work on statistical genetics and epidemiological studies of substance use, psychopathology, and their relation to cognitive functioning.

Studies from both experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience have provided substantial evidence that successful episodic memory retrieval depends on the degree of overlap between a retrieval cue and the targeted memory trace.

«This study demonstrates that the food you eat can have an immediate impact on cognitive behavior,» explains Holly A. Taylor, professor of psychology at Tufts and corresponding author of the study.

According to the paper, «the team who carried out the research have combined expertise in cognitive psychology, education, professional development of post-16 practitioners, sociology and policy studies (Coffield et al., 2004)».

Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student working in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»

Dana studies cognitive science and education at UC Berkeley where she serves as Editor in Chief of the Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley and works on the Mathematics Assessment Project with Professor Alan Schoenfeld.

These are «central topics in modern psychology and cognitive science,» Seidenberg writes — and the subjects our teachers - in - training should be studying.

Some of Dr. Willingham's misunderstanding may be the inevitable result of the wide gap that often separates clinical studies and frontline experience from research in a field like cognitive psychology.

His 1956 book, A Study of Thinking, is widely viewed to have been the formal beginning of the cognitive psychology movement.

Dana studies cognitive science and education at UC Berkeley where she serves as Editor in Chief of the Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley and works on the Mathematics Assessment...

Mounting evidence from fields like neuroscience and cognitive psychology, as well as studies on such topics as school turnaround implementation, shows that an academically challenging yet supportive and safe learning environment boosts both children's learning and coping abilities.

The modern information - processing approach in cognitive psychology would recommend careful analysis of the goals of instruction and thorough empirical study of the efficacy of instructional approaches.