On the horizon you have the likes of the Meisterline Index, which
uses cognitive science to measure the expertise of legal specialists.
His current research projects investigate the measurement of mathematics academic language load in tests, formative assessment practices for English learners in the science classroom, and the design and use of illustrations as a form of testing accommodation for English learners with an approach that
uses cognitive science, semiotics, and sociolinguistics in combination.
John T. Bruer, the foundation's president, said the grants would create a network of researchers and educators
using cognitive science to improve teaching and learning.
Part of Meisterline Analytics, a research lab
using cognitive science to understand how legal experts think, the index works by using proprietary algorithms to measure the expertise of lawyers both individually and relative to their peers.
Not exact matches
There is even
cognitive and biological
science around why we procrastinate and why taking notes by hand is more effective than
using technology.
The SaaS (software as a service) side of the business
uses technologies like machine learning, Big Data analytics, heuristics, and
cognitive science for optimisation of route, vehicle, space
use and cost.
Look up «Psychological Projection» and then you'll get a hint at the total made - up absurdities that humans have created over thousands of years in order to understand something that is beyond understanding along with their minds over rationalizing events that in a time without the understandings of basic
science, they
used imagination to ease their fear based
cognitive dissonance.
Experimenting With Babies: 50
Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid shows parents how to recreate landmark scientific studies on
cognitive, motor, social and behavioral development —
using their own bundles of joy as the research subjects.
When you or I do
science communication we need to think about what
cognitive tools the person we are talkng to is
using.
Neuroenhancement: Building an Improved Human Body and Mind [September 19, 2013] Human enhancement is the notion that
science and technology can be
used to restore or expand
cognitive and physical human capacities.
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).
Human enhancement is the notion that
science and technology can be
used to restore or expand
cognitive and physical human capacities.
That might explain why children often
use inappropriate colours in their drawings, says Simmering, who will present her results at the annual meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society in Amsterdam at the end of July.
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain
Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of
Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and
cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.
The finding suggests that this type of scan could be
used to identify children whose risk was previously unknown, allowing them to undergo treatment before developing depression, says John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health
Sciences and Technology and a professor of brain and
cognitive sciences at MIT.
During the Cold War, the U.S. military became convinced it was losing the «mind race» against the Soviet Union, and as recently as the late 1980s was investigating a range of paranormal phenomenon and their potential
uses in espionage and combat, says Jonathan Moreno, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who studies military applications of
cognitive science.
It
uses a basic principle of
cognitive science called «spaced repetition» to improve learning.
And in some of the most dramatic evidence of the technique's potential, a research team reports this week in
Science Translational Medicine that they
used it to rid mice of abnormal brain clumps similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, restoring lost memory and
cognitive functions.
«Today,
cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be
used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer
Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science and I - SENSE Fellow.
«Although such systems are capable of understanding many words, they are often tripped up by creative
uses of words that go beyond their existing, pre-programmed vocabularies,» said study lead author Yang Xu, a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics and
cognitive science at UC Berkeley.
In working with a group of 34 early career teachers,
cognitive and learning
sciences researcher Joshua Ellis from Michigan Tech and his co-authors asked participants to
use role - play in their online discussions to deepen the feedback between group members.
«To communicate successfully with humans, computers need to be able to
use words flexibly but following the same principles that guide the
use of language by humans,» explains Barbara Malt, Director of the
Cognitive Science Program at Lehigh University and one the project collaborators.
Breakthrough research
using virtual reality has revealed significant differences in how the brains of sleepwalkers and non-sleepwalkers control and perceive body movement — a first in
cognitive science.
Experimental philosophers continue the search to understand people's ordinary intuitions, but they do so
using the methods of contemporary
cognitive science (see also here and here)-- experimental studies, statistical analyses,
cognitive models, and so forth.
In these test settings, various
science curricula were revamped to get them to jibe with the latest
cognitive science research on effective learning, which points to more interactive approaches that include immediately and repeatedly putting new information to
use.
According to principal investigator Wendy A. Suzuki, PhD, Professor of Neural
Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural
Science, New York University, «Exercise interventions are currently being
used to help address everything from
cognitive impairments in normal aging, minimal
cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease to motor deficits in Parkinson's disease and mood states in depression.
De Leeuw will also deliver a tutorial on the
use of the program at the 2015
Cognitive Science Society meeting July 22.
The researchers hope to
use the answers they find to such fundamental
cognitive science questions to inform the design of new tools that will improve interactions between humans and computers, Matzen said.
Thus, questions that
used to belong solely to psychology and
cognitive science can now be integrated into the neuroscience agenda.
It then
uses this data to create a personalized sleep program that is designed to improve your sleep based on
science - based
cognitive behavioural therapy.
Our programs and systems compliment the clinical and performance fields by
using evidence - based corrective exercise,
cognitive science and access to essential services to prevent injury and enhance your quality of life.
Before I got married (two years ago) I
used a few dating sites and it often struck me how little attention many of them pay to behavioral
science, and particularly the kind of
cognitive tendencies people
use day - to - day when meeting people in «real life» (intuitive decision - making, for example).
Cognitive science research supports the value of
using comparison and contrast to promote general learning: identifying similarities and differences in multiple examples has proven to be a critical and fundamental pathway to flexible, transferable knowledge.
Anyone who is committed to understanding the relationships between biology,
cognitive science, and education, and to ensuring that this understanding will be
used responsibly to improve educational outcomes is an appropriate candidate for this program.
Students create cue cards
using the templates which have been designed based on
cognitive science research to encourage deeper learning [I have these pre-cut up on card for students].
Cognitive load theory (how to manage extraneous and essential processing), the
use of multimedia in instruction, and the
science of assessment, guide developers and go a long way toward making truly outstanding instructional design.
«To do this successfully, we are reaching out to younger student populations far more than we
used to,» says Sasha Barab, professor of learning
sciences, IST, and
cognitive science at Indiana University.
Applied Learning: Abundant research from
cognitive science and education, added to what we know from our own experience about how we've grasped or mastered complex ideas and skills ourselves, makes it clear that application of new knowledge is required in order to truly understand and retain it (
use it or lose it).
The first step was to
use the 12 PISA and other international math and
science assessments, dating back to 1964, to construct an index of
cognitive skill levels for a large sample of countries at various points in time.
Cognitive science has yielded some paradoxical findings, including that play may be the best way for children to learn the self - control needed for hard work; that rote memorization can be a stepping stone to
using higher - order critical thinking and problem - solving skills; and that integrating arts into the curriculum can improve students» long - term memory of what is taught.
Cognitive Science and Advanced Reasoning:
Cognitive and reasoning principles can be
used to promote learning across all content areas in middle school.
Each FACT includes a detailed description of the FACT, how the FACT promotes student learning, how the FACT informs instruction, tips for designing and administering the FACT, general implementation attributes (e.g. - ease of
use, time,
cognitive demand), ways to modify the FACT for diverse learners, caveats to watch out for, and other disciplines the FACT can be
used in besides
science or mathematics.
His research is based on the
use of multidisciplinary approaches that
use psychometrics, sociolinguistics, semiotics, and
cognitive science in combination.
Insight in action MSP - sponsored teacher leaders
used a protocol that focused attention on
cognitive demand and student engagement as they planned and reviewed lessons with mathematics or
science teachers.
CSE and CRESST also publish a number of technical reports, including «Monitoring and Improving a Portfolio Assessment» (1995, $ 4.50), «
Cognitive Analysis of a
Science Performance Assessment» (1995, $ 5), and «
Using Group Collaboration as a Window into Students»
Cognitive Processes» (1995, $ 2.50).
Leveraging Metiri Group's background in 21st Century learning and the learning
sciences, our team is developing a collaborative, personalized professional learning environment that will lead individual teachers or teams through an initial needs assessment to formulate a personalized growth plan, guide them to research - based resources and strategies they can
use tomorrow, match them with collaborative partners who share their interests and professional goals, guide them in redesigning units or lesson plans that support students» development of the
cognitive skills that underlie entrepreneurship, and ultimately help them implement teaching practices that support personalized instruction that develops students» 21st Century skills.
Mobile Phones: The Sensei Way to Weight Loss Originally launched in November, 2007, Weight Loss Sensei is among the first «intelligent applications» available based on Social
Cognitive Theory and the
science of behavioral informatics — the
use of technology to promote behavior change.
Positive, humane and
science based techniques are
used to help her patients feel comfortable and safe, while addressing conditions such as separation anxiety, aggression, compulsive disorders,
cognitive dysfunction, elimination disorders, and other underlying medical issues.
The term is widerly
used in information and
cognitive science.
What Freud, Bernays and the Gestaltist's etc. couldn't know about back then was what is now known through the last 25 years scientific research in
Cognitive Science and
using modern technology like MRI scans etc..