• Animal cognition is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of non-human animals. (fact-index.com)
  • However, whereas Romanes relied heavily on anecdote and an anthropomorphic projection of human capacities onto other species, modern researchers in animal cognition are in most cases firmly behaviorist in methodology, even though they differ sharply from the behaviourist philosophy. (fact-index.com)
  • This account of the history of the study of animal cognition is inevitably oversimplified. (fact-index.com)
  • Research in animal cognition continues to use some of the established research techniques of comparative psychology and the experimental analysis of behavior, such as mazes and Skinner boxes, though it employs them in new varieties (such as the 8-arm maze and water maze that have been used in many studies of spatial memory) and in new ways. (fact-index.com)
  • Animal Cognition, 7 , 201-212. (qub.ac.uk)
  • As psychology emerged as a burgeoning field of study in Europe, whilst also gaining a following in America, scientists such as Wilhelm Wundt, Herman Ebbinghaus, Mary Whiton Calkins, and William James would offer their contributions to the study of human cognition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lund University Corvid Cognition Station is part of the sub department of Cognitive Science (LUCS) at the Department of Philosophy. (lu.se)
  • Tinnitus-on the interplay between emotion and cognition. (bvsalud.org)
  • We argue that extended cognition does not derive from armchair theorizing and that it neither ignores the results of the neural sciences, nor minimizes the importance of the brain in the production of intelligent behavior. (pitt.edu)
  • The Donders Institute is a research centre devoted to understanding human cognition and behavior in health and disease. (ru.nl)
  • The CBC now organizes a Master in Brain and Cognition. (upf.edu)
  • As researchers of the Center for Brain and Cognition , we work to advance our understanding of how experience influences the emergence of structure and function through computational and experimental investigation. (upf.edu)
  • The Center for Brain and Cognition is the result of synergies between different research groups, and was recognized as a Specific Research Center in November 2012 by the Board of Governors of Pompeu Fabra University with the support of the Department of Information Technology and Communications . (upf.edu)
  • A CNS 2021 provided an incredible opportunity to learn more how the anatomy and integrity of brain networks impact higher-level cognition. (lifeboat.com)
  • As a doctoral student working on stroke recovery, attending the CNS 2021 symposium led by Danielle Bassett was an incredible opportunity to learn more about some of the most recent methods that have been developed to understand how the anatomy and integrity of brain networks impact higher-level cognition. (lifeboat.com)
  • We will then perform a quantitative validation study of how well surface models of gross brain anatomy (endocasts) correlate to brain information processing capacity (neuroanatomy and cognition) across our extant sample of reptiles and birds. (lu.se)
  • We will use quantitative phylogenetic comparative methods to merge the neuroanatomy, cognition, and fossil data to reconstruct the evolution of cognition over time, test key hypotheses about when and how fast brain information processing evolved, predict the cognitive abilities of extinct species, and assess how cognition may have driven the rise of archosaurs and the evolutionary transition between dinosaurs and birds. (lu.se)
  • This indicates that cognition is more than meets the eye when we today look at a brain. (lu.se)
  • News articles, events and updates relating to the Centre for Mathematical Cognition. (lboro.ac.uk)
  • Experts from Loughborough University's Centre for Mathematical Cognition have created a game in the hope of improving youngsters' numeracy skills. (lboro.ac.uk)
  • Centre for Mathematical Cognition technical tutor Aatif Patel nominated for Papin Prize. (lboro.ac.uk)
  • Loughborough University's Centre for Mathematical Cognition have been awarded £93,703 by the Nuffield Foundation to design a board game for children aged four to five that involves counting up and down, with emphasis on the latter. (lboro.ac.uk)
  • Spatial Decision-Support Systems - this area of applied cognition develops tools and systems which will aid in search and rescue operations and assist travellers in new environments. (ualberta.ca)
  • These and other approaches to the analysis of cognition (such as embodied cognition) are synthesized in the developing field of cognitive science, a progressively autonomous academic discipline. (wikipedia.org)
  • Reports From the National Laboratory for Collaborative Research in Cognition and Survey Measurement using methods of cognitive science to design, evaluate, and test survey instruments. (cdc.gov)
  • In a new study, researchers pinpoint key molecular actions of proteins that allow the creation of mental representations necessary for higher cognition that are genetically altered in schizophrenia. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In a new study, researchers at Yale University School of Medicine pinpoint key molecular actions of proteins that allow the creation of mental representations necessary for higher cognition that are genetically altered in schizophrenia. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The clinical trial, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, showed that when DHA is added to the food, and linoleic acid - a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid - in the food is reduced, children's overall cognition improves. (newswise.com)
  • Newswise - A nutritional supplement popular in the U.S. and added to some types of yogurt, milk and infant formula can significantly improve cognition in severely malnourished children, according to a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. (newswise.com)
  • The researchers found that when the omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was added to an internationally prescribed, nutrient-dense ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) similar to peanut butter, the children's overall cognition improved. (newswise.com)
  • The researchers found that CCT is moderately effective for global cognition, attention, working memory, learning, and memory (with the exception of nonverbal memory), and for psychosocial functioning, including depressive symptoms, in people with mild cognitive impairment. (medscape.com)
  • His research on crowd-augmented cognition looks at how we can augment the human intellect using crowds and computation. (nsf.gov)
  • Kittur's research focuses on augmenting human cognition using crowds and computation. (nsf.gov)
  • The ability to maintain mental representations of ourselves and the world -- the fundamental building block of human cognition -- arises from the firing of highly evolved neuronal circuits, a process that is weakened in schizophrenia. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Human creativity and machine cognition are heading towards a symbiotic future. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The Applied Cognition & Expertise (ACE) lab investigates human performance and cognition in complex, dynamic, and often stressful operational settings. (wichita.edu)
  • How does neural activity give rise to human cognition? (upf.edu)
  • Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition is a provocative and inspiring work, which offers several links between pragmatic issues and the cognitive linguistics paradigm and a new and quite promising perspective on how to look at the most basic processes of human communication. (benjamins.com)
  • A critical review of the 'enculturation hypothesis': The effects of human rearing on great ape social cognition. (qub.ac.uk)
  • Members of the Social Cognition Research Group use primarily experimental behavioural and neuroimaging methods to investigate how cognition interacts with social factors in order to shape human judgment and behaviour, both in interpersonal and intergroup contexts. (uea.ac.uk)
  • Human stress and cognition : an information processing approach / edited by Vernon Hamilton and David M. Warburton. (who.int)
  • Pittsburgh, Oct. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. , a clinical stage neuroscience company focused on synaptic protection and restoration in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, today announced its sponsorship of the Third International Symposium on Sigma-2 Receptors: Role in Health and Disease . (globenewswire.com)
  • In this work, we present a novel, automated approach to the task of content-driven "compression," built upon the tenets of auditory cognition, attention, and memory. (mit.edu)
  • Here, we aim to outline the close link between cognition and emotion , and how current research from the field of cognitive neuroscience examines the processing and acquisition of emotional stimuli. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cite this: Preserving Cognition on a Computer - Medscape - Apr 10, 2017. (medscape.com)
  • There are some exceptions to the rule of behaviourist methodology, such as John Lilly and, some would argue, Donald Griffin , who have been prepared to take a strong position that other animals do have minds and that we should approach the study of their cognition accordingly. (fact-index.com)
  • In considering context as an intrinsic part of social cognition, we highlight the need for a situated cognition approach in social cognition research as opposed to an abstract, universal, and decontextualized approach. (nih.gov)
  • This e-module will define functional cognition, explain levels of cognitive awareness, and describe how four approaches (Cognitive Orientation to Occupational Performance, Multicontext Approach, Neurofunctional Approach, Cognitive Disabilities Model) can be used to address functional cognition assessment and intervention. (unmc.edu)
  • Then, departing from of the assumption mind-body unity by Spinoza, the authors approach the recent studies of neurosciences, until the studies of biology in a cybernetic perspective by H. Atlan, H. Maturana and F. Varela ("Complexification from the noisy" and "Biology of Cognition" theories) in order to show that the relationship between the touch and the technical object implies in integration of another dimensions. (bvsalud.org)
  • Social Cognition Approach to Reporting Chronic Conditions in Health Surveys. (cdc.gov)
  • Functional cognition describes how cognition is used in daily activity. (unmc.edu)
  • Cognition and Aging in the USA (CogUSA) is a national longitudinal study of cognition, focused on the age-related changes in cognition across cohorts and on the impact of cognition on key health and economic outcomes. (umich.edu)
  • Although the role of context has been extensively studied in basic sensory processing or simple stimulus-response settings, its relevance for social cognition is unknown. (nih.gov)
  • Social cognition is the study of how information about other people - and about ourselves - is processed, stored, and used in judgements, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. (otago.ac.nz)
  • This paper is an introduction to the major topics and methodologies of the field, including social categorisation, unconscious and 'implicit' cognition, decision making, emotions, attitudes, and prejudice. (otago.ac.nz)
  • We suggest the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) as a specific disorder in which the reported deficits in social cognition (e.g., facial recognition, empathy, decision-making, figurative language, theory of mind) can be described as context impairments due to deficits in the SCNM. (nih.gov)
  • Disruption of orbitofrontal-amygdala circuit, as well as the frontal, temporal, and insular atrophy in bVFTD, suggests a relationship between context-sensitive social cognition and SCNM. (nih.gov)
  • The assessment of context-dependent social cognition paradigms, the SCNM, and their possible application to neuropsychiatric disorders may provide new insight into bvFTD and other related frontal disorders. (nih.gov)
  • A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the other, creates a framework for studying the interactive and social dimensions of the development of meaning in linguistic communication. (benjamins.com)
  • Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition is suitable as a course book in Pragmatics and Semantics and of interest to those concerned with cognitive models and dynamic and social aspects of linguistic communication. (benjamins.com)
  • This course aims to give you an appreciation of the key similarities and differences between communication and social cognition in humans and other animals. (york.ac.uk)
  • Political conservatism is considered as a special case of motivated social cognition. (stanford.edu)
  • It's a sister lab to the Canine Cognition and Computational Cognitive Development labs at the University of Toronto, where she served as an assistant professor until 2020, when she joined the faculty at Brown. (brown.edu)
  • SAN FRANCISCO - A multidomain intervention that includes counseling by health coaches is associated with "modest" improvements in cognition in older adults who have at least two Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk factors, results of a new pilot study suggest. (medscape.com)
  • Previous meta-analyses indicate that computerized cognitive training (CCT) is a safe and efficacious intervention for cognition in older adults. (medscape.com)
  • Dosing has commenced on two clinical studies of Elayta: SPARC (Synaptic Protection for Alzheimer's Restoration of Cognition) and SNAP (AβO Displacement from Synapses on Neurons in Alzheimer's Patients) and is anticipated to be initiated soon in the SHINE (Synaptic Health and Improvement of Neurological Function with Elayta) study. (globenewswire.com)
  • Jan. 22, 2020 A study has shown few differences in the profiles of genes that influence cognition between people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and the general population. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Initial contact was established by telephone calls to selected households, and the study began with a 40-minute telephone interview (Wave 1) that replicated the sections of the HRS questionnaire on demography, health and cognition, and added a few brief cognitive tests. (umich.edu)
  • A new study confirms that childhood lead exposure leads to poorer cognition as adults. (newsweek.com)
  • JAEX provides a forum for the rigorous study of anomalous experience and cognition. (lu.se)
  • Cognition Therapeutics is a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on the protection and restoration of synaptic function in neurocognitive disorders through a pipeline of disease-modifying small molecule drug candidates. (globenewswire.com)
  • Patricia's work has provided the neural foundation for current studies of molecular influences on cognition and their disruption in cognitive disorders," said Arnsten. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Morè L, Lauterborn JC, Papaleo F* , Brambilla R. Enhancing cognition through pharmacological and environmental interventions: examples from preclinical models of neurodevelopmental disorders. (iit.it)
  • In addition to scientific presentations by the speakers, Susan Catalano, Ph.D. , founder and chief science officer of Cognition Therapeutics and Nicholas J. Izzo, Ph.D., principal scientist at Cognition Therapeutics, will report and discuss recent clinical trial outcomes of Elayta™, a sigma-2 receptor antagonist, in patients with Alzheimer's disease. (globenewswire.com)
  • The Cognition and Collaboration Systems group develops, advances, and deploys measurement science in knowledge representation, reasoning, and planning for intelligent systems used in manufacturing and construction applications. (nist.gov)
  • We have found a very high prevalence of OSA in the World Trade Center responder population, and the present work will evaluate the impact of OSA on early markers of Alzheimer 's Disease using plasma biomarkers, PET/MR and cognition using a visual-spatial memory test. (cdc.gov)
  • Spatial Cognition & Navigation - is about understanding how people process information in order to navigate their surroundings. (ualberta.ca)
  • The Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition ( JAEX ) is a no-fee, open-access, university-based multidisciplinary journal. (lu.se)
  • The evidence is that CCT does improve your cognition as long as you do not already have dementia, so we should continue to encourage our nondementia patients to take part in these programs. (medscape.com)
  • Collaborative elasticity and breakdowns in high reliability organizations: contributions from distributed cognition and collective mind theory. (uni-trier.de)
  • Hand of God, mind of man: Punishment and cognition in the evolution of cooperation. (qub.ac.uk)
  • Evolution and Cognition , 10, 126-137. (qub.ac.uk)
  • Anomalous cognition refers to rigorous multidisciplinary research that seeks to improve our understanding of psycho-physical interrelations, including the hypothesis that organisms can be affected by spatially or temporally distant stimuli -unmediated by the senses or reason- and that intentions can directly affect physical systems, as well as attitudes, beliefs, and other variables related to such claims. (lu.se)
  • By studying cognition in very similar as well as very different systems, comparative research also addresses the question of how certain minds are made in general . (lu.se)
  • Cognition, technology, and work: special issue on collaboration in context: cognitive and organizational artefacts. (uni-trier.de)
  • Additional information about Cognition and its product candidates may be found online at http://www.cogrx.com . (globenewswire.com)
  • She added that the trial "adds to past work" that has shown that addressing risk factors such as diabetes, inadequate sleep, and lack of physical activity may benefit overall health, including cognition. (medscape.com)