Science news articles about 'cognitive science'

  • Decoding the dictionary: Study suggests lexicon evolved to fit in the brain

    ... to word A,” said Mark Changizi, assistant professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “But this research ... and will appear in the June print edition of the Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, indicates that the dictionaries we use every ...
  • Artificial intelligence boosts science from Mars

    ... eliminated the occasional loss - forever - of valuable science data," says Alessandro Donati, Head of the Advanced ... 2005, AI researchers at Italy's Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology (ISTC-CNR) led ...
  • Birdsongs give insights into learning new behaviors

    ... matures. The work is reported in the May 2 issue of Science. “The babbling during song learning exemplifies ... and an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Early on, baby zebra finches ...
  • Platypus genome decoded

    ... for researchers. At least that's the hope of researchers at the National Science Foundation (NSF), who partially funded the study ... Weiss, division director for NSF's behavioral and cognitive sciences. The platypus occupies the first branch ...
  • Crystal (eye) ball: Study says visual system equipped with 'future seeing powers'

    ... and quickly respond to a situation. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mark ... findings are described in May-June issue of the journal Cognitive Science. “Illusions occur when our brains attempt ...
  • Film content, editing, and directing style affect brain activity, NYU neuroscientists show

    ... interviewers that for him 'creation is based on an exact science of audience reactions.' " However, the researchers emphasized ... label "neurocinematic" studies. While they add that a cognitive science analysis of film is not new, functional ...
  • Children learn smart behaviors without knowing what they know

    ... of psychology and human development and the director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Ohio State. "Children have more powerful ... have implications for theories of how children learn and develop their cognitive abilities, he said. "Children learn implicitly ...
  • Great apes think ahead

    ... and Helena Osvath's research, from Lunds University Cognitive Science in Sweden, is the first to provide conclusive ... online this week in Springer's journal, Animal Cognition. The complex skill of future planning is commonly ...
  • MIT unlocks mystery behind brain imaging

    ... study, reported in the June 20 issue of Science, no one knew exactly why this worked ... Professor of Neuroscience and head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. "Previously, people have argued ...
  • What it's like to be a bat

    ... system. Cynthia Moss, a member of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program at the University of Maryland, College ... online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "For decades it's been recognized that a bat's voice produces ...
  • Woman aquires new accent after stroke

    ... team joined forces with researchers in McMaster's Cognitive Science of Language program to study the case ... 's authors, Alexandre Sévigny, associate professor of cognitive science in the Department of Communication Studies & Multimedia ...
  • MIT-led team creates touch-based illusion

    ... at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and an assistant professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. "But we're interested in discovering general ...
  • Age-old magic tricks can provide clues for modern science

    ... . Their study in the current online issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences concludes that elements of human ... professor who specializes in vision and cognition and teaches in the departments of Psychology and Computer Science at UBC. Study ...
  • Study suggests human visual system could make powerful computer

    ... that if we want to carry out artificial computations, all we have to do is literally look around. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science Mark Changizi has begun to develop ...
  • Europe and Japan join forces to map out future of intelligent robots

    ... development. The event, jointly organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Japan Society for the Promotion ... at young researchers actively working in the fields of cognitive science and robotics. The difficult problem of making ...

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