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Sandra Bond Chapman and a colleague. Sandra Bond Chapman is a cognitive neuroscientist, founder and chief director of the Center for Brain Health, Dee Wyly Distinguished Professor in Brain Health, [1] and a professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas.
The Center for BrainHealth, both its own facility and part of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute with clinical interventions focused on brain health. The center is located near the UT Dallas' Callier Center for Communication Disorders and adjacent to the north campus of University of Texas Southwestern Medical ...
Researchers work side-by-side with clinicians. Brain scientists at the Center use technologies to elucidate how brain networks can be strengthened and reconnected, including electroencephalography (EEG) to record the brain's electrical rhythms during cognitive task performance, functional MRI (fMRI) scans to measure brain blood flow during cognitive tasks, an indicator of brain activity and ...
Autism, a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication, and causes restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before a child is three years old. Anxiety, a physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create the feelings that are ...
Each part of the brain is specialized for different aspects of the human being. [5] For example, the temporal lobe has a major role in vision and audition, whereas the frontal lobe is significant for motor function and problem solving. [2] The spinal cord is attached to the brain and serves as the main connector of nerves and the brain. [5]
how the brain stores and accesses words that a person knows Syntax: the study of how multiple-word utterances are constructed: how the brain combines words into constituents and sentences; how structural and semantic information is used in understanding sentences Semantics: the study of how meaning is encoded in language
As communication technologies developed, so did the serious study of communication. During this time, a renewed interest in the studies of rhetoric, such as persuasion and public address, was created, which ultimately laid the foundation for several of the forms of communication studies that we know of today. [13]
[50] [51] [52] UT Dallas’ Geography and Geospatial Sciences program ranked 16th nationally and first in Texas by Academic Analytics of Stony Brook, N.Y. [53] In a 2012 study, assessing the academic impact of publications, the UT Dallas criminology program was ranked fifth best in the world.