When Is an Adolescent an Adult? - Waisman Laboratory for Brain
... An individual is typically considered an adult at age 18, although the age of adulthood varies for different legal and social policies. A key question is how cognitive capacities relevant to these policies change with development. The current study used an emotional go/no-go paradigm and functional ...
... An individual is typically considered an adult at age 18, although the age of adulthood varies for different legal and social policies. A key question is how cognitive capacities relevant to these policies change with development. The current study used an emotional go/no-go paradigm and functional ...
Is perception informationally encapsulated? The issue of the theory-ladenness of perception
... be. The reason is that these theories require that the perceptual analysis have access to background knowledge, and not just to the theory that is inherent in the system. But this is not true in view of the various implasticities of perception (as the Muller-Lyer illusion), which show that how thing ...
... be. The reason is that these theories require that the perceptual analysis have access to background knowledge, and not just to the theory that is inherent in the system. But this is not true in view of the various implasticities of perception (as the Muller-Lyer illusion), which show that how thing ...
Cerebral blood flow and gray matter volume covariance patterns of
... et al., 2011; Zimmerman et al., 2006]. A recent review of the structural correlates of cognition across that lifespan demonstrated that the direction of these changes is in dispute [Kaup et al., 2011]. Most studies demonstrated positive relationships between GMV and cognitive performance: larger bra ...
... et al., 2011; Zimmerman et al., 2006]. A recent review of the structural correlates of cognition across that lifespan demonstrated that the direction of these changes is in dispute [Kaup et al., 2011]. Most studies demonstrated positive relationships between GMV and cognitive performance: larger bra ...
Neural mechanisms of the cognitive model of depression
... Box 1 | Description and epidemiology of major depressive disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition) defines major depressive disorder (MDD) as the presence of five (or more) depressive symptoms (for example, sad mood, anhedonia, fatigue, impaired concentration, ...
... Box 1 | Description and epidemiology of major depressive disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition) defines major depressive disorder (MDD) as the presence of five (or more) depressive symptoms (for example, sad mood, anhedonia, fatigue, impaired concentration, ...
What do you notice? - Neural Crossroads Laboratory
... There are like many more contributors to the hippocampal theta rhythm. The result in a highly interconnected network is the large-scale coordination of hippocampal activity in a theta rhythm. ...
... There are like many more contributors to the hippocampal theta rhythm. The result in a highly interconnected network is the large-scale coordination of hippocampal activity in a theta rhythm. ...
Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia: Neurobiology
... per year.1 Two-thirds of patients with schizophrenia never marry, less than 15% hold competitive employment, and 20% are homeless at any given time.2-4 Moreover, the World Health Organization has ranked schizophrenia as the third most disabling illness, globally, among adolescents and young to middl ...
... per year.1 Two-thirds of patients with schizophrenia never marry, less than 15% hold competitive employment, and 20% are homeless at any given time.2-4 Moreover, the World Health Organization has ranked schizophrenia as the third most disabling illness, globally, among adolescents and young to middl ...
NOBA Memory (Encoding, Storage, Retrieval)
... McDaniel, 1993). Using study strategies such as the ones described here is challenging, but the effort is well worth the benefits of enhanced learning and retention. We emphasized earlier that encoding is selective: people cannot encode all information they are exposed to. However, recoding can add ...
... McDaniel, 1993). Using study strategies such as the ones described here is challenging, but the effort is well worth the benefits of enhanced learning and retention. We emphasized earlier that encoding is selective: people cannot encode all information they are exposed to. However, recoding can add ...
The Role of analogy in cognitive science
... about relationships and attributes. For humans, analogy is usually quite natural, as our cognitive processes have extensive resources on context, history, and personal experience from which to draw. The real trick is developing a means for such understanding to be automated [2]. To perform computati ...
... about relationships and attributes. For humans, analogy is usually quite natural, as our cognitive processes have extensive resources on context, history, and personal experience from which to draw. The real trick is developing a means for such understanding to be automated [2]. To perform computati ...
Wrinkles, Wormholes, and Hamlet
... speakers, and much exercise of his own style” (2001:179). The “exercise” of stage plays, says Crane, churns out material change in the world from the collision of imitation and personal “style.” Plays are “material practice, analogous to other ‘real’ endeavors such as studies, trades, or sports whic ...
... speakers, and much exercise of his own style” (2001:179). The “exercise” of stage plays, says Crane, churns out material change in the world from the collision of imitation and personal “style.” Plays are “material practice, analogous to other ‘real’ endeavors such as studies, trades, or sports whic ...
Analogical Reasoning: A Core of Cognition
... At the beginning, when exposed to a new situation (the target), a source domain has to be identified to which that situation can be related. Some retrieval technique has to be applied to search the memory for items which seem like candidates for an analogy. In certain settings, such as intelligence ...
... At the beginning, when exposed to a new situation (the target), a source domain has to be identified to which that situation can be related. Some retrieval technique has to be applied to search the memory for items which seem like candidates for an analogy. In certain settings, such as intelligence ...
What is spatial memory? Short-term spatial memory Spatial working
... cognitive process that enables a person to remember different locations as well as spatial relations between objects. This allows one to remember where an object is in relation to another object, for instance, allowing someone to navigate through a familiar city. Spatial memories are said to form af ...
... cognitive process that enables a person to remember different locations as well as spatial relations between objects. This allows one to remember where an object is in relation to another object, for instance, allowing someone to navigate through a familiar city. Spatial memories are said to form af ...
Structural and Functional Organizing Principles of Language
... toward the integration of language within an interactive network of higher-level cognitive functions. Commencing with an overview of traditional concepts of language as modular, distinct, and innate, we focus firstly on areas that highlight the foundation of modularity theory including various modul ...
... toward the integration of language within an interactive network of higher-level cognitive functions. Commencing with an overview of traditional concepts of language as modular, distinct, and innate, we focus firstly on areas that highlight the foundation of modularity theory including various modul ...
paper - Rice University
... sentences was evident only for participants in the low WM span group while reading sentences that demanded most WM (i.e., in which disambiguation occurred late in the clause). In other words, it seems that working memory demands were the main cause of IFG activation. In sum, there is substantial evi ...
... sentences was evident only for participants in the low WM span group while reading sentences that demanded most WM (i.e., in which disambiguation occurred late in the clause). In other words, it seems that working memory demands were the main cause of IFG activation. In sum, there is substantial evi ...
Slide 1
... were used. It was Carolus Linnaeus in the 18th century that is credited with establishing the basic system of classification that we still use today. ...
... were used. It was Carolus Linnaeus in the 18th century that is credited with establishing the basic system of classification that we still use today. ...
What creates a valuable cue? The underestimated importance of a
... importance of a cues diagnostic value for successful retrieval (Watkins & Watkins, 1975). Diagnostic value refers to the extent in which a cue is uniquely associated with a specific memory, thus determining the cues discrimination power (Poirier et al., 2012). It has up until recently been widely ad ...
... importance of a cues diagnostic value for successful retrieval (Watkins & Watkins, 1975). Diagnostic value refers to the extent in which a cue is uniquely associated with a specific memory, thus determining the cues discrimination power (Poirier et al., 2012). It has up until recently been widely ad ...
Pavlov`s Methodological Behaviorism as a Pre
... separation between the approaches of differential and experimental psychology. So only a handful of today's "cognitive" experimental psychologists (or "cognitive scientists") are concerned with individual differences as phenomena of interest in their own right. Rather, individual differences are vie ...
... separation between the approaches of differential and experimental psychology. So only a handful of today's "cognitive" experimental psychologists (or "cognitive scientists") are concerned with individual differences as phenomena of interest in their own right. Rather, individual differences are vie ...
Pavlov`s Methodological Behaviorism as a Pre
... separation between the approaches of differential and experimental psychology. So only a handful of today’s “cognitive” experimental psychologists (or “cognitive scientists”) are concerned with individual differences as phenomena of interest in their own right. Rather, individual differences are vie ...
... separation between the approaches of differential and experimental psychology. So only a handful of today’s “cognitive” experimental psychologists (or “cognitive scientists”) are concerned with individual differences as phenomena of interest in their own right. Rather, individual differences are vie ...
DOC - Cognitive Computing Research Group
... accepted concepts and their relations would form an ontology for animal cognition (Franklin and Ferkin, 2006). In this context, an ontology is a set of concept definitions with relations between them. This use of the term “ontology” is consistent with its use by information scientists but is very di ...
... accepted concepts and their relations would form an ontology for animal cognition (Franklin and Ferkin, 2006). In this context, an ontology is a set of concept definitions with relations between them. This use of the term “ontology” is consistent with its use by information scientists but is very di ...
A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science
... circuitry for a variety of cognitive purposes is a central organizing principle of the brain. In other words, it is common for neural circuits originally established for one purpose to be exapted (exploited, recycled, redeployed) during evolution or normal development and put to different uses, with ...
... circuitry for a variety of cognitive purposes is a central organizing principle of the brain. In other words, it is common for neural circuits originally established for one purpose to be exapted (exploited, recycled, redeployed) during evolution or normal development and put to different uses, with ...
Chemotherapy and Cognitive Impairment
... The effect of anticancer treatments on cognition is receiving increasing attention from researchers because some patients report cognitive difficulties long after anticancer treatment has been completed. However, there are no proven treatments or preventive measures for this side effect, and oncolog ...
... The effect of anticancer treatments on cognition is receiving increasing attention from researchers because some patients report cognitive difficulties long after anticancer treatment has been completed. However, there are no proven treatments or preventive measures for this side effect, and oncolog ...
A November, 2003 paper on the Pavlovian roots of the approach
... of the (observable) connections between stimuli and responses. The main rationale underlying both the Watsonian and Skinnerian approaches is that they provide testable explanations. The validity of this rationale has been questioned (e.g., Furedy & Riley, 1984). The problem is that it is doubtful, o ...
... of the (observable) connections between stimuli and responses. The main rationale underlying both the Watsonian and Skinnerian approaches is that they provide testable explanations. The validity of this rationale has been questioned (e.g., Furedy & Riley, 1984). The problem is that it is doubtful, o ...
Rodolphe Gouin - Hal-SHS
... wrong answers to the questions asked. “Why are the reasons of the subjects perceived as good when their answers are wrong ? It is because they tried to answer the questions they were confronted with by making a guess, a conjecture, or by applying a theory or a general principle valid in many cases.” ...
... wrong answers to the questions asked. “Why are the reasons of the subjects perceived as good when their answers are wrong ? It is because they tried to answer the questions they were confronted with by making a guess, a conjecture, or by applying a theory or a general principle valid in many cases.” ...
Proposal: Creation of an Honours Minor Program in Cognitive Science
... Topics covered include the ontological status of the mind, the nature of mental causation, consciousness and its relation to our status as rational persons equipped with free will. Other possible questions include: Is language necessary for thought? Can some nonhuman animals think? What is the relat ...
... Topics covered include the ontological status of the mind, the nature of mental causation, consciousness and its relation to our status as rational persons equipped with free will. Other possible questions include: Is language necessary for thought? Can some nonhuman animals think? What is the relat ...
is function OF - Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
... => different techniques can be used by different people with different aims => each approach adds techniques but retains old ones for new aims 2. “BT as S-S” part of CBT compatible with “BT functional analysis” but not “BT as S-R” => historically, this has been a false debate 3. “CBT functional anal ...
... => different techniques can be used by different people with different aims => each approach adds techniques but retains old ones for new aims 2. “BT as S-S” part of CBT compatible with “BT functional analysis” but not “BT as S-R” => historically, this has been a false debate 3. “CBT functional anal ...