The simpler syntax hypothesis.

abstract：:by Nestor A. Schmajuk, Cambridge University Press, 1997. £29.95 (xii+340 pages) ISBN 0 521 45086 1. ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： McLaren IP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to predict the likelihood of an aversive event is an important adaptive capacity. Certainty and uncertainty regarding pain cause different adaptive behavior, emotional states, attentional focus, and perceptual changes. Recent functional neuroimaging studies indicate that certain and uncertain expectation a...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ploghaus A,Becerra L,Borras C,Borsook D

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New evidence reported by Solomon et al. that hippocampal activity tracks distance in semantic space during recall supports the growing consensus of a domain-general cognitive map. Nevertheless, are all inputs equally processed into a 'universal map', or are there input constraints (e.g., space, semantics) that lead to...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Spiers HJ

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data indicate that newly grown synapses in the brain are not guaranteed to innervate their desired target, but can form instead on nearby targets. Such 'errors' introduce representational inaccuracies but improve representational flexibility. Optimizing accuracy and flexibility requires detecting correlated act...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Elliott T

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perception of social information is crucial for the survival of most animal species. Two recent studies demonstrate the joint contribution of innate mechanisms and perceptual experience to two aspects of social perception--faces and biological motion. Together, they highlight how important it is to consider faces ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Thompson JC,Hardee JE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence demonstrates that the brain can reorganize dramatically following sensory loss. Although the existence of such neuroplastic crossmodal changes is not in doubt, the functional significance of these changes remains unclear. The dominant belief is that reorganization is compensatory. However, r...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Singh AK,Phillips F,Merabet LB,Sinha P

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical pain can be clearly distinguished from other states of distress. In recent years, however, the notion that social distress is experienced as physically painful has permeated the scientific literature and popular media. This conclusion is based on the overlap of brain regions that respond to nociceptive input ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Iannetti GD,Salomons TV,Moayedi M,Mouraux A,Davis KD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we provide a unifying neural hypothesis on how individuals understand the actions and emotions of others. Our main claim is that the fundamental mechanism at the basis of the experiential understanding of others' actions is the activation of the mirror neuron system. A similar mechanism, but involving ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Gallese V,Keysers C,Rizzolatti G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does organized cognition arise from distributed brain activity? Recent analyses of fluid intelligence suggest a core process of cognitive focus and integration, organizing the components of a cognitive operation into the required computational structure. A cortical 'multiple-demand' (MD) system is closely linked t...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Duncan J,Assem M,Shashidhara S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joint attention to an external object at the end of the first year is typically believed to herald the infant's discovery of other people's attention. I will argue that mutual attention in the first months of life already involves an awareness of the directedness of attention. The self is experienced as the first obje...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Reddy V

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological recordings on the human scalp provide a wealth of information about the temporal dynamics and nature of face perception at a global level of brain organization. The time window between 100 and 200 ms witnesses the transition between low-level and high-level vision, an N170 component correlating wi...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Rossion B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an integrated view of interval timing and reinforcement learning (RL) in the brain. The computational goal of RL is to maximize future rewards, and this depends crucially on a representation of time. Different RL systems in the brain process time in distinct ways. A model-based system learns 'what happens w...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Petter EA,Gershman SJ,Meck WH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics. TS is associated with impairments in behavioral inhibition, dysfunctional signaling of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA, and alterations in the balance of excitatory and inhibitory influences within brain networks implicated i...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Jackson GM,Draper A,Dyke K,Pépés SE,Jackson SR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturalistic observations show that decisions to avoid or escape predators occur at different spatiotemporal scales and that they are supported by different computations and neural circuits. At their extremes, proximal threats are addressed by a limited repertoire of reflexive and myopic actions, reflecting reduced de...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Mobbs D,Headley DB,Ding W,Dayan P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prefrontal cortical (PFC) working memory functions depend on pyramidal cell networks that interconnect on dendritic spines. Recent research has revealed that the strength of PFC network connections can be rapidly and reversibly increased or decreased by molecular signaling events within slender, elongated spines: a pr...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Arnsten AF,Paspalas CD,Gamo NJ,Yang Y,Wang M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major non-invasive techniques in cognitive neuroscience, electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have complementary advantages with regard to their spatial and temporal resolution. Recent hardware and software developments have made it feasible to acquire EEG and fMRI data si...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Debener S,Ullsperger M,Siegel M,Engel AK

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding a sentence requires a working memory of the partial products of comprehension, so that linguistic relations between temporally distal parts of the sentence can be rapidly computed. We describe an emerging theoretical framework for this working memory system that incorporates several independently motivat...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Lewis RL,Vasishth S,Van Dyke JA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the neurophysiological mechanisms of learning is important for both fundamental and clinical neuroscience. We present a neurophysiologically inspired framework for understanding cortical mechanisms of feedback-guided learning. This framework is based on dynamic changes in systems-level oscillatory synchr...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Cohen MX,Wilmes K,Vijver Iv

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Textbooks teach us that the removal of sensory input to sensory cortex, for example, following arm amputation, results in massive reorganisation in the adult brain. In this opinion article, we critically examine evidence for functional reorganisation of sensory cortical representations, focusing on the sequelae of arm...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Makin TR,Bensmaia SJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety can be hugely disruptive to everyday life. Anxious individuals show increased attentional capture by potential signs of danger, and interpret expressions, comments and events in a negative manner. These cognitive biases have been widely explored in human anxiety research. By contrast, animal models have focuse...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Bishop SJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discoveries about the neural system and cellular mechanisms in pathways mediating classical fear conditioning have provided a foundation for pursuing concurrent connectionist models of this form of emotional learning. The models described are constrained by the known anatomy underlying the behavior being simula...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Armony JL,Servan-Schreiber D,Cohen JD,Ledoux JE

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To prevent the devastating consequences of anthropogenic global heating, immediate collective action is needed to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Cognitive scientists are in a special position to facilitate collective action by researching the factors underlying belief and action, and by teaching students how to think a...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Aron AR

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is argued here that cognitive science currently neglects an important source of insight into the human mind: the effects created by magicians. Over the centuries, magicians have learned how to perform acts that are perceived as defying the laws of nature, and that induce a strong sense of wonder. This article argue...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Kuhn G,Amlani AA,Rensink RA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its inception, the contextual cueing (CC) paradigm has generated considerable interest in various fields of cognitive sciences because it constitutes an elegant approach to understanding how statistical learning (SL) mechanisms can detect contextual regularities during a visual search. In this article we review ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Goujon A,Didierjean A,Thorpe S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic eye movements cause frequent and substantial displacements of the retinal image, but those displacements go unnoticed. It has been widely assumed that this perceived stability emerges from the shifting of visual receptive fields from their current, presaccadic locations to their future, postsaccadic locations...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Zirnsak M,Moore T

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has shown that a collection of neurons in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex of rhesus monkeys may specifically encode the choice selection of an interaction partner. This raises interesting and important questions as to the nature of Theory of Mind processes in social interactive decision-making, with p...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Sanfey AG,Civai C,Vavra P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most people are religious, there are hundreds of millions of religious disbelievers in the world. What is religious disbelief and how does it arise? Recent developments in the scientific study of religious beliefs and behaviors point to the conclusion that religious disbelief arises from multiple interacting ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Norenzayan A,Gervais WM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is one of the most debilitating of all common brain disorders, exacting a heavy toll on the afflicted and having a tremendous public health impact. Clinical outcome is more strongly predicted by cognitive deficits than psychotic symptoms, with no established treatment for these deficits. In this review, ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Minzenberg MJ,Carter CS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have demonstrated that prism adaptation can reduce several symptoms of visual neglect: a disorder in which patients fail to respond to information in contralesional space. The dominant framework to explain these effects proposes that prisms influence higher order visuospatial processes by acting on brain ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Striemer CL,Danckert JA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General anesthesia provides an invaluable experimental tool to probe the essential neural circuits that underlie consciousness. A new study reports that cholinergic stimulation of the prefrontal cortex restores wake-like behaviors in anesthetized rodents, suggesting that cholinergic inputs to the prefrontal cortex pla...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Solt K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00