Laughing, grooming, and pub science.

abstract：:Memory distortions range from the benign (thinking you mailed a check that you only thought about mailing), to the serious (confusing what you heard after a crime with what you actually saw), to the fantastic (claiming you piloted a spaceship). We review theoretical ideas and empirical evidence about the source monito...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Johnson MK,Raye CL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioning, how animals learn to associate two or more events, is one of the most influential paradigms in learning theory. It is nevertheless unclear how current models of associative learning can accommodate complex phenomena without ad hoc representational assumptions. We propose to embrace deep neural networks t...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Mondragón E,Alonso E,Kokkola N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usage of the term 'theory of mind' (ToM) has exploded across fields ranging from developmental psychology to social neuroscience and psychiatry research. However, its meaning is often vague and inconsistent, its biological bases are a subject of debate, and the methods used to study it are highly heterogeneous. Most c...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Schaafsma SM,Pfaff DW,Spunt RP,Adolphs R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The science of large-scale brain networks offers a powerful paradigm for investigating cognitive and affective dysfunction in psychiatric and neurological disorders. This review examines recent conceptual and methodological developments which are contributing to a paradigm shift in the study of psychopathology. I summ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Menon V

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of studies suggests that neurological and mental abnormalities foster conformity to norms of rationality that are widely endorsed in economics and psychology, whereas normality stands in the way of rationality thus defined. Here, we outline the main findings of these studies, discuss their implications ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hertwig R,Volz KG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral analyses are a natural choice for understanding the wide-ranging behavioral consequences of racial stereotyping and prejudice. However, studies using neuroimaging and electrophysiological research have recently considered the neural mechanisms that underlie racial categorization and the activation and appli...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ito TA,Bartholow BD

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distinction between episodic and semantic memory was first proposed in 1972 by Endel Tulving and is still of central importance in cognitive neuroscience. However, data obtained over the past 30 years or so support the idea that the frontiers between perception and knowledge and between episodic and semantic memor...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Renoult L,Irish M,Moscovitch M,Rugg MD

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of language change have begun to contribute to answering several pressing questions in cognitive sciences, including the origins of human language capacity, the social construction of cognition and the mechanisms underlying culture change in general. Here, we describe recent advances within a new emerging fram...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hruschka DJ,Christiansen MH,Blythe RA,Croft W,Heggarty P,Mufwene SS,Pierrehumbert JB,Poplack S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical energy that we refer to as a word, whether in isolation or embedded in sentences, takes its meaning from the knowledge stored in our brains through a lifetime of experience. Much empirical evidence indicates that, although this knowledge can be used fairly flexibly, it is functionally organized in 'semant...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Kutas M,Federmeier KD

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:Recent empirical research has shed new light on the perennial question of human altruism. A number of recent studies suggest that from very early in ontogeny young children have a biological predisposition to help others achieve their goals, to share resources with others and to inform others of things helpfully. Huma...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Warneken F,Tomasello M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the environment not only by navigating, but also by viewing our surroundings with our eyes. Here we review growing evidence that the mammalian hippocampal formation, extensively studied in the context of navigation and memory, mediates a representation of visual space that is stably anchored to the external...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Nau M,Julian JB,Doeller CF

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory (WM) capacity predicts performance in a wide range of cognitive tasks. Although WM capacity has been viewed as a constant trait, recent studies suggest that it can be improved by adaptive and extended training. This training is associated with changes in brain activity in frontal and parietal cortex and...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Klingberg T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male and female fetuses differ in testosterone concentrations beginning as early as week 8 of gestation. This early hormone difference exerts permanent influences on brain development and behavior. Contemporary research shows that hormones are particularly important for the development of sex-typical childhood behavio...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hines M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new account of how self-reference affects information processing. We report evidence that self-reference affects the binding of memory to source, the integration of parts into perceptual wholes, and the ability to switch from a prior association to new associations. Self-reference also influences the inte...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Sui J,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual world exists all around us, yet this information must be gleaned through a succession of eye fixations in which high visual acuity is limited to the small foveal region of each retina. In spite of these physiological constraints, we experience a richly detailed and continuous visual world. Research on trans...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Intraub H

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review will focus on the possibility that the cerebellum contains an internal model or models of the motor apparatus. Inverse internal models can provide the neural command necessary to achieve some desired trajectory. First, we review the necessity of such a model and the evidence, based on the ocular following ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Wolpert DM,Miall RC,Kawato M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Music and speech share many acoustic cues but not all are equally important. For example, harmonic pitch is essential for music but not for speech. When birds communicate is their song more like speech or music? A new study contrasting pitch and spectral patterns shows that birds perceive their song more like humans p...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Shannon RV

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Task persistence is a construct that appears to have broad influence on child competence generally, from self regulation in carrying out tasks, to cognitive performance. In a recent developmental study of task persistence, Deater-Deckard and colleagues report that heritability of task persistence increased over time, ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： McCartney K,Berry D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Apart from their reading difficulties, dyslexic subjects often suffer from a variety of subtle sensory and motor deficits. Whether these deficits have a causal relationship to the reading disorder, form additional risk factors, or are totally independent of the reading problem, is under vivid debate. In this article, ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hari R,Renvall H

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure can have lifelong, disabling effects on brain and cognition. Unlike animal studies, research on light-to-moderate drinking in humans demonstrates less consistent impact. Discussions of negative research findings in popular media underestimate potential adverse outcomes and complicate de...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Charness ME,Riley EP,Sowell ER

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Learning is usually thought to occur during episodes of studying, whereas retrieval of information on testing simply serves to assess what was learned. We review research that contradicts this traditional view by demonstrating that retrieval practice is actually a powerful mnemonic enhancer, often producing large gain...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Roediger HL 3rd,Butler AC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manner by which the human brain learns and recognizes stimuli is a matter of ongoing investigation. Through examination of meta-analyses of task-based functional MRI and resting state functional connectivity MRI, we identified a novel network strongly related to learning and memory. Activity within this network at...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Gilmore AW,Nelson SM,McDermott KB

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful goal-directed behavior critically depends on performance monitoring, a set of cognitive and affective functions determining whether adaptive control is needed and, if so, which type and magnitude is required. Knowledge of the brain structures involved in such a process has grown enormously, although the tim...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ullsperger M,Fischer AG,Nigbur R,Endrass T

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sociality and cooperation are benefits to human cultures but may carry unexpected costs. We suggest that both the human experience of pain and the expression of distress may result from many causes not experienced as painful in our close primate relatives, because human ancestors motivated to ask for help survived in ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Finlay BL,Syal S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent metaphor in decision-making research casts people as intuitive statisticians. Popular explanations based on this metaphor assume that the way in which people represent the environment is specified and fixed a priori. A major flaw in this account is that it is not clear how people know what aspects of an e...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Szollosi A,Newell BR

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following groundbreaking work by linguists and cognitive scientists over the past thirty years, it is now generally accepted that sign languages of the deaf, such as ASL (American Sign Language) or BSL (British Sign Language), are structured and processed in a similar manner to spoken languages. The one striking diffe...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Campbell R,Woll B

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00