Deconstructing and reconstructing theory of mind.

abstract：:Two recent articles in this journal made the case for the existence and importance of g and reviewed research on cognitive and psychophysical correlates of psychometric g. This review considers g from a genetic perspective. Multivariate genetic research indicates that g accounts for nearly all of the genetic variance ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Plomin R,Spinath FM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain evolution has often been correlated with the cognitive demands of social life. Further progress depends on our ability to link cognitive processes to corresponding brain part sizes and structures, and, ultimately, to demonstrate causality. Recent research suggests that fishes are suitable to test general hypothe...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Bshary R,Gingins S,Vail AL

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Episodic memory is a polygenic behavioral trait with substantial heritability estimates. Despite its complexity, recent empirical evidence supports the notion that behavioral genetic studies of episodic memory might successfully identify trait-associated molecules and pathways. The development of high-throughput genot...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Papassotiropoulos A,de Quervain DJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studying categorization, cognitive science has focused primarily on cultural categorization, ignoring individual and institutional categorization. Because recent technological developments have made individual and institutional classification systems much more available and powerful, our understanding of the cognit...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Glushko RJ,Maglio PP,Matlock T,Barsalou LW

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of men to women in a given ecology can have profound influences on a range of interpersonal processes, from marriage and divorce rates to risk-taking and violent crime. Here, we organize such processes into two categories - intersexual choice and intrasexual competition - representing focal effects of imbala...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Maner JK,Ackerman JM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtually all domains of cognitive function require the integration of distributed neural activity. Network analysis of human brain connectivity has consistently identified sets of regions that are critically important for enabling efficient neuronal signaling and communication. The central embedding of these candidat...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： van den Heuvel MP,Sporns O

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Perception and perceptual decision-making are strongly facilitated by prior knowledge about the probabilistic structure of the world. While the computational benefits of using prior expectation in perception are clear, there are myriad ways in which this computation can be realized. We review here recent advances in o...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： de Lange FP,Heilbron M,Kok P

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do the anatomically consistent functional selectivities of the brain emerge? A new study by Bola and colleagues reveals task selectivity in auditory rhythm-selective areas in congenitally deaf adults perceiving visual rhythm sequences. Here, we contextualize this result with accumulating evidence from animal and h...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Amedi A,Hofstetter S,Maidenbaum S,Heimler B

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of social learning in robotics has been motivated by both scientific interest in the learning process and practical desires to produce machines that are useful, flexible, and easy to use. In this review, we introduce the social and task-oriented aspects of robot imitation. We focus on methodologies for addre...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Breazeal C,Scassellati B

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:In this Opinion article we describe a theory that the brain mechanisms underlying working memory for novel information include a buffer in parahippocampal cortices. Computational modeling indicates that mechanisms for maintaining novel information in working memory could differ from mechanisms for maintaining familiar...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hasselmo ME,Stern CE

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literatures on episodic memory for self-referential and emotional information have proceeded relatively independently, and most studies examining the effects of age on these memory processes have been interpreted within domain-specific frameworks. However, there is increasing evidence for shared mechanisms that co...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Gutchess A,Kensinger EA

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:A new study by Kano and colleagues shows that great apes use their own visual experience to attribute perceptions and beliefs to another agent. Their results suggest that the way apes understand behavior is more similar to human understanding than was previously thought, and may be driven by representations of mental ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Martin A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing images requires sorting them into the correct perceptual categories. Without categories, apples could not be discriminated from oranges. A fundamental question is whether categories are innate or learned, and if learned, how well such discriminations generalize. A recent finding by Notman et al. demonstrat...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Fahle M

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Many social interactions require humans to coordinate their behavior across a range of scales. However, aspects of intentional coordination remain puzzling from within several approaches in cognitive science. Sketching a new perspective, we propose that the complex behavioral patterns - or 'unwritten rules' - governin...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Misyak JB,Melkonyan T,Zeitoun H,Chater N

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years the cognitive processes underlying recognition memory have been the subject of considerable interest in experimental psychology. To account for a broad range of behavioral findings, psychologists have put forward a variety of 'dual-process' models, all of which propose that recognition memory is support...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Rugg MD,Yonelinas AP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to remain focused on goal-relevant stimuli in the presence of potentially interfering distractors is crucial for any coherent cognitive function. However, simply instructing people to ignore goal-irrelevant stimuli is not sufficient for preventing their processing. Recent research reveals that distractor p...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Lavie N

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual learning can be defined as practice-induced improvement in the ability to perform specific perceptual tasks. We previously proposed the Reverse Hierarchy Theory as a unifying concept that links behavioral findings of visual learning with physiological and anatomical data. Essentially, it asserts that learni...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ahissar M,Hochstein S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No facet of human development is more crucial than becoming symbol-minded. To participate fully in any society, children have to master the symbol systems that are important in that society. Children today must learn to use more varieties of symbolic media than ever before, so it is even more important to understand t...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Deloache JS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans crave the company of others and suffer profoundly if temporarily isolated from society. Much of the brain must have evolved to deal with social communication and we are increasingly learning more about the neurophysiological basis of social cognition. Here, we explore some of the reasons why social cognitive ne...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Blakemore SJ,Winston J,Frith U

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Computational models of human collective behavior offer promise in providing quantitative and empirically verifiable accounts of how individual decisions lead to the emergence of group-level organizations. Agent-based models (ABMs) describe interactions among individual agents and their environment, and provide a proc...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Goldstone RL,Janssen MA

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:From its academic beginnings the theory of human action control has distinguished between endogenously driven, intentional action and exogenously driven, habitual, or automatic action. We challenge this dual-route model and argue that attempts to provide clear-cut and straightforward criteria to distinguish between in...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hommel B,Wiers RW

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of classic tensions concerning the fundamental nature of human knowledge and the processes underlying its acquisition. This tension, especially evident in research on the acquisition of words and concepts, arises when researchers pit one type of content against another (percept...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Waxman SR,Gelman SA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, models of speech comprehension and production do not depend on concepts and processes from the phonological short-term memory (pSTM) literature. Likewise, in working memory research, pSTM is considered to be a language-independent system that facilitates language acquisition rather than speech processin...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Jacquemot C,Scott SK

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00