Drinking During Pregnancy and the Developing Brain: Is Any Amount Safe?

abstract：:This article reviews recently proposed theories postulating that, during simple choices, the brain performs statistically optimal decision making. These theories are ecologically motivated by evolutionary pressures to optimize the speed and accuracy of decisions and to maximize the rate of receiving rewards for correc...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Bogacz R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether episodic memory, the ability to recall unique, personal experiences, is restricted to humans is a matter of current controversy. Recent work on food-storing jays suggests that several features of episodic memory may not be as exclusive to humans as previously thought. In this review we outline ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Griffiths D,Dickinson A,Clayton N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is characterized by distinct profiles of disturbance in ways autobiographical memories are represented, recalled, and maintained. We review four core domains of difficulty: systematic biases in favor of negative material; impoverished access and responses to positive memories; reduced access to the specific...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Dalgleish T,Werner-Seidler A

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:The evolution of speech remains an elusive scientific problem. A widespread notion is that vocal learning, underlined by vocal-fold control, is a key prerequisite for speech evolution. Although present in birds and non-primate mammals, vocal learning is ostensibly absent in non-human primates. Here we argue that the m...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Lameira AR,Maddieson I,Zuberbühler K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that continues when cues later remind someone of the memory. Here, we review the emerging behavioural and neuroimaging evidence that suppressing awarenes...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Anderson MC,Hanslmayr S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that the human visual system can use temporal synchrony for the perceptual grouping of image regions into unified objects, as proposed in some neural models. It is argued here, however, that previous psychophysical evidence for this hypothesis is due to stimulus artifacts, and that earlier stu...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Farid H

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perirhinal cortex is known to play a role in recognition memory and visual perception of objects. A recent single-unit recording study adds to our understanding of perirhinal cortex function, suggesting that it may also play a role in evaluating the significance of objects in a context-dependent manner. ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Inhoff MC,Ranganath C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the noisy information bombarding our senses, our brains must construct percepts that are veridical - reflecting the true state of the world - and informative - conveying what we did not already know. Influential theories suggest that both challenges are met through mechanisms that use expectations about the likel...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Press C,Kok P,Yon D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How much can we perceive and remember at a time? Results from various paradigms traditionally show that observers are aware of surprisingly little of the world around them. However, a recent study by Wu and Wolfe (Curr. Biol. 2018;28:3430-3434) uses a novel technique to reveal that observers have more knowledge of the...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Cohen MA

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:What roles do syntax and semantics have in the grammar of a language? What are the consequences of these roles for syntactic structure, and why does it matter? We sketch the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis, which holds that much of the explanatory role attributed to syntax in contemporary linguistics is properly the respons...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Culicover PW,Jackendoff R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory storage is not static - updating is often needed. When it comes to traumatic memories, forgetting may be desired. Two innovative studies recently demonstrated that fear memories can be weakened during sleep using odors associated with fear-learning episodes. New strategies along these lines should be carefully ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Oudiette D,Antony JW,Paller KA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent neuroimaging studies in humans have indicated that individual differences in social network size correlate with amygdala volume and the volume of brain regions associated with theory of mind. A new article demonstrates that this is also true for monkeys. Taken together, these findings provide crucial support fo...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Dunbar RI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After experiences are encoded into memory, post-encoding reactivation mechanisms have been proposed to mediate long-term memory stabilization and transformation. Spontaneous reactivation of hippocampal representations, together with hippocampal-cortical interactions, are leading candidate mechanisms for promoting syst...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Tambini A,Davachi L

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental question of human episodic memory concerns the cognitive and neural representations and processes that give rise to the neural signals of memory. By integrating behavioral tests, formal computational models, and neural measures of brain activity patterns, recent studies suggest that memory signals not on...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Xue G

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grid cells have been proposed to encode both the self-location of an animal and the relative position of locations within an environment. We reassess the validity of these roles in light of recent evidence demonstrating grid patterns to be less temporally and spatially stable than previously thought. ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Carpenter F,Barry C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of research have established two central roles of the hippocampus--memory consolidation and spatial navigation. Recently, a third function of the hippocampus has been proposed: simulating future events. However, claims that the neural patterns underlying simulation occur without prior experience have come unde...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Bendor D,Spiers HJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of decoding skills has traditionally been viewed as a stage-like process during which children's reading strategies change as a consequence of the acquisition of phonological awareness. More explicit accounts of the mechanisms involved in learning to read are provided by recent connectionist models in ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Snowling M,Hulme C,Nation K

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do psychological traits shape social networks? How does this relationship influence the spread of behavior? In a recent paper, Muthukrishna and Schaller (Pers. Soc. Psychol. Rev., 2019) use a modeling approach to explore these questions. In doing so, they illustrate the value of using a multilevel approach to stud...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Smaldino PE

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Delays in sensorimotor loops have led to the proposal that reaching movements are primarily under pre-programmed control and that sensory feedback loops exert an influence only at the very end of a trajectory. The present review challenges this view. Although behavioral data suggest that a motor plan is assembled prio...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Desmurget M,Grafton S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research using both naturalistic and experimental methods has found that the vast majority of young children's early language is organized around concrete, item-based linguistic schemas. From this beginning, children then construct more abstract and adult-like linguistic constructions, but only gradually and in...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Tomasello M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Political disputes ruin family reunions, scuttle policy initiatives, and spur violence and even terrorism. We summarize recent research indicating that the source of political differences can be found in biologically instantiated and often subthreshold predispositions as reflected in physiological, cognitive, and neur...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hibbing JR,Smith KB,Peterson JC,Feher B

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two merging lines of empirical inquiry: entire false memories for autobiographical events and false confessions. A recent study showed that people can be led to remember, and confess to, perpetrating serious crimes that never occurred when confronted with suggestive interview tactics commonly used in polic...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Porter SB,Baker AT

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise can improve human cognition. A mechanistic connection between exercise and cognition has been revealed in several recent studies. Exercise increases cortical excitability and this in turn leads to enhanced memory consolidation. Together these studies dovetail with our growing understanding of memory consolida...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Robertson EM,Takacs A

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaesthesia has been known to scientific research for over 100 years but has undergone something of a renaissance recently as new investigations begin to uncover its neurological basis. Rather than being an anomaly, it might offer beneficial insights into the basis of normal perception. A new study by Esterman et al....

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Mulvenna CM,Walsh V

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Psychiatric and neurological disorders have historically provided key insights into the structure-function relationships that subserve human social cognition and behavior, informing the concept of the 'social brain'. In this review, we take stock of the current status of this concept, retaining a focus on disorders th...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Kennedy DP,Adolphs R

更新日期：2012-11-01 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