Perceptual Decision-Making: Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit?

abstract：:The notion of a level of consciousness is a key construct in the science of consciousness. Not only is the term employed to describe the global states of consciousness that are associated with post-comatose disorders, epileptic absence seizures, anaesthesia, and sleep, it plays an increasingly influential role in theo...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Bayne T,Hohwy J,Owen AM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss behavioral studies directed at understanding how probability information is represented in motor and economic tasks. By formulating the behavioral tasks in the language of statistical decision theory, we can compare performance in equivalent tasks in different domains. Subjects in traditional economic decis...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Trommershäuser J,Maloney LT,Landy MS

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Moving purposefully through the world requires the seamless coordination of a wide variety of sensory, motor, and motivation systems. Recent experiments suggest that mouse visual cortex may offer a particularly well suited forum for experimental investigation of this coordination. ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ghose GM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Executive function" is an umbrella term for functions such as planning, working memory, impulse control, inhibition and mental flexibility, as well as for the initiation and monitoring of action. The primacy of executive dysfunction in autism is a topic of much debate, as are recent attempts to examine subtypes of ex...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Hill EL

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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 re-evaluation of the goals and techniques of generative grammar since the mid-1960s suggests that its mentalistic/biological program for describing language is still sound and has been borne out by subsequent developments. Likewise, the idea of a generative system of combinatorial rules has led to a tremendous expan...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Jackendoff R

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Artificial life provides important theoretical and methodological tools for the investigation of Piaget's developmental theory. This new method uses artificial neural networks to simulate living phenomena in a computer. A recent study by Parisi and Schlesinger suggests that artificial life might reinvigorate the Piage...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Mueller U,Grobman KH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive neuroscience investigations of self-experience have mainly focused on the mental attribution of features to the self (self-related processing). In this paper, we highlight another fundamental, yet neglected, aspect of self-experience, that of being an agent. We propose that this aspect of self-experience dep...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Christoff K,Cosmelli D,Legrand D,Thompson E

更新日期：2011-03-01 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

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：: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：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in the widespread implementation of social distancing measures. Adhering to social distancing may be particularly challenging for adolescents, for whom interaction with peers is especially important. We argue that young people's capacity to encourage each o...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Andrews JL,Foulkes L,Blakemore SJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Can we consciously see more items at once than can be held in visual working memory? This question has eluded resolution because the ultimate evidence is subjects' reports in which phenomenal consciousness is filtered through working memory. However, a new technique makes use of the fact that unattended 'ensemble prop...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Block N

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) noninvasively measures human brain activity at millimeter resolution. Scientists use different approaches to take advantage of the remarkable opportunities presented by fMRI. Here, we describe progress using the computational neuroimaging approach in human visual cortex, wh...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Wandell BA,Winawer J

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Recent years have seen enormous demand amongst policy makers for new insights from the behavioural sciences, especially neuroscience. This demand is matched by an increasing willingness on behalf of behavioural scientists to translate the policy implications of their work. But can neuroscience really help shape the go...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Seymour B,Vlaev I

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new class of visuomotor neuron has been recently discovered in the monkey's premotor cortex: mirror neurons. These neurons respond both when a particular action is performed by the recorded monkey and when the same action, performed by another individual, is observed. Mirror neurons appear to form a cortical system ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Gallese V,Goldman A

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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