The Climate Crisis Needs Attention from Cognitive Scientists.

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：:Katz and colleagues demonstrate that inactivating the primate lateral intraparietal area (LIP) spares visual motion decisions, even though these same decisions strongly modulate LIP neurons. This work is the latest addition to an intense effort spanning sensory modalities, animals, and techniques to understand which s...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Pisupati S,Chartarifsky L,Churchland AK

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguments about the relative independence of visual modules in the primate brain are not new. Recently, though, these debates have resurfaced in the form of arguments about the extent to which visuomotor reaching and grasping systems are insensitive to visual illusions that dramatically bias visual perception. The fir...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Carey DP

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Oscillations are a pervasive feature of neuronal activity in the cerebral cortex. Here, we propose a framework for understanding local cortical oscillation patterns in cognition: two classes of network interactions underlying two classes of cognitive functions produce different local oscillation patterns. Local excita...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Donner TH,Siegel M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are categories learned by forming abstract prototypes or by remembering specific exemplars? Mack, Preston, and Love observed that patterns of functional MRI (fMRI) brain activity were more consistent with patterns of representations predicted by exemplar models than by prototype models. Their work represents the theor...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Palmeri TJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do people sometimes seem to know things when they are tested in one way, while seeming unaware of this information when tested in a different way? Such task-dependent behaviors, or dissociations, often occur in infants and children, and in adults following brain damage. To explain these dissociations, researchers ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Munakata Y

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:For a stable visual world, the colours of objects should appear the same under different lights. This property of colour constancy has been assumed to be fundamental to vision, and many experimental attempts have been made to quantify it. I contend here, however, that the usual methods of measurement are either too co...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Foster DH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origins and nature of hemispheric specialization of action control are unclear. A review of some recent evidence suggests that the right hemisphere interprets spatial relationships whereas the left deals with temporal control of movement. Contrary to the popular view, specialization of the right hemisphere for spa...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Bradshaw JL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between functional areas are often considered to account for subtle aspects of cognitive functions, although direct experimental evidence is scarce. A recent study by Gross et al. relates the strength of synchrony between human parietal, frontal and occipital regions to the availability of attentional res...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Tallon-Baudry C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Categorization is a fundamental process whereby variable perceptual inputs are reduced progressively to a small number of equivalence classes, called 'categories'. How do theorists frame the categorization problem so that variable face, object and scene information is stabilized for higher-level processing? One approa...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Schyns PG

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:A new brain imaging study demonstrates that patients with autism have a strikingly different pattern of brain activity compared with control subjects. During cognitive tasks, cortical areas known as the "default state" network--areas that have been implicated in both self-referential processing and processing of socia...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Iacoboni M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The car dependence of people living in contemporary cities is a major concern for policy makers, who often find it difficult to persuade people into more sustainable transport modes. By contrast, recent insights from neuroscience have shown that a broad spectrum of behaviors can become habitual and, thus, resistant to...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Yalachkov Y,Naumer MJ,Plyushteva A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Toward a Science of Consciousness' was held in Skövde, Sweden, from 6-11 August 2001. The meeting was hosted by the University of Skövde, and the theme of this year's conference was 'Consciousness and its Place in Nature'. ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Morrison I,Ziemke T

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：: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：:"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：:On the basis of naturalistic observations of people conversing and laughing in pubs, a new study suggests that the 'grooming-at-a-distance' of laughter provides a three-fold increase in grooming group size, potentially explaining how hominins evolved social groups that are considerably larger than those of other prima...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Provine RR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frames of reference are coordinate systems used to compute and specify the location of objects with respect to other objects. These have long been thought of as innate concepts, built into our neurocognition. However, recent work shows that the use of such frames in language, cognition and gesture varies cross-cultura...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Majid A,Bowerman M,Kita S,Haun DB,Levinson SC

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Adolescence is a period of life in which the sense of 'self' changes profoundly. Here, we review recent behavioural and neuroimaging studies on adolescent development of the self-concept. These studies have shown that adolescence is an important developmental period for the self and its supporting neural structures. R...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Sebastian C,Burnett S,Blakemore SJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Fifteen years ago, Passingham and colleagues proposed that brain areas can be described in terms of their unique pattern of input and output connections with the rest of the brain, and that these connections are a crucial determinant of their function. We explore how the advent of neuroimaging of connectivity has allo...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Mars RB,Passingham RE,Jbabdi S

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：: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 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：:I propose that pre-attentive computational mechanisms in primary visual cortex create a saliency map. This map awards higher responses to more salient image locations; these responses are those of conventional V1 cells tuned to input features, such as orientation and color. Hence no separate feature maps, or any subse...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Li Z

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistence is central to outcomes across a range of domains: the harder you try, the further you get. Yet relatively little is known about the developmental origins of persistence. Here, we highlight key reasons for a surge of interest in persistence in infancy and early childhood. ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Lucca K,Sommerville JA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00