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：:Everyday visual experience involves making implicit predictions, as revealed by our surprise when something disturbs our expectations. Many theories of vision have been premised on the central role played by prediction. Yet, implicit prediction in human vision has been difficult to assess in the laboratory, and many r...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Enns JT,Lleras A

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：:The perception of social information is crucial for the survival of most animal species. Two recent studies demonstrate the joint contribution of innate mechanisms and perceptual experience to two aspects of social perception--faces and biological motion. Together, they highlight how important it is to consider faces ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Thompson JC,Hardee JE

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Recent research provides new insights into amygdala contributions to positive emotion and reward. Studies of neuronal activity in the monkey amygdala and of autonomic responses mediated by the monkey amygdala show that, contrary to a widely held view, the amygdala is just as important for processing positive reward an...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Murray EA

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:According to dual-process models, recognition memory is supported by distinct retrieval processes known as familiarity and recollection. Important evidence supporting the dual-process framework has come from studies using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). These studies have identified two topographically distinct...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Rugg MD,Curran T

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

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：:How does the brain represent number and perform mathematical calculations? According to a recent and provocative study by Tang and colleagues, it depends on which language you learn. They found that the divergent linguistic and cultural experiences of native Chinese and native English speakers are associated with dist...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Cantlon JF,Brannon EM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major non-invasive techniques in cognitive neuroscience, electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have complementary advantages with regard to their spatial and temporal resolution. Recent hardware and software developments have made it feasible to acquire EEG and fMRI data si...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Debener S,Ullsperger M,Siegel M,Engel AK

更新日期：2006-12-01 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

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：:Understanding a sentence requires a working memory of the partial products of comprehension, so that linguistic relations between temporally distal parts of the sentence can be rapidly computed. We describe an emerging theoretical framework for this working memory system that incorporates several independently motivat...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Lewis RL,Vasishth S,Van Dyke JA

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：: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：:The domain-general learning mechanisms elicited in incidental learning situations are of potential interest in many research fields, including language acquisition, object knowledge formation and motor learning. They have been the focus of studies on implicit learning for nearly 40 years. Stemming from a different res...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Perruchet P,Pacton S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 'generalist genes' hypothesis, it is suggested that the same genes affect most cognitive abilities and disabilities. This recently proposed hypothesis is based on considerable multivariate genetic research showing that there is substantial genetic overlap between such broad areas of cognition as language, readi...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Kovas Y,Plomin R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blindsight, the remarkable capability to react to unseen visual stimuli, has thus far only been demonstrated in patients and monkeys with a lesion to primary visual cortex. A recent study by Boyer, Harrison and Ro demonstrates blindsight in normal human observers, using TMS to block visual processing. Combined with ot...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Lamme VA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of stress on learning and memory are not always clear: both facilitating and impairing influences are described in the literature. Here we propose a unifying theory, which states that stress will only facilitate learning and memory processes: (i) when stress is experienced in the context and around the tim...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Joëls M,Pu Z,Wiegert O,Oitzl MS,Krugers HJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) reflects a primary inhibitory executive function deficit has spurred a substantial literature. However, empirical findings and methodological issues challenge the etiologic primacy of inhibitory and executive deficits in ADHD. Based on accumulating ev...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Castellanos FX,Sonuga-Barke EJ,Milham MP,Tannock R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much interest currently in using functional neuroimaging techniques to understand better the nature of cognition. One particular practice that has become common is 'reverse inference', by which the engagement of a particular cognitive process is inferred from the activation of a particular brain region. Such ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Poldrack RA

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Cognitive control processes refer to our ability to coordinate thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals. In the fronto-lateral cortex such processes have been primarily related to mid-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (mid-DLPFC). However, recent brain-imaging and meta-analytic studies suggest that a region...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Brass M,Derrfuss J,Forstmann B,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiencing oneself as the cause of an action is a fundamental building block for a sense of self. A recent study by Sato and Yasuda provides evidence that motor prediction contributes to the experience of agency. Their findings demonstrate that agency is experienced not only for intended, but also for erroneous, uni...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Knoblich G,Sebanz N

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When people talk they gesture, and those gestures often reflect thoughts not expressed in their words. In this sense, gesture and the speech it accompanies can mismatch. Gesture-speech 'mismatches' are found when learners are on the verge of making progress on a task - when they are ready to learn. Moreover, mismatche...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Goldin-Meadow S,Wagner SM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital prosopagnosia refers to the deficit in face processing that is apparent from early childhood in the absence of any underlying neurological basis and in the presence of intact sensory and intellectual function. Several such cases have been described recently and elucidating the mechanisms giving rise to this...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Behrmann M,Avidan G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative study of infant development and animal cognition brings to cognitive science the promise of insights into the nature and origins of cognitive skills. In this article, I review a recent wave of comparative studies conducted with similar methodologies and similar theoretical frameworks on how two core co...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Gómez JC

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：: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：:In this article we provide a unifying neural hypothesis on how individuals understand the actions and emotions of others. Our main claim is that the fundamental mechanism at the basis of the experiential understanding of others' actions is the activation of the mirror neuron system. A similar mechanism, but involving ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Gallese V,Keysers C,Rizzolatti G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent claims of culture in great apes have provoked fervent argument about the 'true' definition of culture, most of which has been unhelpful. Instead, a range of definitions should be used to explore different aspects of the cognitive processes that together result in human culture, many of which can be productively...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Byrne RW,Barnard PJ,Davidson I,Janik VM,McGrew WC,Miklósi A,Wiessner P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What representations underlie the ability to think and reason about number? Whereas certain numerical concepts, such as the real numbers, are only ever represented by a subset of human adults, other numerical abilities are widespread and can be observed in adults, infants and other animal species. We review recent beh...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Feigenson L,Dehaene S,Spelke E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young children exhibit several deficits in reasoning about their own and other people's mental states. We propose that these deficits, along with more subtle limitations in adults' social-cognitive reasoning, are all manifestations of the same cognitive bias. This is the 'curse of knowledge' - a tendency to be biased ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Birch SA,Bloom P

更新日期：2004-06-01 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