abstract：:Brains that work together, couple together through interbrain synchrony. Does interbrain synchrony causally facilitate social interaction? This question cannot be answered by simply recording from multiple brains (hyperscanning). It instead requires causal protocols entailing their simultaneous stimulation (multibrain...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Novembre G,Iannetti GD

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beat perception offers cognitive scientists an exciting opportunity to explore how cognition and action are intertwined in the brain even in the absence of movement. Many believe the motor system predicts the timing of beats, yet current models of beat perception do not specify how this is neurally implemented. Drawin...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Cannon JJ,Patel AD

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, online platforms are being used to deliver psychotherapy. This, along with the growth in computational psychiatry, provides scientists with new opportunities to quantify how patient-therapist relationships relate to treatment outcomes. We argue that it is necessary to investigate markers and mechanisms t...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ryu J,Banthin DC,Gu X

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study by Zhang and Gläscher (2020) in humans examines learning from one's own versus others' actions under reward uncertainty. Comparing findings from this and non-human studies on learning under perceptual uncertainty suggests a unified role for confidence in learning under different types of uncertainty acr...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Soltani A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent metaphor in decision-making research casts people as intuitive statisticians. Popular explanations based on this metaphor assume that the way in which people represent the environment is specified and fixed a priori. A major flaw in this account is that it is not clear how people know what aspects of an e...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Szollosi A,Newell BR

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is consciousness a continuous stream of percepts or is it discrete, occurring only at certain moments in time? This question has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries. Both hypotheses have fallen repeatedly in and out of favor. Here, we review recent studies exploring long-lasting post...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Herzog MH,Drissi-Daoudi L,Doerig A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does organized cognition arise from distributed brain activity? Recent analyses of fluid intelligence suggest a core process of cognitive focus and integration, organizing the components of a cognitive operation into the required computational structure. A cortical 'multiple-demand' (MD) system is closely linked t...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Duncan J,Assem M,Shashidhara S

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Many everyday thoughts and actions are shaped not only by our direct relationships with others, but also by our knowledge of relations between third-parties. Lau et al. recently demonstrated how knowledge of one type of social relation - interpersonal similarity - shapes cognition and behavior, and shed light on the n...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Parkinson C,Du M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive Processing theories hold that the mind's core aim is to minimize prediction-error about its experiences. But prediction-error minimization can be 'hacked', by placing oneself in highly predictable environments where nothing happens. Recent philosophical work suggests that this is a surprisingly serious chal...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Sun Z,Firestone C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturalistic observations show that decisions to avoid or escape predators occur at different spatiotemporal scales and that they are supported by different computations and neural circuits. At their extremes, proximal threats are addressed by a limited repertoire of reflexive and myopic actions, reflecting reduced de...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Mobbs D,Headley DB,Ding W,Dayan P

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：:Our knowledge about the state of the world is often incomplete, making it difficult to select the best course of action. One strategy that can be used to improve our ability to make decisions is to identify the causes of our ignorance (i.e., why an unexpected event might have occurred) and use estimates of the uncerta...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Pulcu E,Browning M

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：:The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of language in its natural niche raises new issues, first and foremost the binding of multiple, temporally offset signals under tight time ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Holler J,Levinson SC

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of brain activity with high temporal resolution have shown that the information represented in a single brain region undergoes dynamic changes on the scale of milliseconds. This dynamic process presents a unique inferential challenge to low temporal resolution neural measures, such as BOLD fMRI. Potential sol...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ghuman AS,Martin A

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:In cognitive neuroscience, brain-behaviour relationships are usually mapped onto a 2D cortical sheet. Cortical layers are a critical but often ignored third dimension of human cortical function. Improved resolution has put us on the threshold of beginning to image human cognition in three dimensions. ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Kuehn E,Sereno MI

更新日期：2018-12-01 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

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：:General anesthesia provides an invaluable experimental tool to probe the essential neural circuits that underlie consciousness. A new study reports that cholinergic stimulation of the prefrontal cortex restores wake-like behaviors in anesthetized rodents, suggesting that cholinergic inputs to the prefrontal cortex pla...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Solt K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an integrated view of interval timing and reinforcement learning (RL) in the brain. The computational goal of RL is to maximize future rewards, and this depends crucially on a representation of time. Different RL systems in the brain process time in distinct ways. A model-based system learns 'what happens w...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Petter EA,Gershman SJ,Meck WH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the environment not only by navigating, but also by viewing our surroundings with our eyes. Here we review growing evidence that the mammalian hippocampal formation, extensively studied in the context of navigation and memory, mediates a representation of visual space that is stably anchored to the external...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Nau M,Julian JB,Doeller CF

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Our understanding of the typical human brain has benefitted greatly from studying different kinds of brains and their associated behavioral repertoires, including animal models and neuropsychological patients. This same comparative perspective can be applied to early development - the environment, behavior, and brains...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Ellis CT,Turk-Browne NB

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Conditioning, how animals learn to associate two or more events, is one of the most influential paradigms in learning theory. It is nevertheless unclear how current models of associative learning can accommodate complex phenomena without ad hoc representational assumptions. We propose to embrace deep neural networks t...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Mondragón E,Alonso E,Kokkola N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of evolution, social dominance has been a strong force shaping the organization of social systems in many species. Individuals with a better ability to represent social dominance relationships and to adapt their behavior accordingly usually achieve better access to resources, hence providing benefits in ...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Qu C,Ligneul R,Van der Henst JB,Dreher JC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain during healthy aging exhibits gradual deterioration of structure but maintains a high level of cognitive ability. These structural changes are often accompanied by reorganization of functional brain networks. Existing neurocognitive theories of aging have argued that such changes are either beneficial or det...

journal_title：Trends in cognitive sciences

authors： Naik S,Banerjee A,Bapi RS,Deco G,Roy D

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：: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