Finessing the Bored Monkey Problem
Publication date: Available online 24 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Ned Block (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Fundamental Problem with No-Cognition Paradigms
Publication date: Available online 24 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Ian Phillips, Jorge Morales (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Space: A Missing Piece of the Dynamic Puzzle
Publication date: Available online 23 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Armin Iraji, Robyn Miller, Tulay Adali, Vince D. CalhounThere has been growing interest in studying the temporal reconfiguration of brain functional connectivity to understand the role of dynamic interaction (e.g., integration and segregation) among neuronal populations in cognitive functions. However, it is crucial to differentiate between various dynamic properties because nearly all existing dynamic connectivity studies are presented as spatiotemporally dynamic, even though they fall into different categories. As a result, v...
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Near-Death Experience as a Probe to Explore (Disconnected) Consciousness
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Charlotte Martial, Héléna Cassol, Steven Laureys, Olivia GosseriesForty-five years ago, the first evidence of near-death experience (NDE) during comatose state was provided, setting the stage for a new paradigm for studying the neural basis of consciousness in unresponsive states. At present, the state of consciousness associated with NDEs remains an open question. In the common view, consciousness is said to disappear in a coma with the brain shutting down, but this is an oversimplification. We argue that a novel framework d...
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Studying Gender Diversity
Publication date: Available online 21 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Jennifer D. Rubin, S. Atwood, Kristina R. OlsonGender identity is a core feature of human experience, yet our understanding of gender identity is shifting with broader societal changes in recognizing and understanding gender diversity. Here we discuss recent trends and upcoming directions for this burgeoning subfield. (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Hippocampal Cognitive Map: One Space or Many?
Publication date: Available online 20 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Hugo J. SpiersNew 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 differentiated multiple maps across the hippocampus that have distinct properties? (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Avoid Cohen’s ‘Small’, ‘Medium’, and ‘Large’ for Power Analysis
Publication date: Available online 15 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Joshua Correll, Christopher Mellinger, Gary H. McClelland, Charles M. JuddOne of the most difficult and important decisions in power analysis involves specifying an effect size. Researchers frequently employ definitions of small, medium, and large that were proposed by Jacob Cohen. These definitions are problematic for two reasons. First, they are arbitrary, based on non-scientific criteria. Second, they are inconsistent, changing dramatically and illogically as a function of the statistical test a researcher plans to use (e.g....
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Learning During Sleep: A Dream Comes True?
Publication date: Available online 15 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Simon Ruch, Katharina HenkeCan information that is processed during sleep influence awake behavior? Recent research demonstrates that learning during sleep is possible, but that sleep-learning invariably produces memory traces that are consciously inaccessible in the awake state. Thus, sleep-learning can likely exert implicit, but not explicit, influences on awake behavior. (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Semantic Search as Pattern Completion across a Concept
Publication date: Available online 7 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Sarah H. Solomon, Anna C. SchapiroWhat role does the hippocampus play in semantic memory? In a recent paper, Cutler et al. use a vector space model of semantics to characterize semantic search deficits in hippocampal amnesia. We relate their findings to properties of the hippocampal neural code and to controversies regarding hippocampal contributions to cognition. (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Psychology of Motivated versus Rational Impression Updating
Publication date: Available online 6 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Minjae Kim, BoKyung Park, Liane YoungPeople’s beliefs about others are often impervious to new evidence: we continue to cooperate with ingroup defectors and refuse to see outgroup enemies as rehabilitated. Resistance to updating beliefs with new information has historically been interpreted as reflecting bias or motivated cognition, but recent work in Bayesian inference suggests that belief maintenance can be compatible with procedural rationality. We propose a mentalizing account of belief maintenance, which holds that protec...
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Switching Tracks? Towards a Multidimensional Model of Utilitarian Psychology
Publication date: Available online 3 January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Jim A.C. Everett, Guy KahaneSacrificial moral dilemmas are widely used to investigate when, how, and why people make judgments that are consistent with utilitarianism. However, to what extent can responses to sacrificial dilemmas shed light on utilitarian decision making? We consider two key questions. First, how meaningful is the relationship between responses to sacrificial dilemmas, and what is distinctive about a utilitarian approach to morality? Second, to what extent do findings about sacrificial dilemmas generalize to oth...
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: January 2020Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 24, Issue 1Author(s): (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - January 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: Available online 28 December 2019Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Aba Szollosi, David Kellen, Danielle J. Navarro, Richard Shiffrin, Iris van Rooij, Trisha Van Zandt, Chris Donkin (Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - December 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Learning to Be Conscious
Publication date: Available online 28 December 2019Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Axel Cleeremans, Dalila Achoui, Arnaud Beauny, Lars Keuninckx, Jean-Remy Martin, Santiago Muñoz-Moldes, Laurène Vuillaume, Adélaïde de HeeringConsciousness remains a formidable challenge. Different theories of consciousness have proposed vastly different mechanisms to account for phenomenal experience. Here, appealing to aspects of global workspace theory, higher-order theories, social theories, and predictive processing, we introduce a novel framework: the self-organizing metarerpresentational account (SOMA), in which con...
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - December 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
