Cognitive Science - Methods
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

A parietal-premotor network for movement intention and motor awareness.

8 Sep 2009 It is commonly assumed that we are conscious of our movements mainly because we can sense ourselves moving as ongoing peripheral information coming from our muscles and retina reaches the brain. Recent evidence, however, suggests that, contrary to ... Read more...

Mental models or methodological artefacts? Adults' 'naïve' responses to a test of children's conceptions of the earth.

29 Apr 2009 Vosniadou and Brewer (1992) claim that children's drawings and answers to questions show that they have naive, theory-like 'mental models' of the earth; for example, they believe it to be flat, or hollow with people inside. However, recent studies ... Read more...

The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part I: historical context, methods, and relevant basic science.

3 Feb 2009 Neuroscience was an integral part of psychosomatic medicine at its inception in the early 20th century. Since the mid-20th century, however, psychosomatic research has largely ignored the brain. The field of neuroscience has burgeoned in recent ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cognitive Science - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A parietal-premotor network for movement intention and motor awareness. 8 Sep 2009
• Mental models or methodological artefacts? Adults' 'naïve' responses to a test of children's conceptions of the earth. 29 Apr 2009
• The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part I: historical context, methods, and relevant basic science. 3 Feb 2009
• Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm. 30 Oct 2008
• Experimental pragmatics: a Gricean turn in the study of language. 30 Oct 2008
• Benefits of multisensory learning. 30 Oct 2008
• A brain for numbers. 29 Sep 2008
• The role of representation in computation. 16 Sep 2008
• Towards a science of magic. 3 Aug 2008
• Attribution and social cognitive neuroscience: a new approach for the "online-assessment" of causality ascriptions and their emotional consequences. 21 May 2008
• The beyond must also be useful: the burden of alternative approaches. 18 May 2008
• Children's knowledge of the earth: a new methodological and statistical approach. 14 May 2008
• Cognitive Ethology for humans: inconvenient truth or attentional deficit? 16 Apr 2008
• What the resident meant to say: use of cognitive interviewing techniques to develop questionnaires for nursing home residents. 30 Mar 2008
• Focus on decision making. 30 Mar 2008
• Applying an expanded set of cognitive design principles to formatting the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) longitudinal survey. 30 Mar 2008
• Numbers guy: are our brains wired for math? Mar 2008
• Some practical constraints on Cognitive Ethology: striking the balance between a theoretical approach and a practical methodology. 4 Feb 2008
• Moving beyond computational cognitivism: understanding intentionality, intersubjectivity and ecology of mind. 13 Jan 2008
• Neurolaw: the big question. 30 Dec 2007

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Technical information about 'Cognitive Science'

Definition: The study of the precise nature of different mental tasks and the operations of the brain that enable them to be performed, engaging branches of psychology, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D019336

Alternative terms: Cognitive Science; Cognitive Sciences; Science, Cognitive; Sciences, Cognitive;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.628.255;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: a branch of psychol; SPEC; SPEC qualif