Concept Formation - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Conceptual processing in music as revealed by N400 effects on words and musical targets.

29 Sep 2009 The cognitive processing of concepts, that is, abstract general ideas, has been mostly studied with language. However, other domains, such as music, can also convey concepts. Koelsch et al. [Koelsch, S., Kasper, E., Sammler, D., Schulze, K., Gunter, ... Read more...

Tracking the emergence of conceptual knowledge during human decision making.

22 Sep 2009 Concepts lie at the very heart of intelligence, providing organizing principles with which to comprehend the world. Surprisingly little, however, is understood about how we acquire and deploy concepts. Here, we show that a functionally coupled ... Read more...

Conceptual representation and the making of new decisions.

22 Sep 2009 A key feature of an adaptive decision making mechanism is its ability to guide behavior even in new situations. In this issue of Neuron, Kumaran et al. report that conceptual representations, which allow generalization from one situation to another ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Concept Formation - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Conceptual processing in music as revealed by N400 effects on words and musical targets. 29 Sep 2009
• Tracking the emergence of conceptual knowledge during human decision making. 22 Sep 2009
• Conceptual representation and the making of new decisions. 22 Sep 2009
• Young children separate multiple pretend worlds. 30 Aug 2009
• Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires? 30 Aug 2009
• Frontotemporal dementia selectively impairs transitive reasoning about familiar spatial environments. 30 Aug 2009
• Property transmission: an explanatory account of the role of similarity information in causal inference. 30 Aug 2009
• Children's understanding of second-order mental states. 30 Aug 2009
• The cerebral basis of mapping nonsymbolic numerical quantities onto abstract symbols: an fMRI training study. 30 Aug 2009
• Classifying partial exemplars: seeing less and learning more. 30 Aug 2009
• Bayesian rationality in evaluating multiple testimonies: incorporating the role of coherence. 30 Aug 2009
• Ignorance- versus evidence-based decision making: a decision time analysis of the recognition heuristic. 30 Aug 2009
• Scope of lexical access in spoken sentence production: implications for the conceptual-syntactic interface. 30 Aug 2009
• Extremely selective attention: eye-tracking studies of the dynamic allocation of attention to stimulus features in categorization. 30 Aug 2009
• Test sequence priming in recognition memory. 30 Aug 2009
• Category-specific organization in the human brain does not require visual experience. 11 Aug 2009
• Word semantics is processed even without attentional effort. 30 Jul 2009
• Can chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) discriminate appearance from reality? 22 Jul 2009
• Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics. 15 Jul 2009
• How 7-month-olds interpret ambiguous motion events: category-based reasoning in infancy. 8 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Concept Formation'

Definition: A cognitive process involving the formation of ideas generalized from the knowledge of qualities, aspects, and relations of objects.

Descriptor UI: D003210

Alternative terms: Concept Formation; Concept Formations; Formation, Concept; Formations, Concept;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.233;