Thinking - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Property transmission: an explanatory account of the role of similarity information in causal inference.

30 Aug 2009 Many kinds of common and easily observed causal relations exhibit property transmission, which is a tendency for the causal object to impose its own properties on the effect object. It is proposed that property transmission becomes a general and ... Read more...

Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right.

25 Aug 2009 The Whorf hypothesis holds that we view the world filtered through the semantic categories of our native language. Over the years, consensus has oscillated between embrace and dismissal of this hypothesis. Here, we review recent findings on the ... Read more...

Representations of physical plausibility revealed by event-related potentials.

3 Aug 2009 Maintaining an accurate mental representation of the current environment is crucial to detecting change in that environment and ensuring behavioral coherence. Past experience with interactions between objects, such as collisions, has been shown to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Thinking - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Your brain: use it or lose it. 29 Sep 2009
• Property transmission: an explanatory account of the role of similarity information in causal inference. 30 Aug 2009
• Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right. 25 Aug 2009
• Representations of physical plausibility revealed by event-related potentials. 3 Aug 2009
• The frontopolar cortex mediates event knowledge complexity: a parametric functional MRI study. 3 Aug 2009
• Motor representations of articulators contribute to categorical perception of speech sounds. 3 Aug 2009
• [An integrated functional brain, not a partitioned brain] 30 Jul 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• How power influences moral thinking. 30 Jul 2009
• Common and specific contributions of the intraparietal sulci to numerosity and length processing. 30 Jul 2009
• Extraction of situational meaning by integrating multiple meanings in a complex environment: a functional MRI study. 30 Jul 2009
• Implementation of spatial transformation rules for goal-directed reaching via gain modulation in monkey parietal and premotor cortex. 27 Jul 2009
• Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency after an acute psychosocial stressor. 19 Jul 2009
• More than a matter of getting 'unstuck': flexible thinkers use more abstract representations than perseverators. 29 Jun 2009
• The normalization of paranoia. 29 Jun 2009
• Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. In this issue. 29 Jun 2009
• The bright side of being blue: depression as an adaptation for analyzing complex problems. 29 Jun 2009
• Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest. 15 Jun 2009
• Age-group differences in medial cortex activity associated with thinking about self-relevant agendas. 30 May 2009
• How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? A personal account. 25 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Thinking'

Definition: Mental activity, not predominantly perceptual, by which one apprehends some aspect of an object or situation based on past learning and experience.

Descriptor UI: D013850

Alternative terms: Thinking;

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

Tree Number: F02.463.785;

Technical Notes: the thought process: do not confuse with MEDITATION, a relaxation technique; differentiate from COGNITION: see treeing & MeSH definition