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Concept Formation (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Concept Formation'
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How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? A personal account.
25 May 2009 
My mind is similar to an Internet search engine that searches for photographs. I use language to narrate the photo-realistic pictures that pop up in my imagination. When I design equipment for the cattle industry, I can test run it in my imagination ...
rec_pub_19528028-how-does-visual-thinking-work-mind-person-autism-personal-account.htm
Objectification, standardization, and commodification in health care: a conceptual readjustment.
19 May 2009 Historically, medical sociologists have used the interrelated concepts of objectification, commodification, and standardization to point to the pathologies of modern medicine, such as the depersonalization of care and the effects of bureaucratic ...
rec_pub_19464781-objectification-standardization-commodification-health-care.htm
Predictive and postdictive mechanisms jointly contribute to visual awareness.
17 May 2009 One of the fundamental issues in visual awareness is how we are able to perceive the scene in front of our eyes on time despite the delay in processing visual information. The prediction theory postulates that our visual system predicts the future ...
rec_pub_19457686-predictive-postdictive-mechanisms-jointly-contribute-visual-awareness.htm
Concept of representation and mental symptoms. The case of theory of mind.
14 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Most current theories explaining theory of mind (ToM) rely on the concept of 'representation', as it is usually employed in cognitive science, and is thus affected by its epistemic shortcoming, namely its incapacity to use ...
rec_pub_19451754-concept-representation-mental-symptoms-case-theory-mind.htm
Prefrontal cortex and the evolution of symbolic reference.
13 May 2009 Symbol systems such as numbers and language are of paramount importance to human cognition. In number theory, numbers are symbolic signs embedded in a system of higher-order sign-sign relations. During ontogeny, numerical competence passes through ...
rec_pub_19447604-prefrontal-cortex-evolution-symbolic-reference.htm
Early word-learning entails reference, not merely associations.
13 May 2009 Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of classic tensions concerning the fundamental nature of human knowledge and the processes underlying its acquisition. This tension, especially evident in research on the acquisition of words and concepts, ...
rec_pub_19447670-early-word-learning-entails-reference-merely-associations.htm
The comparative study of mental time travel.
13 May 2009 People regularly travel through time mentally to remember and reconstruct past events and to anticipate and plan future events. We suggest that a bi-cone structure best describes human mental time travel (MTT) abilities. Experiments with scrub-jays, ...
rec_pub_19447669-the-comparative-study-mental-time-travel.htm
11 May 2009 Research on the effects of perceptual manipulations on recognition memory has suggested that (a) recollection is selectively influenced by task-relevant information and (b) familiarity can be considered perceptually specific. The present experiment ...
rec_pub_19443243-verbal-predicates-foster-conscious-recollection-familiarity-task.htm
10 May 2009 Working Memory (WM) plays a crucial role in many high-level cognitive processes (e.g., reasoning, decision making, goal pursuit and cognitive control). The prevalent view holds that active components of WM are predominantly intentional and ...
rec_pub_19442537-implicit-working-memory.htm
Why the brain talks to itself: sources of error in emotional prediction.
10 May 2009 People typically choose pleasure over pain. But how do they know which of these their choices will entail? The brain generates mental simulations (previews) of future events, which produce affective reactions (premotions), which are then used as a ...
rec_pub_19528015-why-brain-talks-sources-error-emotional-prediction.htm
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