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Trait-like nocturnal sleep behavior identified by combining wearable, phone-use, and self-report data

open access: yesnpj Digital Medicine, 2021
Using polysomnography over multiple weeks to characterize an individual’s habitual sleep behavior while accurate, is difficult to upscale. As an alternative, we integrated sleep measurements from a consumer sleep-tracker, smartphone-based ecological ...
Stijn A. A. Massar   +8 more
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Contrasting Similar Words Facilitates Second Language Vocabulary Learning in Children by Sharpening Lexical Representations

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study considers one of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the development of second language (L2) vocabulary in children: The differentiation and sharpening of lexical representations.
Peta Baxter   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Four applications of embodied cognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article presents the views of four sets of authors, each taking concepts of embodied cognition into problem spaces where the new paradigm can be applied. The first considers consequences of embodied cognition on the legal system. The second explores
Benforado   +37 more
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Cognition blindness and cognitive gadgets [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019
Abstract Responding to commentaries from psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and anthropologists, I clarify a central purpose of Cognitive Gadgets – to overcome “cognition blindness” in research on human evolution. I defend this purpose against Brunerian, extended mind, and niche construction critiques of computationalism – that is, views ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Cognition and addiction [PDF]

open access: yesDialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2019
In this targeted review, we summarize current knowledge on substance-use disorder (SUD)-related cognitive deficits, the link between these deficits and clinical outcomes, and the cognitive training, remediation, and pharmacological approaches that have the potential to rescue cognition.
Verdejo García, Antonio   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Comparison of functional recovery of manual dexterity after unilateral spinal cord lesion or motor cortex lesion in adult macaque monkeys

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2013
In relation to mechanisms involved in functional recovery of manual dexterity from cervical cord injury or from motor cortical injury, our goal was to determine whether the movements that characterize post-lesion functional recovery are comparable to ...
Florence eHoogewoud   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of noradrenaline in cognition and cognitive disorders [PDF]

open access: yesBrain, 2021
Abstract Many aspects of cognition and behaviour are regulated by noradrenergic projections to the forebrain originating from the locus coeruleus, acting through alpha and beta adrenoreceptors. Loss of these projections is common in neurodegenerative diseases and contributes to their cognitive and behavioural deficits.
Trevor W. Robbins   +3 more
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Distributed Cognition: Cognizing, Autonomy and the Turing Test [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Some of the papers in this special issue distribute cognition between what is going on inside individual cognizers’ heads and their outside worlds; others distribute cognition among different individual cognizers.
Dror, Itiel, Harnad, Stevan
core   +1 more source

Pragmatism and the pragmatic turn in cognitive science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter examines the pragmatist approach to cognition and experience and provides some of the conceptual background to the “pragmatic turn” currently underway in cognitive science.
Menary, Richard
core   +1 more source

Emotional engagements predict and enhance social cognition in young chimpanzees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Social cognition in infancy is evident in coordinated triadic engagements, that is, infants attending jointly with social partners and objects. Current evolutionary theories of primate social cognition tend to highlight species differences in cognition ...
Bard K.A.   +21 more
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