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Music Cognition and the Cognitive Sciences

Topics in Cognitive Science, 2012
AbstractWhy should music be of interest to cognitive scientists, and what role does it play in human cognition? We review three factors that make music an important topic for cognitive scientific research. First, music is a universal human trait fulfilling crucial roles in everyday life.
Marcus T. Pearce, Martin Rohrmeier
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“Cognition” and Dynamical Cognitive Science

Minds and Machines, 2016
Several philosophers have expressed concerns with some recent uses of the term `cognition'. Underlying a number of these concerns are claims that cognition is only located in the brain and that no compelling case has been made to use `cognition' in any way other than as a cause of behavior that is representational in nature.
Luis H. Favela, Jonathan Martin
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Cognition and Cognitive Reserve

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
Cognition is a mental process that provides the ability to think, know, and learn. Though cognitive skills are necessary to do daily tasks and activities, cognitive aging causes changes in various cognitive functions. Cognitive abilities that are preserved and strengthened by experience can be kept as a reserve and utilized when necessary.
Anisha, Savarimuthu, R Joseph, Ponniah
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Cognitive gadgets and cognitive priors

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019
Abstract Some of the foundations of Heyes’ radical reasoning seem to be based on a fractional selection of available evidence. Using an ethological perspective, we argue against Heyes’ rapid dismissal of innate cognitive instincts. Heyes’ use of fMRI studies of literacy to claim that culture assembles pieces of mental technology seems an example of ...
Gian Domenico Iannetti, Giorgio Vallortigara   +1 more
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