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A Survey of Substance Use for Cognitive Enhancement by University Students in the Netherlands [PDF]
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2015 Background:Pharmacological cognitive enhancement, using chemicals to change cellular processes in the brain in order to enhance one’s cognitive capacities, is an often discussed phenomenon.
Kimberly Johanna Schelle +9 more
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Intellectual autonomy, epistemic dependence and cognitive enhancement [PDF]
Synthese, 2017 Intellectual autonomy has long been identified as an epistemic virtue, one that has been championed influentially by (among others) Kant, Hume and Emerson.
J. Carter
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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, has been considered as a potentially effective treatment for the cognitive impairment in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s ...
Ye Xie +5 more
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Short-Term Effects of Video-Games on Cognitive Enhancement: the Role of Positive Emotions
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 2021 According to established background knowledge, playing is essential in human development and a power remediation tool in clinical populations. In clinical interventions, the beneficial roles of playing have often been sought and investigated in the ...
S. Franceschini +4 more
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How pills undermine skills: Moralization of cognitive enhancement and causal selection.
Consciousness and Cognition, 2021 Despite the promise to boost human potential and wellbeing, enhancement drugs face recurring ethical scrutiny. The present studies examined attitudes toward cognitive enhancement in order to learn more about these ethical concerns, who has them, and the ...
E. Mihailov +3 more
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Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica, 2021 The Logical Intelligence Enhancement Program (LIEP) is a program specifically addressed to students aging from 6 to 12. It consists of a series of exercises of different types (verbal inferences, understanding of graphs and tables, series of digits, etc.)
Marta Pellegrini +3 more
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Converging Cognitive Enhancements [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006 Abstract: Cognitive enhancement, the amplification or extension of core capacities of the mind, has become a major topic in bioethics. But cognitive enhancement is a prime example of a converging technology where individual disciplines merge and issues transcend particular local discourses.
Sandberg, A, Bostrom, N
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Integration of cognitive and moral enhancement [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2012 I will discuss four major perspectives on cognitive enhancement and morality: 1) cognitive enhancement is morally impermissible because humans are not supposed to alter what God has ordained or nature has shaped; 2) cognitive enhancement is our moral ...
Rakić Vojin
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022 BackgroundWith our aging population, many individuals are at risk of developing age-related cognitive decline. Physical exercise has been demonstrated to enhance cognitive performance in aging adults. This study examined the effects of 8 weeks of aerobic
Carrie A. Hinchman +21 more
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Smart drugs and neuroenhancement: what do we know?
Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, 2021 Introduction: Smart drugs are among the most common drugs used by students. It is estimated that they are second in incidence after cannabis. Although they are usually used for diseases such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dementia,
Massimiliano Esposito +7 more
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