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Attitudes Toward Cognitive Enhancement: The Role of Metaphor and Context

AJOB Neuroscience, 2019
The widespread use of stimulants among healthy individuals to improve cognition has received growing attention; however, public attitudes toward this practice are not well understood.
Stacey Humphries, Anjan Chatterjee
exaly   +2 more sources

COGNITIVE DISABILITY AND COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT

Metaphilosophy, 2009
Abstract: This essay explores problems of consistency among commonsense beliefs about the comparative moral status of animals, fetuses, and human beings congenitally endowed with cognitive capacities and potential no higher than those of higher animals.
Jeff Mcmahan
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Socio-cognitive biases are associated to belief in neuromyths and cognitive enhancement: A pre-registered study

Personality and Individual Differences, 2019
This study identified the psychological and cognitive factors that predispose people to believe in neuromyths (e.g., the belief that we only use 10% of our brain) and in cognitive enhancement (e.g., the belief that brain stimulation devices can enhance ...
Michiel Van Elk
exaly   +2 more sources

Cognitive Enhancement

Neurointerventions and the Law, 2020
According to the parity principle, the means whereby an agent intervenes in his or her mind, or the minds of others, is irrelevant when it comes to assessing the moral status of the intervention: what matters is how the intervention affects the agent ...
N. Levy
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Cognitive enhancement

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2013
Cognitive enhancement refers to the improvement of cognitive ability in normal healthy individuals. In this article, we focus on the use of pharmaceutical agents and brain stimulation for cognitive enhancement, reviewing the most common methods of pharmacologic and electronic cognitive enhancement, and the mechanisms by which they are believed to work,
Farah, Martha J   +3 more
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Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive Enhancements

AJOB Neuroscience, 2020
Empirical investigations into ordinary people’s bioethical intuitions have steadily grown throughout the last decades.
Veit, W   +8 more
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The Families of Cognition Enhancers

Pharmacopsychiatry, 1989
An attempt has been made to classify the numerous drugs used to treat cognition deficits according to their chemical structures and to their main physiological effects. Particular emphasis has been given to the following families: Piracetam-type, Co-dergocrine-type and vincamine-type compounds; cholinergic agents, psychostimulants, vasodilators ...
W, Fröstl, L, Maître
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Nicotine as a cognitive enhancer

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 1992
1. Nicotine improves attention in a wide variety of tasks in healthy volunteers. 2. Nicotine improves immediate and longer term memory in healthy volunteers. 3. Nicotine improves attention in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease. 4. While some of the memory effects of nicotine may be due to enhanced attention, others seem to be the result of ...
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