Play in Cognitive Development: From Rational Constructivism to Predictive Processing
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract It is widely believed that play and curiosity are key ingredients as children develop models of the world. There is also an emerging consensus that children are Bayesian learners who combine their structured prior beliefs with estimations of the likelihood of new evidence to infer the most probable model of the world.
Marc M. Andersen, Julian Kiverstein
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The Research Deficit and Expert Disagreement Regarding Music Selection for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. [PDF]
ACS Pharmacol Transl SciMoskovitz M.
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Entertainment and fun in the service of survival: Theatre of the People's Liberation in the battles of Neretva and Sutjeska. [PDF]
War SocJelušić I.
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Knocking Off the Street: The Subversive Writings of Hong Kong's Grassroots Kings
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how two grassroots street artists in Hong Kong, the King of Kowloon (Tsang Tsou‐choi) and the Plumber King (Yim Chiu‐tong), intervene in the city's everyday visual order. Moving beyond celebratory collective memory narratives and easy analogies to graffiti, it frames their works as subversive urban practices that rework ...
Shizheng Liang, Zihong Zhang
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Government environmental regulation and farmers' engagement in traditional folk practices: the mediating roles of ecological cognition and social norms. [PDF]
Front PsycholWu Q, Feng J, Liu X, Huang Y.
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Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.Māori are disproportionately affected by out‐of‐hospital deaths due to higher rates of cardiac arrest and lower survival outcomes. Ambulance personnel are often the only healthcare professionals present during events, making their role in supporting bereaved whānau (families) critical.
Eillish Satchell +4 more
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Adaptive Feature Fusion Gate and Gated Channel-Spatial Attention in CNN-Transformer Models for Music Genre Classification. [PDF]
PLoS OneMa Y, Ding Z, Wan S, Li H, Xu Y.
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A Question of Identity: Young Māori Connections to Marae—Do They Matter?
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.Cultural connection, identity and belonging are increasingly shaped by urbanisation, mobility and the conditions of digitally integrated and often mediated life. Maintaining place‐based Indigenous relationships and responsibilities is important especially given the social, cultural or geographic distance between Indigenous people and their ancestral ...
Merata Kawharu +3 more
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TARREAN: A Novel Transformer with a Gate Recurrent Unit for Stylized Music Generation. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Zhang Y +6 more
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