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Showing 1 to 20 of 229 for “"cognitive neuroscience"”.
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A Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of Deceptive Communication
… first aim of this thesis was to elucidate key cognitive and neural processes underlying cued (i.e., instructed) and uncued lies. The second aim, based on recent research suggesting a link between dishonesty and creativity, was to determine whether creative cognition contributes to deceptive …
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Quintessence of Dust: Cognitive Neuroscience and an Actor's Process
<p>This thesis examines theories provided by cognitive neuroscience and applies them to an actor’s process. In particular, this research addresses the subjectivity and intentionality of our consciousness and special as-if states of consciousness, supported by the work of John Searle and Antonio …
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Experimental Knowledge in Cognitive Neuroscience: Evidence, Errors, and Inference
… of and intervention in the constructs of cognitive neuroscience. Duhemian challenges and problems of underdetermination are often raised to argue that fNI is of little, if any, epistemic value for psychology. I show how the ES notions of severe tests and error probabilities can be applied …
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Toward a further understanding of object feature binding: a cognitive neuroscience perspective.
… processing in distributed cortical areas. A cognitive model detailing this integrated proposal is given. Next, the cognitive model is used to inform the design and suggested implementation of a computational model which would be able to test the theory put forward in this thesis. In order to …
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Improving Data Quality for High Resolution Functional MRI in Cognitive Neuroscience Applications
Since the first successful Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) image was produced by Paul Lauterbur in 1973, the field of MRI has been improving by leaps and bounds. The number of MRI and functional MRI (fMRI) papers have sky rocketed over the last decade, alongside with advancements in MRI field …
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Cognitive neuroscience of training and transfer in working memory and visual attention
The trained enhancement of working memory and visual attention has both theoretical implications for understanding the architectures of cognition, as well as practical implications for education and clinical treatment. In particular, transfer of training from one task to another may reveal shared …
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Disentangling the neural correlates of attention decrement: from Cognitive Neuroscience to Cognitive Engineering
Focused attention represents a high-level cognitive function enabling humans to selectively facilitate specific actions and perceptions. In a world full of choices of action, and of perceptual possibilities, focused attention appears to be a vital component of human cognition. One observation …
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Cognitive neuroscience framework of conscious dreaming: dream lucidity applications and novel induction protocols
… body of research work with the unifying theme of cognitive neuroscience of dream consciousness, highlighting both its implications and applications, as well as induction protocols. Dream lucidity occurrences are rare. The shortage of standardized and dependable lucid dream induction methods is one …
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Cognitive neuroscience methodologies provide insight into medial temporal lobe contributions to perception, language, and creativity
… new methodologies. It has been the endeavor of cognitive neuroscience to further our understanding of the structural organization of complex cognition and behavior. The focus of this dissertation is to provide evidence supporting the functional contribution of medial temporal lobe sub-regions, …
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Social Cognitive Functioning and Social Competence in Children and Adolescents with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus: Social Cognitive Neuroscience As a Model
… competence, utilizing concepts from social cognitive neuroscience. To build upon extant literature, multi-method assessments, multi-informant data, and a developmental, biopsychosocial perspective were utilized. Distinct aspects of social competence, as defined by social performance, social …
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Mrs. Dalloway as a Window for Understanding Life
… the pages and onto real world phenomena. Under a cognitive neuroscience perspective, Mrs. Dalloway is a literary masterpiece due to its hyper- realistic execution of the intimacies of life. Through the narrative style of free-indirect discourse, Woolf illustrates what occurs in the minds of …
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A role for nutrition in healthy brain aging
Nutritional cognitive neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research that seeks to understand nutrition’s impact on cognition and brain health across the life span. While accumulating evidence indicates healthy cognitive aging is dependent upon both brain health and nutritional …
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Correcting the variations of bold signal due to susceptibility-induced magnetic field gradients and its application
… signals is a tool that is currently used in many cognitive neuroscience studies. However, many studies do not consider susceptibility-induced magnetic field gradients. Susceptibility-induced magnetic field gradients can vary echo time, which can also vary BOLD sensitivity. In order to correct …
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Effects of timing on users' perceived control when interacting with intelligent systems
… Previous research in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience suggests timing is a factor that can influence perceived control in such back-and-forth interactions. This dissertation explores the hypothesis that in mixed-initiative interaction, a predictable interaction rhythm can …
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RACIAL STIGMA AND SUBSTANCE USE OUTCOMES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN EMERGING ADULTS: A REPLICATION AND EXTENSION
The present dissertation employs cognitive neuroscience methods (EEG/ERP analyses) to replicate and extend a novel, cue-based paradigm developed to investigate underlying neural mechanisms involved in the immediate context of a racial stigma event. Racial discrimination is a chronic psychosocial …
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Explicit Memory and Brain-Electrical Activity in 10-month-old Infants
… enduring issues in contemporary developmental cognitive neuroscience centers on the development of the ability to remember past experiences and the neural systems which support this capacity. Over the past 25 years, through methodological advancements and direct challenges to established …
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Decoding brains by paying attention: An attention-based fMRI task state decoding deep network architecture
One of the core goals in the field of cognitive neuroscience is to decode task state fMRI data. Task decoding is the process of taking neuroimaging data and determining the task that was performed when that data was collected. A large volume of work used for task decoding is done in pursuit of …
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Attention to Non-Contiguous Locations of the Visual Field
… simultaneously. We modified LaBerge's (1995) cognitive neuroscience model of attention with two stage of attentional distribution to provide the explanatory framework of attentional distribution over noncontiguous locations.
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A new class of neural architectures to model episodic memory : computational studies of distal reward learning
A computational cognitive neuroscience model is proposed, which models episodic memory based on the mammalian brain. A computational neural architecture instantiates the proposed model and is tested on a particular task of distal reward learning. Categorical Neural Semantic Theory informs the …
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From perceptual to semantic representations in the human brain
… is conveyed by a symbol; in the specific case of cognitive neuroscience, it deals with the neural mechanisms that allow symbols to re-present the meanings or concepts they refer to in the brain. For instance, we can easily describe what is the meaning of the word “DOG”, pretty much as we can …
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