Cognition Definition and 11 Threads

I am a student and researcher interested in the mind, brain, related biological processes and emerging "mental" processes. I am interested in cognitive computational models, implementing new computational paradigms.

The journal in question is the International Journal of Neuroscience, which appears to be a respectable peer-reviewed journal. I give a link to a reproduction in a secondary source, with a note that I am not addressing the more subjective "mood" part of the paper...

Source: http://emqm17.org/presentations/

This thread is a shoot-off from this thread and this thread Over in Japan, at the Primate Research Institute (Kyoto University), researchers have been studying primates for decades. One of the researchers there, dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa, is comparing the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees to...

We all know that there's plenty of evidence showing that exercise does benefit cognition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951958/ The real question is how can I actually use this in practice to get real world results. So if I spend 8 hours a day studying a certain subject/trade...

Does emotion play a direct part in logical reasoning?

Stemming form another thread that has gone quiet I have a question with respect to cognitive science. It is interesting to study cognitive science which in essence is the study of learning and thinking. I break how we construct our morals, opinions and values down into phases. 1. We receive...

Let consider this small example...I find it interesting, but I think it does not in fact tell anything about reality : You are in presence of somebody, and another one enters the scene :Operation "times" : a) subjectively (as seen from you), the number of person is for you : x 2 : 1...

Here is a summary of the research published in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, a journal of the American Psychological Association: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/cdri-bai042505.php Also see http://www.news-medical.net/print_article.asp?id=9530...

The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence, 2005 Hello, I liked the book The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence, by David C. Geary, 2005 because it not only discusses some of the latest research on human intelligence, but...

Marcus, you mentioned an interest in linguistics. I wonder what your neighbor would think about this. I have been interested for some time in tribal cultures in South America and New Guinea. This tribe, the Piraha, is the most unusual I have come across. I'd like to know what you and...