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Parsing a cognitive task : a characterization of the mind’s bottleneck
(2005-02-08)
Parsing a mental operation into components, characterizing the parallel or serial nature of this flow, and understanding what each process ultimately contributes to response time are fundamental questions in cognitive ...
The brain’s router : a cortical network model of serial processing in the primate brain
(2010-04-29)
The human brain efficiently solves certain operations such as object recognition and categorization through a massively parallel network of dedicated processors. However, human cognition also relies on the ability to perform ...
A lesion model of envy and "Schadenfreude" : legal, deservingness and moral dimensions as revealed by neurodegeneration
(2017-08-21)
The study of moral emotions (i.e. Schadenfreude and envy) is critical to understand the ecological complexity of everyday interactions between cognitive, affective, and social cognition processes. Most previous studies in ...
Disentangling interoception : insights from focal strokes affecting the perception of external and internal milieus
(2015-05-01)
Interoception is the moment-to-moment sensing of the physiological condition of the body. The multimodal sources of interoception can be classified into two different streams of afferents: an internal pathway of signals ...
Arithmetic on your phone : a large scale investigation of simple additions and multiplications
(2016-12-29)
We present the results of a gamified mobile device arithmetic application which allowed us
to collect vast amount of data in simple arithmetic operations. Our results confirm and replicate,
on a large sample, six of the ...
Dazzled by the mystery of mentalism : the cognitive neuroscience of mental athletes
(2017-05-31)
Neural processing bymental athletes (MAs) has received attention fromNeuroscience community,
with several publications examining superior memorizers (Maguire et al., 2003; Bor et al., 2008),
lighting calculators (Pesenti ...
Nudging cooperation in a crowd experiment
(2016-01-21)
We examine the hypothesis that driven by a competition heuristic, people don't even reflect
or consider whether a cooperation strategy may be better. As a paradigmatic example of
this behavior we propose the zero-sum ...
Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic
(2013-03-13)
We investigated an individual ability to identify whether choices were made freely or forced by external parameters. We
capitalized on magical setups where the notion of psychological forcing constitutes a well trodden ...
Quantitative pedagogy : a digital two player game to examine communicative competence
(2015-11-10)
nner concepts are much richer than the words that describe them. Our general objective is to inquire what are the best procedures to communicate conceptual knowledge. We con- struct a simplified and controlled setup emulating ...
Bayesian validation of grammar productions for the language of thought
(2018-07-10)
Probabilistic proposals of Language of Thoughts (LoTs) can explain learning across differ- ent domains as statistical inference over a compositionally structured hypothesis space. While frameworks may differ on how a LoT ...