Journal Alert - TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

> Journal Name: TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES (ISSN: 1364-6613)
> Issue: Vol. 17 No. 1, 2013
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> Title:
> On hyperpriors and hypopriors: comment sn Pellicano and Burr
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> Authors:
> Friston, KJ; Lawson, R; Frith, CD
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):1-1; JAN 2013
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> *Pages: 2-4 (Review)
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> Title:
> What is the most interesting part of the brain?
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> Authors:
> Behrens, TEJ; Fox, P; Laird, A; Smith, SM
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):2-4; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> Creative ideas and rigorous analysis are the hallmarks of much impactful
> science. However, there is an oft-aired suspicion in the neuroscience
> community that some scientists start with an advantage, simply because
> of the brain region or behaviour they study. We tested this unstated
> hypothesis by regressing the journal impact factor against both the
> pattern of brain activity and the experimental keywords across thousands
> of brain imaging studies. We found the results to be illuminating.
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> *Pages: 5-6 (Editorial Material)
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> Title:
> Mental time travel: a case for evolutionary continuity
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> Authors:
> Corballis, MC
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):5-6; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> In humans, hippocampal activity responds to the imagining of past or
> future events. In rats, hippocampal activity is tied to particular
> locations in a maze, occurs after the animal has been in the maze, and
> sometimes corresponds to locations the animal did not actually visit.
> This suggests that mental time travel has neurophysiological
> underpinnings that go far back in evolution, and may not be, as some
> (including myself) have claimed, unique to humans.
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> *Pages: 7-8 (Editorial Material)
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> Title:
> Would Tarzan believe in God? Conditions for the emergence of religious belief
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> Authors:
> Banerjee, K; Bloom, P
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):7-8; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> Would someone raised without exposure to religious views nonetheless
> come to believe in the existence of God, an afterlife, and the
> intentional creation of humans and other animals? Many scholars would
> answer yes, proposing that universal cognitive biases generate religious
> ideas anew within each individual mind. Drawing on evidence from
> developmental psychology, we argue here that the answer is no: children
> lack spontaneous theistic views and the emergence of religion is
> crucially dependent on culture.
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> *Pages: 9-10 (Editorial Material)
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> Title:
> Laughing, grooming, and pub science
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> Authors:
> Provine, RR
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):9-10; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> On the basis of naturalistic observations of people conversing and
> laughing in pubs, a new study suggests that the 'grooming-at-a-distance'
> of laughter provides a three-fold increase in grooming group size,
> potentially explaining how hominins evolved social groups that are
> considerably larger than those of other primates.
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> *Pages: 10-12 (Editorial Material)
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> Title:
> Prefrontal alpha- and beta-band oscillations are involved in rule selection
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> Authors:
> Jensen, O; Bonnefond, M
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):10-12; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> A recent study in monkeys reports that oscillatory neuronal
> synchronization between ensembles of prefrontal neurons is involved in
> rule selection. The study demonstrates that beta-band synchronization
> (19-40 Hz) reflects the selection of a rule, whereas alpha-band
> synchronization (6-16 Hz) reflects the active inhibition of a
> not-to-be-applied rule.
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> *Pages: 13-19 (Review)
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> Title:
> Fractions: the new frontier for theories of numerical development
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> Authors:
> Siegler, RS; Fazio, LK; Bailey, DH; Zhou, XL
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):13-19; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> Recent research on fractions has broadened and deepened theories of
> numerical development. Learning about fractions requires children to
> recognize that many properties of whole numbers are not true of numbers
> in general and also to recognize that the one property that unites all
> real numbers is that they possess magnitudes that can be ordered on
> number lines. The difficulty of attaining this understanding makes the
> acquisition of knowledge about fractions an important issue
> educationally, as well as theoretically. This article examines the
> neural underpinnings of fraction understanding, developmental and
> individual differences in that understanding, and interventions that
> improve the understanding. Accurate representation of fraction
> magnitudes emerges as crucial both to conceptual understanding of
> fractions and to fraction arithmetic.
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> *Pages: 20-25 (Review)
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> Title:
> The origins of religious disbelief
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> Authors:
> Norenzayan, A; Gervais, WM
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):20-25; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> Although most people are religious, there are hundreds of millions of
> religious disbelievers in the world. What is religious disbelief and how
> does it arise? Recent developments in the scientific study of religious
> beliefs and behaviors point to the conclusion that religious disbelief
> arises from multiple interacting pathways, traceable to cognitive,
> motivational, and cultural learning mechanisms. We identify four such
> pathways, leading to four distinct forms of atheism, which we term
> mindblind atheism, apatheism, inCREDulous atheism, and analytic atheism.
> Religious belief and disbelief share the same underlying pathways and
> can be explained within. a single evolutionary framework that is
> grounded in both genetic and cultural evolution.
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> *Pages: 26-49 (Review)
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> Title:
> The ventral visual pathway: an expanded neural framework for the processing of object quality
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> Authors:
> Kravitz, DJ; Saleem, KS; Baker, CI; Ungerleider, LG; Mishkin, M
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> Source:
> *TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES*, 17 (1):26-49; JAN 2013
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> Abstract:
> Since the original characterization of the ventral visual pathway, our
> knowledge of its neuroanatomy, functional properties, and extrinsic
> targets has grown considerably. Here we synthesize this recent evidence
> and propose that the ventral pathway is best understood as a recurrent
> occipitotemporal network containing neural representations of object
> quality both utilized and constrained by at least six distinct cortical
> and subcortical systems. Each system serves its own specialized
> behavioral, cognitive, or affective function, collectively providing the
> raison d'etre for the ventral visual pathway. This expanded framework
> contrasts with the depiction of the ventral visual pathway as a largely
> serial staged hierarchy culminating in singular object representations
> and more parsimoniously incorporates attentional, contextual, and
> feedback effects.
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