All Blog Posts Tagged 'cognitive' (5)

The role of prediction in social neuroscience (FREE ARTICLE DOWNLOAD)

http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00147/abstract

Research has shown that the brain is constantly making predictions about future events. Theories of prediction in perception, action and learning suggest that the brain serves to reduce the discrepancies between expectation and actual experience, i.e., by reducing the prediction error.…

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Added by Elliot Clayton Brown on July 25, 2012 at 7:57pm — No Comments

Phd vacancies for interested researchers in Cognitive Neurosciences

Please apply if interested in PhD posts:http://www.findaphd.com/search/showproject.asp?projectid=30297&searchtype=n&page=4
Our contacts are email:brainscience@gmail.com, Office tel:+6097676300
Prof Jafri

Added by Professor Jafri Malin Abdullah on November 26, 2010 at 7:00am — 7 Comments

Is cognitive impulsivity a multidimensional hierarchical construct?

Is cognitive impulsivity a multidmensional hierarchical construct ? Very well done study in recent Personality and Individual Differences journal. Abstract, reference, and link to the article available at IQs Corner.

Added by Kevin McGrew on March 25, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

The power of prediction reduces activation in the primary visual cortex

Prediction is an invaluable skill for navigating through complex environments. Somehow the brain generates predictions about perceptual inputs it's likely to receive using contextual information from recent memory. Statistical regularities are learned (e.g. movement… Continue

Added by William Lu on February 25, 2010 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

I've been endlessly scoring digit-symbol coding protocols (fun...), a subtest of the WAIS-IV, for the past few weeks at my new neuropsych externship so the following article seems particularly releva…

I've been endlessly scoring digit-symbol coding protocols (fun...), a subtest of the WAIS-IV, for the past few weeks at my new neuropsych externship so the following article seems particularly relevant. In a recent study by… Continue

Added by William Lu on October 6, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments