Multidimensional scaling (MDS) models represent stimuli as points in a space consisting of a number of psychological dimensions, such that the distance between pairs of points …
Cognitive neuroscience was born in the 1990s amid a technological explosion that produced powerful new methods for non-invasively studying the human brain, including …
The act of reaching for and acting upon an object involves two forms of selection: selection of the object as a target, and selection of the action to be performed. While these two forms …
AJ Moye, MK Van Vugt - IEEE Transactions on Affective …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Meditation has been shown to aid with the management of affective disorders through improving emotion regulation. Here we begin to develop a theory of meditation by creating a …
A primary criterion on which models of cognition are evaluated is their ability to fit empirical data. To understand the reason why a model yields a good or poor fit, it is necessary to …
In this chapter we delineate what we believe to be the important characteristics of perceptual expertise that a complete model should try to capture, motivate why computational models …
Traditional studies of human categorization often treat the processes of encoding features and cues as peripheral to the question of how stimuli are categorized. However, in domains …
L Lancia, B Winter - Laboratory Phonology, 2013 - degruyter.com
Even though the outcome of the perception of phonological patterns is categorical, this process might still arise from continuous dynamics. Here, we propose a unified dynamical …
In a seminal study, Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins (1961; henceforth SHJ) assessed potential mechanisms involved in categorization learning. To do so, they sequentially …