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Extending the Architecture of Language From a Multimodal Perspective Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Peter Hagoort, Aslı Özyürek
Language is inherently multimodal. In spoken languages, combined spoken and visual signals (e.g., co-speech gestures) are an integral part of linguistic structure and language representation. This requires an extension of the parallel architecture, which needs to include the visual signals concomitant to speech. We present the evidence for the multimodality of language. In addition, we propose that
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Discourse Production Across the Adult Lifespan: Microlinguistic Processes Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Hana Kim, Stephen Kintz
Successful spoken discourse requires a speaker to be informative to deliver a coherent, meaningful message. The informativeness of discourse can be conveyed by the variety of vocabulary produced (i.e., lexical diversity [LD]), the typicality of vocabulary items used (i.e., core lexicon [CL]), and the amount of relevant content produced (i.e., information units). Yet, it is well documented that older
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Modeling Effects of Rumination on Free Recall Using ACT‐R Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Anmol Gupta, Clemens Kaiser, Jonas Everaert, Marieke van Vugt, Partha P. Roy
Ruminative thinking, characterized by a recurrent focus on negative and self‐related thought, is a key cognitive vulnerability marker of depression and, therefore, a key individual difference variable. This study aimed to develop a computational cognitive model of rumination focusing on the organization and retrieval of information in memory, and how these mechanisms differ in individuals prone to
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Radical Collective Intelligence and the Reimagining of Cognitive Science Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Nathaniel Rabb, Steven A. Sloman
To introduce our special issue How Minds Work: The Collective in the Individual, we propose “radical CI,” a form of collective intelligence, as a new paradigm for cognitive science. Radical CI posits that the representations and processes necessary to perform the cognitive functions that humans perform are collective entities, not encapsulated by any individual. To explain cognitive performance, it
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From Cognitive Agents to Cognitive Systems: Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Developments of van Gelder's (1998) “Dynamical Hypothesis” Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Tri D. Nguyen, Corey M. Magaldino, Jayci T. Landfair, Polemnia G. Amazeen, Eric L. Amazeen
Over two decades have passed since the publication of van Gelder's (1998) “dynamical hypothesis.” In that paper, van Gelder proposed that cognitive agents were not digital computers—per the representational computational approach—but dynamical systems. The evolution of the dynamical hypothesis was driven by parallel advances in three areas. Theoretically, a deeper understanding of genetics, biology
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The Role of Gesture in Language Development for Neurotypical Children and Children With or at Increased Likelihood of Autism Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Boin Choi, Meredith L. Rowe
For young children, gesture is found to precede and predict language development. However, we are still building a knowledge base about the specific nature of the relationship between gesture and speech. While much of the research on this topic has been conducted with neurotypical children, there is a growing body of work with children who have or are at increased likelihood of autism spectrum disorder
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The Interaction of Linguistic and Visual Cues for the Processing of Case in Russian by Russian‐German Bilinguals: An Eye Tracking Study Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Serge Minor, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Westergaard
Modulation of visual attention in the Visual World Paradigm relies on parallel processing of linguistic and visual information. Previous studies have argued that the human linguistic capacity includes an aspect of anticipation of upcoming material. Such anticipation can be triggered by both lexical and grammatical/morphosyntactic cues. In this study, we investigated the relationship between comprehension
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Repressed Memories (of Sexual Abuse Against Minors) and Statutes of Limitations in Europe: Status Quo and Possible Alternatives Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Driek Deferme, Henry Otgaar, Olivier Dodier, André Körner, Ivan Mangiulli, Harald Merckelbach, Melanie Sauerland, Michele Panzavolta, Elizabeth F. Loftus
One of the most heated debates in psychological science concerns the concept of repressed memory. We discuss how the debate on repressed memories continues to surface in legal settings, sometimes even to suggest avenues of legal reform. In the past years, several European countries have extended or abolished the statute of limitations for the prosecution of sexual crimes. Such statutes force legal
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Exploring Individual Differences: A Case for Measuring Children's Spontaneous Gesture Production as a Predictor of Learning From Gesture Instruction Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Eliza L. Congdon, Miriam A. Novack, Elizabeth M. Wakefield
Decades of research have established that learners benefit when instruction includes hand gestures. This benefit is seen when learners watch an instructor gesture, as well as when they are taught or encouraged to gesture themselves. However, there is substantial individual variability with respect to this phenomenon—not all individuals benefit equally from gesture instruction. In the current paper
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Editor's Introduction: Best Papers from the 20th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Terrence C. Stewart
The International Conference on Cognitive Modelling is dedicated to understanding how the complex processes of the mind can be explained in terms of detailed inner processing. In this issue, we present four representative papers of this field of research from our 20th meeting, ICCM 2022. This meeting was our first hybrid meeting, with a virtual version happening July 11–15, 2022, and an in-person event
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Representing the World in Language and Thought Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Barbara C. Malt
Internal representations guide our navigation of the world, while language allows us to share some of what is encoded internally with others. I have been interested in the content of thought, the nature of word meanings and what they reveal about thought, and how thoughts are expressed in words. My work has combined evidence from laboratory experimentation with observation of word use in natural settings
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Visual Perception Principles in Constellation Creation Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Bridget A. Kelly, Charles Kemp, Daniel R. Little, Duane Hamacher, Simon J. Cropper
Many cultures share common constellations and common narratives about the stars in the night sky. Previous research has shown that this overlap in asterisms, minimal star groupings inside constellations, is clearly present across 27 distinct culture groups and can be explained in part by properties of individual stars (brightness) and properties of pairs of stars (proximity) (Kemp, Hamacher, Little
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Introduction to topiCS Volume 16, Issue 1 Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Andrea Bender
The first of this year's Topics in Cognitive Science issues is entirely devoted to excellent and award-winning research. We kick off with the newest contribution to the (ongoing) topic aimed at introducing the Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society (outlined in Bender, 2022), so far featuring articles by Cleotilde “Coty” Gonzalez (Gonzalez, 2022), Steven Sloman (Sloman, 2022), Jenny R. Saffran (Ruba
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Nested Selves: Self-Organization and Shared Markov Blankets in Prenatal Development in Humans Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Anna Ciaunica, Michael Levin, Fernando E. Rosas, Karl Friston
The immune system is a central component of organismic function in humans. This paper addresses self-organization of biological systems in relation to—and nested within—other biological systems in pregnancy. Pregnancy constitutes a fundamental state for human embodiment and a key step in the evolution and conservation of our species. While not all humans can be pregnant, our initial state of emerging
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An Information-Theoretic Account of Availability Effects in Language Production Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Richard Futrell
I present a computational-level model of language production in terms of a combination of information theory and control theory in which words are chosen incrementally in order to maximize communicative value subject to an information-theoretic capacity constraint. The theory generally predicts a tradeoff between ease of production and communicative accuracy. I apply the theory to two cases of apparent
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Children Use Teachers' Beliefs About Their Abilities to Calibrate Explore–Exploit Decisions Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Ilona Bass, Elise Mahaffey, Elizabeth Bonawitz
Models of the explore–exploit problem have explained how children's decision making is weighed by a bias for information (directed exploration), randomness, and generalization. These behaviors are often tested in domains where a choice to explore (or exploit) is guaranteed to reveal an outcome. An often overlooked but critical component of the assessment of explore–exploit decisions lies in the expected
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The Dynamical Hypothesis in Situ: Challenges and Opportunities for a Dynamical Social Approach to Interpersonal Coordination Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Alexandra Paxton
Over the past three decades, Van Gelder's dynamical hypothesis has been instrumental in reconceptualizing the ways in which perception-action-cognition unfolds over time and in context. Here, I examine how the dynamical approach has enriched the theoretical understanding of social dynamics within cognitive science, with a particular focus on interpersonal coordination. I frame this review around seven
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Understanding Human−Autonomy Teams Through a Human−Animal Teaming Model Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Heather C. Lum, Elizabeth K. Phillips
The relationship between humans and animals is complex and influenced by multiple variables. Humans display a remarkably flexible and rich array of social competencies, demonstrating the ability to interpret, predict, and react appropriately to the behavior of others, as well as to engage others in a variety of complex social interactions. Developing computational systems that have similar social abilities
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What Dynamic Approaches Have Taught Us About Cognition and What They Have Not: On Values in Motion and the Importance of Replicable Forms Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Over the past several decades, research in the cognitive sciences has foregrounded the importance of active bodies and their continuous dependence on the changing environment, strengthening the relevance of dynamical models. These models have been steadily developed within the ecological psychology approach to cognition, which arguably contributes to the “ecological turn” we are witnessing today. The
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Allocating Mental Effort in Cognitive Tasks: A Model of Motivation in the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Yuxue C. Yang, Andrea Stocco
Motivation is the driving force that influences people's behaviors and interacts with many cognitive functions. Computationally, motivation is represented as a cost−benefit analysis that weighs efforts and rewards in order to choose the optimal actions. Shenhav and colleagues proposed an elegant theory, the Expected Value of Control (EVC), which describes the relationship between cognitive efforts
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Storytelling as Inverse Inverse Planning Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Kartik Chandra, Tzu-Mao Li, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
Great storytelling takes us on a journey the way ordinary reality rarely does. But what exactly do we mean by this “journey?” Recently, literary theorist Karin Kukkonen proposed that storytelling is “probability design:” the art of giving an audience pieces of information bit by bit, to craft the journey of their changing beliefs about the fictional world. A good “probability design” choreographs a
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Peer-Assisted Learning Is More Effective at Higher Task Complexity and Difficulty Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Jarean Carson, Ion Juvina, Kevin O'Neill, Chi Hang Wong, Preston Menke, Kristin M. Kindell, Erin Harmon
This paper presents two studies in which a peer-assisted learning condition was compared to an individual learning condition. The first study used the paired-associates learning task and the second study used an incrementally more complex task—the remote associate test. Participants in the peer-assisted learning condition worked in groups of four. They had to solve a given problem individually and
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The Effects of Group Composition and Dynamics on Collective Performance Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Abdullah Almaatouq, Mohammed Alsobay, Ming Yin, Duncan J. Watts
As organizations gravitate to group-based structures, the problem of improving performance through judicious selection of group members has preoccupied scientists and managers alike. However, which individual attributes best predict group performance remains poorly understood. Here, we describe a preregistered experiment in which we simultaneously manipulated four widely studied attributes of group
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Adversarial Dynamics in Centralized Versus Decentralized Intelligent Systems Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Levin Brinkmann, Manuel Cebrian, Niccolò Pescetelli
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often used to predict human behavior, thus potentially posing limitations to individuals’ and collectives’ freedom to act. AI's most controversial and contested applications range from targeted advertisements to crime prevention, including the suppression of civil disorder. Scholars and civil society watchdogs are discussing the oppressive dangers of AI being used by
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An Introduction to Predictive Processing Models of Perception and Decision-Making Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Mark Sprevak, Ryan Smith
The predictive processing framework includes a broad set of ideas, which might be articulated and developed in a variety of ways, concerning how the brain may leverage predictive models when implementing perception, cognition, decision-making, and motor control. This article provides an up-to-date introduction to the two most influential theories within this framework: predictive coding and active
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Understanding Collective Human Behavior in Social Media Networks Via the Dynamical Hypothesis: Applications to Radicalization and Conspiratorial Beliefs Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Aaron Necaise, Jingjing Han, Hana Vrzáková, Mary Jean Amon
The dynamical hypothesis has served to explore the ways in which cognitive agents can be understood dynamically and considered dynamical systems. Originally used to explain simple physical systems as a metaphor for cognition (i.e., the Watt governor) and eventually more complex animal systems (e.g., bird flocks), we argue that the dynamical hypothesis is among the most viable approaches to understanding
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Local Search and the Evolution of World Models Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Neil R. Bramley, Bonan Zhao, Tadeg Quillien, Christopher G. Lucas
An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily incremental, involving the generation and selection among random
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Interval Timing as a Computational Pathway From Early Life Adversity to Affective Disorders Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Nora C. Harhen, Aaron M. Bornstein
Adverse early life experiences can have remarkably enduring negative consequences on mental health, with numerous, varied psychiatric conditions sharing this developmental origin. Yet, the mechanisms linking adverse experiences to these conditions remain poorly understood. Here, we draw on a principled model of interval timing to propose that statistically optimal adaptation of temporal representations
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The Dynamicist Landscape Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 David L. Barack
The dynamical hypothesis states that cognitive systems are dynamical systems. While dynamical systems play an important role in many cognitive phenomena, the dynamical hypothesis as stated applies to every system and so fails both to specify what makes cognitive systems distinct and to distinguish between proposals regarding the nature of cognitive systems. To avoid this problem, I distinguish several
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The Multiple Roles of Emotion in Interpretation and Memory of Sexual Consent Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Deborah Davis, Joseph Cano, Gage Miller, Elizabeth Loftus
In this paper, we explore the role of emotion in the interpretation and memory of sexual encounters. We consider situations likely to generate negative emotions during sex, and the mechanisms through which the experience of negative emotions can lead to false memories of coercion and mislabeling of an encounter as sexual assault. Specifically, we consider the role of emotion in directing attention
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The Parallel Architecture in Language and Elsewhere Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Ray Jackendoff
The Parallel Architecture is a conception of the organization of the mental representations involved in language and of the role of language in the mind as a whole. Its basic premise is that linguistic representations draw on three independent generative systems—phonological, syntactic, and semantic structures—plus a system of interface links by which they communicate with each other. In particular
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Gamma Power as an Index of Sustained Attention in Simulated Vigilance Tasks Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Taylor M. Curley, Lorraine Borghetti, Megan B. Morris
Performance on the psychomotor vigilance test (PVT; Dinges & Powell, 1985)—a common index of sustained attention—is affected by the opposing forces of fatigue and sustained effort, where reaction times and error rates typically increase across trials and are sometimes offset by additional efforts deployed toward the end of the task (i.e., an “end-spurt”; cf. Bergum & Klein, 1961). In ACT-R (Adaptive
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Abduction and Deduction in Dynamical Cognitive Science Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Anthony Chemero
This paper reviews the recent history of a subset of research in dynamical cognitive science, in particular that subset that allies itself with the sciences of complexity and casts cognitive systems as interaction dominant, noncomputational, and nonmodular. I look at this history in the light of C.S. Peirce's understanding of scientific reasoning as progressing from abduction to deduction to induction
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By Design: How People Adapt to Cognitive Limitations in Politics Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Arthur Lupia
Elections, jury deliberations, lawmaking, high-stakes negotiations and related activities are human attempts to answer the question “How should we live?” Collectively, we know these activities as politics. Politics are how societies attempt to reconcile diverse individual needs with potential benefits of social coordination. People's beliefs about what others will do ainfluence many political strategies
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A Multivariate Method for Dynamic System Analysis: Multivariate Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Using Generalized Variance Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Sebastian Wallot, Julien Patrick Irmer, Monika Tschense, Nikita Kuznetsov, Andreas Højlund, Martin Dietz
Fractal fluctuations are a core concept for inquiries into human behavior and cognition from a dynamic systems perspective. Here, we present a generalized variance method for multivariate detrended fluctuation analysis (mvDFA). The advantage of this extension is that it can be applied to multivariate time series and considers intercorrelation between these time series when estimating fractal properties
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The Wire Is Not the Territory: Understanding Representational Drift in Olfaction With Dynamical Systems Theory Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Ann-Sophie Barwich, Gabriel J. Severino
Representational drift is a phenomenon of increasing interest in the cognitive and neural sciences. While investigations are ongoing for other sensory cortices, recent research has demonstrated the pervasiveness in which it occurs in the piriform cortex for olfaction. This gradual weakening and shifting of stimulus-responsive cells has critical implications for sensory stimulus–response models and
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A Methodological Framework to Study Change in Team Cognition Under the Dynamical Hypothesis Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Kyana van Eijndhoven, Travis J. Wiltshire, Elwira A. Hałgas, Josette M. P. Gevers
The dynamical hypothesis claims that cognitive systems, such as teams, are dynamical systems (i.e., an interdependent collection of individuals and their technology that change together over time). Following this hypothesis, team researchers have adopted dynamical approaches to better understand the team cognitive processes and states that form team cognition, as well as how they emerge over time.
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Do We Collaborate With What We Design? Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Katie D. Evans, Scott A. Robbins, Joanna J. Bryson
The use of terms like “collaboration” and “co-workers” to describe interactions between human beings and certain artificial intelligence (AI) systems has gained significant traction in recent years. Yet, it remains an open question whether such anthropomorphic metaphors provide either a fertile or even a purely innocuous lens through which to conceptualize designed commercial products. Rather, a respect
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On the Proper Treatment of Dynamics in Cognitive Science Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Randall D. Beer
This essay examines the relevance of dynamical ideas for cognitive science. On its own, the mere mathematical idea of a dynamical system is too weak to serve as a scientific theory of anything, and dynamical approaches within cognitive science are too rich and varied to be subsumed under a single “dynamical hypothesis.” Instead, after first attempting to dissect the different notions of “dynamics”
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Grounded Cognition Entails Linguistic Relativity: Response to Commentators Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 David Kemmerer
In this paper, I respond to eight commentaries on my target article called “Grounded cognition entails linguistic relativity: A neglected implication of a major semantic theory.” The commentaries span a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. I have organized my response around the following topics: (1) an introductory synopsis of my main argument; (2) grounded versus amodal theories of concepts;
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Human Performance in Competitive and Collaborative Human–Machine Teams Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Murray S. Bennett, Laiton Hedley, Jonathon Love, Joseph W. Houpt, Scott D. Brown, Ami Eidels
In the modern world, many important tasks have become too complex for a single unaided individual to manage. Teams conduct some safety-critical tasks to improve task performance and minimize the risk of error. These teams have traditionally consisted of human operators, yet, nowadays, artificial intelligence and machine systems are incorporated into team environments to improve performance and capacity
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Sensory Ecology, Bioeconomy, and the Age of COVID: A Parallax View of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Glenn H. Shepard, Lewis Daly
Drawing on original ethnobotanical and anthropological research among Indigenous peoples across the Amazon, we examine synergies and dissonances between Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge about the environment, resource use, and sustainability. By focusing on the sensory dimension of Indigenous engagements with the environment—an approach we have described as “sensory ecology” and explored
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Suppression-Induced Forgetting as a Model for Repression Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Ineke Wessel
The Think/No-Think (T/NT) task was designed to test whether the deliberate avoidance of retrieving a memory (i.e., suppression) hinders the subsequent recall of that memory. Forgetting effects obtained with the T/NT-task (Suppression-Induced Forgetting) are thought to result from memory inhibition: the deactivation of the representation of the to-be-suppressed memory. Memory inhibition can be specifically
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Self-beliefs, Transactive Memory Systems, and Collective Identification in Teams: Articulating the Socio-Cognitive Underpinnings of COHUMAIN Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Ishani Aggarwal, Gabriela Cuconato, Nüfer Yasin Ateş, Nicoleta Meslec
Socio-cognitive theory conceptualizes individual contributors as both enactors of cognitive processes and targets of a social context's determinative influences. The present research investigates how contributors’ metacognition or self-beliefs, combine with others’ views of themselves to inform collective team states related to learning about other agents (i.e., transactive memory systems) and forming
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Estimating Systemic Cognitive States from a Mixture of Physiological and Brain Signals Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Matthias Scheutz, Shuchin Aeron, Ayca Aygun, J.P. de Ruiter, Sergio Fantini, Cristianne Fernandez, Zachary Haga, Thuan Nguyen, Boyang Lyu
As human–machine teams are being considered for a variety of mixed-initiative tasks, detecting and being responsive to human cognitive states, in particular systematic cognitive states, is among the most critical capabilities for artificial systems to ensure smooth interactions with humans and high overall team performance. Various human physiological parameters, such as heart rate, respiration rate
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Conceptual Foundations of Sustainability Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Barbara C. Malt, Asifa Majid
Threats to the health of our environment are numerous. Much research in science and engineering is devoted to documenting, understanding, and attempting to mitigate the harm itself. The root challenge for sustainability, however, is human behavior. As such, changes to human behaviors and the internal processes that drive them are also essential. Critical to understanding sustainability-related behaviors
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Fostering Collective Intelligence in Human–AI Collaboration: Laying the Groundwork for COHUMAIN Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Pranav Gupta, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, Cleotilde Gonzalez, Anita Williams Woolley
Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered machines are increasingly mediating our work and many of our managerial, economic, and cultural interactions. While technology enhances individual capability in many ways, how do we know that the sociotechnical system as a whole, consisting of a complex web of hundreds of human–machine interactions, is exhibiting collective intelligence? Research on human–machine
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Suppression and Memory for Childhood Traumatic Events: Trauma Symptoms and Non-Disclosure Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Yuerui Wu, Dana Hartman, Yan Wang, Deborah Goldfarb, Gail S. Goodman
Self-reported lost memory of child sexual abuse (CSA) can be mistaken for “repressed memory.” Based on our longitudinal studies of memory and disclosure in child maltreatment victims who are now adults, we discuss findings relevant to “repressed memory cases.” We examined relations between self-report of temporarily lost memory of CSA (subjective forgetting) and memory accuracy for maltreatment-related
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Cultural Niche Construction as a Framework for Reorienting Human−Environment Relations Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Michiru Nagatsu, Roope O. Kaaronen, Mikko Salmela, Miles MacLeod
In this paper, we argue that the theory of cultural niche construction provides a cogent and fruitful framework for studying and managing human−environment relationships, including our conceptualizations of them. We first review the development of the ideas of niche construction from evolutionary to social contexts. We then discuss how various human cognitive and affective goals are achieved through
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Are Humans Part of the Natural World? U.S. Children's and Adults’ Concept of Nature and its Relationship to Environmental Concern Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Lizette Pizza, Deborah Kelemen
Understanding factors that promote conservation attitudes is essential given ongoing environmental crises and the need for sustainability. Our research adopted various close- and open-ended tasks to explore: the extent to which U.S. urban adults (Study 1) and children (Study 2) have a basic conception of humans as part of nature, cognitive factors that predict more human-inclusive concepts of nature
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Introduction to topiCS Volume 15, Issue 3 Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Andrea Bender
My dad was a forester in the service of a German federal state. A major part of his job was to assess the current condition of forests, plan and monitor their management, and ensure their long-term sustainability. During school holidays, I often accompanied him on his field trips where I learned a lot about the forest ecosystem; he taught me what “sustainability” means in theory and how to implement
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What Does it Take to Love a Bug? Knowledge, Emotional Valence, and Politics in Attitudes Toward Insect Conservation Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Barbara C. Malt*, Jessecae K. Marsh
Domain knowledge is often considered a minor contributor to environmental attitudes, with social and motivational factors dominating. Yet, domains may differ. Declining insect populations are a critical conservation concern but are not prominent in public discourse, potentially reducing the impact of social and motivational variables. We present data on the relations of insect knowledge (both propositional
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Did Dissociative Amnesia Evolve? Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Lawrence Patihis
Dissociative amnesia is a diagnosis category that implies a proposed mechanism (often called dissociation) by which amnesia is caused by psychogenic means, such as trauma, and that amnesia is reversible later. Dissociative amnesia is listed in some of the most influential diagnostic manuals. Authors have noted the similarities in definition to repressed memories. Dissociative amnesia is a disputed
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Linguistic Priors for Perception Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Ksenija Slivac, Monique Flecken
In this commentary, we approach the topic of linguistic relativity from a predictive coding perspective. Discussing the role of “priors” in shaping perception, we argue that language creates an important set of priors for humans, which can affect how sensory information is processed and interpreted. Namely, languages create conventionalized conceptual systems for their speakers, mirroring and reinforcing
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“Repressed Memory” Makes No Sense Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Felipe De Brigard
The expression “repressed memory” was introduced over 100 years ago as a theoretical term purportedly referring to an unobservable psychological entity postulated by Freud's seduction theory. That theory, however, and its hypothesized cognitive architecture, have been thoroughly debunked—yet the term “repressed memory” seems to remain. In this paper, I offer a philosophical evaluation of the meaning
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Sustainability, Collective Self-Regulation, and Human–Nature Interdependence Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Yoshihisa Kashima, David K. Sewell, Yang Li
Like any organism, humanity constructs its niche and adapts to the rest of nature by modifying available materials around them. In the era that some have dubbed the “Anthropocene,” human niche construction has gone so far as to threaten the planetary climate system. The central question of sustainability is how humanity can collectively self-regulate niche construction, that is, humanity's relationship
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COHUMAIN: Building the Socio-Cognitive Architecture of Collective Human–Machine Intelligence Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Cleotilde Gonzalez, Henny Admoni, Scott Brown, Anita Williams Woolley
In recent years, we have experienced rapid development of advanced technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), intended to interact with and augment the abilities of humans in practically every area of life. With the rapid growth of new capabilities, such as those enabled by generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT), AI is increasingly at the center of human communication and collaboration
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The Iconicity Ring Hypothesis Bridges the Gap Between Symbol Grounding and Linguistic Relativity Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita
Kemmerer captured the drastic change in theories of word meaning representations, contrasting the view that word meaning representations are amodal and universal, with the view that they are grounded and language-specific. However, he does not address how language can be simultaneously grounded and language-specific. Here, we approach this question from the perspective of language acquisition and evolution
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A Brief Overview of Research into the Forgot-It-All-Along Effect Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Kristine Anthony, Steve M. J. Janssen
People often have difficulties remembering prior episodes of remembering, a phenomenon known as the forgot-it-all-along (FIA) effect. Although the effect was first discovered among victims of spontaneously recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse, laboratory paradigms of the FIA have shown that difficulties in remembering “remembering” can be elicited when the memory was previously recalled in
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Conspiracy Theory as Individual and Group Behavior: Observations from the Flat Earth International Conference Topics in Cognitive Science (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Philip M. Fernbach, Jonathan E. Bogard
Conspiratorial thinking has been with humanity for a long time but has recently grown as a source of societal concern and as a subject of research in the cognitive and social sciences. We propose a three-tiered framework for the study of conspiracy theories: (1) cognitive processes, (2) the individual, and (3) social processes and communities of knowledge. At the level of cognitive processes, we identify