cognitive science
5 articles
Creativity and Neuroscience: Networks, Flow, and Insight
Explore the default mode network's role in divergent ideation, the executive network as an evaluation filter, transient hypofrontality in flow states, the incubation effect, and gamma bursts at the moment of insight.
Decision-Making Neuroscience: Emotion, Reason, and Choice
Explore prefrontal cortex deliberation vs. amygdala emotion, Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis, the Iowa Gambling Task with vmPFC patients, the affect heuristic, and nudge theory in behavioral economics.
Language Acquisition: Critical Periods, Grammar, and Statistics
Examine the critical period hypothesis from Lenneberg and the Genie case study, Chomsky's Universal Grammar vs. Tomasello's usage-based construction grammar, Saffran's 1996 statistical learning findings, and the bilingualism cognitive reserve debate.
Social Cognition and Theory of Mind: False Beliefs and Mentalizing
Explore the Wimmer-Perner 1983 false belief task, the Sally-Anne test, theory of mind in autism from Baron-Cohen, Dennett's intentional stance, the mirror neuron overclaim from Hickok, and the brain's mentalizing network.
Working Memory Explained: Baddeley's Model and Capacity Limits
Explore Baddeley's four-component working memory model including the phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive, and episodic buffer, Cowan's 4-chunk capacity finding, dual-task interference, and the n-back training debate.