Where Do HPC and Cognitive Science Meet in Latin America?

Previous theoretical reviews about the development of Psychology in Latin America suggest that Latin American psychology has a promising future. This paper empirically checks whether that status remains justified. In so doing, the frequency of programs/research domains in three salient psychological areas is assessed in Latin America and in two other regions of the world. A chi-square statistic is used to analyse the collected data. Programs/research domains and regions of the world are the independent variables and frequency of programs/research domains per world region is the dependent variable. Results suggest that whereas in Latin America the work on Social/Organizational Psychology is moving within expected parameters, there is a rather strong focus on Clinical/Psychoanalytical Psychology. Results also show that Experimental/Cognitive Psychology is much underestimated. In Asia, however, the focus on all areas of psychology seems to be distributed within expected parameters, whereas Europe outperforms regarding Experimental/Cognitive Psychology research. Potential reasons that contribute to Latin Americas situation are discussed and specific solutions are proposed. It is concluded that the scope of Experimental/Cognitive Psychology in Latin America should be broadened into a Cognitive Science research program.

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Presentation Special Issue: Cognitive science a special issue in cognitive science and the implementation of a comprehensive reviewing system

Universitas Psychologica ◽

10.11144/javeriana.upsy12-5.psic ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Cognitive Science ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Research Community ◽

Special Issue ◽

Rigorous Research ◽

The World

This special issue brings together the work that researchers around the world are currently carrying out on diverse topics in cognitive science and presents it to the research community in Latin America. The purpose behind this special issue is to motivate researchers on the continent to continue the studies presented herein and, ideally through networking with international researchers to initiate a rigorous research agenda in specific topics in cognitive science. This special issue offers a qualitatively comprehensive reviewing system to qualitatively, and a quantitatively assess of the manuscripts submitted. The following sections consider these two aspects.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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Language as a mental travel guide

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19003182 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Charles P. Davis ◽

Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽

Eiling Yee

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Human Cognition ◽

Travel Guide

Abstract Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

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