What psychology and cognitive neuroscience know about the communicative function of memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Event Memory ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
Target Article

AbstractMahr & Csibra (M&C) include interesting ideas about the nature of memory from outside of the field of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. However, the target article's inaccurate claims about those fields limit its usefulness. I briefly review the most serious omissions and distortions of the literature by the target article, including its misrepresentation of event memory, and offer suggestions for forwarding the goal of understanding the communicative function of memory.

Knowledge by default

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Predictive Coding ◽  
Plausible Account ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Analysis By Synthesis

Abstract The target article presents strong empirical evidence that knowledge is basic. However, it offers an unsatisfactory account of what makes knowledge basic. Some current ideas in cognitive neuroscience – predictive coding and analysis by synthesis – point to a more plausible account that better explains the evidence.

How to interface cognitive psychology with cognitive neuroscience?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Hannu Tiitinen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory

Cowan's analysis of human short-term memory (STM) and attention in terms of processing limits in the range of 4 items (or “chunks”) is discussed from the point of view of cognitive neuroscience. Although, Cowan already provides many important theoretical insights, we need to learn more about how to build further bridges between cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

scholarly journals Joint action with iCub: a successful adaptation of a paradigm of cognitive neuroscience in HRI

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jairo Pérez-Osorio ◽  
Davide De Tommaso ◽  
Ebru Baykara ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Robot Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Robots will soon enter social environments shared with humans. We need robots that are able to efficiently convey social signals during interactions. At the same time, we need to understand the impact of robots’ behavior on the human brain. For this purpose, human behavioral and neural responses to the robot behavior should be quantified offering feedback on how to improve and adjust robot behavior. Under this premise, our approach is to use methods of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to assess the human’s reception of a robot in human-robot interaction protocols. As an example of this approach, we report an adaptation of a classical paradigm of experimental cognitive psychology to a naturalistic human- robot interaction scenario. We show the feasibility of such an approach with a validation pilot study, which demonstrated that our design yielded a similar pattern of data to what has been previously observed in experiments within the area of cognitive psychology. Our approach allows for addressing specific mechanisms of human cognition that are elicited during human-robot interaction, and thereby, in a longer-term perspective, it will allow for designing robots that are well- attuned to the workings of the human brain.

Engineering the brain

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-77
Author(s):  
Daniel Durstewitz
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Biological Networks ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Cognitive Problems ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Self Organizing

The target article presents a stimulating account for some of the most challenging issues in cognitive neuroscience. The theory solves in neural terms cognitive problems beyond the scope of previous models. But in many aspects the neural implementation is a quite literal translation of symbolic descriptions and therefore still lacks some of the truly self-organizing properties characteristic of biological networks.

From Cognitive Psychology to Cognitive Neuroscience

2001 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Johannes Engelkamp ◽  
Marc Jeannerod
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience

scholarly journals What makes for conceptual similarity?

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Olivera Savic ◽  
Hope Sample
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Conceptual Similarity

A significant number of phenomena in psychology is explained in terms of similarity. While the term has found to be useful in understanding and defining other phenomena, the similarity itself remains to be poorly understood and defined. Here we aim to discuss the current status of the concept of similarity as it is applied to research in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

scholarly journals Flexible Concepts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Pecher ◽  
Rolf Antonius Zwaan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
Insight Into

This is a commentary on Kemmerer (2016), Categories of object concepts across languages and brains: The relevance of nominal classification systems to Cognitive Neuroscience. The consequences of nominal classification systems for the organization of the conceptual system are consistent with several theories and findings in cognitive psychology. Concepts are flexible; they are categorized in various ways and change across contexts. Languages with nominal classification systems provide an interesting source of data that can give further insight into the mechanisms of flexible concepts.

scholarly journals Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry

2009 ◽  
Vol 364 (1528) ◽  
pp. 2381-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick van Baaren ◽  
Loes Janssen ◽  
Tanya L. Chartrand ◽  
Ap Dijksterhuis
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Moderation

One striking characteristic of human social interactions is unconscious mimicry; people have a tendency to take over each other's posture, mannerisms and behaviours without awareness. Our goal is to make the case that unconscious mimicry plays an important role in human social interaction and to show that mimicry is closely related to and moderated by our connectedness to others. First we will position human unconscious mimicry in relation to types of imitation used in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Then we will provide support for social moderation of mimicry. Characteristics of both the mimicker and the mimickee influence the degree of mimicry in a social interaction. Next, we turn to the positive social consequences of this unconscious mimicry and we will present data showing how being imitated makes people more assimilative in general. In the final section, we discuss what these findings imply for theorizing on the mechanisms of imitation and point out several issues that need to be resolved before a start can be made to integrate this field in the broader context of research on imitation.

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