scholarly journals Cognitive science - future challenges of an interdisciplinary field

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddy J. Davelaar
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-256
Author(s):  
Paul Thagard

Why do people have conflicting views of equality concerning the distribution of income, wealth, and satisfaction of vital needs? How do people form and sometimes change their views of equality and related issues, such as gender identity? Answers to such questions can benefit from cognitive science—the interdisciplinary field that includes neuroscience and computer modeling as well as psychology. According to principles of emotional coherence, attitudes develop and change because of connections among the values attached to systems of concepts, beliefs, and goals. People attach a positive value to concepts such as equality, if the concept fits with other positive concepts such as human needs, and opposes negative concepts such as poverty. Emotional coherence balances positive and negative values to yield an overall conclusion. Computer models based on emotional coherence explain people’s differing attitudes about equality and issues such as transgender rights. They also model how people sometimes change their minds.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (36) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Emi Hamana

Although cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field, its central questions are ‘what is humanity?’ and ‘what is emotion?’ Since the field of theatre and performing arts is deeply concerned with humans and emotions, we expect that it will contribute to the understanding of these concepts. Immersive theatre is an experimental performance form that emphasizes site, space and design while immersing spectators in a play. The number of immersive theatre companies or productions has been growing worldwide. This paper discusses Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, directed by Felix Barrett and performed in London (2003), New York (2011-) and Shanghai (2016-). While elucidating the cognitive impact of immersive Shakespeare performances on spectators, this paper aims to uncover new artistic and cultural value in Shakespeare plays performed in an experimental form in order to advance their contemporary relevance.


Author(s):  
Helena Knyazeva

Когнитивная наука – та междисциплинарная область знания, где происходят наиболее значимые научные прорывы в XXI веке. Они значимы как для развития конвергентных технологий, так и для распространения транс- и междисциплинарных, интегративных тенденций в исследованиях, соединяющих области, ранее мыслимые как совершенно несовместимые, в том числе естественно-научные и гуманитарные. В статье показывается, что в когнитивной науке, несмотря на высокую теоретизированность и узкоспециальную направленность многих направлений исследований, довольно часто и продуктивно используются визуальные образы. В работе обсуждаются некоторые из них, такие как когнитивная карта, когнитивная ниша, когнитивный ландшафт, когнитивное поле, перекликающееся с понятием динамического поля в гештальтпсихологии, блуждание по полю смыслов, древо поиска. Особую роль играют также мысле-образы (mental imagery), которые составляют основу для работы продуктивного воображения и креативного мышления, изучаемые в когнитивной психологии. Также показывается, что подобные средства визуализации существенны не только как первоначальные «строительные леса» для развития теоретических представлений, но и для прояснения нюансов смысла сложных научных построений. Кроме того, в когнитивной науке сегодня набирает популярность феноменологический подход и так называемая «методология от первого лица» (first-person methodology), с учётом которых смысл теоретических построений начинает жить и работать, будучи распакован в жизненном мире каждого конкретного лица. А значит, неразделимость образно-визуального и абстрактно-вербального получает дополнительное обоснование через понимание неразделимости обыденного и научного знания.Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge where the most significant scientific breakthroughs take place in the 21st century. They are significant both for the development of convergent technologies and for the dissemination of interdisciplinary and integrative trends in research that connect areas previously thought of as completely incompatible, including natural sciences and the humanities. The author shows that in cognitive science, despite the highly theorized and narrowly special focus of many its areas of research, visual images are quite often and productively used. Some of them, such as a cognitive map, cognitive niche, cognitive landscape, cognitive field that echoes the concept of a dynamic field in Gestalt psychology, the wandering around the field of meanings, a search tree are discussed in the article. A special role is also played by mental imagery, which forms a basis for the work of productive imagination and creative thinking, studied in cognitive psychology. It is substantiated in the article that such visualization tools are essential not only as initial “scaffolding” for the development of theoretical concepts, but also for clarifying the nuances of the meaning of complex scientific constructions. In addition, in today’s cognitive science, the phenomenological approach and the so-called “first-person methodology” are gaining popularity, taking into account that the meaning of theoretical constructions begins to live and work, being unpacked in the lifeworld of each particular personality. Thus, the inseparability of figurative visual knowledge and abstract verbal knowledge gets additional justification through the understanding of the inseparability of the ordinary and scientific knowledge.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Freeman

This introduction prepares the groundwork for explaining how a poem may become an icon. Drawing from insights in cognitive science, it discusses the nature of sensate cognition and introduces a theory of aesthetic cognition that places poetic cognition as a subcategory within its interdisciplinary field. The chapter begins with the central question of poetic cognition: how poetry achieves the felt experience of the essential being of reality that poets and writers throughout the centuries have claimed for their art. “Being” is understood as both the “life force” of organic systems and the “essence” of what makes a rock a rock. In this sense, particular creations of human cognitive activity may become icons of the being of reality. As a preliminary, the chapter briefly discusses the nature of the cognitive self, the roles of science and aesthetics, and the need to establish appropriate terminology for the interdisciplinary fields concerned in an aesthetics of cognition.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Davis ◽  
Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽  
Eiling Yee

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (19) ◽  
pp. 2581-2595
Author(s):  
Qiuhong Li ◽  
Maria B. Grant ◽  
Elaine M. Richards ◽  
Mohan K. Raizada

Abstract The angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) has emerged as a critical regulator of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which plays important roles in cardiovascular homeostasis by regulating vascular tone, fluid and electrolyte balance. ACE2 functions as a carboxymonopeptidase hydrolyzing the cleavage of a single C-terminal residue from Angiotensin-II (Ang-II), the key peptide hormone of RAS, to form Angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-(1-7)), which binds to the G-protein–coupled Mas receptor and activates signaling pathways that counteract the pathways activated by Ang-II. ACE2 is expressed in a variety of tissues and overwhelming evidence substantiates the beneficial effects of enhancing ACE2/Ang-(1-7)/Mas axis under many pathological conditions in these tissues in experimental models. This review will provide a succinct overview on current strategies to enhance ACE2 as therapeutic agent, and discuss limitations and future challenges. ACE2 also has other functions, such as acting as a co-factor for amino acid transport and being exploited by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (SARS-CoVs) as cellular entry receptor, the implications of these functions in development of ACE2-based therapeutics will also be discussed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuulia M. Ortner ◽  
Isabella Vormittag

With reference to EJPA’s unique and broad scope, the current study analyzed the characteristics of the authors as well as the topics and research aims of the 69 empirical articles published in the years 2009–2010. Results revealed that more than one third of the articles were written by authors affiliated with more than one country. With reference to their research aims, an almost comparable number of articles (1) presented a new measure, (2) dealt with adaptations of measures, or (3) dealt with further research on existing measures. Analyses also revealed that most articles did not address any particular field of application. The second largest group was comprised of articles related to the clinical field, followed by the health-related field of application. The majority of all articles put their focus on investigating questionnaires or rating scales, and only a small number of articles investigated procedures classified as tests or properties of interviews. As to further characteristics of the method(s) used, a majority of EJPA contributions addressed self-report data. Results are discussed with reference to publication demands as well as the current and future challenges and demands of psychological assessment.


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