All together now: Simultaneous feature integration and feature retrieval in action control

Accounts of human action control assume integration of stimulus and response features at response execution and, upon repetition of some of those features, retrieval of other previously integrated features. Even though both processes contribute sequentially to observed binding effects in studies using a sequential prime-probe design, integration and retrieval processes theoretically affect human action simultaneously. That is, every action that we execute leads to bindings between features of stimuli and responses, while at the same time these features also trigger retrieval of other previously integrated features. Nevertheless, the paradigms used to measure binding effects in action control can only testify for integration of stimulus and response features at the first (R1, n-1, or prime) and retrieval of the past event via feature repetition at the second (R2, n, or probe) response. Here we combined two paradigms used in the action control literature to show that integration and retrieval do indeed function simultaneously. We found both significant stimulus-response and significant response-response binding effects, indicating that integration of responses must have occurred at the same time as response retrieval due to feature repetition and vice versa.

WAGES, EASE OF FINDING A JOB OR DISTANCE FROM HOME? WHAT DETERMINES THE PLACE OF WORK IN POLAND BY ECONOMIC EMIGRANTS FROM UKRAINE

For several years, a high dynamics of growth in the number of foreigners from Eastern European countries taking up employment in Poland has been visible. Undoubtedly, the decline in unemployment, which translates into the ease of finding a job, and the systematic increase in the average salary have an impact on this situation. The aim of this article is to check what and to what extent influences the decision to work by Ukrainian citizens in different regions of the country. This study focuses on three key factors – how the scale of immigration to a given poviat is influenced by the distance at which migrations are undertaken, the level of wages and unemployment in the examined poviats. To achieve the above goal, a popular model describing migrations as a function of geographical distance, called the gravity model, was used. The results of the analysis show that wages are a significant stimulus of economic migration to Poland, and the level of unemployment had a destimulating effect. The estimated values of the parameters indicate a much stronger attracting effect of the level of wages than the impact of unemployment on the migration inflow. Geographic distance is a factor that also limits the intensity of movements. However – as the analysis showed – its limiting influence is much smaller than that of unemployment.

Features of the performance of cognitive auditory evoked potentials by adolescents with intellectual disabilities

The article informs about the results of theoretical and practical study the features of the implementation of cognitive load by adolescents with intellectual disabilities. The involvement of the cerebrospinal system and, in particular, the brain, in the performance of the cognitive load was determined using the standardized P300 method of evoked potentials, traditionally used to detect cognitive impairments and assess the brain function in children with problems of behavior, attention, and learning. As a result of the experiment, it was shown that with normative cognitive load - the allocation of significant stimulus - at the group of adolescents with normal intellectual development, a statistically significant change in wave amplitude and latency was observed Р3 wave. At the group of adolescents with intellectual disabilities these results were not revealed. Recommendations. The authors have developed pedagogical methods of working with adolescents with intellectual disabilities.

Striatal role in everyday life and laboratory developed habits

The dorsolateral striatum plays a major role in stimulus-response habits that are learned in the experimental laboratory. Here, we use meta-analytic procedures to identify the neural circuits activated during the execution of stimulus-response behaviours acquired in everyday-life and those activated by habits acquired in the laboratory. In the case of everyday-life habits we dissociated motor and associative components. We found that motor-dominant stimulus-response associations developed outside the laboratory engaged posterior dorsal putamen, supplementary motor area (SMA) and cerebellum. Associative components were also represented in the posterior putamen. Meanwhile, newly learned habits relied more on the anterior putamen with activation expanding to caudate and nucleus accumbens. Importantly, common neural representations for both naturalistic and laboratory based habits were found in posterior left and anterior right putamen. Our findings suggest a common striatal substrate for behaviours with significant stimulus-response associations, independently of whether they were acquired in the laboratory or everyday-life.

Power and stimulus of social media marketing on consumer purchase intention in Bangladesh during the COVID-19

The study was motivated by the need to highlight the roles played by social media marketing on consumers' purchase intention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since it was a quantitative study, hypotheses were tested to generate findings. We used IBM SPSS 25.0 software to analyze using reliability statistics, descriptive statistics, and IBM SPSS Amos 26.0 software was used to do confirmatory factor analysis for the purpose of developing hypothesis, and SEM used for trying to fit the model. The primary data was mustered by personal interview in an online survey method through a structured questionnaire with five-point Likert scales from 240 Bangladeshi online consumers. These findings publicized that social media marketing (Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) a significant stimulus on consumers purchase intention during COVID-19, and all factors except discount or coupon offer and brand awareness had an epoch-making and constructive connection with consumers’ purchase intention during the coronavirus malady (COVID-19) epidemic in Bangladesh.

Synthesis and study of the effect of arginine-vasopressin (6-9) analogue on the behavior of rats of different ages

The article presents the synthesis and results of the study of the effect of chronic neonatal administration by intranasal method of an analogue of the C-terminal fragment of arginine-vasopressin (AVP) - N-Ac-DMet-Pro-Arg-Gly-NH2 on the training and level of depression in white rats of three age groups. It is shown that the most significant effect of the analogue was manifested in the test for the development of conditional reaction of active avoidance. A favorable effect on the degree of depression of animals is also well expressed. According to the data obtained, we conclude that the action of the peptide is manifested only under the influence of a biologically significant stimulus.

Cognitive Inductive Prejudice For Corporal Edifice In Hominids And Contraption

A strong and insightful interpretation of scientific knowledge and practice must take into consideration how human cognitive skills and constraints enable as well restrict the scientific enterprise's activities and products. While existing deep learning systems are outstanding in functions such as object classification, language processing, and gameplay but few can create or transform a complex system like a Frame Pyramid. Assume that what these systems lack is a "Cognitive Inductive Prejudice": an ability to justify inter-object relationships and make decisions about an organized description of the incident. In order to assess this premise, this paper concentrated on a work involving stapling together stacks of frames to balance a castle and quantify how well hominids are doing. Then for analyzing contraption capability, our work introduce the Significant Stimulus Learning Tool that utilizes object-and interactioncentered scene and policy representations, these apply to the task. Our results shows that these structural portrayals enable the tool to perform both hominids and contraption for more naive methods, indicating that cognitive inductive effect is a significant element in solving structured reasoning issues and building more intelligent also flexible for machines.

Art-Dominanta International Folk Instruments Performers Competition as a factor in maintaining the spiritual security of the Ukrainian society and promoting the traditions of folk instrumental art of Ukraine in the world

The issue of preserving national culture in such traditional forms of musical art development as contests of folk instruments performers is an important research area considering the existing exacerbation of socio-economic and spiritual crisis of Ukrainian society against the background of the world processes of globalization and digitalization of cultural and educational space. Therefore, the study aims to comprehensively explore the experience of conducting the Art-Dominanta International Folk Instruments Performers Competition as an important promotion factor of folk instrumental art among young people, to highlight its importance for maintaining the spiritual security of society at the regional and country levels, to consider the contest as a significant stimulus for promoting the Ukrainian culture in the world. The author has proved that the musical performing contests are a significant factor in the development of folk instrumental art as a part of the national musical culture. It has been established that conducting the contest is an important cultural resource for strengthening the image of Kharkiv as a center for the development of folk and instrumental art, a source of cultural and creative growth for the city and its citizens. Many years of experience in conducting the contest creates fertile ground for the integration of its best achievements into the educational process of numerous regional educational institutions raising the cultural level of the city.

Niklas Luhmann’s system theory: A critical analysis

This article considers the nature of the theoretical legacy - the system theory - of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author focuses on three topics: first, he briefly describes Luhmann’s ideas in the context of the contemporary sociological thought; second, he identidies how Luhmann’s works are perceived today; third, he presents a new reflection on Luhmann’s works. Paradigmatically, Luhmann’s ideas can be attributed to the system theory, neo-functionalism and radical constructivism due to his efforts to find inspiration in natural sciences. At the same time, Luhmann found himself in the close position to the traditions of the German philosophical idealism. Although the system theory is holistic in nature, Luhmann used for its elaboration elements of the individualist-oriented approach (based on Max Weber’s ideas). Thus, in Luhmann’s conception, systems become holistic entities that, like individual subjects, are capable of making decisions and managing themselves. One of the strengths of Luhmann’s conception is determined by his evolutionary theory consistent with random (in Luhmann’s terms - contingent) development connected with the idea of an open future. As with Parsons, in Luhmann’s conception we find emphasis on the consensus ensured by communication processes. However, what is missing, are the topics of work, production, conflict, struggle and violence. The current decline in the interest in Luhmann’s works has been reinforced by the fact that he was unable to translate his conceptions into instruments for the empirical sociological research. Nevertheless, Luhmann’s theory of a functionally differentiated society and its consequences still represents a significant stimulus for the contemporary sociological thought.