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Reading printed text and text on screen?

I am looking for papers including description of research tools used to compare memory /comprehension performance. I am hoping to conduct an experimental research testing the idea of whether the...

11 November 2013 530 6 View

Why do humans and advanced species need sleep? What is the role of sleeping in learning and long-term memory (LTM) establishment?

More and more evidence discovered in brain science, cognitive science, and cognitive informatics reveal that the human brain dispatches autonomous/unconscious learning and LTM establishment tasks...

11 November 2013 648 27 View

Reading printed text and text on screen?

I am looking for papers including description of research tools used to compare memory /comprehension performance. I am hoping to conduct an experimental research testing the idea of whether the...

08 November 2013 7,078 5 View

Why do humans and advanced species need sleep? What is the role of sleeping in learning and long-term memory (LTM) establishment?

More and more evidence discovered in brain science, cognitive science, and cognitive informatics reveal that the human brain dispatches autonomous/unconscious learning and LTM establishment tasks...

01 November 2013 8,304 27 View

What's a good questionnaire-based test for metaphorical creation?

I want to do a survey or questionnaire-based test for metaphorical creation and metaphorical understanding.

16 October 2013 3,025 2 View

Is the inferior parietal lobule really two separate workspace like hubs, the angular gyrus, and the supramarginal gyrus?

After reading a recent (2011) article on cooperation of the default mode network, and the frontal-parietal network in internal trains of thought, it became obvious to me that there were two...

10 October 2013 3,972 6 View

Why cannot kids remember experiences in the early phase of lives? Is this indicates that long-term memory is dependent on language expressions?

How does long-term memory formed? When is long-term memory ready in human life? It seems that one cannot permanently remember things if one cannot express them in a language.

10 October 2013 10,120 4 View

What was overlooked in IQ testing as a measure of human intelligence? How does the latest development in intelligence science help?

Intelligent quotient (IQ) is determined by a number of tests on such as similarities, block design, digit span, picture concepts, coding, vocabulary, letter-number sequencing, matrix reasoning,...

10 October 2013 2,755 2 View

What's a good questionnaire-based test for metaphorical creation?

I want to do a survey or questionnaire-based test for metaphorical creation and metaphorical understanding.

10 October 2013 7,959 2 View

Can the brain be revealed based only on low-level studies such as imaging technologies, genes, and cell connections? What's the need beyond them?

A computer scientist can never convince students in computer science that how a computer works by just looking into the interconnected gates of the CPU chip without sophisticated principles and...

10 October 2013 2,019 4 View

Philosophy of optics: If nobody looks at a mirror, is there any image in it constrained by the definition that images in a mirror are virtual?

According to optics principle, the ‘image’ of objects in a mirror is a virtual one (illusion) formed by human eyes and cognitive interpretation of the brain. Just like René Descartes (1596-1650)...

10 October 2013 6,149 3 View

Does anyone know what happens to the filtered visual information by top-down attention processing? Is it stored? if so, where?

Many scientists believe such information is deleted by attentive processes, but there is no proof for that.

10 October 2013 5,834 8 View

What is the nature of creativity? Is creativity born or trained? What are the basic attributes of inventors and creative researchers?

- Creativity is the intellectual ability to make creations, inventions, and discoveries that brings novel relations, entities, and/or unexpected solutions into existence [Wang, 2009, 2013]....

09 September 2013 804 50 View

Is the human brain like a computer, if so, in how many ways and why is it different?

Computers were originally designed around a brain model, and at one time were called electronic brains. Since then there has been some discussion as to whether they resemble brains or not. Today...

09 September 2013 2,575 76 View

What is the nature of creativity? Is creativity born or trained? What are the basic attributes of inventors and creative researchers?

- Creativity is the intellectual ability to make creations, inventions, and discoveries that brings novel relations, entities, and/or unexpected solutions into existence [Wang, 2009, 2013]....

05 September 2013 10,038 48 View

If we were to consider a concept to be the irreducible quantum of consciousness, how can this be applied and used in Cognitive Neuroscience?

A concept is not a mere group of coactivating synapses or a pattern of neuronal activity. It is the recognizable awareness of this underlying event. I came to the realization that a concept may...

31 August 2013 8,289 34 View

What made mankind different from other advanced species? Is it because of walking, working, making tools, using languages or collective intelligence?

Seeking the basic cognitive and intelligent properties of humans.

30 August 2013 3,324 26 View

Have you ever failed to replicate a finding from another lab, but declined to write-up & submit the failed replication? If so, why?

What factors went into your decision?

27 August 2013 6,533 8 View

What do we know about neural correlates of cognitive and language reorganization in early and late bilinguals?

Behavioral studies have demonstrated a benefical effect of bilingualism on executive control in children's development but also in adulthood and aging population. I'm interested in study which...

08 August 2013 7,633 7 View

Have you ever failed to replicate a finding from another lab, but declined to write-up & submit the failed replication? If so, why?

What factors went into your decision?

08 August 2013 799 9 View

Are human emotions formed in binary pairs such as comfort/discomfort, safeness/fear, joy/sadness, pleasure/anger and love/hate in increasing strength?

* What determines the interpretation of an emotion in the following situation? - For one who likes physical exercise, one would feel happy walking to the office from home. However, if...

08 August 2013 3,027 7 View

If we were to consider a concept to be the irreducible quantum of consciousness, how can this be applied and used in Cognitive Neuroscience?

A concept is not a mere group of coactivating synapses or a pattern of neuronal activity. It is the recognizable awareness of this underlying event. I came to the realization that a concept may...

08 August 2013 10,110 29 View

What made mankind different from other advanced species? Is it because of walking, working, making tools, using languages or collective intelligence?

Seeking the basic cognitive and intelligent properties of humans.

08 August 2013 1,706 27 View

Is it possible to infer how areas of cognition interact and which ones are responsible in order to achieve particular activities of everyday action?

For instance can we assume attention/ executive control, semantic and procedural memory would be involved in particular tasks?

24 July 2013 5,349 13 View

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