Do the Two Operations Addition and Multiplication Commute with Each Other?

What do the mirror system, embodied cognition, and synaesthesia have to do with each other?

Much of the debate about mirror neurons has come to focus on whether the apparently imitative properties of the mirror system can be explained by learned associations between stimulus and response, and are therefore just one type of association among many, including object-action links, complementary responses to others’ actions, and so on (Byrd, 2013, this issue). However, what is missed is th...

Do you two know each other? Transitivity, homophily, and the need for (network) closure.

The authors investigate whether need for closure affects how people seek order in judging social relations. In Study 1, the authors find that people who have a high need for closure (NFC) were more likely to assume their social contacts were connected to each other (i.e., transitivity) when this was not the case. In Studies 2 and 3, the authors examine another form of order in network relations...

What do epistemic logic and cognitive science have to do with each other?

Epistemic logic is a multi-faceted theory aimed at targeting notions such as knowledge, belief, information, awareness, memory and other propositional attitudes, by means of logical and semantical tools. These concepts ought to be in the spotlight of cognitive science too, but the two have not yet seriously been explored in cooperation. In this paper, it is shown that a number of possibilities ...

What do Werner and Children’s Reaction to Terrorism have to do with each other

Constipation and LUTS - how do they affect each other?

CONTEXT Urinary bladder and rectum share a common embryological origin. Their autonomic and somatic innervations have close similarities. Moreover, the close proximity of these two organ systems could suggest that dysfunction in one may influence, also mechanically, the function of the other. Therefore, it is not surprising that defecation problems and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) occur ...