Revisiting how we operationalize joint attention

How do we model attention-dependent signal routing?

One fundamental problem of neuronal information processing is posed by the enormous divergence and convergence of synaptic connections in and between many brain structures. This suggests that neurons receive not only signals which are relevant for their present computational task, but are often exposed to a large amount of unrelated, arbitrary signals which disturb ongoing information processin...

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

Attention, Joint Attention, and Social Cognition.

Before social cognition there is joint processing of information about the attention of self and others. This joint attention requires the integrated activation of a distributed cortical network involving the anterior and posterior attention systems. In infancy, practice with the integrated activation of this distributed attention network is a major contributor to the development of social cogn...

Revisiting Incapacitation: Can We Generate New Estimates?

A substantial body of empirical research examines how the huge expansion in incarceration in the United States since the early 1970s has influenced crime. These studies merge the effects of three conceptually distinct paths by which incarceration might reduce crime: general deterrence, specific deterrence and incapacitation. This issue of the Journal focuses specifically on the incapacitation p...

Colour : How We See It and How We Use It