The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience

The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience.

The ability to think counterfactually about the consequence of one's actions represents one of the hallmarks of the development of complex reasoning skills. The legal system places a great emphasis on this type of reasoning ability as it directly relates to the degree to which individuals may be judged liable for their actions. In the present paper, we review both behavioural and neuroscientifi...

Emergence of Cognitive Neuroscience in The Middle East

the effect of traffic density on the accident externality from driving the case study of tehran

در این پژوهش به بررسی اثر افزایش ترافیک بر روی تعداد تصادفات پرداخته شده است. به این منظور 30 تقاطع در شهر تهران بطور تصادفی انتخاب گردید و تعداد تصادفات ماهیانه در این تقاطعات در طول سالهای 89-90 از سازمان کنترل ترافیک شهر تهران استخراج گردید و با استفاده از مدل داده های تابلویی و نرم افزار eviews مدل خطی و درجه دوم تخمین زده شد و در نهایت این نتیجه حاصل شد که تقاطعات پر ترافیک تر تعداد تصادفا...

Introduction: the cognitive neuroscience of thought.

Human thought has been a puzzling subject among philosophers for the major part of our recorded history, most famously encapsulated in Descartes' Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am). Although our knowledge of thought and its benefits has come a long way since Descartes, it is only in recent times that empirical investigations into theneuroscientific bases of thought and cognition have been...

Contextual Emergence from Physics to Cognitive Neuroscience

The concept of contextual emergence has been proposed as a non-reductive, yet well-defined relation between different levels of description of physical and other systems. It is illustrated for the transition from statistical mechanics to thermodynamical properties such as temperature. Stability conditions are shown to be crucial for a rigorous implementation of contingent contexts that are requ...