Self-injurious thoughts (SITs) fluctuate considerably from moment to moment. As such, “static” and temporally stable predictors (e.g., demographic variables, prior history) are suboptimal in predicting imminent SITs. This concern is particularly true for “online” cognitive abilities, which important understanding SITs, but typically measured using tests selected temporal stability. Advances amb...

The 1990s, the "decade of the brain," witnessed major advances in the study of visual perception, cognition, and consciousness. Impressive techniques in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, electrophysiology, psychophysics and brain-imaging were developed to address how the nervous system transforms and represents visual inputs. Many of these advances have dealt with the steady-state...

Although meaning is at the core of human cognition, state-of-the-art distributional semantic models (DSMs) are often agnostic to the findings in the area of semantic cognition. In this work, we present a novel type of DSMs motivated by the dual–processing cognitive perspective that is triggered by lexico–semantic activations in the short–term human memory. The proposed model is shown to perform...

UNLABELLED The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) makes a critical contribution to semantic cognition. However, the functional connectivity of the ATL and the functional network underlying semantic cognition has not been elucidated. In addition, subregions of the ATL have distinct functional properties and thus the potential differential connectivity between these subregions requires investigation. W...

background: the association between helminthic parasitic infection and cognitive function has long been recognized, however there are few reports about giardia lamblia infection. this paper describes a study about the effect of g. lamblia infection on the cognitive function. methods: one hundred thirty two children infected with g. lamblia from robat karim south of western tehran, iran were com...

The Internet is an important focus of attention for those concerned with issues of extended cognition. In particular, the application of active externalist theorizing to the Internet gives rise to the notion of Internet-extended cognition: the idea that the Internet can (on occasion) form part of an integrated nexus of material elements that serves as the realization base for human mental state...

Background:Purpose of present study was to investigate whether chronic exposure to zinc fume would affect serum zinc levels, memory, and cognition in zinc fume-exposed workers. Methods:In a cross-sectional study, all zinc fume-exposed workers (exposed, n=20) were compared with unexposed workers (reference, n=20) matched for sex and education level in a zinc galvanization factory. The worker...

The free energy principle (FEP) portends to provide a unifying for the biological and cognitive sciences. It states that system maintain non-equilibrium steady-state with its environment it must minimise (information-theoretic) energy. Under FEP, is equivalent engaging in approximate Bayesian inference. According therefore, inference at explanatory base of biology cognition. In this paper, we d...